release date: 1983
format: vinyl / cd (2007 reissue)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,48]
producer: none
label: A Skidmark Record - nationality: England, UK
Unofficial album by Killing Joke released by 'Skidmark'.
It took me a couple of years before I realised that the album wasn't an official one as I bought it in an ordinary record store, and it had a sticker attached saying 'Sam import', which was a much used distribution company selling official albums. Also, the recording sound isn't all that different from what you were used to in the early '80s. Although, being a bootleg product, the album itself has been pirated and re-distributed in various issues, and with many covers. The original issue came with a still image from an early slapstick comedy. Furthermore, tracks A2 to A4 were later officially issued as the second part (second John Peel recordings) of The Peel Sessions 1979-1981 (2008) and tracks A1, A5, B1 to B4 officially released in 2003 on the compilation album The Unperverted Pantomime (2003).
In an attempt to deal with the abundance of pirate albums and recordings featuring songs by Killing Joke, the band released two 3-disc compilation albums in 2007 with selected pirated material: Bootleg Vinyl Archive Vol.1 and Bootleg Vinyl Archive Vol.2 issued by Candlelight Records, which includes The Bum's Rush on disc 1 of "Vol. 2".
