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Showing posts with label Joy Division. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joy Division. Show all posts
Thursday, June 21, 2012

The sound of young Scotland: Josef K, The Fire Engines and The Associates

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One of Josef K's best songs, "It's Kinda Funny", was inspired by Ian Curtis's death. 'I loved Joy Division and wa...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Manchester's other bands: The Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio and The Passage

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Guitarist Vini Reilly had gone AWOL from normal life. He suffered from anorexia nervosa, and his music sounded as translucent as you'd e...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures & Closer

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Released at the height of British summertime - June 1979 - the album caught the eye as well as the ear: the cover, designed by Factory's...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Joy Division and Martin Hannett's production

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Joy Division began life as Warsaw - to most contemporary ears, a fairly undistinguished, punk-inflected hard-rock band. "Digital",...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Pere Ubu's first singles

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Pere Ubu formed from the ashes of singer David Thomas's and guitarist Peter Laughner's previous band Rocket from the Tombs, a less o...
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