expect delay
Joy Division never made it to America, but in September 1980, just four months after Ian Curtis’ death, the remaining members crossed the Atlantic to play shows under their new guise of New Order, showcasing almost all-new material. The New York show went down September 26 at Hurrah’s, in the Upper West Side, and remarkably […]
I certainly didn’t mean to make this a mini-theme week, but I’m not mad at it. Big news today in the form of the announcement of the fourth instalment of New Order’s “Definitive” reissue series – Brotherhood: The Definitive Edition is out on November 22 and includes nine new tracks not previously included in any […]
If you’re reading this it’s likely you’ve seen Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 film 24 Hour Party People but if you came out of thinking, “I’d like to see the story of Factory Records but with a lot more talking heads and a lot less Steve Coogan”, BBC4 had your back, albeit five years later. Released in […]
It’s probably overstating things to call “Elegia” one of New Order’s signature tracks – it’s too much of a stylistic outlier for that – but it is one of their most notable and memorable. Opening up side two of 1985’s Low-Life, it’s an elegiac instrumental that bridges the far poppier halves of the album with […]
This is a touch redundant if you saw my Instagram yesterday but today, Peter Hook & The Light are releasing a triple-CD set of their July 2022 show at the Apollo O2 in Manchester. That was was the hometown date for their current “Joy Division – A Celebration” tour, which finds Hook and company performing […]
What we have here is a fan-remastered video of some of the contents of FACT37, the VHS and/or Betamax released in September 1982, entitled Here Are The Young Men, which collected footage of Joy Division performing a two-night stand at the Apollo Theatre in Manchester while on tour for Unknown Pleasures. Clearly a bootleg source, […]
I’d considered photographer Kevin Cummins to be one of the visual documentarians of Britpop, as his recent book While We Were Getting High testified, but I didn’t realize that he was also the man behind most of the iconic photos of Joy Division a decade and a half earlier. But he’s just released a collection […]
It seems a bit perverse that I’ve gone, what, more than nine months writing a blog about post-punk and other things, and have yet to make any real mention of Joy Division, arguably one of if not the biggest and most important band of the genre. And that’s kind of why… I couldn’t imagine what […]
