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Promo
press pack added to the site
This Australian 1981 press
pack included copies of Closer and Unknown
pleasures with a Love Will Tear Us Apart 7"
plus photos and printed material
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| 28 November |
Ticket
stub added to the site
Electric Ballroom 31st
August 1978 ticket image added to the site -
thanks to DMXI
Ticket image thanks
to DMXI
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| 26 November |
Advert added to the site
Music paper advert for
Rezillos, Undertones and Joy Division gig at
Brunel University Uxbridge added
Music paper advert thanks to Boredteenagers.co.uk
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| 24 November |
New
poster added to the site
John Angus's poster for
the cancelled Rezillos gig at Lancaster
University added to the site. This was part
of the Rezillos, Undertones, Joy Division
tour which unraveled after the Rezillos had
a bust up.
Poster (C) John
Angus and reproduced here with permission
You can see more of John's posters on his web
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| 30 August |
Japanese Pirate releases from 2008
added to the site
In
2008 someone released pirate copies of the
official Japanese CDs in packaging designed to
look like mini LPs:
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| 28 August |
Manchester Apollo video
Films page updated
now the unreleased and previously unseen
songs from Manchester Apollo 27th October
1979 have been shown at the True Faith
exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery. |
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Singles 1978-1980
Pirate
2LP version of the official box set - listing added
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La Sélection Idéale
2012
3CD French box set - listing added
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| 16 June |
Blue Plaque for Factory
Alan
Erasmus's old flat in Palatine Road, West
Didsbury has been awarded a blue plaque. It
was commissioned by the BBC in conjunction
with the British Plaque Trust to commemorate
the birthplace of Factory.
Peter Saville unveiled
it yesterday with Shaun Ryder, Bez, Rowetta
and Mark Day from the Happy Mondays and former
Hacienda DJs Graeme Park and Dave Haslam
attending the ceremony.
Pictures
reproduced courtesy Jez Kerr and Rowetta. With thanks to
Mark Gale
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| 31 May |
Listing updated:
Lyceum concert - information added
about a superior two track soundboard
recording, possibly recorded by a roadie, and
a table of what tracks appear on the different
tapes of the gig
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| 1 May |
Listings updated:
Peel
Sessions -
pirate LP listing updated with more coloured
vinyl versions
Amnesty
International Picture Disc - another version
added
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Nashville Rooms 1979 -
second audience bootleg tape identified
It's not always
easy to tell if recordings of the same concert
are from different tapes or simply different
generations and edits of a common original.
However, audience chatter between songs can
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High Hall Birmingham photo
High Hall Birmingham
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1981 photo of the venue for Joy Division's
last concert added thanks to Birmingham
81 who posted the image on Twitter
(C) Copyright Birmingham 81 and reproduced here
with permission
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Record
Store Day 2017
There are no Joy
Division or New Order releases on Record
Store day this year. However there are
nine Peter Hook and the Light albums up for
grabs on 22nd April.
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| 19 Mar |
Nottingham
ticket stub added
Many thanks to
Charlie Harvey
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| 24 Feb |
More
Joy Division tattoos added
Many thanks to
Rachael Cannon, Jenna, Leon, Tara, Lars
Madsen, and Connor Allan
  
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| 24 Feb |
Unpublished photo of Hooky at the
final Joy Division Concert
Martin Hardy
took this photo of Peter Hook at High Hall
Birmingham 2nd May 1980 and it is published
here for the first time.
Copyright Martin
Hardy
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| 23 Feb |
Too good to be true? Mysterious Joy Division
rehearsals test press sells for £1,900 on Ebay
A 10" vinyl LP
featuring a 20 minute Joy Division rehearsal
has sold for £1900 on Ebay. This previously
unknown record was apparently one of only six
made for Joy Division's manager Rob Gretton by
Strawberry Mastering, the mastering division
of Strawberry Records Stockport, - according
to the item's description on the auction web
site.
The full
description on Ebay reads as follows: "Apparently
only six ever made by Strawberry Mastering
in London, the mastering division of
Strawberry Studios, Stockport. Made for Rob
Gretton by Strawberry Mastering a 20 min
approximate vinyl of Joy Division rehearsals
on a ten inch test pressing. Strawberry
Mastering closed down in the 1980s. Only
five now known to be in existence- cardboard
sleeve grubby but record plays well".
Strawberry Mastering opened in 1978 and closed
in 1983 and, according to Strawberry
Recording Studios Facebook pages, the
link between Strawberry Recording Studios and
Strawberry Mastering was that Ric Dixon was a
director/partner in both companies.
There is no mention of which rehearsal is on
the recording so it will be interesting to
find out if this recording is a new discovery
or one of the rehearsals already documented on
our rehearsals
page and previously released on bootleg.
It appears the seller has three more copies
for sale
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| 18 Feb |
Photos from the Strawberry Studios
Exhibition, Stockport
The
Strawberry 50 exhibition is at Stockport
Staircase House Museum, Market Place ,
Stockport SK1 1ES.
The exhibition charts the Strawberry story
from the time the studios was built in
1967, the 1970's - the 10CC and Joy
Divsion era. Through the 1980's/90's when
The Smiths, Stone Roses and many others
recorded there.
It runs until 28th January next year.
Opening times are 10am - 5pm - Tuesday to
Saturday and 11am - 5pm Sundays
Admission is FREE.
Lots of Joy Division and Manchester music
artefacts and memorabilia.
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| 17 Feb |
Au Plan K - limited
edition has been published
Limited
edition and signed editions of Philippe
Carly's "Au Plan K" book are being
delivered to their new owners. The
paperback version is due out 15 March.
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| 8 Feb |
Undocumented 1978
concert date confirmed:
The date of
Joy Division's first gig at the Good Mood
Club Halifax has been something of a
mystery, until now. Stephen Morris
remembered it as May or June 1978 but thanks to Dave
Knight who runs a Facebook
page dedicated to the old Clarences
/ Good Mood Club in Halifax we now have a
newspaper advert pinning it down to 7th
April 1978. Many thanks to
Dave for providing this information.
Dave has
also provided us with the advert for their
concert the following year on 22
June 1979
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| 4 Dec |
Au Plan K - Book
Crowdfunding underway:
The wait is over: the crowd funding campaign
for the long awaited book "Au Plan K"
featuring all 56 Joy Division images taken by
Philippe Carly at Plan K has launched. You can
help by donating as little as €5.00, while
€139.00 gets you a signed limited edition
version of the book delivered to your door.
276 pages, 12x12" size, 300+ photos, Joy
Division and 70+ other acts, 25+
reproductions of original posters, 25+
significant players contribute memories,
anecdotes.
Philippe has been working on this beautiful
book for 12 years and it's now ready.
The list of headline
attractions at Plan K reads like a who’s
who of post-punk. Joy Division, Cabaret
Voltaire, William S. Burroughs, The Human
League, Orange Juice, Josef K, Scritti Politti,
James White, Tuxedomoon, Front 242, Bauhaus, The
Slits and many more. Most of these legendary
performances were documented by noted new wave
photographer Philippe Carly, who has selected
the best of his images for this rich and varied
book, giving readers a unique opportunity to
relive these moments as if they were standing in
the front row.
La Repubblica -
free Unknown Pleasures CD:
The 6th December issue of Italian
newspaper "La
Repubblica" will come with a free
Unknown Pleasures CD. This is part of a
weekly offering which builds up into a boxed
Punk collection also featuring the likes of
the Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees
and the Ramones.
It may be possible to buy copies via the La
Repubblica web site although we suspect
Ebay and Discogs will have them cheaper.
Thanks to Mark Woodley for letting us know
about this.
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Strawberry 50:
Commencing in
January, Stockport Museum will be showcasing
"Strawberry 50" - commemorating the 50th
anniversary of the opening of Strawberry
Studios.
A central part of the exhibition will be
specially commissioned new immaculate
resolution prints of a selection of Paul
Slattery's photographs taken in Stockport on
28 July 1979, the day "Transmission" was
recorded.
They are reputedly the only photographs taken
of a rock band on the streets of Stockport!
Here Paul proudly poses with one of the prints
to be exhibited - this was the first time he
had seen the prints and he was ecstatic with
the results.
To find out more about the exhibition visit their
website
Photo: Lee McFadden
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| 19 Nov |
The 6th December issue of Italian
newspaper La Repubblica
will come with a free Unknown Pleasures CD.
It's part of a series which began with the Sex
Pistols. Possibly with a box to put them in
coming at the end of the series. Thanks to
Mark Woodley for the info.
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| 16 Nov |
Tier 3 - listing for
cancelled date on proposed US tour updated
thanks to Mark Woodley for the information.
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| 12 Nov |
Duffy's Minneapolis flyer from Joy
Division's cancelled US tour surfaces:
Duffy's Minneapolis - flyer and venue
photo for cancelled date on proposed US tour
added. Thanks to Daniel Grobani, Nick Blakey,
Daniel Peterson and Jim Froehlich
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| 15 Oct |
New setlists:
Listings updated with two recently
surfaced setlists for Warehouse
Preston and
the
Bury
Riot -
many thanks to Graham Duff and Mark Gale
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| 15 Oct |
Futurama 2 LP - listing updated with 2016
counterfeit
Russion mp3 CD collections - listing updated.
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| 15 Oct |
Bury Riot - listing updated including
information from the setlist which recently
surfaced
Futurama 79 - listing updated
Russion mp3 CD
collections - listing added
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Substance:
Inside New Order by Peter Hook - Out October 6th
Two
acclaimed albums and an upcoming US tour - Joy
Division had the world at their feet. Then, on
the eve of that tour and the beginning of what
would surely have been an international
success story, the band's troubled lead
singer, Ian Curtis, killed himself.
'We didn't really think about it afterwards.
It just sort of happened. One day we were Joy
Division, then our lead singer killed himself
and the next time we got together, we were a
new band...'Peter Hook
RRP £20.00 Amazon price £13.60
That band was New Order. Their distinctive
sound, a fusion of post-punk and
ground-breaking electronica, paved the way for
the dance music explosion of the '80s and
earned them the reputation as one of the most
influential bands of their generation. Despite
their success, the band has always been a
collision the visionary and the volatile, and
relationships have often been fraught with
tensions.
Peter Hook has written a no-holds-barred,
comprehensive account of the band's entire
history, packed with outrageous anecdotes and
including every set list and tour itinerary
and interspersed with 'geek facts' of every
piece of electronic equipment used to forge
the sound that changed the direction of
popular music |
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| 14 Sept |
Joy Division Radio
Documentary
This
Day In Music have produced a three part radio
documentary about Joy Division:
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| 1 Sept |
Stephen Morris to
publish autobiography in 2018
Little,
Brown imprint Constable have acquired the
rights to Stephen Morris’s memoirs which
promise to be part memoir, part visual
scrapbook, part aural history, according to The Bookseller |
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| 18 Aug |
New Blue Plaques for
Strawberry Studios
Strawberry
Studios, where Joy Division recorded Unknown
Pleasures, Transmission and Love Will Tear Us
Apart are getting two updated blue plaques as
part of the Studio's 50th anniversary
celebrations.
The first plaque went up today at the back of
the building and the second will be formally
unveiled as part of the 50th anniversary
celebrations, which will include an
exhibition at Stockport Museum throughout
2017.
The new plaques add Joy Division, Martin
Hannett and The Smiths to the previously
commemorated Paul McCartney, Neil Sedaka,
Stone Roses and the Syd Lawrence Orchestra
The new
plaque
The old
plaque is removed
"Why
had those early Factory releases had that
magical Hannett sound? The young genius had
been able to plug in his digital thingy into
the outboard racks of a major world-class
thirty-six track studio that was in Stockport
- Stockport ladies and gentleman, Stockport,
because 10cc were a Manchester band and they
had taken the proceeds of the delicious I'm
Not In Love and had reinvested in their home.
Reinvested. Built a fuck-off studio. Respect."
Tony
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| 20 July |
Marquee 4th March
1979 -
music paper advert added thanks to Mark Gale
Thanks to Mark Gale
for the scan |
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| 9 July |
YMCA, Prince Of
Wales Conference Centre 2nd August 1979:
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original ticket on sale on Ebay for £250
Image courtesy of Rob Whitmarsh and
reproduced here with permission
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| 3 July |
Another Ideal For
Killing -
New LP listing added
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| 24 May |
Setback
for Macclesfield Joy Division exhibition
Incubation Arts's
plans to create a permanent Joy Division
exhibition in Ian Curtis's home town of
Macclesfield have suffered a setback after a
grant application to the Lottery Heritage
Lottery Fund was refused. The grant was to
secure permises for the exhibition and an
arts centre in Charles Roe House, which has
subsequently been sold to a private bidder
who plans to turn it into a doctor's
surgery.
Incubation Arts are continuimng to fundraise
and are looking for alternative venues
We wonder if the new owner of Barton Street
would be interested ...
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Today we remember Ian Curtis who died
18th May 1980
Also spare
a thought for Joy Division fan Cornelia F who died 18th May 1993
Both of these tragedies could have been
avoided. If you are having a tough time on
this poignant day there are people out there
who want to help you:
The Samaritans:
In the UK and ROI 116 123
In the USA 1 (800) 273-TALK
Leicester 29 October 1979 - unpublished Ian
Curtis photo added to listing thanks to Guy A
Photo
(C) Guy A and used here with permission |
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| 13 May |
Joy Division
Undercover: 6 tracks footage. Live at "De
Peppel" in Zeist, April 30th 2016 |
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| 4 May |
Tribute
Band of the Week: The Golden Dawn, from Italy
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| 28 April |
Love Will Tear Us
Apart - pirate catchup - listings updated:
US pirate 12" reissues - bootleg listing updated with more
rreissues and cover photos improved
Pirate 12" 6 track - listing added
Cleopatra pirate 7" - listings added
Cleopatra pirate 12" - listings added |
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New Division
(Italy)78 -
new tribute band added |
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| 6 March |
Liverpool Eric's gig
listings corrected and updated:
13th July 1978 - New listing added. This previously
undocumented gig was Joy Division's first at
Eric's
15th July 1978 - Joy Division supported Rich Kids at
Eric's as previously documented - but only at
the afternoon show. Germs supported Rich Kids
in the evening.
27 August 1977 - Joy Division (Warsaw) definitely
did not play Eric's that night - Generation X
did.
Many thanks to
Lesley Kazan-Pinfield, Mark Woodley, amnd Steve for the
above information and images
If you have any more information,
recollections, photographs etc from any of the
Eric's gigs please get in touch with us |
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Ian Curtis O Level results and
Upper Fifth Divinity Prize 1972 - school report added thanks to Rico and Tim Bayes
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| 21 Jan |
Eric's November 1978 -
flyer scan added thanks to John Pollard and
Julian Saunders
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| 9 Jan |
Manchester Free Trade Hall June
1979 - ticket scan added thanks to James
Barlow
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| 17 Dec |
Ian Curtis Radio Blackburn
Interview -
new unpublished information about the
interview added plus a transcript of the
interview itself. Thanks to Steve Barker and
Mark Gale |
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The
Blue Monday Diaries - In The Studio With New
Order
Michael Butterworth, Plexus Publishing,
December 2015, £14.99
Day-by-day, minute-by-minute, this
is a uniquely personal account of the making
of Power, Corruption & Lies, New Order’s
acclaimed second album, and ‘Blue Monday’,
the classic electro anthem that it spawned.
Created by Michael Butterworth, who was
there at the invitation of the band to
witness it all firsthand. ‘Blue Monday’
became the fastest selling 12” single ever
and the pressing of the vinyl in 1983 – in
the shadow of Ian Curtis’ tragic passing –
marked a thrilling new phase in the career
of the band, and the history of music in
general.
Three decades on, author Michael Butterworth
– the trusted friend who gained access to a
string of notoriously private sessions at
London’s Britannia Row Studios – breaks the
silence to reveal exactly what went into the
recording of this timeless track. Committed
to creating an authentic record of the
band’s arduous creative process, without the
aid of a tape recorder, Butterworth worked
alongside his friends for the duration. From
beneath a perpetual fug of dope smoke, speed
and alcohol, within the confines of the
band’s miniscule rented flat, he acted as
New Order’s designated scribe, censoring not
a single detail in their 24-hour schedule.
Obsessively detailed, mundane and illicit by
turns, The Blue Monday Diaries provide a
uniquely intimate insight into the
personalities of the band – as well as the
process of making music – that no Joy
Division or New Order fan should be without.
‘Well-written, friendly and very easy to
live with.’ – Peter Hook
‘I really enjoyed it . . . brought back a
lot of memories.’ – Stephen Morris
‘An important part of musical history.’ –
Peter Saville
Published December 2015, paperback, 192
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Love Will Tear Us
Apart -
reissue of the so-called Record Store Day 2015
single added |
| 6 Nov |
Komackino LP - listing updated.
Labels are on the wrong sides on the original.
Thanks to Daan for the info. |
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New
Order's Music Complete enters UK Album Charts
at No2
Deluxe
Vinyl Box Set version available for £65.00
8 piece deluxe vinyl collection
New album on double clear vinyl
Extended versions of all 11 brand new tracks
on 6 pieces of vinyl
Coloured vinyl 12”s plus 1 sided black
etched vinyl
Packaged in an archival acid free box, using
1300 micron grey white board and a wire
stitch. Box is debossed on the lid and base
Art Direction by Peter Saville
200 copies will be signed by all 5 members
of New Order
Substance 2015 reissues - listing added
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Radio Blackburn interview - listing updated with
plausible recording date thanks to Mark Gale
and the On The Wire - Radio Lancashire Blog
So This is
Permanence - paperback version added to listings
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Still 2015 reissue - listing added
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| 30 Aug |
Unknown Pleasures 2015 reissue - listing added
Closer 2015 reissue
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listing added
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| 22 Aug |
Record Store Day 2015 - Love Will Tear Us
Apart picture disc added to listings. Whether
this is unofficial, semi-official or official
remains to be seen.
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So This is Permanence - Spanish version
added
Interview picture
disc -
Iron Maiden mispress added
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| 22 Aug |
Futurama 1978 - flyer and ticket scans added thanks
to Steve
These items are currently on Ebay - click image to go
to there
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| 19 July |
The Venue 1978 - poster scan added thanks to Gary
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| 16 July |
Canterbury Odeon June 1979 - ticket scan added
thanks to Mike S
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| 11 July |
Canterbury Odeon November 1978 - ticket scan added
thanks to Mike S who has it for sale on Ebay
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image to go to Ebay listing |
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| 8 July |
De Montford Hall Leicester - ticket scan added
thanks to Paul who has it for sale on Ebay
Click
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Joy Division official site launched
Joy Division
Official features
a news section, an extensive band biography,
discography, photo gallery and a "listen"
section which allows fans to experience a
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Articles
and Interviews
Sometimes people contribute to this
site by writing articles about Joy Division
or doing interviews for us. Traditionally we
have announced these on the front page of
the site for several weeks and then allowed
them to become more difficult to find as
time goes on. Now we are gathering them in
one place in recognition of the effort put
in by the fan community. See bottom left of
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Bristol Trinity March 1980 - colour concert photo
added thanks to in Your Face Photo
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| 19 June |
Autosuggestion LP - listing added. A
good exmpla of a bootlegger using different
sleeves, vinyl colour and labels to give the
impression of several separate releases
The Warsaw gigs at Rafters 31 May 1977 and 30 June 1977 have often been mixed
up. We've unravelled the truth thanks to Nick
Blakey, Mark Woodley and kevin Cummins
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Rhino
to reissue four Joy Division albums on vinyl
from June 2015
To
celebrate the 35th anniversary of “Love Will
Tear Us Apart” on June 27th, Rhino have
announced the re-issue of four iconic Joy
Division releases on heavyweight 180-gram
vinyl.
The studio albums UNKNOWN PLEASURES (1979) and
CLOSER (1980) will be available on June 29th.
They will be followed on July 24th by STILL
(1981) and an expanded version of SUBSTANCE
(1988), both available as a double-LP set.
Each design replicates the original in
painstaking detail, including the gatefold
covers used for Still and Substance. The music
heard on the albums was remastered in 2007
when Rhino introduced expanded versions of the
albums. The lone exception is Substance, which
features audio remastered in 2010 for the +-
singles box and for the first time on vinyl,
the expanded tracklist from the original CD
release, plus two additional songs: “As You
Said” and the Pennine version of “Love Will
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Ian
Curtis's house has sold and may yet become a
museum
Ian
Curtis's Macclesfield home has been bought by
musician Hadar Goldman at nearly double the
asking price as he paid £75,000 in
compensation and legal fees to halt its sale
to a private buyer.
According to the Manchester Evening News Hadar, who plays
electric violin in the band Ciam, felt he had
to get involved after a crowdfunding event
failed to raise enough revenue to buy the
building and turn it into a museum.
Mr Goldman says any museum would be tasteful
and preserve Joy Division's heritage: "The Joy
Division legacy deserves to be taken into the
21st century, to raise awareness into one of
the most seminal bands in the history of
contemporary music. It will be developed using
both heart and soul.”
See Hadar Goldman perform on
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18th
May
If you're
in Macclesfield paying your respects to Ian
Curtis today please Tweet us your pictures, and remember there's
the Martin O'Neill exhibition and, if you're lucky
enough to have tickets, Peter Hook and the Light are
performing the Complete Works of Joy
Division. You may also like to spare a though for Cornelia F, a Joy Division fan
whose last wish was to be interred close to
Ian Curtis.
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Record
Store Day Saturday 18th April 2015
This
year's Joy Division release for Record Store Day appears to be a 7"
picture disc on Italy's Radiation Records. It
is not listed on the official Record Store Day web site, apparantly
because it was a late addition.
Images
thanks to Discogs
Tracks:
A. Love Will Tear Us Apart
B. Leaders Of Men
Radiation Records, C.ne Casilina 44 - Roma
00176 Italy
Licensed by San Huan Music Group USA
Catalogue No: RADRSD003
RRP £14.99
The PR reads: The latest issue in Radiation's
Record Store Day exclusive Picture disc
series, this is a fully licensed, limited,
hand-numbered edition of 500 copies only 7"
with two classic Joy Division tracks.
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Peter
Hook & The Light Perform The Complete
Works Of Joy Division
Monday 18th
May Christ Church Macclesfield
Tickets on
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Crowdfunding
campaign set up to turn Ian Curtis's house
into a museum
Joy
Division fan Zak Davies has started a campaign
to buy Ian Curtis's former home and turn in
into a museum in his memory
He plans to raise a minimum of £150,000 to
cover the following costs:
£115,000 on the purchase of the property
£30,000 on the renovation to the original
interior
£5,000 on any legal costs
Not everyone welcomes the scheme - Incubation
Arts have been working for some time to
establish a similar museum elsewhere in
Macclesfield and one-time owner of the house
Dorothy Bentley-Smith would prefer the
property to remain residential.
Media coverage has inevitably tended to focus
on Ian's death rather than the fact that he
wrote his best work in the triangular room at
the front of the house. See pic below.
Links:
Zak's crowdfunding
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Manchester Evening
News article on Zak's campaign
Manchester Evening
News article about opposition with bizarre
reference to seances and parties |
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| 12 Feb |
Ian Curtis's Barton Street
home is up for sale
Thanks to
Andrew Paget for spotting this
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| 24 Jan |
Let The Movie Begin - purple vinyl reissue
added
Let The Movie Begin
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"Japanese" CD release added
In The Studio With
Martin Hannett - blue and yellow vinyl reissues
added |
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| 23 Jan |
The Sound of Music - 2012 reissue added
The Sound of Music - 2012 bundled reissue
added
Day of The Lords LP
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2012 version added along with all colour vinyl
variations for the original
Hand of Doom LP - listing added
Paradiso LP - listing added
A Retrospective Part
II -
confusing track listing information updated
and corrected
Die Kalten Winde Des
Winters 2LP - listing updated with the various
vinyl colours |
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| 18 Jan |
Warsaw Newcastle 1977 and Joy Division Blackpool 1979 - Martin from Noth East Punk shares his
recollections
Touching From a
Distance -
2014 edition added
Dutch Atmosphere 12"
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added
Record Store Day
2014 12" -
misprinted UK version with no text on sleeve
added |
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| 17 Jan |
Pirate Unknown Pleasures - Tonpress pink tinted
sleeve added
Cover Versions - Page updated
Blackpool July 1979
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Sounds gig listing added thanks to Steve
Benham
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| 12 Dec |
Pirate Closer - pink tinted sleeve, listing added
Pirate Unknown
Pleasures - plain white "test pressing" of
picture disc version added |
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| 9 Dec |
Ian
Curtis Facsimile £125
To complement
publication of So this is Permanence, Ian
Curtis’s collected lyrics and notebooks in
facsimile form, Faber Social is offering a
limited edition print of She’s Lost Control
exclusive to customers on the website.The
print of the song, written and recorded in
1979, is signed by Bernard Sumner, Stephen
Morris, Peter Hook, Deborah Curtis and Jon
Savage, editors of the volume of Curtis’s
lyrics. The run is limited to 20 copies only
and comes in a specially designed
presentation envelope. A fantastic gift or
purchase for the Joy Division completist,
the handwritten lyric taken from one of Ian
Curtis’s three surviving notebooks
represents the genesis-point of one of the
signature tunes in the Joy Division
catalogue.
 
- 20 facsimiles at
£125 each, available to buy from the Faber
& Faber website here.
– signed by Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris,
Peter Hook, Deborah Curtis and Jon Savage
– exclusive high-quality print reproduction
of ‘She’s Lost Control’ lyrics as per
notebooks
– 300gsm silk board presentation sleeve |
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| 26 Nov |
The poem sold for £1,100 (£1,375
including commission) |
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| 19 Nov |
Ian
Curtis school poem up for auction November
23rd
A
piece of Ian Curtis's personal history comes
up for auction at TracksAuction.com this Sunday. A poem
penned while he was still at achool ariound
1966/67.
The auction catalogue reads:
An original handwritten poem by the lead
singer of Joy Division, Ian Curtis. Ian wrote
the poem at school circa 1966/1967. The poem
is written on a piece of lined paper and is
glued into a school book called Our Book Of
Epitaphs along with poems from the other
pupils in the class. It reads, “An Epitaph for
an Electrian (sic), Here lies Fred the
electrian (sic), who went on a very fateful
mission, he got a shock when tampering with a
fuse, which went from his head right down to
his shoes, by I. Curtis”. Ian has also drawn a
small picture of a man and a tombstone. The
poem comes with a letter from the owner who
was a fellow pupil. It reads, “I grew up on
Hurdsfield Estate, Macclesfield where I
attended Hurdsfield Junior School. I started
Hurdsfield Junior School in 1963 where I met
Ian Curtis, he was a fellow pupil in my class
and we went through school together. Mr Young
was our teacher when this piece of work was
carried out, he himself has got a poem in the
book along with myself and all the other
pupils in the class. This poem was written in
1966 or 1967. I was presented with the book at
the end of the school year for being head boy.
At the time the head teacher was called Mr
Tattasall. Ian Curtis lived on Grey Stoke
Road, Hurdsfield Estate, I lived on Delemere
Road, Hurdsfield Estate, Cheshire”.
The poem measures 16.5cm x 9.5cm (6.5 inches x
3.75 inches), the book measures 28.5cm x 22cm
(11.25 inches x 8.75 inches). The condition of
the poem is excellent. There is some wear and
aging to the book and a vertical crease down
the last 5 pages and back cover. A few of the
poems have also become detached from the book.
The condition of the book is very good minus. |
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| 13 Nov |
So This is
Permanence - pictures of limited edition
version added thanks to John Gardner.
French and German listings added. |
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| 9 Nov |
So This is
Permanence listing added
Chapter and Verse
listing added
Scrapbook updated |
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| 2 Nov |
Jon
Savage Interview
Lee
McFadden interviews Jon Savage for Joy
Division Central about So This is Permanance.
Many thanks to both of them. And thanks too to
Deborah Curtis for making these private
notebooks available giving us this unique
insight into Ian Curtis's creative thought
processes. |
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| 23 Oct |
Joy
Division in Yorkshire
Julian
has massively updated his article with new
photos and information about the good Mood
Club, The Coach House and St Georges Hall. For
those of you who are familiar with the
origional article we've highlighted the new
text in green for the time being. Many thanks
to Julian for this excellent piece of work.
The Coach
House, 1970s (thanks to Graeme Bower) |
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| 16 Oct |
So
This is Permanence:
- our review
This is a big 274
page 28 x 21cm hardback which is big on
content. We'd hoped this would be packed
with unpublished images of Ian's notebooks
and we're not disappointed.
Focussing on his lyrics there's an initial
section with the finished songs featuring
the handwritten version on one page and the
typed up version opposite. This is followed
by a large section with handwritten lyrics
to unfinished songs, early versions and
other prose. Finally there's a section with
other items from Ian's archive - book
covers, letters from fans, pages from
fanzines etc.
This is clearly a labour of love and Jon
Savage explains in the intro how they
selected the images for the book - generally
the most complete version in Ian's
notebooks.
"His
lyrics tell much more than a conversation
with him ever could" - Deborah Curtis
Highly recommended |
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| 22 Sep |
Ian
Curtis - 1977 Office Party photos surface
Photographs of Ian Curtis showing his lighter
side at an office party circa 1977 have
surfaced on the Invincible Error Tumblr account. The photos had previously been
posted on Instagram by someone who obtained
them from a work colleague. If that's you
please get in touch
We're not sure when these photos were taken
but you can read our article about Ian's working life
here
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| 2 Sep |
Chapter
and Verse - New Order, Joy Division and Me -
our review
Bernard Sumner's
book has arrived and first impressions are
good. More than 340 pages with a printed
picture cover inside a picture dust jacket
and it's a nice solid object too.
We follow Bernard from a strict and often
painful upbringing in Salford against the
background of a society moving from the
friendly communities of the Victorian
"slums" and his bombsite playground to the
soulless urban renewals of the high rise
flats. His family and the neighbourhood were
not without their eccentricities and Bernard
needed to keep his wits about him from an
early age - not least to avoid antique
swords in the wrong hands.
£13.60 & free
delivery on Amazon
But just as the new
flats represented an environment
superficially for the better while actually
making life harder, Bernard found this
echoed in his own life as he progressed
through a dull school career towards the
disappointing world of paid work.
The story of his school days will resonate
with many a man of Bernard's age. Then, as a
teenage scooter boy, his love of music
developed and he and close friend Hooky
started going to concerts including
"short-arse" Lou Reed and ultimately the
life changing Sex Pistols Manchester Free
Trade Hall concert where his life started to
break away from his potentially mediocre
destiny.
Then we have a sizeable chunk of 70-odd
pages covering the Joy Division story and
it's nice to see that the staple of so many
Joy Division books, the useful but
space-consuming gigography, is absent. This
is no deep concert-by-concert fact strewn
book about Joy Division for the obsessive
fan, nor does it repeat the often told
soundbites with which we are all over
familiar. It's somewhere in between and
somehow different.
He tells us about his thought processes
behind the controversial Ideal For Living
Sleeve and the Joy Division name as well as
revealing small details like the
"opportunity" to overdub a saxophone onto
the RCA demos. There's even a transcript of
the now famous Ian Curtis hypnosis
recording.
He also covers the split with Hooky.
Overall it's a well written and entertaining
tome that casts warm light on Bernard's
character more than anything else. Well, it
is his autobiography.
Very enjoyable and highly recommended |
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| 2 Sep |
New
Order sign to Mute:
New
Order have signed a worldwide deal with Mute
and their 10th studio album will be on the
independent label.
Speaking about the signing Daniel Miller
explains: “This is an exciting new chapter
for both Mute and New Order and I feel
privileged to be working with artists with
such a long, creative and successful
history. When the possibility of us working
together first came up, I was invited to
hear some of the new material and
immediately had no doubts whatsoever that
Mute would be the right home for New Order.
We've already had a number of creative
conversations, and I am looking towards an
exciting future”.
New Order are similarly thrilled with their
new home "New Order are delighted to be
signing to Mute. We couldn't imagine a
better place to be than working with Daniel
Miller and his team. Mute has a superb
roster of artists and a history that
complements our own. In many ways joining
the label feels like we are coming home,
returning to our independent roots." |
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| 31 Aug |
So
This is Permanence: Lyrics and Notebooks
Published November 2014
Edited by Jon Savage
with a foreword by Deborah Curtis, presents
the intensely personal writings of one of
the most enigmatic and influential
songwriters and performers of the late
twentieth century, Joy Division's Ian
Curtis.
The songs of Joy Division, infused with the
energy of punk but seeped in a resigned
longing, were born of Manchester in the late
seventies - a once flourishing industrial
city in decline. They were the songs too of
Ian Curtis's inner tragedies, as he battled
depression, epilepsy and debilitating stage
fright. Ian Curtis committed suicide in
1980, on the eve of the band's first
American tour.
Interspersed with the lyrics are previously
unpublished facsimile pages of Ian's
notebooks, which throw his highly emotive
lyrics into fascinating relief and cast
light on the creative process of this
singularly poetic songwriter. |
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| 25 Aug |
Eric's August 1979 - updated with Andrew
Twambley's recollections |
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| 15 July |
Ian
Curtis's Birthday
Photograph
(C) of Philippe Carly
www.newwavephotos.com
and reproduced with permission |
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| 11 July |
Joy Division in
Yorkshire
Julian's research for his Joy Division in
Yorkshire
article continues as new facts come to light
and new people contact him with more
information. Today the Huddersfield Daily
Examiner helped out with this appeal about the
particularly mysterious Coach House gig
Image
and article thanks to Denis Kilcommons, Andy
Hirst and the Huddersfield Daily
Examiner |
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Chapter
and Verse - New Order, Joy Division and Me
Bernard Sumner's
long awaited autobiography will be released
on September 25th
Pre order for £20
& free delivery on Amazon
Chapter and Verse
includes a vivid and illuminating account of
Bernard's Salford childhood, the early days
of Joy Division, the band's enormous
critical and popular success, and the
subsequent tragic death of Ian Curtis.
Bernard describes the formation of New
Order, takes us behind the scenes at the
birth of classics such as 'Blue Monday' and
gives his first-hand account of the ecstasy
and the agony of the Haçienda days.
Sometimes moving, often hilarious and
occasionally completely out of control, this
is a tale populated by some of the most
colourful and creative characters in music
history, such as Ian Curtis, Tony Wilson,
Rob Gretton and Martin Hannett. Others have
told parts of the story, in film and book
form. Now, for the first time, Bernard
Sumner gives you chapter and verse. |
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| 3 July |
Annik
Honoré 12 October 1957 - 3 July 2014
We are very sorry to hear of the death of
Annik Honoré earlier today following a serious
illness. Annik was the co-founder of
independent record label Les Disques Du
Crépuscule and promoted a number of legendary
concerts at Plan K in Brussels. She was also
Ian Curtis's girfriend and confidante.
Image
thanks to Le Soir
She had the most dignity of anyone I ever
met, protective of intrusion into her life,
yes, but always balanced with dignity - Lindsay Reade |
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