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Ticket for A Video Circus 25th July 1981![]() JohnC tells us: "... digging through my bat cave - found this. Given to me by Larry Cassidy. SXXV were staying with me in Santa Barbara at the time they played here as I booked them into Casa de la Raza supported by The Rotters - first Factory band to play in SB! |
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Matin Hannett's Memorial Stone Erected December 2008![]() In January 2008 Tony Wilson's first wife, Lindsay Reade, was visiting his grave in Southern Cemetery and decided to call in on Martin Hannett and Rob Gretton as they were part of the reason Tony chose to be buried there. She had to get help from the office for location but found them both and was horrified to discover that Martin Hannett was lying in a totally unmarked grave. Her visit set off a chain of events which led to Martin getting a fitting memorial in December 2008. You can read the full story on our messageboard Joy Division Zune Player (2008) Microsoft mp3 player Issued 2008 Retail price $399.99 Limited edition of 500 Preloaded with Grant Gee's Joy Division documentary Black background with Peter Saville design 80GB capacity 3.2 inch colour screen FM radio + wireless capability built in Available from zuneoriginals.net ![]() Follow up press release: In follow up to the release of a custom Zune digital media player commemorating the 'Joy Division' documentary DVD, Zune Marketplace is now featuring exclusive Joy Division content including a 3-part video podcast that is available for free download. In an exclusive interview, the band's former bassist Peter Hook talks about Joy Division's tremendous influence on modern music and youth movements in addition to offering some very personal reflections about moving on without Ian Curtis. As companion elements to the video podcasts, Zune Marketplace is also featuring the full Joy Division catalogue, as well as two unique Peter Hook curated Guestlist features. The Guestlists contain music handpicked by Peter himself, and reveal songs that inspired the original Joy Division recordings as well as modern music that inspires him today from bands like LCD Soundsystem, Perry Farrell's Satellite Party, and Peter Bjorn and John. |
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| US promo items for Joy Division re-issues and Control movie 2007. Badges, ear plugs and 7" She's Lost Control / Dead Souls |
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| Joy Division Bar, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2007 - 2008) | ||
Inspired by The Haçienda style and by Peter Saville´s magnificent artwork, Joy
Division was the new and exciting place to enjoy the post-punk atmosphere of Manchester, in Brazil, as well as
the new tendencies influenced by that musical scene. ![]() The Joy Division bar closed in July 2008 - to be replaced by the New Order pub: ![]() |
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| 14th May 2007: Joy Division tape sells for £1550
GBP on Ebay - but postage is free ![]() The tape was described as follows on Ebay: "A studio reference mix tape featuring unreleased versions of She's Lost Control and Atmosphere sold for a record amount on Ebay. The tape, which also features some Cabaret Voltaire tracks, includes a recording of Martin Hannet chatting to studio staff as he tunes Stephen Morris's drum kit". Update: this tape actually contained high quality recordings of the New Order Western Works Demos |
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Ian Curtis's kitchen table: At
the end of 2005 we had an email from Paul and Vicky in Macclesfield. They were redecorating their house, which
meant there would be no place for the kitchen table ... Ian and Deborah Curtis's old kitchen table. Vicky's mum used to run a bed and breakfast across the road from 77 Barton Street and bought the house, with some contents, from Deborah Curtis. Years later Vicky had inherited the table when setting up her own home. We put them in touch with Deborah Curtis and the original plan was for Natalie to have the table. However, that didn't come to fruition and the table sold on Ebay for £100. Deborah recalls her parents buying it in the 1950s, although it has a British Standard sticker on the underside with the date 1960. The table is 95cm long by 75cm wide normally, with two flaps which allow it to extend to approx 150cm in length. Table image reproduced here with permission |
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Sex Pistols - Free Trade Hall ticket: It was revealed at a Buzzcocks talk (at Urbis, Manchester
2005) that the tickets were made by Howard Devoto on a Bandermaster. Here's how someone who was at the talk describes
it: "Do you remember that system they used to use in schools whereby you typed onto waxed paper, stuck it
in a bizarre hand-wound contraption and made multiple copies of your typing? He did the tickets on that. I think
he said there were four tickets per A4 sheet - and he cut them all out" Bedge was at the original concert and sent us the ticket scan: "Here's a scan of my Pistols gig ticket from 4th June 1976. It was stamped and organised by BITSU (Bolton Institute of Technology Students Union) apparently. It says Pistols plus Buzzcocks, but a hippy band called Solstice played instead. I went to this gig with Barney, Hooky, Terry, and another school mate called Crazy Mike. Remember seeing Mc Claren at the exit, and also recall (probably) John the Postman "dancing", how loud the Pistols were, and how friendly Rotten was at the end. Ian et al also were in attendance apparently, but didn't know this at the time" |
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| Mystery Setlist: Bryan Kee has sent us this scan of a set list he obtained from a journalist some time ago. It's the original, and is in Ian's handwriting, apart from the encores. So does anyone know which concert this setlist came from? |
Here's what we know: The set list was obtained from a journalist It's written on thin paper torn from a book. The date is uncertain The journalist probably wrote the encores (blue ink) on the set list himself |
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| Another Setlist: Bedge sent us this one saying "The set list probably came from when they came to London and we all stayed in the Priority Hotel in Queensgate (at the time of the Hope and Anchor and marquees gigs)". |
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| Promo sheet: Another submission from Bedge who tells us - "Looks like some kind of promo that they intended doing, but as Leebo and Platty were mentioned, it must have been really early. Upper Camp Street is in Broughton where they used to rehearse". |
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| Scala advert: Another submission from Bedge - " The Scala poster was a bit later. Ian had met/was with Annik, and JD were due to play as "friends" but didn't (probably coz Ian wasn't up to it). It was a great night however. I remember having a long a fun packed chat with Ian and Annik in the bar and with various Factory/Final Solution lot. Good times"! |
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Staglieno Cemetery, Italy |
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Where the cover photos for the Love Will Tear Us Apart 12" and Closer album came from. |
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