IAN CURTIS 1956 - 1980

 

Ian Curtis - Gone but not forgotten

It was 29 years ago today that IAN CURTIS ended his life, aged 23.

The driving force behind Joy Division's dark vision, he hanged himself in his Macclesfield home as the band rested between a European and American tour. Iggy Pop's 'The Idiot' was found on his turntable alongside a note which read "at this very moment, I wish I were dead. I just can't cope anymore".

Joy Division ceased to be - they had always said they would draw a line beneath the band if any member left. The three remaining members( Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris) regrouped as New Order during early 1981 (Morris girlfriend Gillian Gilbert joined on keyboards) and continue to enjoy commercial success and critical acclaim.

 

In March 2005 with Peter Hook in Macclesfield visiting Ian Curtis grave, Some Pictures for you.

 

 

 

 

 

Joy Division cover designer Peter Saville makes rare LA appearance

 

 

 

Renowned designer Peter Saville, who created iconic album covers for bands including Joy Division, New Order, Suede and Roxy Music, gave his first ever public discussion in Los Angeles about his work last night (April 1).

 

The Manchester native took part in a Q&A in Beverly Hills in which he discussed his time working with Tony Wilson at Factory Records in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the Hacienda nightclub, as well as his new role as Creative Director for the City of Manchester.

"We founded Factory Records out of idealism and naivety," he said of the legendary label that was home to Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays. He went on to explain that the first money the label made came after Joy Division's singer Ian Curtis died, and they didn't know what to do with it.

"There was a hole in the ground in Manchester and we proceeded to throw Joy Division's money into it and then New Order's," he said, referring to the Hacienda nightclub where the 'Madchester' scene was born.

Speaking about his design philosophy, he said, "I made things the way I wanted them to look. I made covers as objects I wanted to have in my life." He admitted to learning from his clients including Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry.

Lastly, he touched on his new role promoting arts in the northern English industrial city. "Coming from a second city that's not the capitol helps you raise your game, and that's a good thing," he said.

The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess spun tunes at a reception following the discussion.

 

 

 

Bernard and Oakwood invited to attend the launch of UK Music, in Parliament

 

Michael Appleyard, Deputy Headteacher, was delighted to receive an invitation from UK Music to deliver with Bernard a description of the project; Bernard is embarking on with Oakwood High School, at the UK Music launch early in the New Year.

 

Pupils from the school will be researching the influences that Lawrence Weiner and Peter Saville had on the designs of Factory Record cover sleeves and posters and in particular, New Order. Pupil’s designs will be exhibited at the Lowry Theatre, Salford in September 09, where it is hoped one will be chosen as a cover sleeve for Bernard’s new band, Bad Lieutenant.

 

 The project was inspired, by an interview Bernard gave to one of the pupils, where after the death of Ian Curtis, he described the feelings and anxieties a guitarist had on having to sing in front of 20,000 people. The pupil, coming from an area of deprivation in Salford, afterwards described the conversation as inspirational.

 

The project will begin with a group of young people attending a residential activity in Keswick, where they will explore the work of Lawrence Weiner, with the help of Manchester poet Mike Garry and teachers Steve Heeley and Kelly Sterling. Lawrence believes text is a material, which can be sculpted. The school will be hoping to meet Lawrence, when they meet up with Mike Shamberg who ran the Factory Records Transatlantic Office in the eighties, on a trip to New York planned for March/April. Hopefully with Bernard joining as the tour guide.

 

Rhino reissue a Decade of New Order

 

Double-Disc Collector's Editions of Movement, Power, Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique Feature Original Factory Records Releases Remastered and Expanded with Non-Album Singles, B-Sides andRemixes

Each Available from Rhino November 11

LOS ANGELES -- After forming in 1980, New Order went on to develop a groundbreaking sound that mixed synthesizer-driven pop with electronic dance beats on a series of acclaimed and influential albums. The band -- Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert -- released a total of five albums during the '80s that helped blaze a trail for the alternative music movement that would peak a decade later.
Rhino pays tribute to these musical pioneers with Collector's Editions of the band's first five albums: MOVEMENT, POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES, LOW-LIFE, BROTHERHOOD and TECHNIQUE. On November 11, all five will be available at all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com

Each will be reissued as a double-disc that contains a remastered version of the original Factory Records recording on the first disc, along with a bonus disc that collects the band's numerous non-album singles, b-sides and remixes.

After the tragic death of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, the band's surviving members, Sumner, Hook and Morris, founded New Order with Gilbert and released its darkly melodic debut, MOVEMENT (1981). The album's eight songs show the band moving away from the past and embracing a new sound on "Truth," "Denial" and the opening track, "Dreams Never End." Among the bonus disc highlights is "Ceremony," a song written by Joy Division but never recorded in the studio that New
Order recorded as its first single. Also included are later singles ("Temptation" and "Everything's Gone Green") that foreshadow the band's more dance-oriented direction.

New Order found its voice on the group's sophomore effort, POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES (1983). Featuring the original eight songs on the British release, the first disc offers exceptional dance-pop with "Your Silent Face" and "Age Of Consent." The bonus disc includes "Blue Monday" and its b-side "The Beach," which were released exclusively as a single in the U.K., but included on the U.S. version of Power, Corruption & Lies. The single became the best-selling, independently released 12" single of all time in the U.K.

The group achieved a high-water mark with its third release LOW-LIFE (1985), an eight-song album that perfected New Order's cutting-edge electronic sound with the singles "The Perfect Kiss" and "Sub-Culture."
The bonus disc contains songs the band contributed to the popular film Pretty In Pink, including "Shellshock" (from the soundtrack) as well as an instrumental version of the album track "Elegia" that was heard in the film, but not on the soundtrack.

The band returned a year later with BROTHERHOOD (1986), an album highlighted by the brilliant single "Bizarre Love Triangle" along with the fan favorite "Weirdo" and the ballad "All Day Long." The bonus disc offers the 12" single versions of "Touched By The Hand Of God" and "Bizarre Love Triangle" as well as two remixes of "True Faith"; its b-side "1963"; and a new version of "Blue Monday" released in 1988.

New Order closed the decade with TECHNIQUE (1989), a nine-song album influenced by the exploding popularity of the acid house scene in Great Britain. Debuting at #1 in the U.K., the album delivered the singles "Run," "Fine Time" and "Round & Round" as well as "Vanishing Point," a song later used as the theme for a popular British television show. The bonus disc features the 12" single "World In Motion," the official song of the English national football team in 1990's World Cup competition. Also featured is "Fine Line," an instrumental version of the album track "Fine Time," as well as b-sides "Best & Marsh" and "MTO."

MOVEMENT
Disc One
1. "Dreams Never End"
2. "Truth"
3. "Senses"
4. "Chosen Time"
5. "I.C.B."
6. "The Him"
7. "Doubts Even Here"
8. "Denial"

Disc Two
1. "Ceremony" - 12" Version
2. "Temptation" - 12" Version
3. "In A Lonely Place" - 7" Version
4. "Everything's Gone Green" - 12" Version 5. "Procession" - 7" Version
6. "Cries and Whispers"
7. "Hurt" - 12" Version
8. "Mesh"- 12" Version
9. "Ceremony" - Alternate Version
10. "Temptation" - Alternate 12" Version

POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES
Disc One
1. "Age Of Consent"
2. "We All Stand"
3. "The Village"
4. "5 8 6"
5. "Your Silent Face"
6. "Ultraviolence"
7. "Ecstacy"
8. "Leave Me Alone"

Disc Two
1. "Blue Monday" - 12" Version
2. "The Beach" - 12" Version
3. "Confusion" - 12" Version
4. "Thieves Like Us" - 12" Version
5. "Lonesome Tonight" - 12" Version
6. "Murder" - 12" Version
7. "Thieves Like Us" - Instrumental
8. "Confusion" - Instrumental

LOW-LIFE
Disc One
1. "Love Vigilantes"
2. "The Perfect Kiss"
3. "This Time Of Night"
4. "Sunrise"
5. "Elegia"
6. "Sooner Than You Think"
7. "Sub-Culture"
8. "Face Up"

Disc Two
1. "The Perfect Kiss" - 12" Version
2. "Sub-Culture" - 12" Version
3. "Shellshock" - John Robie Remix, 12" Version 4. "Shame Of The Nation"
5. "Elegia"
6. "Lets Go (From Salvation)"
7. "Salvation Theme"
8. "Dub Vulture"

BROTHERHOOD
Disc One
1. "Paradise"
2. "Weirdo"
3. "As It Was When It Was"
4. "Broken Promise"
5. "Way Of Life"
6. "Bizarre Love Triangle"
7. "All Day Long"
8. "Angel Dust"
9. "Every Little Counts"
10. "State Of The Nation"

Disc Two
1. "Bizarre Love Triangle" - 12" Version 2. "1963" - 12" Version 3.
"True Faith" - Shep Pettibone Remix, 12" Version 4. "Touched By The Hand
Of God" - 12" Version 5. "Blue Monday '88"
6. "Evil Dust"
7. "True Faith" - True Dub
8. "Beach Buggy"

TECHNIQUE
Disc One
1. "Fine Time"
2. "All The Way"
3. "Love Less"
4. "Round & Round"
5. "Guilty Partner"
6. "Run"
7. "Mr. Disco"
8. "Vanishing Point"
9. "Dream Attack"

Disc Two
1. "Don't Do It" - 12" Version
2. "Fine Line" - 12" Version
3. "Round and Round" - 12" Version
4. "Best & Marsh" - 12" Version
5. "Run 2" - 12" Version
6. "MTO"
7. "Fine Time" - Silk Mix
8. "Vanishing Point" - Instrumental, 12" Version 9. "World In Motion" -
Cabinieri Mix, 12" Version

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LISTENING PARTY TRACKLIST:

 

1 Dreams Never End 
2 Procession
3 Age of Consent 
4 Blue Monday 
5 The Perfect Kiss 
6 Salvation Theme 
7 Bizarre Love Triangle 
8 1963
9 Round & Round 
10 Don't Do It 

Peter Hook: 'New Order was an empty shell'

 

Peter Hook has spoken out about the last days of his former band New Order, claiming that a lack of communication had left the band "an empty shell".

Speaking as part of BBC Radio 2's New Order week, the bass player spoke about how relations between himself and frontman Bernard Sumner had broken down.

New Order split up last summer, apparently for the final time.

Asked by DJ Stuart Maconie about the prospects of the band burying the hatchet, Hook explained: "I've no idea really. Sometimes you wonder what you were arguing about.

"From what I can gather, Bernard was upset that I didn't go and see him to tell him that I didn't want to work with him anymore. To my mind it had gone.

"I had a manager and I was paying my manager 20 per cent, so got her to do the dirty work. I didn't see why I had to do my own dirty work. She told him in February and he never said anything, he just went, 'Right'."

Hook also spoke of his anger at the 'New Order' statement released by his bandmates that claimed Hook had gone to the press without telling the other band members he had left the band.

"I told him every night after the Brazilian tour that I wasn't going to do this again," Hook said. "I did Brazil for the money. I just felt it was like an empty shell, New Order. It really was for me. I can't talk for the others."

However, Hook went on to say that the process of remastering the band's five albums for Factory Records had given him closure on the turbulence.

"I must admit that when I listened to it, I was really proud of them [his former bandmates]," he said. "It did cheer me up because it made me realise that while we fight like kids in the playground we actually achieved something that we should all be proud of."

Bernard Sumner collaborates with Oakwood High School, Salford

 

Bernard is embarking on his third successful collaborative project with pupils from Oakwood High Special School, in Salford.

 

Pupils will be exploring the designs of New Order album covers, particularly work by Peter Saville and the American contemporary artist Lawrence Weiner.

 

Recently staff from the school, have visited New York, where they met Mike Shamberg, who ran the Factory Transatlantic office in the Eighties. A group will be visiting New York early next year, when it is hoped Bernard will be able to join the party, to share his experiences of New Order in New York.

 

Work produced by the pupils will be exhibited under the project title ‘Aspirations and Originality’, on Mike Shambergs Turtle/Kinoteca web site and at The Lowry Theatre in September 09.

 

Bernard’s relationship with ‘So Many Words Theatre Company’ and Oakwood High School began with a fabulous New Order performance at the school in 2005.

'1 Top Class Manager'

 

The Notebooks of Joy Division's Manager 1978-1980

 

Notebooks of Joy Division manager Rob Gretton to be published by his widow, shedding new light on one of the most talked-about bands and music scenes in recent history.

 

October 7th will see the release of '1 Top Class Manager'  The Notebooks of Joy Division's Manager 1978-1980.

 

Published by Rob Gretton's widow, Lesley Gilbert, with a foreword by Jon Savage, the book condenses over twenty working notebooks into one volume, and contains posters, letters, diaries and studio notes,all dating from August 1978 to late 1980 – the Joy Division years.

 

Editor Abigail Ward said, "Rob Gretton remains one of Manchester music's most influential, yet elusive, characters. '1 Top Class Manager' allows us a glimpse of his thought processes and working methods during the Joy Division period."

 

"It gives us a new perspective on post-punk Manchester and the birth of Factory Records, and retells the Joy Division story through a collage of 'to do' lists, gig plans, artistic manifestos"

and scribbled ideas."

 

'1 Top Class Manager' is strictly limited to 1500 copies and is available to buy online at www.1topclassmanager.co.uk or over the counter at Vinyl Exchange, 18 Oldham Street, Manchester from October 7^th. It is published in association with Manchester District Music Archive. www.mdmarchive.co.uk

Warners To Release Re-mastered, Re-issues of

New Order’s five seminal ‘80s albums 

 

On 28th September  (US release Oct 14) Rhino Records will re-issue one of the most consistent and influential music catalogues of the 1980s, that of New Order. All five albums will come with bonus discs featuring extended versions, b-sides and remixes, as well as extensive sleevenotes, including interviews with all four band members.

Rising from the ashes of legendary British post-punks Joy Division, New Order triumphed over tragedy to emerge as one of the most acclaimed bands of the 1980s. Embracing the electronic textures and disco rhythms of the underground club culture years in advance of their contemporaries, the group's pioneering fusion of new wave aesthetics and dance music successfully bridged the gap between the two worlds, creating a distinctively thoughtful brand of synth pop.

Released in 1981, New Order’s debut album Movement - produced by Joy Division collaborator Martin Hannett - is the sound of a young band testing new waters after the loss of their singer. The bonus disc features alternative versions and b-sides, with examples of transitional tracks, such as In A Lonely Place and Cries And Whispers, and those that point unequivocally forward as Bernard Sumner finds his own vocal personality, such as non-album singles Everything’s Gone Green and Temptation, a song that spanned generations with it’s triumphant standout on the Trainspotting OST.

On 1983’s Power, Corruption & Lies the band established their own unique and innovative identity, perfectly mixing their love of Kraftwerk with New York’s underground club scene - helped to fruition by producer Arthur Baker. The album featured the state-of-the-art dance classic Confusion. The bonus disc features a song that can truly be described as legendary: Blue Monday, the best-selling 12” of 1983 and a song that defines an era. Also featured are instrumental and alternative versions of Thieves Like Us and Confusion.

1985’s Low-Life further proved the band’s talent for creating dance-pop gems, such as Sub-Culture and The Perfect Kiss. A propulsive, smart and edgy album, it combined lush synth patterns and programmed beats with a level of emotion that keeps the music fresh. The bonus disc features extended mix versions of several album tracks as well as the John Robie remix of Shellshock - the song that brought the band to prominence in the US after it appeared on the Pretty In Pink OST.

Just a year after Low-Life, the band released Brotherhood. The album showed the band’s diversity – it’s one of the least synthesized albums in their catalogue – and their ability to write hook-filled songs, such as the Bizarre Love Triangle single. The bonus disc features extended versions of album tracks, as well as the 1988 version of Blue Monday and Shep Pettibone Remix of True Faith, as well as the True Dub version.

In 1988 the band travelled to Ibiza, and the island’s Baleric and Acid House scenes heavily influenced their 1989 album Technique. Yet again showcasing their talent for writing brilliant left-field pop songs, the album further blurred the line between electronic dance and alternative pop. The driving singles - Fine Time, Run, Round & Round - helped make Technique the band's most dance-oriented record yet, though rockier album tracks - Love Less and All The Way - revealed the band’s on-going versatility. The bonus disc features b-sides and extended versions of album tracks, as well as remixes, including Fine Time (Silk Mix) and the 1990 England World Cup anthem, World In Motion (Cabinieri Mix).


Movement (1981)

1. Dreams Never End (03.13)
2. Truth (04.36)
3. Senses (04.45)
4. Chosen Time (04.06)
5. I.C.B (04.33)
6. The Him (05.27)
7. Doubts Even Here (04.17)
8. Denial (04.21)


Movement – bonus disc

1. Ceremony (04.25)
2. Temptation (7.01)
3. In A Lonely Place (06.14)
4. Everything’s Gone Green (05.32)
5. Procession (04.29)
6. Mesh (03.27)
7. Hurt (08.07)
8. Cries And Whispers (03.03)
9. Ceremony (Alt. Version) (04.36)
10. Temptation


Power, Corruption & Lies (1983)

1. Age Of Consent (05.14)
2. We All Stand (05.14)
3. The Village (04.37)
4. 5 8 6 (07.29)
5. Your Silent Face (05.59)
6. Ultraviolence (04.49)
7. Ecstasy (04.24)
8. Leave Me Alone (04.39)


Power, Corruption & Lies – bonus disc

1. Blue Monday (07.32)
2. The Beach (07.22)
3. Confusion (08.15)
4. Thieves Like Us (06.38)
5. Lonesome Tonight (05.13)
6. Murder (03.57)
7. Thieves Like Us (Instrumental) (06.59)
8. Confusion (Alt Version) (07.36)


Low-Life (1985)

1. Love Vigilantes (04.18)
2. The Perfect Kiss (04.50)
3. This Time of Night (04.45)
4. Sunrise (05.59)
5. Elegia (04.55)
6. Sooner Than You Think (05.12)
7. Sub-culture (04.56)
8. Face Up (05.06)

Low-Life – bonus disc

1. The Perfect Kiss (08.49)
2. Subculture (07.26)
3. Shellshock (John Robie Remix) (06.28)
4. State Of The Nation (06.33)
5. Elegia (17.28)
6. Let’s Go (03.43)
7. Salvation Theme (2.16)
8. Dub Vulture (07.56)

Brotherhood (1986)

1. Paradise (03.49)
2. Weirdo (03.51)
3. As It Is When It Was (03.43)
4. Broken Promise (03.46)
5. Way Of Life (04.04)
6. Bizarre Love Triangle (04.20)
7. All Day Long (05.10)
8. Angel Dust (03.41)
9. Every Little Counts (04.26)
10. State Of The Nation (06.32)

Brotherhood – bonus disc

1. Bizarre Love Triangle (06.43)
2. 1963 (05.37)
3. True Faith (Shep Pettibone Remix) (09.03)
4. Touched By The Hand Of God (07.06)
5. Blue Monday '88 (07.10)
6. Evil Dust (03.43)
7. True Faith - True Dub (07.51)
8. Beach Buggy (07.20)

Technique (1989)

1. Fine Time (04.43)
2. All The Way (03.23)
3. Love Less (03.02)
4. Round & Round (04.30)
5. Guilty Partner (04.45)
6. Run (04.29)
7. Mr Disco (04.21)
8. Vanishing Point (05.24)
9. Dream Attack (05.14)

Technique – bonus disc

1. Don't Do It (04.33)
2. Fine Line (04.45)
3. Round And Round (06.51)
4. Best & Marsh (04.32)
5. Run (II) (05.26)
6. MTO (05.27)
7. Fine Time (Silk Mix) (06.19)
8. Vanishing Point Instrumental (5.12)
9. World In Motion (Cabinieri Mix) (5.55)

Joy Division documentary gets release date in UK

The eagerly awaited new documentary about Joy Division is released on DVD in the UK today August 25th.

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.

"Joy Division" Documentary trailer

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 bands 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.

 

ORDER HERE UK DVD

New stone laid at Curtis memorial

Karen Britton

A NEW memorial has been laid to replace Ian Curtis’ stolen headstone but the search goes on for the original.

 

Fans of the late Joy Division lead singer were shocked when his memorial stone was taken from Macclesfield Cemetery a month ago with police appealing for its return.

 

But since a fruitless raid on a house in Winsford there have been no new clues as to its whereabouts.

Ian’s wife, Deborah Curtis, was "in a state of disbelief and shock" after the stone was stolen from the Prestbury Road site and laid the replacement. Her husband hanged himself in a Barton Street flat in 1980.

But former Joy Division and New Order drummer, Stephen Morris, from Rainow, said that it’s a shame for fans that the original is gone.

 

According to the council, the stone attracted 1,000 visitors to the town each year from around the world.

Stephen, who was a pupil at King‘s School alongside Ian, said: "I can’t understand what has happened to the stone but it’s an awful thing for someone to do.

"People go around nicking road signs but a person’s gravestone is very personal and the person who took it needs help. I suspect it could be on someone’s mantlepiece and that one day they may try and sell it back to us but it’s hard to say.

 

"The person who took it cannot be a true fan and it’s a shame for the people who come a long way to see the grave and put flowers on it.

"I am glad there is a replacement as I often go to visit the cemetery but it was a shock that the old one had gone."

 

Beverly Richardson, bereavement services officer at Macclesfield Cemetery, said: "People haven’t stopped coming to visit the site, even with no stone, and they come from all over the world.

"Like the rest of us, the fans think that it’s sad that the thief didn’t show more respect."

Inspector Gareth Woods, head of Macclesfield Neighbourhood Policing Unit, said: "Unfortunately we have nothing more to go on at the moment.

 

"It’s strange as we thought the stone would turn up or we would get information as the theft has had so much publicity. It’s a global news story so I’m sure we would know if someone had tried to sell it on. Whoever has the stone obviously intends to keep it but if anyone knows anything it could still help the investigation."

 

The memorial was taken between lunchtime on Monday, July 1, and the following morning.

Contact Cheshire Constabulary on 0845 458 0000 or anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555111 with any information.

www.macclesfield-express.co.uk

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 21^st 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.

 

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. 

 

Disc: 1
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

 

Disc: 2 (UK Edition only)
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

 

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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

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Joy Division documentary gets release date

 

The eagerly awaited new documentary about Joy Division is to be released in the UK on May 2.

 

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'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'.

 

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.

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Joy Division Best Of to be released

 

 

 

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.

Joy Division [documentary] / Trailer & Confirmed Film Festivals Dates for showing of the documentary: Ambulate Gira de Documentales [Mexico] http://www.ambulante.com.mx/2008/en/home.php February 1st April 24th !f Istanbul [Turkey] http://ifistanbul.com/ February 14th March 3rd Film Comments Selects at Lincoln Center [New York, NY] For tickets: https://tickets.filmlinc.com/php/calendar.php?month=2&day=16&year=2008&sid=&cmode=0&org=#10019 https://tickets.filmlinc.com/php/calendar.php?month=2&day=27&year=2008&sid=&cmode=0&org=#10020 February 16th & February 27th ZagrebDox [Zagreb, Croatia] http://www.zagrebdox.net/html/en/info.php February 25th March 2nd True|False Film Fest [Columbia, MO] http://truefalse.org/ February 28th March 2nd SXSW [Austin, TX] http://2008.sxsw.com/film/ March 7th March 15th Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival [Slovenia] http://www.cd-cc.si/default.cfm?Jezik=En&Kat=0204&Predstava=267 March 26th April 2nd Buenos Aires Film Festival [Argentina] http://www.bafici.gov.ar/bafici_10/index_e.php April 8th April 20th Independent Film Festival of Boston [Boston, MA] http://www.iffboston.org/ April 23rd April 29th Jeonju International Film Festival http://www.jiff.or.kr/ May 1st May 9th

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.
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