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Peter Hook & The Light – “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, Live in Manchester – July, 2022

Posted on Published August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 by Frank Yang
Peter Hook & The Light – “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, Live in Manchester – July, 2022

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 […]

Joy Division, live at The Apollo, Manchester – October 1979

Posted on Published June 7, 2022June 7, 2022 by Frank Yang
Joy Division, live at The Apollo, Manchester – October 1979

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, […]

Joy Division through the lens of Kevin Cummins

Posted on Published November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 by Frank Yang
Joy Division through the lens of Kevin Cummins

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 […]

The Making of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures

Posted on Published September 13, 2021September 13, 2021 by Frank Yang
The Making of Joy Division’s <em>Unknown Pleasures</em>

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 […]

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