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Showing posts with label Joy Division. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

A Means To An End - Joy Division [Closer] - The Eternal

 Some blogger ( a picture sharer actually) shared this . . . . . 

 and someone else Shared this one


The Eternal - Joy Division

Procession moves on, the shouting is over,
Praise to the glory of loved ones now gone.
Talking aloud as they sit round their tables,
Scattering flowers washed down by the rain.
Stood by the gate at the foot of the garden,
Watching them pass like clouds in the sky,
Try to cry out in the heat of the moment,
Possessed by a fury that burns from inside.

Cry like a child, though these years make me older,
With children my time is so wastefully spent,
A burden to keep, though their inner communion,
Accept like a curse an unlucky deal.
Played by the gate at the foot of the garden,
My view stretches out from the fence to the wall,
No words could explain, no actions determine,
Just watching the trees and the leaves as they fall.


Guess they shared my mood and the wonderful A Place for Lovely Noise shared the lyrics . . . . . 

Ian Curtis


 

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Birthdays | IAN CURTIS [Joy Division]

 Ian Curtis was born in Stretford, Lancashire on this day in 1956. 


JOY DIVISION (1980) - Love Will Tear Us Apart Again


Monday, January 29, 2024

Photo of the Week : Joy Division 1979 [Martin O’Neill]

 

Joy Division - Bowdon Vale Youth Club, Altrincham (14th March 1979).

Photo : Martin O'Neill.


Monday, February 20, 2023

Joy Division - Derby, The Ajanta Theatre, UK 1980 - VOODOO WAGON

 MONDAY post 70th!

THIS . . . . . . . . . . . Joy Division Derby 1980

40th Anniversary remix remaster Joy Division ‘SHADOW PLAY’ introduced by the legendary Tony Wilson [R.I.P.] - of the Hacienda Manchester UK, here on ITV Granada Television



Joy Division - Ajanta Theatre
Derby, UK
April 19,  1980
aka -  A Journey That Leads To The Sun
Very Good Recording@ flac

The Ajanta (formerly the Playhouse)

Built at the turn of the century as a Baptist Sunday School, the building was converted to a theatre and opened as the Derby Playhouse Theatre on 1st October 1952 with J.B. Priestley’s “When We Are Married”. Films were screened (on Sunday’s?) by the Derby Film Society.

In March 1956 the building was gutted in a serious fire, but was quickly rebuilt within the existing walls and reopened with very plain 1950’s decor in the auditorium, and at the same time it took over the pub next door which became the Playhouse bar and box office.

With lots of acclaimed plays and actors throughout the 1970’s the reputation of the theatre grew and when funding became available from the newly formed arts council bodies, a new theatre was planned in the city centre. The old Playhouse closed on 31st May 1975 with a triumphant production of “Tommy”, and was quickly forgotten and boarded up.

A few years later it reopened as the Ajanta Cinema to serve the local Asian population playing Bollywood films. It also had a brief period operating as a cinema club screening uncensored adult films in 1977 until May 1978.

It was also in this period it became a venue for punk and new wave bands to perform at, many legendary names played here and the venue suffered riotous gigs where seats were ripped out and thrown on stage. Bands in this period included Joy Division, Psychedelic Furs, Throbbing Gristle, The Photos and UK Subs.

By 1983 the very rundown building was once again boarded up and stood alone as the surrounding blocks of terraced houses had been demolished. A few years later it was demolished to allow the car park at the rear to be extended.

Derby Playhouse circa 1950
The Ajanta demolished in 83 to enlarge the car park

 



Saturday, October 22, 2022

Manchester North Of England - A Story Of Independent Music Greater Manchester 1977 - 1993 (7CD BOX) Various Artists

MANCHESTER - NORTH OF ENGLAND - URBANASPIRINES


Now my ancestral roots are in Manchester, despite my being born on Merseyside, my parents were both born in Manchester so it holds sway over me in a way that is peculiar to folk oop North!  I feel it whenever I go back there . . . . . . . 

Kostas says "Manchester's music scene produced successful bands in the 1960s including the Hollies, the Bee Gees and Herman's Hermits. After the punk rock era, Manchester produced popular bands including Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths and Simply Red. In the late 1980s, the ecstasy-fuelled dance club scene played a part in the rise of Madchester with bands like the Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets and Happy Mondays. In the 1990s, Manchester saw the rise of Britpop bands, notably Oasis. 

Taking the Industrial Revolution as its model, Factory Records played upon Manchester's traditions, invoking at once apparently incongruous images of the industrial north and the glamorous pop art world of Andy Warhol. While label mates A Certain Ratio and the Durutti Column each forged their own sound, it was Factory's Joy Division who were the most prominent."


New Order

Ian Curtis of Joy Division

James

Durutti Column

Oasis


Seven (7 ?!) discs of it!


Friday, September 24, 2021

Joy Division: Heart And Soul 2009 - URBANASPIRINES

  



Now Kostas from The Urbanaspirines (no, me neither!  ha ha ha ha!) has been on holiday and had lovely time in Greece and he must be feeling suitably rested because he rejoins the ROIOZone with a peach of a project that is really worth reading (always) and downloading (too!) by looking at the work of Joy Division

Joy Division: Heart And Soul (4CD Box 1997) 2009



As thorough a look at Joy Division and Ian Curtis as it is possible to get really in written form and as comprehensive an audio selection as it is possible to get too IMHO . . . . . enjoy or Love Will Tear Us Apart


and of course this gives me the golden opportunity to feature shots of one of my favourite actors!
Samantha Morton plays Deborah Curtis' wife and she can do no wrong in my book and is eminently watchable in everything she has done






obsessed? moi?


Ian Curtis died by suicide (he hung himself in his kitchen where his wife, Deborah found him) on the eve of the band's first US/Canada tour in May 1980, he was 23





Thursday, July 15, 2021

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

The Boss is BACK!

FLOPPY BOOT STOMP/ VOODOO WAGON

THE BOSS RETURNS!

 So El Bossi di Tutti Di Cappi is back with us after a little sojourn away that he could really have done without (well maybe not - but all has gone well I hear - you heard it here first in fact!! Thanks Jobe!), but he has recovered and is back amongst us with his floppy boots stomping and careering around on his voodoo wagon!


Check this action!



Joy Division - Rehearsals 1977-80 - Floppy Boot Stomp


Joy Division rehearsals info here:



Joy Division - Nashville Ballroom, London 1979 - Floppy Boot Stomp


Ian Curtis 15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980


New Order - Reading 1998 - Voodoo Wagon

Now there's a gig I'd like to have gone to and despite going to the First Reading Festival (in the city) I missed this one. . . .
Noting the appearance of Keith Allen the actor who is currently just starring in a masterpiece from ITV TV Drama 'The Pembrokeshire Murders' based on a true story and a towering performance from him as per usual!

Happy Birthday to THEM!! 

Voodoo Wagon was started January 11, 2009!! 


Welcome back Boss and hope you are fully recovered! (Jobe on the naughty step of course . . . . I think he should stay there myself but hey . . . . . . .  He SO NAUGHTY!!! 😉

Joy Division - Music Documentary Film 2007



CONTROL - Official Trailer 

If you don't own and have never seen 'CONTROL' then you can leave now . . . . go buy it and I might let you off!





















Thursday, July 19, 2018

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Monday, August 28, 2017

again just because . . . . . . . 

Joy Division - Transmission

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Joy Division // Transmission
This BBC broadcast is without a doubt the best version of Transmission

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

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