Finally! Thirty-two years to the day that the Joy Division singer Ian Curtis hanged himself in his kitchen comes an event celebrating his musical legacy rather than wallowing in the myth and melodrama of his demise.
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Album: Mark Lanegan Band, Blues Funeral (4AD)
Friday 03 February 2012
Undoubtedly, the crowning culmination of Mark Lanegan's life's work, the darkly majestic Blues Funeral offers further evidence that, for an addict, there is never any freedom from addiction.
From classic sleeve to sleeveless top: Disney draws on Joy Division
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Ian Curtis made his position on consumerism fairly clear when he sang: "I've seen the products and the other world of waste, I've seen the colour of corruption deep within."
My Secret Life: Sam Riley, actor, 31
Saturday 03 December 2011
The household I grew up in... was full – like a zoo. I have two brothers and a little sister, and she had rabbits, and there was a cat, but it was mainly my brothers and I who were the animals.
Peter Hook and the Light, Lowry, Salford
Thursday 24 November 2011
Some moments of joy but Hooky's still not back in the first division
Sam Riley: From Joy Division to Brighton Rock
Sunday 30 January 2011
He had a breakdown at school before cutting his teeth as Mark E Smith and making his name as Joy Division's Ian Curtis. Now Sam Riley is taking on Brighton Rock's psychotic Pinkie and Jack Kerouac's alter ego
Album: White Lies, Ritual (Fiction)
Sunday 16 January 2011
Size isn't everything, but the second album by this Ealing trio feels destined to be even bigger than the first.
Album: Former Ghosts, New Love (Upset The Rhythm)
Sunday 07 November 2010
New Love is the second album by Former Ghosts, a project led by a self-evident Joy Division fan called Freddy Ruppert but also featuring Phoenix-based nouveau-goth singer Zola Jesus and Jamie Stewart of San José avant-gardists Xiu Xiu.
Caught on film: Joy Division on tour in 1979
Thursday 04 November 2010
Intimate portraits of Mancunian band Joy Division on tour the year before their frontman Ian Curtis' tragic death are available to buy as collector's items for the first time.
Music biopics: For those about to rock, please don't bother
Tuesday 26 October 2010
The sensational storylines are already in place, says Fiona Sturges, so why are biopics of music stars so frequently dreadful?
Ready To Wear: I personally wouldn’t wear a white football shirt. Ever
Monday 13 September 2010
Watching Joe Hart in the England game last week and his inky black shirt (pictured), decorated with almost unperceivable St George crosses, is verily the football shirt's answer to Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, so discreet and even opaque is its beauty. And that is not surprising. Because if Peter Saville's original claim to fame was to turn the album sleeve into an art form he's now turned his hand to doing the same for the uniform of the nation's best-loved sport.
Shadowplayers: The rise and fall of Factory Records by James Nice
Friday 18 June 2010
Band of bothers in Madchester
When Ian Curtis came home to Macclesfield
Saturday 22 May 2010
Since his death in 1980, the Joy Division singer has acquired legendary status. Now the town where he grew up is to honour its most famous son.
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