Butterfly Kiss (1995).

 

Pope-tastic

Brilliant last line. Pure quality. Reminds me that I need to dig out his autobiography. I dipped into it a couple of years ago. I should have stuck around.

The clip was found on Twitter but the bloke who posted it is notorious for posting other people's stuff without proper credit, so I thought I'd just bypass him and find the clip on YouTube.

Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook (Simon and Schuster 2016)

 

There was only one thing for it.

One of us lot would have to be the singer. To work it out, Rob thought it would be a good idea to put us in the studio with Martin Hannett, with Hannett in the Simon Cowell role and the three of us auditioning like a kind of post-punk X-Factor. It was a terrible idea, though. Martin had idolised Ian. Of everybody in the Factory family he was hit the hardest, and we entered the studio to find him medicating his depression in the usual way, with dope and coke. It didn’t exactly help matters that he’d always had a fairly low opinion of me, Steve and Barney anyway: ‘One genius and three Manchester United supporters’ was what he’d called Joy Division. Even though that’s not strictly speaking true, because Steve supported Macclesfield Town, but you knew what he meant. Being Martin Hannett, he wasn’t exactly backward when it came to telling us what a poor substitute we made for Ian’s genius.

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 03

A song that reminds you of summertime.

 If it's one particular summertime, it has to be New Order's 'World in Motion'. Not the greatest summertime song - hi Jazzy Jeff and the other one, that's on you - but if you were a young bloke into football and music in England in the summer of 1990, this was THE song for the obvious reasons. And if you were Scottish in England in the summer of 1990, it was a real love/hate song:

24 Hour Party People (2002)