Joy Division

DWJ #29: Joy Division - “Shadow Play”

life is a thrill (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

DWJ #29: Joy Division - “Shadow Play”

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

GoldieLocks' Shit Yo (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Possibly best band ever Is it coincidence that I heard this twice last night?

Madonna - Peter Hook Blasts Madonna

Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

Peter Hook thinks Madonna is "horrible" and "like a Black Widow" spider.The former New Order and Joy Division bassist told Absolute Radio he met the star on the night...

• Peter Hook Calls Madonna a 'Black Widow Spider' - Spinner.com

An imaginary Manchester

Click opera (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Let's say -- just hypothetically -- that I'd been pondering for several months what a new novel should be about, because I want to keep writing these things, now I've started. And let's say -- entirely speculatively -- that I'd actually refined and defined a slew of "signature specifications" to the extent that I was able to start writing the new book, suddenly, last week. Let's call it The...

The Big Climate Event

Didcot Green Team (Free subscription) | yesterday

I spent yesterday in company with hundreds of local environmental activists from across Oxfordshire at The Big Climate Event , a conference organised by ClimateXchange and the Oxfordshire Community Action Group project. It was a day of hopes, fears, facts and ideas. Ultimately it was about communities coming together for change. Ian Curtis from Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute opened the...

THE CLASS OF 79 (Part 37)

THE VINYL VILLAIN (Free subscription) | yesterday

There are some things which really dont seem as if they were released 30 years ago. The 7" single given the catalogue number FAC 13 first hit the shops in October 1979. I'm guessing that more people heard the song for the first time over the past 5 years than did over the previous 25 years such has been the resurgent interest in Joy Division and in particular the life and death of Ian Curtis ....

A charmless man

20th Century Boy (Free subscription) | yesterday

I'm a 49 year old man stuck in the body of a 16 year old who wishes he was alive in the 60's. People in the supermarket I work at tell me "Enjoy your youth" whenever I make a crack about being too young to sell alcohol. Well no. What's there to enjoy? And so what if I sound like an angsty little so and so. 40 years ago Beatles mania was the phrase 0f the moment, people listened to music on...

Paul Young's Love Will Tear Us Apart

An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

...is (deep breath) still my favourite version of the song. Not only do I have the same confession as Liz (though why we feel the need to confess, I'm still working on); that Paul Young's version was the first I heard but also that when I heard the Joy Division version a few years later I thought it was a ropey Paul Young cover - and in fact, that's how I still see things now. When No Parlez came out...

The Missing Link: November 6, 2009

CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Letter from Fort Hood . D rowning in a " tsunami of cute " . (Maybe somebody needs a hug?) I wouldn't mind a Joy Division birthday cake . Seminal Plasma Hypersensitivity . =| Leaning Tower of Piza usually gets all the attention, so Web Urbanist rounds up 13 other leaners . (Via Neatorama ) Is Bin Laden a sci-fi nerd? Or maybe Isaac Asimov was a radical Islamist?! How everything goes to hell...

Noughties By Nature #24: New Order - Crystal

Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

The last ten years have seen New Order finally come to terms with their previous history, embracing Joy Division in a way that they had never done so previously, cementing their place in British music folklore with the films 24 Hour Party People and Control, and releasing yet another Greatest Hits collection with half the tracks being incorrectly labelled or pulled from the wrong source. Business as...

Live Music Review: Grouper @ The Luminaire

Londonist (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Last night saw Oregon based mistress of drone folk Liz Harris aka Grouper hush a teeming Luminaire crowd in Kilburn. Presented by the London based music promoter Upset The Rhythm , Grouper was accompanied by Silk Flowers; an otherworldly darkwave synth-pop Brooklyn trio and self billed athletic rhythm / action unit Thank You hailing from Baltimore. Silk Flowers kicked things off with a few from their...

Joy Division artefacts for Macc Museum

Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

From Manchester District Music Archive : Macclesfield Museum is currently searching for interesting Joy Division artefacts for a proposed exhibition due to take place in May 2010. The Curator of the exhibition is Jon Savage. The museum would like to hear from anyone who may be interested in loaning unseen photos, live recordings or footage, flyers, posters or general rare memorabilia. If you think...

Kings of Leon Top Love Song Survey

Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Filed under: News Whether you think they're better suited to hipster or pop radio audiences, Kings of Leon can now officially claim to be for lovers. The Tennessee rockers beat out Marvin Gaye , Al Green and Eric Clapton in a love song competition sponsored by dating site eHarmony UK. As part of its Perfect Mixtape Challenge , the site -- somewhat surprisingly -- identified KOL's hot-blooded 'Sex...

Photo from Dallas of me n him 1988 - ish

daydreams of a production line worker (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

In the meantime, here's an excellent shot of us both on the back steps of 39 & 41 when we were younger, better looking, less wrinkled and obviously, a little slimmer! Jesus! Love the t-shirts tho', I'm wearing a dilapidated Joy Division shirt and I remember designing and screen printing that Eat The Rich one you're wearing... punk as feck!

Slater Bradley, if we were immortal

ArtCal (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Team Gallery 83 Grand Street, between Wooster and Greene, 212-279-9219 Soho November 12 - December 19, 2009 Opening: Thursday, November 12, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Team is pleased to present a show of new work by Slater Bradley. Entitled if we were immortal , the exhibition will run from the 12th of November through the 19th of December 2009. The gallery is located at 83 Grand Street, cross streets Wooster...