Tag: Ian Curtis
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RC 330: Lost Stars
Are we all lost stars trying to light up the dark? This episode is more of a downbeat/upbeat commemoration of some artists we have lost recently, have become stardust on the way to the big (Champagne?) Supernova. So this one goes out to Peter Green, Denise Johnson, Neil Innes, Andrew Weatherall and of course that…
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RIP Peter Green
I actually have this lined up for the next podcast but one, it was supposed to be in 329 but ran out of time. The next but one podcast is called ‘Lost Stars’ and is partly memorialising Ian Curtis, but add Peter to that too. Amazing guitarist without whom Fleetwood Mac would not exist. A…
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Ian Curtis 35
Walk in silence… People like you find it easy… Hunting by the rivers Through the streets Every corner Abandoned too soon Set down with due care. 35 years ago, Ian Curtis the lead Joy Division singer took his life. Such a shame. Notice the New Order Facebook posted Love Will Tear Us Apart, but Atmosphere…
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The Post-Punk / New Wave Super Friends
Loving the pop-culture mashups of Butcher Billy including these Post Punk Super Friends series. MORRISSEY SMASH! I don’t use the M-word lightly – but looking through his online portfolio you will see similarities to a some of mashup cover work out there. I can see why clubs want his graphics, would be great to see…
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Love Did Tear Us Apart
Not sure why non-Doctor-Who-returning Christopher Eccleston is in this (originally from I Am Kloot video my googling hands tell me) but it seems to work even better here in reverse accompanying Colatron’s double mashup of two versions of ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ (the Joy Division original and Nerina Pallot’s cover) – something that shouldn’t…
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Can you stay, for these days?
It’s 30 years since Ian Curtis died, so today Michael I’m mostly listening to Joy Division. Here have ‘These Days’ – b-side to Love Will Tear Us Apart and one of, if not the, last studio recordings Ian did, a mile or two (literally) from where I was born and grew up – although I’d…