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Joy Division comeback

New Order plan return to their roots for biopic

14 Dec 05 - New Order have revealed they are working on songs for the film about their late Joy Division bandmate Ian Curtis.

Control is based on Touching From a Distance, the book by Curtis's widow Deborah. Casting for the role of Curtis - who committed suicided in 1980 - will take place in the spring.

The film is being made by director and rock photographer Anton Corbijn, who has worked with U2 and Depeche Mode.

Peter Hook told NME they wanted to record new songs for the film as Joy Division.

He said: "We were asked to do the soundtrack to the film, which I thought was a f***ing great idea - for Joy Division to do the music for a Joy Division film - because we've never really done a soundtrack before.

"It may include new stuff. Anton wants to use songs by Joy Division so that each song becomes a video. Like the way the Atmosphere video was filmed, he wants to write videos that appear in the film."

The Manchester band are also considering playing all Joy Division sets at future gigs.They played such a set at the October tribute concert for John Peel in London, including a rare outing for Warsaw.

Hook said: "We have actually talked about doing Joy Division sets and gigs, but we haven't found our footing yet."

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Category 12 -  Best Dance Recording
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances.  Vocal or Instrumental.  Singles or tracks only.)

• Galvanize
      The Chemical Brothers Featuring Q-Tip
      The Chemical Brothers, producers; The Chemical Brothers & Steve Dub, mixers
      Track from: Push The Button
      [Astralwerks]

• Say Hello
      Deep Dish
      Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia & Sharam Tayebi, producers; Deep Dish & Matt Nordstrom,
      mixers
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• Wonderful Night
      Fatboy Slim & Lateef
      Fatboy Slim, producer; Simon Thornton, mixer
      Track from: Palookaville
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• Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
      LCD Soundsystem
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• I Believe In You
      Kylie Minogue
      Babydaddy & Jake Shears, producers; Jeremy Wheatly, mixer
      Track from: Ultimate Kylie
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• Guilt Is A Useless Emotion
      New Order
      New Order & Stuart Price, producers; New Order & Stuart Price, mixers
      Track from: Waiting For The Sirens' Call
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New Order go back to school

Secret gig in a primary school for Hooky and the boys

New Order finished their recebt mini-tour with a special performance at Oakwood High School in Eccles, Salford (November 18).

Playing in front of 200 children who weren't even born when the band began, the gig came about after an associate of the group mistakenly rang up the school and got talking to the Deputy Head.

Frontman Bernard Sumner then visited the school, which specialises in art and technology for children with complex learning difficulties, and promptly promised to play a gig in the assembly hall for a special art class.

"I had a bad experience at school," Sumner told NME.COM, "and it's nice to see that the education authorities have changed their attitude towards creativity. We don't make things in Manchester anymore since the big industries closed down, but it's a very creative place. Just look at the bands. It's just really nice to see the education authorities, after what I was told, investing in creativity instead of putting it on the back burner."

Playing for little under an hour before the 3 o'clock bell, the band tore through hits old and new, with Sumner quipping; "I'd heard our audiences were getting younger! Where's the music teacher? We can't read music you know, it's all up here."

But the show was not without its share of rock'n'roll behaviour. Before dedicating 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' to head teacher Janis Triska, bassist Peter Hook said: "I promised I wouldn't swear... but FUCK OFF!" and promptly brought the pre-pubescent house down.

New Order played:

'Crystal'
'Regret'
'Krafty'
'Turn'
'Transmission'
'Your Silent Face'
'Waiting For The Sirens' Call'
'True Faith'
'Bizarre Love Triangle'
'Love Will Tear Up Apart'
'Blue Monday'
'Temptation'

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Pop bands often treat fans to the odd intimate gig after hitting the big time, but New Order took the idea to extremes when they performed at a school assembly yesterday.

Not that many of the 173 children at Oakwood High School, in Salford, had heard of a band whose biggest hit, Blue Monday, was released in 1983 when many of their parents were teenagers.

	Bass guitarist Peter Hook left the children giggling when he swore

The children were, however, all too pleased to miss their afternoon religious education lesson. "I've never heard of them but it's great that we've had no lessons today," said Nathan Rogan, 15.

Naomi Buckley, 13, said: "When we were told that there was a band playing, I thought it might be Status Quo because they were on Coronation Street the other day."

The staff was more excited.

School technician Rob Cawood, 37, brought a record in to be signed and Paul Langley-Sadler, 31, the computing and technology co-ordinator, brought his camera, desperate for a photo with the band.

The unlikely one-hour concert came about through a misunderstanding.

Alan Wise, a music promoter and friend of New Order's lead singer Bernard Sumner, had been trying to call his daughter's school, which has a similar name, and dialled the wrong number.

He got chatting to Mike Appleyard, the deputy head, who was looking for ways to celebrate achieving specialist arts college status and a good Ofsted report.

Mr Appleyard said: "I asked him if he knew anyone famous and he suggested New Order and gave me Bernard Sumner's home number."

Sumner visited the special needs school, which is half a mile from his childhood home, and agreed to do what he could to help.

He said: "Mike asked if we would play a concert, which I thought was a bit cheeky. Then I thought, why not?

"I am sure the kids didn't know who the hell we were, but you are not going to get a more honest response than from children that age."

The pupils were indeed honest. As teachers danced in the aisles and sang along, many of the children looked bored or put fingers in their ears.

But after four or five songs most began to enjoy themselves, cheering, waving their arms or playing air guitar.

They were most excited when Peter Hook, the bass player, shouted "f*** off", before saying that he would probably get a detention.

"He swore," giggled the boys at the back.

"That's all they'll remember," said Kate Williams, the learning resource manager. The show wavered between a gig, a school assembly (with choruses of "Good afternoon everybody") and moments of pantomime when Hook chanted: "I think my side's cheering louder than his."

As the children filed out one asked his teacher: "What was the name of that band?"

No one told him that the band he had just heard had released the world's biggest-selling 12in single, Blue Monday, and had played in front of 50,000 at Glastonbury festival this summer. The school's brush with fame is not over yet. Sumner will be back on Monday to teach art lessons, and will bring the artist Damien Hirst and the actor Keith Allen with him.

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Rock heroes Pink Floyd, The Who and New Order have been saluted by the music industry at a ceremony to induct them into the UK Music Hall of Fame.

The Prime Minister paid tribute to the Eurythmics

Posthumous places went to John Peel and Jimi Hendrix while Prime Minister Tony Blair led praise for the Eurythmics.

But Ozzy Osbourne, whose band Black Sabbath were also honoured, stole the show with a bottom-baring performance.

"That was a lot of fun," he said after mooning at the crowd which gave him a standing ovation at the London event.

Wednesday's show was the second annual Hall of Fame ceremony, after the likes of The Beatles, Madonna and U2 were honoured last year.

Ozzy moons

"Considering the amount of talent that comes out of this country, it should have been done 20 years ago," Osbourne said.

Black Sabbath were presented with their award by Queen guitarist Brian May, then Osbourne went on to moon at the Alexandra Palace crowd.

Pink Floyd were honoured after reforming at Live 8 in July.

Ozzy Osbourne bared his backside to the crowd

"It's nice to be loved and for one's contribution to be recognised in some way," singer and guitarist Dave Gilmour said.

"I suppose I agree that we have had an influence on modern popular music."

Gilmour accepted the award with drummer Nick Mason. Roger Waters was live on screen from Rome, where his opera Ca Ira is being staged.

The tensions between Gilmour and Waters rose to the surface when Gilmour thanked "all the passengers on this fabulous ride we've been on".

Waters responded: "I confess I've never felt like a passenger."

Gilmour played down suggestions of a further reunion, saying: "The Live 8 moment was a wonderful moment.

"But we've all moved on and there are lots of other things to be thrilled about these days."

Peel inspiration

Mason said there were "no plans" to get back together but he would like to do so.

If they did, it would probably be "for the same sort of reason" as Live 8, he said.

Peter Hook (left) and Bernard Sumner of New Order collected a gong

John Peel's honour was accepted by his wife, Sheila, after an introduction from Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn.

"John Peel was somebody that we could all trust," Albarn said. "Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of a bigger world out there."

Steve Winwood and former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash covered Jimi Hendrix songs while Alanis Morissette performed a tribute to Bob Dylan.

Jamie Cullum starred in an Aretha Franklin tribute and the Eurythmics performed a medley of their hits.

Mr Blair was seen in a video message to the Eurythmics, recalling hearing Sweet Dreams around the time he became an MP in 1983.

"It was just completely new, a different sound," he said. "They're two remarkable people - very talented, very original."

Ceremony organisers are considering building a real Hall of Fame attraction, possibly in the Millennium Dome.

"Meetings are happening at the top level and we hope to make an announcement shortly," a Hall of Fame spokesman said.

VH1 Will Telecast 'The Second Annual UK Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony' on Saturday November 26th 9:00 PM

For the first time ever in the U.S., VH1 will broadcast "The Second Annual UK Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony" with the entire two-hour ceremony airing exclusively on VH1 Classic right after the premiere on VH1. Artists who have been publicly announced to date are: PINK FLOYD, BOB DYLAN, EURYTHMICS, OZZY OSBOURNE AND BLACK SABBATH, THE WHO, THE KINKS, JIMI HENDRIX, JOY DIVISION/NEW ORDER and the late, great legendary DJ and producer JOHN PEEL. The UK Music Hall of Fame is produced by Initial (part of Endemol) and distributed by Channel 4 International.

The second annual "UK Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony" will take place at the famed Alexandra Palace in London on November 16th and premiere on VH1 as a two-hour live extravaganza on Saturday November 26th 9:00 PM.* The ceremony will be staged in front of a 3,000 strong audience and reveal up to ten legendary artists and one music industry figure to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame. For the first time, viewers in America will be able to witness this totally unique and utterly unmissable evening packed with amazing live performances from top international artists, exclusive video packages and tribute speeches from some of the leading celebrities of our time.

VH1 Classic will air the entire, unexpurgated ceremony on Sunday, November 27 at 8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT and again at 11:00 PM ET/8:00 PM PT. VH1 Classic viewers will witness the complete show, brimming with amazing performances and tributes to huge to be missed.

On November 11, 2004 music history was made with the inaugural ceremony of The UK Music Hall of Fame. The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, Queen, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, The Rolling Stones, U2 and Robbie Williams were the first artists to enter the UK Music Hall of Fame and Chris Blackwell (the founder of Island Records) was given the Honorary Membership for services to the music industry. Inductees are chosen by a highly select group of entertainment industry professionals.

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MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS EVENT

The Line up includes Ozzy Osbourne & Jamie Cullum

John Peel (Performance Buzzcocks, Peter Hook, Datsuns, El Presidente and The Soledad Brothers - Damon Albarn Inducting him)

Bob Dylan (Alanis Morrisette confirmed for tribute performance)

Pink Floyd (attending but not performing)

The Kinks (attending but not performing. Pretenders performing Tribute)

Jimi Hendrix (Tribute Performance supergroup including Slash)

New Order/Joy Division - performing

Quick New Order update:

Expect "Guilt Is A Useless Emotion" as the next single for the US market.  The track was produced by Stuart Price who also worked on the upcoming Madonna album. 

Two digital maxi singles will be release in the US on 11/29.

Guilt Is A Useless Emotion DMD

Album Version

DJ Dan Club Mix edit

Bill Hamel Vocal edit

Blueplate Vox edit

Morel's Pink Noise edit

Mac Quayle Vocal Mix

Ex-Factory stalwarts ACR (A Certain Ratio) will be supporting New Order at their Manchester Apollo gig on Monday 14th November…

 More info will be available via the ACR website – www.acrmcr.com

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Bands set for Hall of Fame honour 

New Order performed at a recent concert in memory of John Peel

The Who, The Kinks and Joy Division/ New Order will be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in November.

The bands will be honoured alongside Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix at this year's ceremony.

The ceremony, at London's Alexandra Palace on 16 November, will feature performances by Alanis Morissette and The Pretenders.

A panel of 60 broadcasters, artists, journalists, and industry executives have selected the bands.

Music contribution

Artists can be of any nationality as long as they have had success in the UK.

Last year's induction ceremony saw The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, Queen, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, The Rolling Stones, U2 and Robbie Williams become the inaugural members of the UK Music Hall of Fame.

Bono of U2 and Madonna were at the ceremony to pick up honorary awards.

This year's ceremony will be broadcast on Channel 4 on 17 November and will also feature New Order, who received the NME Godlike Genius Award earlier this year, performing the Joy Division classic Love Will Tear Us Apart.

Joy Division became New Order after the death of lead singer Ian Curtis at the age of 23 in 1980.

Former Guns n' Roses guitarist Slash will also lead a supergroup in a performance to honour legendary guitarist Hendrix.

The late DJ John Peel will receive 2005's Honorary Membership of the UK Music Hall of Fame in acknowledgement of his exceptional contribution to UK music.

DJ and TV presenter Dermot O'Leary will present the induction ceremony on Channel 4, while Radio 2's Mark Radcliffe will broadcast live from the event.

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Music legends unite for Peel tribute single

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JOOLS HOLLAND Later... Cool Britannia 2 (2005 UK Region 2 PAL DVD featuring 36 performances from some of the best British bands arounds including appearances by Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi, Radiohead, Bloc Party, The Libertines, Oasis, Keane, Coldplay, Embrace and many more...). ** released 24 October 2005 **

1. I Predict A Riot – Kaiser Chiefs
2. Song 2 – Blur
3. Hard To Beat – Hard-Fi
4. Moving – Supergrass
5. There There – Radiohead
6. Helicopter – Bloc Party
7. Krafty – New Order
8. Decent Days And Nights – Futureheads,
9. Lucky Man – The Verve
10. Run – Snow Patrol
11. If You Tolerate This – Manic Street Preachers
12. Boys In The Band – The Libertines
13. Irish Blood, English Heart – Morrissey
14. Talk, Talk, Talk – The Ordinary Boys
15. Yes – McAlmont And Butler
16. Black And White Town – Doves
17. Cigarettes And Alcohol – Oasis
18. Silent Sigh – Badly Drawn Boy
19. Just Looking – Stereophonics
20. Can’t Stop Now – Keane
21. You Will You Won’t – The Zutons
22. Golden Gaze – Ian Brown
23. The Power Is On – The Go Team
24. Leafy Mysteries – Paul Weller
25. Freakin’ Out – Graham Coxon
26. Michael – Franz Ferdinand
27. Trash – Suede
28. The Red, The White, The Black, The Blue – Hope Of The States
29. Tellin’ Stories – The Charlatans
30. Tourist – Athlete
31. Road Rage – Catatonia
32. This Is Hardcore – Pulp
33. Blindness – The Fall
34. Why Does It Always Rain On Me – Travis
35. Trouble – Coldplay
36. Ashes – Embrace

New Order launch John Peel Day

The DJ's life is celebrated today

New Order kicked off the celebrations for John Peel Day with an extra-special set filled entirely with Joy Division songs.

Gigs are taking place all over the UK today (October 13) to mark the first anniversary of the iconic DJ's death.

And playing the special launch show at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall last night, they acknowledged the fact that Peel had been the first person ever to their original incarnation by playing an entirely Joy Division-filled set - the first time they have done so since the suicide of Ian Curtis in 1980.

From the stage singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner said that they would have got "nowhere" without the support of Peel.

And before the show, bass player Peter Hook explained their decision: "We're only playing Joy Division songs, we thought he would have liked it that way. We've been flirting with it for ages, talking about doing a Joy Division set, because we thought the contrast would be nice, and I just decided for this to do it. But it's worked it, sounds good and it's interesting. We're playing two songs tonight we've not played for 25 years."

As well as favourites 'Transmission', 'She's Lost Control', 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and 'Atmosphere' , the six-song set featured 'Shadowplay' and '3 1 G' , the first song the band ever wrote together.

New Order were introduced by Fergeal Sharkey of The Undertones. Other artists performing were Super Furry Animals, Venetian Snares , Misty In Roots , Jawbone, Laura Cantrell and The Fall.

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Keep It Peel @ Queen Elizabeth Hall, October 12th 2005

New Order (performing a Joy Division set)

Transmission / She's Lost Control /Shadowplay / LWTUA / Atmosphere / Warsaw

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Winners: The Q Legend

The Q Awards 2005 took place today Monday 10 October at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London.

Presented by Guy Garvey from Elbow.

Winner: Joy Division, accepted by Peter Hook, Steve Morris and Natalie Curtis (daughter of Ian)

Exchange Of The Day

Peter Hook:"I remember Paul Weller saying to us one time: Are you the support band? And we said, No we're Joy Division.." Steve Morris: "That's very abstract, Hooky. True, but abstract." Hooky: "Bernard would be here, but he thinks Q are a bunch of two-faced cunts who have always given us bad reviews." Ah. Thanks, Barney. We think.

The long awaited project directed by Popswirl of a cd tribute to New Order called "Revolving World – A tribute to New Order" is now available. The modern musical point of view of 15 bands from 5 different countries on a major band of the 20 past years ; a large project built on thinking, sharing and exchanging musical experiences, running from Lyons to Sydney, Boston to Brussels, Buenos Aires to Gävle.

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1. So Happy - "Blue Monday"
2. Magnolia - "Nineteen63"
3. Alight - "Guilty Partner"
4. Scalde - "Crystal"
5. Shed - "Perfect Kiss"
6. Mango - "World"
7. The Rams - "Shellshock"
8. Kii Noo - "Age of Consent"
9. Feelings of Nowhere - "Round & Round"
10. For the Chosen Few - "Your Silent Face"
11. Unwise - "Brutal"
12. Eventide - "Ceremony"
13. Airbag - "True Faith"
14. Laura Van Damn - "Turn My Way"
15. Une Vie Austere - "Lonesome Tonight"
16. Anthony Stretch - "Temptation"

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Corbijn takes Control with Joy Division biopic

Rock photographer and music video director Anton Corbijn is preparing for an early 2006 shoot for his first feature film, tentatively titled Control, about the life of the late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.

Producers Orian Williams and Todd Eckert of US-based Claraflora first announced the project in January and Corbijn tells ScreenDaily.com that they are currently nailing down financing and starting the casting process.

Corbijn expects to shoot Control for up to two months in early 2006 in Manchester, Macclesfield, and surrounding areas. Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, himself a mythical figure in the Manchester music scene (as captured in Michael Winterbottom’s 24-Hour Party People), will co-produce as will Ian Curtis’s widow, Deborah Curtis.

Deborah Curtis’s book Touching From a Distance is the basis for the script (by Matt Greenhalgh), but Corbijn adds, “It’s broader than that.” He adds, “It’s not a Joy Division film, it’s a film about Ian as an artist.”

No actors have been confirmed yet, and Corbijn admits that that finding an actor to play such an idolized figure as Curtis is quite a challenge. “A lot of people have expressed interest but we haven’t found the right people yet,” he says. Corbijn reveals that several American actors have expressed interest in playing Curtis, but the director says simply, “that would be wrong.”

Unlike his music video work, Corbijn doesn’t plan to serve as his own cinematographer. He does have concrete ideas about the look of the film already: “It will be shot on film, most likely in black and white,” he reveals. “Most people’s memories of that era are in black and white. Joy Division specifically seems like such a black-and-white band.” (Corbijn used B&W images in his famous 1988 video for Joy Division’s Atmosphere that featured hooded monks carrying a giant photograph of Ian Curtis on a deserted beach.)

As for the sounds of Control (the title was inspired by Joy Division’s classic She’s Lost Control), the film-makers have the rights to Joy Division’s music. The band’s successor New Order is also involved.

The subject is close to Corbijn’s heart: as a young, music-obsessed photographer in 1979, he moved from Holland to England to be closer to Joy Division, his favourite band. Two weeks later he convinced the group to let him do a photo shoot, despite his lack of credentials.

That 1979 photo can be seen on Corbijn’s new Director’s Label DVD, devoted to his career so far. The DVD includes several dozen of his award-winning music videos for artists such as U2, Depeche Mode, Nirvana, Metallica, and Nick Cave, along with commentaries and a 40-minute documentary about Corbijn.”
 

(Thanks to Paul G. for the online access)

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Michael Shamberg

In 1980 filmmaker Michael Shamberg was videotaping concerts at New York’s legendary Hurrah nightclub when he met the members of New Order. Recently renamed after the suicide of their lead singer, Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, New Order would go on to shuck the earlier band’s existential gloom for a spiky electronic — and wildly successful — dance pop. But in 1980 they were just a band on their first American tour.

Forming a relationship with New Order and their manager, Rob Gretton, Shamberg promoted a New York concert in 1981 and filmed it with Barry Rebo as “Taras Shevchenko: Live at the Ukrainian National Home,” which now appears on the New Order DVD 316. In the process he became the band’s link to both cutting-edge film and the art world. When New Order would release an album they’d go to Shamberg, who would solicit video proposals from a series of great film directors and visual artists. Over the years Shamberg produced New Order videos by Robert Frank, Robert Longo and Gretchen Bender, William Wegman and Robert Breer, Jonathan Demme, Gina Birch from the U.K. band the Raincoats, French video artist Philippe Decouflé and Kathryn Bigelow.

“I never had anyone write a scenario,” Shamberg says of his approach to video commissioning. “The band could be in [the videos] or not — it didn’t matter.”

As the band grew in popularity, they started needing more, well…normal videos. When their Get Ready album was released in 2001, Shamberg solicited proposals from Leos Carax, David Gordon Green, Gaspar Noé and Michael Winterbottom for the lead-off single “Crystal,” but the record company decided to go with video director Johan Renck. Still, Shamberg retained his relationship with the band and continued making quirky lower-budget New Order videos that exist alongside the “official” releases. This September, Rhino is releasing a compilation DVD that collects New Order’s clips with a chapter heading allowing the viewer to play separately Shamberg’s productions. Included on the disk are two new Shamberg clips. The first is a simple and evocative video for the old song “Temptation,” directed by Shamberg and featuring Victoria Bergsman as a French girl buying and dancing to a New Order record. The second is Chinese d.p. and director Yu Lik-wai’s color-seared take on the band’s first single, “Ceremony.”

Of these two new clips, which cost only $10,000 each, Shamberg says, “In the early days, when Hurrah screened videos on monitors, videos were shot on video. Then they became commercials and were shot on film. Now, with these little cameras, we can go back and shoot on video with no crews, and that’s encouraging. It’s made me want to go back and make short films.”

The DVD contains Jonathan Demme’s epic production of “A Perfect Kiss,” a stunning video that consists of precisely framed shots of the band recording the song in a studio. At the time, the rumor was that the simple video was extravagantly expensive, and I asked Shamberg if that was true.

“The band didn’t mime to songs,” he explained, “so we recorded the song live on 24-track. We brought d.p. Henri Alekan over to Manchester, shot in 35mm and edited with Tony Lawson on a flatbed. Then we went to Liverpool to do a mix of the music and then traveled to L.A. to do a final film mix with Demme. It was like making a mini feature, and it cost about $200,000.”

Shamberg is also building a Web site (www. kinoteca.net) that will contain his stories about the making of these videos as well as one special treat. “When I called Leos Carax” — the legendary French director of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf — “to do a video for ‘Crystal,’ he told me, ‘The video will be very cheap, but my fee will be very large,’” recalls Shamberg, who notes that Carax didn’t get the job. “Then one day he called and told me that he had gone ahead and made the video. It’s very funny, and it will be up on my Web site. It’s just him, his dog and his cat. It makes fun of music videos. At the end, his dog is sitting there with an erection.”

Following the DVD release, Shamberg will move on to another Manchester-inspired project, a feature on Joy Division in collaboration with U.K. director Carol Morley, Yu Lik-wai and Natasha Dack of the production company Tigerlily. The film will examine the early years of the band as seen from the eyes of two Japanese fans who travel to England to meet them.

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In Los Angeles, Resfest will host a New Order video retrospective at the Egyptian Theatre tonight September 30th at 7PM.

Info on the screening of the videos:
<http://www.resfest.com/index.php?page=film&id=92&zone=New%20Order:%20Early%20Years>

Info on the ResFest stop in Los Angeles (including complete program details - price, location):
<http://www.resfest.com/index.php?page=city-schedule&name=Los%20Angeles>

Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd. east of Highland

Spielberg Theatre is an 85-seat theatre located inside the lobby of the Egyptian Theatre.

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Still Hooked on the Hacienda

Are you looking forward to the Hacienda Classics night?

"(Laughs) Well, Manchester’s a notoriously tough place to play and I’ve not been DJing long, so I’m hoping they’ll be kind to me. I am looking forward to it. I think the Hacienda still deserves to be pushed and known. It’s just one of those great things that Manchester had and it’s nice to rekindle it. All you’re asking for is kindred spirits, really."

It’s 23 years since the Hacienda opened…

"But only eight since it closed!"

What do you think keeps that vibe going?

"I think I’d put it down to the personalities that came out of it. I still think they’re very, very strong. New Order, even Joy Division, to some extent are allied to it. You’ve got the Happy Mondays, even Gorillaz bringing Shaun back. Everything pre-empts it and brings it back. I mean, we had a wonderful time then, and the thing is, people who were unlucky enough not to have had it would like a little bit of it, and people who have had it want more of it. It’s as simple as that really!"

What’s your number one Hacienda classic?

"That would be a tricky one. I think it was Rhythm Is A Dancer. That’s the one that already reminds me of it."

Was that the one that got you on the dancefloor?

"(Laughs) If I can remember ever being on the dancefloor! The trouble with those Hacienda nights is they all blend into one and I can’t remember any of them! Rhythm Is A Dancer was the one we always used to put on in Salford to warm us up before we went down. It’s always the one that gets me going, makes me smile and remember those days."

How do you feel about playing those tunes now?

"I don’t mind playing old music if it’s good. To me, it’s all in one line, it’s just great music. All you’re trying to do is give a bit of energy to a night, you’re just trying to make that night special, so whatever weapons you can use to make it special is fine by me."

Do you enjoy DJing?

"I love it, I really do. It’s Mani and Clint Boon that I have to thank for getting me into it, because I was really resistant, though Bernard (Sumner) has done it for years. It’s really hard work. You get really nervous because you’re doing it on your own. When you’re alone, it’s really strange, because I’m never used to being alone. For 28 years, I’ve hidden behind the rest of the group and you get a lot of strength from that.

"So it is quite nerve-wracking, but again, when you pull it off, you’ve got that wonderful eruption of giving people a top night. I like annoying people as well, so I throw some crap in that really annoys them, and then bring it back by playing Blue Monday or something like that. I do like to have a bit of fun at people’s expense in a way that New Order have never done."

Does it feel weird playing New Order tracks?

"It did do and I resisted it valiantly on my first five or six DJ sets. I basically had people moaning at me non-stop because I wasn’t playing New Order, and I was saying ‘that’s the point! I’m in New Order; I don’t want to play New Order. I live with it every day.’ But you come to realise that people come to hear you to hear New Order. So what I did was I delved into our extensive collection of rare remixes and stuff that people hadn’t heard. I tweaked a few things myself, did a few special mixes, so I get my satisfaction from being arty and they get satisfaction because I’m playing New Order. Life is a two-way street, isn’t it?"

Does your new DJ career make you wish you’d DJed at the Hacienda?

"No, I had too great a time sat in a corner, completely drunk out of my head. I enjoyed standing there and watching the DJs, but the thing about working it is that I wouldn’t have enjoyed it as much because it would have been work!

"I was taking to Oliver Wilson (Factory founder Tony Wilson’s son). He’s really into getting together a proper Hacienda tour and taking a bit of what we had round the country, and he’s really enthusiastic about it. I was really nice to see that enthusiasm back because I think we did have something very special, and I think if you look at Twenty Four Hour Party People, a lot of us have still got something very special, so why not take it out? It’s good for Manchester, isn’t it?"

What do you think of the Hacienda now, since it’s been turned into flats?

"I like that because I gave them permission to use the name, because I own the name. If it had been a club and it’d carried on, it would have been like seeing your girlfriend out with somebody else. I like the fact it sits there as a monument to that madness that we all had for those years. I’d love to go in it. I’ve never been in it because I’ve always resisted how it would feel if you went in, that sort of ghostly vibe. It’s on my list to have a walk round just to see if there’s anything you can feel in the walls."

Would there be a temptation to get drunk in a corner?

"Unfortunately, I have that temptation every day in any corner."

MUSIC star Peter Hook has given his backing to Manchester United fans opposed to the club’s takeover by American tycoon Malcolm Glazer. New Order bassist Hook – who also played on the band’s legendary England World Cup song, World In Motion, in 1990 – was in Airtight recording studios in Chorlton in July this year putting his stamp on a new football anthem for Manchester United to lift fans whose spirits have been dampened by the takeover.

Well waiting period to get on your hands on it is over. Release is set for September 19th, 2005 in UK.

Catalogue Number: MUHP001CD

Track Listings

1. We’ll Never Die

2. Christian Word

3. Crazy Guy

Off The Menu news:

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To Receive your free "WAITING FOR THE SIREN'S CALL 7" collectors slipcase that house the three versions of the 7", simply follow this link (that offer is only available within the UK):

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NEW ORDER:

WAITING FOR THE SIRENS’ CALL’

 THE NEW SINGLE RELEASED 26^th SEPTEMBER THROUGH LONDON RECORDS

Following the success of the top 10 single, ‘Krafty’ and ‘Jetstream’, the superb collaboration with the Scissor Sisters’ Ana Matronix, New Order return with the sublime title track from their eight studio album. ‘Waiting For The Sirens’ Call’ was produced by the New Order themselves and the band consider it to be one of the best tracks they’ve ever made.

 Waiting for the Sirens Call will be released on three separate 7”s only, remixed and back upped with exclusive tracks, a slipcase for all three discs will be available. Formats are as follows:

Disc 1:            Waiting for the Sirens Call               Rich Costley Radio Edit

                        Temptation                                         Secret Machines Remix

 Disc 2:            Waiting for the Sirens Call               Band Mix

                        Everything’s Gone Green                 Cicada Remix

 Disc 3:            Waiting for the Sirens Call               Jacknife Lee Remix

                        Bizarre Love Triangle                       Richard x Remix

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NEW ORDER TO RELEASE FIRST EVER DEFINITIVE COLLECTION

On October 3^rd New Order will be releasing a definitive collection of all of their singles to date. ‘Singles’ is the ultimate anthology of the works of one of the most exceptional and groundbreaking British bands to date.

on the different elements of New Order, ‘Singles’ is the first time that the bands definitive works have been laid out to create this classic New Order collection.

Tracklisting is as follows:

Disc 1                                                             Disc 2

1. Ceremony                                                  1. Blue Monday

2. Procession                                                2. Fine Time

3. Everything’s Gone Green                       3. Round and Round

4. Temptation                                                4. Run2

5. Blue Monday                                             5. World in Motion

6. Confusion                                                  6. Regret

7. Thieves Like Us                                       7. Ruined in a Day

8. Perfect Kiss                                              8. World (Price of Love)

9. Subculture                                              9. Spooky

10. Shellshock                                               10. Crystal

11. State of Nation                                        11. 60 MPH

12. BLT                                                           12. Here To Stay

13. True Faith                                                13. Krafty

14. 1963                                                          14. Jetstream

15. Touched By the Hand of God               15. Waiting For the Sirens Call

                                                                        16. Turn

NEW ORDER RELEASE ‘ITEM’, A DOUBLE DVD COLLECTION, ON 3^RD OCTOBER 2005 THROUGH WARNER VISION

This autumn New Order release ‘Item’, a two DVD set that chronicles the unique story and visuals of a band that have gone down in musical history. In ‘Item’ New Order tell their account of a legendary career, through the stories, videos and music that have made them one of the most important British bands of all time.

News from Rhino 

NEW ORDER: ITEM

Link to pre-order the DVD: http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=970482

Ground-Breaking Band Set to Release Video Collection Featuring Their Dramatic Story in Documentary Form and Never Before Seen Videos

Los Angeles— New Order, the innovative British pop group who have an enjoyed a 25+ year career, is set to release NEW ORDER: ITEM a 23-video collection that includes hit singles “Bizarre Love Triangle,” “Blue Monday,” and “True Faith,” plus alternate versions and new videos for “Temptation” and “Ceremony ” created exclusively for this release. The second disc in the set is a two-hour documentary with personal interviews, and interviews with musicians such as U2’s Bono on the affect the band’s music has had.

After the demise of Joy Division, due to Ian Curtis’ suicide, the three remaining members moved forward as New Order.  Having already cemented a solid place in rock history with Joy Division, the band had very little left to prove but their influence was far from over. With their uninhibited use of electronics, the group changed the way audiences forever view electronic music and its integration into traditional rock genres. Over two decades later, their footprint is all the more palpable as bands like The Killers, The Bravery and Bloc Party consistently cite New Order’s music as a key influence. 

The band has always treated the photography and video elements of packaging and promotion as an equally integral part of what they do. Having continually turned to the brightest names in film and photography when working on videos to accompany their songs, a litany of photographers, choreographers, directors and producers have contributed to this collection.  Included in this collection is Jonathan Demme’s video for “The Perfect Kiss,” famed photographer William Wegman and animator Robert Breer’s vision for “Blue Monday ‘88” and painter Robert Longo’s “Bizarre Love Triangle.” Michael H. Shamberg, producer of many New Order videos, contributes liner notes to the DVD

NEW ORDER: ITEM

Street Date:                                       September 20, 2005

Total Running Time:                              260+ Minutes

 CONTENTS

Disc 1- Collection

Confusion

The Perfect Kiss

Shellshock

State Of The Nation

Bizarre Love Triangle

True Faith

Touched By The Hand Of God

Blue Monday ’88

Fine Time

Round &Round

Run

World In Motion

Regret

Ruined In A Day

World Spooky 1963 Crystal

60 Miles An Hour

Here To Stay

Krafty Jetstream

Waiting For The Sirens ’ Call

 More:

Alternates

Round & Round– USA/Patty

Regret– Baywatch

Crystal– Gina Birch Version

Paris-Beijing

Ceremony Temptation

Live 1981

Temptation

Disc 2- New Order Story

The Documentary

Some Ram news for you... Pottsy is currently helping his mate out, playing bass in his band 'Beats for Beginners'. First time playing bass live since the Revenge days! Two songs were mixed and finished last week. Those being 'So low' and 'I'm not sleeping'. Both sounding great, thanks to a helping ear from Tom Knot 'The Earlies'. Four more re-recorded songs will be mixed next week... 'And I...' 'Faces' 'Elliott's song' and lastly, 'Free Yourself' which (in demo form) will soon be available to listen to as the new featured track on the site. Thanks again to everyone who's logged on to the Ram site (www.ram.uk.com).

New Order new DVD Sleeve

New Order upcoming DVD "Item," due Sept. 13 via Warner Music. 22 music videos and a 1993 documentary

New Order on BBC Radio 1

Time For Heroes: New Order

One of the most important and influential bands of the past 25 years, New Order recovered from the devastating death of singer Ian Curtis to make the biggest-selling 12-inch single of all time, help invent house music and inspire a whole new generation of bands from the Killers to Bloc Party. Features contributions from the Chemical Brothers, Doves, Ana Matronic, 2 Many DJs, Arthur Baker and Tony Wilson.

To hear the show before it is broadcast next Monday August 8th 23.30 Lamacq Live, click on the following link  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/

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BRANDON FLOWERS JOINS NEW ORDER ONSTAGE AT T

Brandon and Bernard onstage at T

NEW ORDER were joined onstage by KILLERS frontman BRANDON FLOWERS during their triumphant headline set on the NME/RADIO 1 stage tonight (July 9) at T IN THE PARK.

Flowers joined the band for 2001 single ’Crystal’. The band in the video for the song were called The Killers.

The band also dedicated the Joy Division classic ’Atmosphere’ to the people of London after the recent bomb attacks on the city.

Bassist Peter Hook said: “There was just no need for that, no need for that at all.” He had earlier told NME.COM: ”It’s really scary. It shows what a rotten world we live in.”

He also praised Scottish audiences, saying: “They seem to love us, even after some of the dodgy shows we’ve played here! They don’t bottle us anyway.”

He also said the reason the band didn't play 'Blue Monday' was down to actor pal Keith Allen, who had joined them onstage for footie anthem 'World In Motion'. He laughed: "Yeah it was his fault. We always blame somebody else!"

The set was:

• ’Regret’

• ’Krafty’

• ’Crystal’

• ’Transmission’

• ’Atmosphere’

• 'Waiting For The Sirens' Call'

• ‘True Faith’

• ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’

• ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’

• ‘Temptation’

• ‘She’s Lost Control’

• ‘Blue Monday’

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Stars record anti-Glazer single

COME ON US REDS: Will Melor, James Davenport and Peter Hook at the recording

 

MUSIC star Peter Hook has given his backing to Manchester United fans opposed to the club’s takeover by American tycoon Malcolm Glazer. New Order bassist Hook – who also played on the band’s legendary England World Cup song, World In Motion, in 1990 – was in Airtight recording studios in Chorlton this week putting his stamp on a new football anthem for Manchester United to lift fans whose spirits have been dampened by the takeover.

He said: “This track is for the fans. The Glazers are business men, it’s important to give them a chance but it’s really important that they know that it’s the fans from Manchester and Salford that make the club and without the fans they would be nothing.

“I grew up in the shadow of Old Trafford in Ordsall. United is very important to me, it goes all the way through. It becomes very emotional when people think they are going to lose something they’ve always had so it’s nice to be able to do something and I think that the track will stand up for itself.”

The track is a cheery, catchy song and Hook said: “I’ve hardly had any sleep to get here on time, but when James rang and told me about it I wanted to get involved,” he says.

“This song is all about the real fans and it would be great to get them chanting in the ground.”

James joked: “We don’t hope that by releasing the single that we will change the Glazer’s position, but who knows, if we sell 500 million copies we could buy the Stretford End.”

by Carmel Thomason

FOR PETE'S SAKE!

Work by NEW ORDER’s sleeve designer is set to appear all over LONDON – and fans can take it home for free.

Around 500 guitar cut outs designed by Peter Saville will be left across the capital to promote the launch of new hand-held game and music consol the Sony PSP, and they can be taken home by those who find them.

In additional, 50 of the cut-outs will be signed by Saville, while a further 20 have been customised by up and coming British artists.

Saville is famous for designing all of New Order’s sleeves, including the floppy disc cover for the ’Blue Monday’ 12” single, as well as creating album sleeves for the likes of Suede and Pulp.

The guitar cut-outs will appear on London’s streets between July 21 and August 1.

The track listing for the upcoming New Order DVD:


Confusion
The Perfect Kiss
Shellshock
State of the Nation
Bizarre Love Triangle
True Faith
Touched By The Hand Of God
Blue Monday ‘88
Fine Time
Round & Round
Run
World In Motion
Regret
Ruined In A Day
World
Spooky
1963
Crystal
60 Miles An Hour
Here To Stay
Krafty
Jetstream
Waiting For The Sirens’ Call

Extras:
Round & Round – USA/Patty
Regret – Baywatch
Crystal – Gina Birch version

Live:
Temptation (from 3.16)

New:
Ceremony (dir. by Yu Likwai)
Temptation (dir. by Michael H. Shamberg)

"The more I have been asked to do this, the more I think that it is wrong what Glazer has done by taking Manchester United from being one of the richest clubs to being £400m in debt. The club has been bought, but it's the fans who have been sold out."

Many have talked about it, but I hear that New Order's Peter Hook and Salford band Hanky Park are taking the lead in launching a musical protest against Malcolm Glazer's takeover of Manchester United.

Hooky is to produce an anti-Glazer single using the music from one of Hanky Park's tracks, Come On, with new lyrics written by lead singer James Davenport and their manager Ed Blaney.

"Come On is a big anthem song and everyone has been saying that it would be an ideal tune for a football song," James tells me. "Lots of people have talked about recording a protest song or holding an event, but nothing has been done yet.

"The more I have been asked to do this, the more I think that it is wrong what Glazer has done by taking Manchester United from being one of the richest clubs to being £400m in debt. The club has been bought, but it's the fans who have been sold out."

I'm told that the new song will include the old chant: "We'll never die, we'll never die, we'll keep the red flag flying high."

James, whose band also recently recorded a cover version of the Joy Division classic, Love Will Tear Us Apart, with the help of Hooky, says that as well as producing the track the bass-player will also feature on it. There are many other celebrity United fans, including Will Mellor, boxer Jamie Moore and Terry Christian also lining up to be heard on the track.

And James is hoping to get even more familiar faces down to the recording on July 4 and 5.

"We want some Coronation Street United fans to come on board now," he adds.

"There are loads of the cast who support United so it would be great if they would be on the track."

NEW ORDER SURPRISE AT GLASTO

SCISSOR SISTER ANA MATRONIC joined NEW ORDER onstage at GLASTONBURY during a stirring PYRAMID STAGE performance tonight (June 25).

The legendary band, winners of this year’s Godlike Genius gong at the ShockWaves NME Awards, were joined by the singer for recent single ’Jetstream’.

Singer Bernard Sumner earlier told NME.COM: “She came over for this. She looks glamorous, but she’s got wellies on!”

He also revealed the band had planned to play ’Crystal’ with The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers but it fell through.

New Order, making their first Glastonbury appearance since 1987, performed a greatest hits set, including a smattering of Joy Division classics such as ’Transmission’ and ’Love Will Tear Us Apart’.

During set-closer ’World In Motion’ actor Keith Allen performed the rap which on record is done by footballer John Barnes, and there was pantomime horse onstage too!

The set was:

• ’Crystal’
• ’Regret’
• ’Love Vigilantes’
• ’Krafty’
• ’Transmission’ (dedicated to Ian Curtis)
• ’True Faith’
• ’Run Wild’
• ’Jetstream’
• ’Waiting for The Sirens’ Call’
• ’Bizarre Love Triangle’
• ’Love Will Tear Us Apart’ (dedicated to John Peel)
• ’Temptation’
• ’World In Motion’

Between the soundcheck and the concert, I sat down with New Order management (Andrew Robinson and Rebecca Boulton) to talk about what will be happening in a close future for New Order.

• As expected "Waiting for the siren's call" is the next single, expect a release date early August 2005.
• Rhino will be releasing a DVD compilation of all New Order videos, expect two new video from old songs (Ceremony and Temptation) directed by Michael Shamberg. Expect a release date mid September 2005. Sleeve will be done as always by Peter Saville.
• New Order did film the show in New York during their mini US tour 2005, Hyde Park yesterday was filmed as well. There is some possible plan for a DVD release of those two shows later in the year, an indoor and outdoor event.
• No live date are expected after July 31st.

Hyde Park, London (Friday, 24 June 05)

New Order was on top form managing some technical problems, They stormed Hyde Park escaping some expected heavy rain. New Order was on stage from 20h45 to 22h15. Moby was on just before as a support act.

During the soundcheck early yesterday, New Order played "Everything Gone Green" and "World In Motion". Those two songs were included on the set list but were never played and replaced by "Atmosphere" and "She's Lost Control". Over 20,000 fans were at Hyde Park singing along New Order songs, beside an expected thunderstorm evening.

This is the set list:

Crystal / Regret / Love Vigilantes / Krafty / True Faith / Transmission /  Run Wild / Jetstream / Waiting For The Sirens Call / BLT /  LWTUA / Temptation / She's Lost Control (Encore) / Atmosphere (Encore) / Blue Monday (Encore)

Some Pix from the soundcheck:

Some Moby Pix:

New Order Pix:

Glastonbury Festival

Can't go to Glastonbury this year? Fear not, for you can watch New Order's full performance from the festival for free in the comfort of your own computer chair. All you'll need is a broadband connection and a copy of Windows Media Player and it'll be just like you're there, only minus the mud and 100,000 other people. But then again, they'd all make a mess of your living room anyway!

Watch at http://glastonbury.playlouder.com where the exact webcast times will announced shortly.

U2 PAY TRIBUTE TO MANCHESTER

U2 have opened the UK leg of their ’VERTIGO’ world tour in MANCHESTER.

The band, who toured extensively across North America earlier this year in support of their current album ’How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’, played the first of two sold-out nights at the City Of Manchester Stadium (June 14).

Beginning and ending with recent Number One ‘Vertigo’, the band played a hit-packed set that took in current album ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’, was heavy on tracks from their debut album ‘Boy’ and climaxed with an encore that concentrated on 1991 album ‘Achtung Baby’.

Before ‘Miracle Drug’ the singer paid tribute to the city’s scientific legacy (the first computer was built in the city) and at the end of ‘With Or Without You’ he sang excerpts from Joy Division’s ‘Transmission’ and ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ - as bassist Peter Hook stood and watched.

After the show, Bono told NME.COM: “It was a strange and overwhelming feeling to be back in Manchester and so exposed, because we went out with the sun still up. Rock stars like proper darkness, let’s be honest. Rock stars like to stand in front, behind, on top of or underneath large video screens. So to stand there in such a stripped-down way, play songs from our first album and it feel so right and feel so now, and all the magic going off; that was good.

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Control: The Ian Curtis film

Some update from the producers: Polished Draft of the film script are on the way to key people. The producers couple weeks ago met with New Order and Co at The Farm (New Order studio) to go through the script. Peter Hook mentioned on last week show Later...With Jools Holland that the script was great. Lead roles are currently being cast. The music for the film will have an original score and Joy Division songs will be released as "In Control" and the associated record (not a soundtrack, really) will be "Out Of Control" Bands like Doves, Elbow, Mogwai and Autolux have been approached.

A teenager from Bridgend is juggling his GCSEs with a starring role in a music video for rock band New Order.

Nathan Stadden will play the lead role in the video

Nathan Stadden, 16, a pupil at Ynysawdre School in Tondu, was selected for the leading role in the video by the rock band.

But the two-day shoot had to be carefully arranged so the teenager could sit his exams.

The video will also feature four other youngsters from the area alongside the band's members.

Shooting for the video will take place on Wednesday and Thursday but is being worked around Nathan's exam schedule.

"I've got a history exam on Thursday but luckily it has all been arranged to fit in," said the schoolboy.

"I'm so chuffed to be in it because there were about a hundred who auditioned for the part.

"When I got offered it, I didn't know if I would be able to do it because of the exams but they have worked around the timetable so I can."

Nathan was chosen for the lead role in the video and will see him being chased around various locations in south Wales including Pontypridd, Southerndown and Port Talbot.

He is being joined by four other members of Bridgend Youth Theatre, Daniel Evans from Blaengarw, Maya Grant from Pencoed, Emma Davies from Maesteg, and Helen Davies from Bridgend.

Director of theatre Roger Burnell will play a security guard chasing them along with some of the band members.

"It is fantastic that the youngsters from Bridgend were chosen for the video," said Mr Burnell.

"I think they wanted youngsters who showed an honesty and down-to-earth grittiness.

"And it gives me a lot of pride that they were chosen from Bridgend.

New Order formed after the death of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis

"Nathan has got his exams, but we are working around that because we have got to make sure that he feels as comfortable as possible."

New Order have been together since the early 1980s and are recognised as one of Britain's most influential and acclaimed bands.

Emerging from the ashes of Manchester legends Joy Division, they merged dance music with rock, recorded Blue Monday - the biggest selling 12-inch single in history - and have released a string of groundbreaking albums.

But they are not the only band to have links with the Bridgend Youth Theatre.

One of the members of Newport rappers Goldie Lookin' Chain, Matthew Fletcher Jones, has penned a script for a short film set in a toilet of a nightclub.

Youngsters from the theatre group will be shooting the film in August.

(Thanks to Bob T at the BBC for the link)

The Work of Director Anton Corbijn

(Release September 13, 2005)

Music Videos
Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse
David Sylvian - Red Guitar
Echo and The Bunnymen - Seven Seas
Golden Earring - Quiet Eyes
Echo and The Bunnymen - The Game
Depeche Mode - Behind the Wheel
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Joni Mitchell with Peter Gabriel - My Secret Place
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
U2 - One (director’s cut)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Straight to You
Depeche Mode - Walking in My Shoes
Nirvana Heart - Shaped Box
Henry Rollins - Liar
Metallica - Hero of the Day
Metallica - Mama Said
Depeche Mode - Barrel of a Gun
Depeche Mode - It’s No Good
Herberg Grönemeyer - Bleibt Alles Anders
Mercury Rev - Opus 40
Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Hiway
Joseph Arthur - In the Sun
Herberg Grönemeyer - Mensch
U2 - Electrical Storm
Travis - Re-Offender
The Killers - All the Things That I’ve Done

Stuff
Beck and Dave Grohl - MTV Promos
U2 - The making of ‘Electrical Storm’

Some YoYo Stuff - Excerpt from a film about Don van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart

Travis - Love Will Come Through (A home made video with Fran Healy)

Depeche Mode - ‘It’s No Good’ tour projections

Palais Schaumberg - Hockey (Anton’s first music video)

Front 242 - Front by Front

NotNa - A documentary about Anton

Interviews and Commentaries
With U2, Depeche Mode, Travis, Samantha Morton, Metallica, Nick Cave, Echo and The Bunnymen, Mercury Rev, New Order, Joseph Arthur, Kurt Cobain, Herbert Grönemeyer , and others.

56 Page Book
Includes Anton’s photos and drawings.

Upcoming New Order US Releases

http://www.bbc.co.uk/later/show/index_20050603.shtml.

More info soon!!!!

 

Despite having only recently returned to the furore, New Order have told Xfm that the follow-up to ‘Waiting For The Siren’s Call’ is already complete and discussed how their collaboration with Scissor Sister Ana Matronic came about.

Peter Hook and Stephen Morris of New Order and Scissor Sister Ana Matronic dropped in Xfm for a chat with Lauren Laverne last week and addressed reports that their new record is already in the can (not that you heard that from us, mind).

“That’s a secret!” exclaimed bass player Hook when aksed if the rumours wrer true, “To be honest, it’s very unusual for us to be that prolific. Every time you ‘come back’ the first question people ask is always, ‘So why did it take so long?’, so I think we thought by doing two at the same time interviewers would be scuppered for their first question.

“It was nice because at the end the ideas just came very quickly, but then we had so many ideas and Bernard [Sumner, vocalist] wouldn’t let any of em go. We’re used to him making our lives a misery, but he made us finish em all.”

“So we ended up with so many tracks we couldn’t choose between them because they all sounded like A-sides,” Morris continued. “In the end we just tried to make the record run smoothly.”

Ana Matronic and the New Order pair also spoke about how the collaboration on their new single ‘Jetstream’ came about.

“When we were recording ‘Jetstream’ in the studio, we were quite happy with it. But one of our esteemed colleagues at Warner Brothers felt there was something missing and that Ana could add that something.

“And we thought, ‘You what? The Scissor Sisters? Are You Joking?’ And low and behold as it came to pass, she did. And me and Stephen are great believers in people having part time jobs, something to fall back on. I’ve got a milk round,” Hook jokes. “And I’m in plumbing,” Morris adds…

At this point conversation turned to plumbing, mending Lauren’s broken boiler and general vocational employment-related double entendre. However, when conversation returned to the single, Ana explained,

“And so I got a cryptic email that said ‘Is Ana a New Order fan’ and so I wrote back a simple ‘Well, duh!’ And then about a week later I got a call to lend my vocals to the track. It was very nerve wracking at first I thought I’d have to be in the studio with the band, but I had a great few days recording with Steve Price.

“In fact, Scissor Sisters’ first tour of the UK was as support act for Steve's band Zoot Woman, so we’re pretty friendly and we had fun. But last week was only the first time we’ve performed the track together live at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. I’m still deciding whether to join the guys for the festivals. I may come along for Glastonbury...”

It was 25 years ago today that IAN CURTIS ended his life, aged 23.

Here comes the 80s: Too bad about the hair By MIKE DOHERTY


In a way, the music of the 1980s has never left us. Like the albatross around the neck of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, or the pastel-pink sweater draped over the shoulders of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's nerdy counterpart Carlton Banks, it's well-nigh impossible to shake off. During the nineties, we were supposed to appreciate it only ironically, looking back under arched eyebrows to a time when pop culture seemed less self-conscious, more wrapped up in its false sense of innocence. Now, the decade's pop, in all its earnest tunefulness and once-futuristic, synthesizer-soaked grandeur, is making an unmistakable resurgence.

For the past few years, the most influential band in the world was arguably Joy Division: the post-punk movement spearheaded by the late Ian Curtis and his Mancunian mates in the late seventies gave rise to a whole wave of frenetically funky groups with stripped-down sounds. Now, it would seem New Order, the more accessible band formed in the wake of Curtis's suicide, is in the ascendant. The group's 1983 single Blue Monday was originally designed as a test for its new drum machines, but it became a huge club hit that cemented the band's cross-pollination of indie rock and technology-driven dance music. This hybrid has had a huge impact on a current crop bands. Yet New Order have always tended to be temperamentally out of step. They're enigmatic, wry and experimental -- qualities that haven't been embraced by many bands following in their wake.

Take the Killers, for instance. The Las Vegas act, who have sold nearly three-million copies of last year's debut album Hot Fuss worldwide, named themselves after a group of models miming the song Crystal in a New Order video, a spot-on parody of overly image-conscious acts. In the band's bio, singer Brandon Flowers says, "It gave me the ambition that our actual band should be as perfect as their fictional band," apparently oblivious to the video's irony. Their 1980s-revival rivals and Island Records label-mates, the Bravery, rose to fame this year with their debut single, An Honest Mistake, which sounds like Blue Monday being given a makeover by a straight-faced, testosterone-fuelled bar band. This past weekend, both bands shared the bill and presumably continued their war of words (the Killers claim they rediscovered the 1980s first; the Bravery claim they scare the Killers) at KROQ's aptly named concert "Weenie Roast" in Los Angeles.

Then there's the more artistically minded Bloc Party, whose music seems to rest somewhere between late Joy Division and early New Order, with a dose of the Cure thrown in; listen to New Order bassist Peter Hook, and he'll tell you how much Robert Smith's gloom-pop purveyors borrowed from his own band to begin with. Hot on the heels of all the above are such bands as Battle, Editors and Apartment, recently featured in an NME magazine story about the "brightest young indie bands" who "are using the music of New Order and Joy Division as a blueprint for their sound."

And what does New Order make of all this? Speaking from Oakland, Calif., last month just before his band's first concert in three years, Hook told The Globe and Mail, "It's an impossible situation to sit there and think: 'Oh, let's do a band that influences people.' People thank you all the time -- it's very embarrassing. You don't need thanks. My God, I've had a fantastic time being in this group; I've had a fantastic time being a musician. And really, people buying your records, most of the time, is thanks enough."

Surely, however, both go hand in hand. Plaudits from younger bands, as well as Gwen Stefani, who borrowed Hook and singer Bernard Sumner for a track on her solo debut, have helped bring New Order into the spotlight they relinquished after going on a rather acrimonious hiatus in 1993. Their 2001 comeback album, Get Ready, was a hard-hitting and vibrant album, but it was largely overlooked; this year's Waiting for the Sirens' Call, has garnered much more attention.

When they were recording Get Ready, Hook recalls feeling "a bit of pressure on us to be different. Our idea of returning was to try to either look back to Joy Division and be simpler, more straightforward, or to look forward to how we'd be without keyboards or synthesizers. I think unduly we were worried, because when we came back, everyone just wanted us to be New Order. This time, we felt more like we had carte blanche to do what we like, really -- to just be ourselves."

It seems, now, that New Order are making the right music at the right time. But is there any cultural reason for the recent popularity of their sound? Hook demurs. "I prefer to think that music is cyclic," he says. "I agree with Tony Wilson from [New Order's 1980s label] Factory; he said that you've heard it all before. If you look at the way The Rolling Stones started recycling blues music, it's the same thing. It's not just happening now with eighties music; it's happened right the way through. The clothes weren't great, were they? The hairstyles certainly weren't great from the photos I've seen of meself! God knows it can't be bloody cultural, can it?"

Even Joy Division, a band so singular they seemed to have sprung fully formed from the head of their lead singer, were part of a musical cycle; Hook remembers when people started comparing his early band to The Doors. "Ian used to say to Bernard and I that we did sound like The Doors. We were going, 'Who are The Doors?' He gave us some Doors LPs, and lo and behold, we did like The Doors! We actually started playing Riders on the Storm as Joy Division, as a joke. Nobody noticed!"

In the latest musical cycle, other acts who found fame in the eighties are being referenced by newer bands. Also influential -- for better or worse -- are the likes of Erasure (on New York state's Elkland), Rick Springfield (New York City's Action Action), The Knack (Vancouver's Hot Hot Heat), Talking Heads (Montreal's The Arcade Fire), and synth pioneers Kraftwerk, whose 1970s work influenced New Order and whose 1981 single Computer Love is interpolated by Coldplay into their new song Talk.

But while the gazillion-selling Coldplay have changed the oddball song about a "data date" into an earnest, inspirational track, New Order have celebrated Kraftwerk as being everything Bernard Sumner wanted his band to be: "rhythmic, abstract, aesthetic, arty, [screwed]-up and with a sense of humour," as he told Uncut magazine.

Add hedonistic to the list, and you have a good description of the multidimensional band who called a video of a 1985 performance in Japan Pumped Full of Drugs. These days, according to Hook, New Order have slowed down. "As you get older," he admits, "you physically can't do it [drugs]. A lot of people I know that went through the eighties mentally can't do it. As with anything, it's only experience that teaches you the things you can and can't do. We act pretty much the same as a bunch of 49-year-olds would. They do it once a month, don't they, or once every couple of months, or just at Christmas. You have to leave all the madness to the 25-year-olds, who'll be saying exactly what we said in 25 years."

But where will this hedonism come from? Chris Martin is an avowed teetotaller, while The Killer's Flowers is a strict Mormon. Perhaps, in the end, a dose of unashamedly melodic eighties pop is all the escape anyone really needs.

For now, New Order are no longer looking back. Hook says they've got a selection of killer tracks left over from the Sirens' Call sessions; he's keen to put paid to at least one long-held truism about his band: its notoriously slow work rate. "Our idea," he says, "is to finish up the tracks at the end of the year and get another LP out next year. So nobody will be able to call us 'The Old New Order.' "

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Transmission

A special event in Manchester and on air to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.

6 Music takes over the BBC's Big Screen in Exchange Square, Manchester at 1900 to mark this special anniversary. This is a free and ticketless event and all are welcome. There will be rare footage of Joy Division performances released by Factory Records such as the little seen Here Are The Young Men video and 1979 Manchester Apollo performances.
Plus there will be a screening of a 1988 documentary which looks at the legacy of Joy Division and the effect Ian's death had on the remainder of the band who went on to form New Order; with interviews from Alan Erasmus, Tony Wilson, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Steve Morris, Paul Morley and their late manager Rob Gretton.

We will also be remembering the life of Ian Curtis on air throughout 18 May:
Gideon on Breakfast - 0700-1000 
Featuring an interview with Factory's Tony Wilson.

Andrew Collins (in for Gideon) - 1000-1300
Featuring Peel sessions of Joy Division.

Vic McGlynn 1300-1600
Featuring interesting covers of Joy Division classics.

Steve Lamacq 1600-1900
Featuring an interview with Anton Corbijn.

Despite his short life Ian Curtis left an indelible mark on British music, this event gives us an opportunity to remember and relive those meaningful times.

Hear his song

Twenty five years after its release, Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' remains a classic, reflecting the short, chaotic life of its writer, Ian Curtis

Sean O'Hagan
Sunday May 8, 2005

The only time I saw Joy Division, Ian Curtis collapsed on stage during the fifth song and the set ended abruptly amid confusion and conjecture. The venue was the Moonlight Club in north London; the date 4 April 1980, the final night of an Easter weekend showcase for Manchester's Factory Records. Joy Division played only five more gigs. In the early hours of 18 May, Ian Curtis hanged himself, brought low by guilt, illness and acute depression.

That chaotic show remains one of the most powerfully intense performances I have ever witnessed, not least because Curtis seemed to have danced himself into oblivion, body twitching like a marionette, eyes staring straight ahead, as he careered backwards into the drum kit and was carried off stage, looking dazed, drained and disoriented. In the previous few years, after punk had galvanised a moribund live music scene, I had seen my share of raw and confrontational gigs, but this was something else. It was as if the small audience had witnessed something almost too real, a music so dark and visceral, so bottomless in its sense of despair, that it seemed to have literally debilitated its main creator.

The winning song was Robbie Williams's 'Angels', as old-fashioned and overblown as 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is modernist and coruscatingly honest. One can only pray Robbie will have the good sense not to follow in Paul Young's misguided footsteps. Most great songs attain a life of their own once released into the world, but 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is the exception to the rule: it belongs exclusively to Joy Division and to Ian Curtis, even if he could not ultimately carry its weight.
 

New Order's new single 'Jetstream' is out on May 16th and features vocals from Ana Matronic. Available across three formats it features exclusive remixes from the likes of Jacques Lu Cont, Richard X, Arthur Baker and Tom Neville. As if that wasn't enough, the enhanced CD also features the video and U-Myx programme, letting you remix the track yourself.

Full format information is as follows:

12"  Single
Catalogue Number: NUOX14

A1 - Jetsteam (Jacques Lu Cont rmx)
A2 - Jetstream (radio edit)
B1 - Jetstream (Richard X remix)
B2 - Jetstream (Tom Neville remix)

To pre-order click here:

http://www2.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=282;2;-1;-1&sku=381835

Maxi CD Single
Catalogue Number: NUOCD14
     
1.   Jetstream (radio edit)
2.   Jetstream (Richard X remix edit)

To pre-order click here:

http://www2.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=282;2;-1;-1&sku=381833

Enhanced CD
Catalogue Number: NUCDP14

1.      Jetstream (Jacques Lu Cont rmx/2^nd)
2.      Jetstream (Richard X remix)
3.      Jetstream (Tom Neville remix)
4.      Jetstream (Arthur Baker remix)
5.      Jetstream (Ana Bridge vox)
6.     Jetstream video/U-MYX

To pre-order click here:

http://www2.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=282;2;-1;-1&sku=378823

Digital Downloads:

Pete Heller remix and dub (available exclusively on iTunes)
New Order's Bunker mix (available exclusively on Napster)
Tom Neville dub 9 (available exclusively on OD2)

To watch the video click here:

http://mfile.akamai.com/9139/asf/stream.wmg.com/wmi/uk/new_order/Jetstream_Hi.asx
http://mfile.akamai.com/9139/asf/stream.wmg.com/wmi/uk/new_order/Jetstream_Lo.asx
http://mfile.akamai.com/9139/rm/stream.wmg.com/wmi/uk/new_order/Jetstream_Hi.ram
http://mfile.akamai.com/9139/rm/stream.wmg.com/wmi/uk/new_order/Jetstream_Lo.ram

1. Love Vigilantes
2. Crystal
3. Regret
4. Hey Now What U Doing
5. Krafty
6. Transmission
7. True Faith
8. Run Wild
9. Jetstream (With Anna Matronic on stage)
10. Waiting For The Sirens Call
11. BLT
12. LWTUA
13. Temptation

***************Encore*******************
14. She's Lost Control
15. Atmosphere
16. Blue Monday

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