We’re all sitting in a hotel room, and some way that moment when you’re expected to press ‘play’ on your recorder just fades, evaporates in conversation. The Killing Joke frontman, I realize, is actually interviewing us: he wants to know what we do, where we live, where we’re going, what we’ve seen, and ultimately if we found “the place”.

Somewhere, somehow, through another cloudy transition, we find ourselves deep into politics Coleman style:  English people’ incapacity to stand up to ‘the man’, the dangers of a system based on import and the need of a green revolution. Utopias? They may not be if there were more of us believing, so at least until we leave this room we’re going to go with the flow.

The conversation keeps swiftly changing topic and location, from old London memories involving the pub just around the corner to the reason behind Jaz decision to move to New Zealand, where we’re all kindly invited, to the really weird Chinese concept of democracy (nothing to do with Guns’n’Roses).

Today, we talk about islands, fish, money, freedom, friendship, Americans, gatherers, kids, stars. Today, with Jaz Coleman, we talk about life. If you want to hear why “Absolute Dissent” is the best album Killing Joke have ever done and how it is compared to the one before and the one before that, then just wait until September and buy the bloody album.  Now open your ears and you may end up actually learning something useful…