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 April
24th, 2008 |
Warner Music Entertainment to release "New Order: Live in Glasgow
 On 2nd June (UK) Warner Music Entertainment will release "New Order: Live in Glasgow", a live DVD of the bands celebratory concert filmed at Carling Academy,
Glasgow in October 2006. Filmed over two nights it features tracks and footage highlighting the band's extraordinary career, as well as including a number of Joy Division songs. In addition to this concert, there will be a bonus disc featuring never-seen-before footage from bands personal archive and live performances from throughout the 1980s, showcasing the bands early Glastonbury
performance through to their self-assured big tour concerts of later years, climaxing in their stunning performance headlining Wireless 2006.
This DVD brings all these elements together for the first time, into one comprehensive package. It follows hot on the heels of the acclaimed Joy Division biopic Control and their recent Best Of.
New Order rose from the ashes of Joy Division - one of the most important British bands of all time after the tragic death of their singer, Ian Curtis. In the face of adversity, and against all odds for a band whod lost such a charismatic frontman, they went on to release eight seminal, era-defining albums. To achieve this status once, is an incredible feat, but to achieve it twice, which they did with the success of Joy Division and New Order, is truly remarkable.
Click Here to Order New Order: Live in Glasgow UK DVD (Release June 2nd)
New Order: Live in Glasgow
Tracklist
Disc 1 Crystal Turn True Faith Regret Ceremony Who's Joe These Days Krafty Waiting for the Sirens Call Your Silent Face Guilt is a Useless Emotion Bizarre Love Triangle Temptation Perfect Kiss Blue Monday Transmission Shadowplay Love Will Tear us Apart
Disc 2 CELEBRATION 1981 Ceremony I.C.B Chosen Time GLASTONBURY 1981 Senses Procession The Him
ROME 1982 Ultraviolence Hurt CORK 1983 Leave Me Alone Everythings Gone Green
ROTTERDAM 1985 Sunrise As it is when it was The Village This time of night TORONTO 1985 We All Stand Age of Consent Temptation
SHORELINE 1989 Dream Attack 1963 HYDE PARK WIRELESS Run Wild Shes Lost Control
An interview with Stephen Morris
New Order, rock legends and inspiration to thousands of bands, are bringing out a new concert DVD. Compiled by Peter Hook and Stephen Morris, this DVD sees the band both at their 21st century best and also collects a unique selection of live performances from their extraordinary career. We filmed two nights in Glasgow, which is always a good idea with New Order, says Stephen Morris, explaining the DVDs warts-and-all feel. In the past when weve done live DVDs theres always been a bit of fixing up but weve not bothered with this one! Because as Rob Gretton our former manager used to say: its just a moment in time, caught forever. And sometimes the mistakes are more interesting.
The DVD is punctuated with a series of short, sharp interviews with band members. Watching an entire concert is a bit gruelling, says Stephen. And the idea of breaking it up by doing interviews was very interesting. We were all interviewed separately but we all ended up carrying on from what the other person was saying. Also Glasgow was where Bernard did smash up the dressing room in a fit of pique and we cant go back to Barrowlands! Banned from the clubs! Its very interesting the rocknroll banter of Bernard and Hooky and myself.
This concert is notable for a very large amount of Joy Division songs, something New Order once avoided strongly. When we first started as New Order, wed made this blanket decision that we werent going to play Joy Division songs and nobody could mention Joy Division in our presence, says Stephen, And so we just didnt play Joy Division numbers until 1998 when we decided to get back and do some gigs, and we all wondered why wed never played any Joy Division songs! Because theyre all great songs.
Much of the bonus material is from Morris own collection, if cupboard is another word for collection. But without this dusty archive, wed be deprived of some excellent footage. Im glad I found all that stuff. I bunged it onto DVD and me and Gillian sat down one Saturday and we thought, Oh, its good this! I could watch this all night. And its not very often you can say that.
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April
17th, 2008 |
The Best Of Joy Division
Release Date: 4/29/08 (US)
Rhino's new fourteen-track, single-disc anthology THE BEST OF JOY DIVISION collects cuts from their two landmark studio albums, Unknown Pleasures and Closer (#157 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time), as well as important singles from throughout the band's all too brief run.
Highlights include Joy Division's signature song, the single Love Will Tear Us Apart, which became their breakthrough hit after Curtis' death and is now #179 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. Also featured are the classic tracks Digital, She's Lost Control, New Dawn Fades and Transmission.
| 1. Digital |
| 2. Disorder |
| 3. Shadowplay |
| 4. New Dawn Fades |
| 5. Transmission |
| 6. Atmosphere |
| 7. Dead Souls |
| 8. She's lost control |
| 9. Love will tear us apart |
| 10. These days |
| 11. 24 hours |
| 12. Incubation |
| 13. Isolation |
| 1. Exercice One (John Peel Show 31 Jan 79) |
| 2. Insight (John Peel Show 31 Jan 79) |
| 3. She's Lost Control (John Peel Show 31 Jan 79) |
| 4. Transmission (John Peel Show 31 Jan 79) |
| 5. Love Will Tear Us Apart (John Peel Show 26 Nov 79) |
| 6. Twenty Four Hours (John Peel Show 26 Nov 79) |
| 7. Colony (John Peel Show 26 Nov 79) |
| 8. Sound of Music (John Peel Show 26 Nov 79) |
| 9. Transmission (Recorded live for Something Else 4 Sept 79) |
| 10. She's Lost Control (Recorded live for Something Else 4 Sept 79) |
| 11. Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris Interviewed by Richard Skinner |
Click Here to Order "The Best of" Joy Division US import 2CD Limited edition
Click Here to Order "The Best of" Joy Division US 1CD edition
Click Here to Order "The Best of" Joy Division UK 2CD
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March
11th, 2008 |
The collaboration between blank+jones and Bernard Sumner, of Joy Division, New Order and Electronic, is called Miracle Cure, and it is the first song to be taken from this years very special blank+jones album of beats, treats and collaborations, The Logic of Pleasure.
- Bernard Sumner is high on the list, if not the highest, of those musicians, writers and singers that have influenced blank+jones fascination with mood, intoxication, romance and rhythm.
- The combination of the sure, vibrant blank+jones and the enigmatic, iconic and tender voiced Bernard Sumner is naturally a dream, as Sumners fragile yet bouyant melancholia slips beautifully into, and out of, blank and jones very own electronic sense of the epic.
- The collaboration is the sensational result of electronic communication involving email and MP3 set up during 2007. Sumner wrote and sung his part after completing work with New Order on the soundtrack for Anton Corbijns award winning film about Joy Division, Control.
- Miracle Cure will appear as the song it is and also as a brilliantly arranged series of energising/lounging uptown, down town and across town mixes from the blank+jones studio, and also from Manchester born Berlin based hypno-trance pioneer Mark Reeder, the currently on fire electro-obsessive Canadian Glenn Morrison, the prolific trancefrenzied German master Martin Roth, the Anglo-German electro-adventurers Onetwo and Scandinavian chilltronica club kings Lulu Rouge.
- It says something about the reputation and ability of blank+jones that the discriminating Sumner, a genius of melody, wished to work with blank+jones, and that the collaboration has produced a song that can live with the best of Sumners ingenious, smart and infectious pop songs.
- More news soon about the ninth blank+jones album The Logic of Pleasure and the records various enterprising collaborations, including Miracle Cure with Bernard Sumner.
Release dates for Miracle Cure Single:
May 30 - Worldwide
June 2 - UK
Release dates for The Logic of Pleasure:
June 9 - UK
June 6 - Worldwide
www.blankandjones.com
www.myspace.com/blankandjonesinfo
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March
10th, 2008 |
The Gothic Wedding Collection
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 Its a nice day for a black wedding. You need a special soundtrack to walk down that candle-lit aisle. The Gothic Wedding Collection provides the perfect musical accompaniment with lush strung quartet instrumentals of such vital artists as The Smiths, The Cure, and Evanescence. Love may tear you apart, but these songs will bind you together. |
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March
10th, 2008 |
Best Newcomer
Sam Riley, Control
 The
Acceptance Speech
"Thank you very much the readers of Empire
for voting for me. I'd like to thank Anton
for giving me such an incredible opportunity
and Harry, James, Craig and Joe and Samantha
and, of course, Alexandra, for making my
first experience so enjoyable and I hope
that I'll be working with some of you again
or for the first time. You can tell I'm
nervous, thank you very much."
Also Nominated
Shia LaBeouf, Transformers
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Gemma Arterton, St. Trinians
Thomas Turgoose, This Is England
Sony Ericsson
Soundtrack Award
Control
 The
Acceptance Speech
Anton Corbjin
"Musically, I was very inspired by England -
it's the reason I ever moved here. The
soundtrack was a joy to put together, there
was so much choice of music, I even managed
to put a Dutch band in there, I'd like to
point that out. As far as the film goes, I
have to go back to New Order because not
only did we use existing music but we also
had a score that was done by Bernard and New
Order, which is very rare for them to do and
I'm very grateful to them. The last music
they ever made is one the CD.
"Also on the CD, we have real musicians,
New Order are real musicians I'm sorry, real
actors who became real musicians who
performed all the songs live and one of
those takes is also on the album. The movie
wouldn't have been half as good if they'd
played against playback and having James,
Sam and Joe playing everything live, I'd
especially like to thank them because they
really forced me to film them live and I
think that's one of the best things that
they did to me.
"Thank you very much, I really loved
making this film, thank you."
Also Nominated
Atonement
Once
Hairspray
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
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March
01st, 2008 |
Joy Division documentary gets release date
The eagerly awaited new documentary about Joy Division is to be released in the UK on May 2.
www.joydivisionmovie.co.uk
'Joy Division' was directed by Grant Gee, previously responsible for the acclaimed Radiohead 'OK Computer' tour documentary 'Meeting People Is Easy'.
The new documentary follows hot on the heels of Anton Corbijn s movie 'Control', which was released in 2007, and concentrated its story on the bands tragic frontman Ian Curtis, who committed suicide in 1980.
The new documentary examines the bands story through never-before-seen live performance footage, personal photos, period films and newly discovered audiotapes.
There are also interviews with Tony Wilson, the boss of the band's label Factory Records, who died last year. The rest of the band also contribute, as does Annik Honore, the Belgian journalist who Curtis was having an affair with.
Joy Division bass player Peter Hook has already praised the documentary, calling it the perfect answer to 'Control'.
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February
29th, 2007 |
Anton Corbijn: 'It's beautiful 'Control' has stayed in people's hearts'
Joy Division directors says
thanks after Shockwaves NME Award
 Control
director Anton Corbijn has
admitted to being completely stunned by the
reaction to his Joy
Division biopic.
Picking up the Shockwaves NME Award
for Best Film yesterday
(February 28) at the ceremony in London
the legendary photographer said he had been
nave about the film industry, but was very
pleased with the reaction to his movie.
I made the film without thinking, because I was
naive about the film industry. This is nice you
can do this with your first film, its going to
be harder for the second one as everything is a
surprise first time around, he told
NME.COM.
He added: Its beautiful to have been able to
make something that stays in peoples hearts.
Its an incredible feeling. I honestly didnt
expect the reaction the film has got Id hoped
people would want to see the film but I always
aimed to make a proper film, not just a music
film. I tried to make a film with a broader
theme, a more universal theme but you would have
great music in the film. So I think that my
movie connected with people.
Corbijn who was an NME
photographer during the 1980s, also paid tribute
to the magazine and its readers for voting for
him.
For me NME was a very big
thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I
started taking pictures for them and I became
their main photographer for five years, and
thats really been the basis of everything Ive
been doing since, he explained. We did fall
out different times, different people but I
feel very loved by the NME at
the moment. The paper has a really good attitude
and the fact it was voted for by the readers
really means a lot to me.
WWW.NME.COM
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February
28th, 2007 |
Joy Division Best Of to be released
A
Joy Division compilation is to be
released next month.
'Joy Division Best Of',
will be released on
March 24.
The 2CD set will feature an interview with
the bands late singer, Ian Curtis,
and drummer Stephen Morris,
conducted by Richard Skinner.
The second CD in the compilation will
feature, as well as the interview,
recordings from the bands John Peel
radio sessions in 1979, plus live recordings
of 'Transmission' and
'She's Lost Control'.
The full tracklisting is:
CD1:
'Digital'
'Disorder'
'Shadowplay'
'New Dawn Fades'
'Transmission'
'Atmosphere'
'Dead Souls'
'She's Lost Control'
'Love Will Tear Us Apart'
'These Days'
'24 Hours'
'Heart And Soul'
'Incubation'
'Isolation'
CD2:
'Exercise One' (John Peel Show
January 31 1979)
'Insight' (John Peel Show)
'She's Lost Control' (John Peel Show)
'Transmission' (John Peel Show)
'Love Will Tear Us Apart' (John Peel Show
Nov 26 1979)
'Twenty Four Hours' (John Peel Show)
'Colony' (John Peel Show)
'Sound Of Music' (John Peel Show)
'Transmission' (live)
'She's Lost Control' (live)
'Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris Interview'
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February
24th, 2007 |
The Smiths and New Order stars unite for charity gig
The Smiths Andy Rourke, Peter Hook and Badly Drawn Boy united last night (February 23) for a special one-off performance.
The musicians came together for the annual Manchester Versus Cancer gig at the MEN Arena.
The makeshift super group played covers of 'Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths, 'Let The Sunshine In' from the musical 'Hair', Joy Divisions 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and 'Instant Karma!' by John Lennon.
The collaboration closed the five-hour concert, which also saw performances from bands such as The Enemy, The View, Happy Mondays and The Fratellis.
This years event took on extra poignancy after the death of Factory Records Tony Wilson last summer from the disease.
chose to dedicate their most famous hit All Together Now to the music mogul, and ex-New Order bassist Hook paid tribute to him, saying: "Rest in peace, Tony."
Hometown heroes Happy Mondays received a rapturous welcome, with Shaun Ryder and Bez indulging in some rough play fights.
Other highlights included the massive sing-alongs that greeted The Fratellis Chelsea Dagger and The Views Same Jeans, as well as The Enemys blistering headline set.
The fundraiser was the third to be held in successive years. Ex-Smith Rourke is the driving force behind the show as a trustee of the Versus Cancer charity, which is dedicated to making a difference to those suffering from cancer both in the UK and around the world.
The charity hopes to raise over 1 million in 2008.
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February
20th, 2007 |
Smiths/ Stone Roses/ New Order supergroup recruit vocalist
Freebass,
the group consisting of The Smiths Andy
Rourke, New Orders Peter Hook
and The Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist
Mani, have revealed their new
singer.
Gary Briggs, formerly of
Cornish-by-Manchester
band Haven, will join the trio,
alongside a number of celebrity guests.
Speaking to BBC 6Music,
Peter Hook said: We have had trouble
getting it together and I have had a lot of
trouble finding a vocalist and we now have
another one. This is about our 15th one.
Ian Brown, Billy Corgan, Happy
Mondays Rowetta, Tim
Burgess and Liam Gallagher
are also involved in the project, reportedly
contributing guest vocals.
The group has been in development since 2004, a
delay Hook puts down to
commitments in the members other bands.
He said: We started it funnily enough,
Mani and I, as a reaction because our
groups New Order and
Primals had been stalled, and then
miraculously our groups started up again so it
went on the back burner for a long time.
Rourkie plays guitar a lot,
Mani and I balance each other
out. He plays low and I play high. It actually
works well.
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January
22th, 2007 |
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January
20th, 2007 |
Director of Joy Division biopic Control - Anton Corbijn - meet fans at HMV Oxford Street.
WHAT: Signing session
WHERE: HMV London, 150 Oxford Street W1
WHEN: Monday 11th February at 6.00 pm
Director of 2007s biopic Control - Anton Corbijn celebrates the
release of the film on DVD and the book, In Control, with a signing
session at HMVs flagship store on Oxford Street in Londons West End
on Monday 11th February.
Anton will be at the store from 6.00 pm to meet fans and sign copies of
the DVD and the book which are released the same day.
'Control', which has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards - including
Best British Film- details the life of the troubled young musician,
Ian Curtis, who forged a new kind of music out of the punk rock scene
of 1970s Britain, and the band Joy Division, which he headed from 1977
to 1980. It also deals with his rocky marriage and extramarital
affairs, as well as his increasingly frequent seizures, which were
thought to contribute to the circumstances leading to his suicide on
the eve of Joy Division's first U.S. tour.
01-22-2008 - 12:41:07 PM
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