Tag: joy division
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New Order 6Music playlist help
Looks like Now Playing on Friday is doing a New Order special and via Friend of Radio Clash (I should make Tshirts saying that) Jeb 50PoundNote I’ve heard they want input from New Order fans what to play…links in quite nicely with their recent Kraftwerk specials too, I bet – and New Order have some…
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Love Will Crush Us Apart – oki’s Joy Division mash gets an Instamatic video
I’ve long said that no-one has created a good Joy Division mashup – there’s been a few close calls on that, but nothing that really works…and as a MAHOOSIVE fan of Joy Division and New Order I’m probably more critical than most – until now. Oki is doing a project called ‘DIVas of Joy Division’…
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Joy Division finally gets the mashed love they deserve
Was listening to a Peel session (Festive Fifty from 1981 no less) with Joy Division today thinking ‘why aren’t there more JD mashes?’ – well I can answer my own question in part – it’s because it’s hard to do it well, and like all guitar bands from the pre-midi autotune era, key and timing…
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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…
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Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders
For those into Joy Division and New Order, until Friday 23rd Jan, see the 2007 Grant Gee documentary ‘Joy Division‘ online. You know the one were Annik Honnore is interviewed (this is why Deborah Curtis unusually refused to take part) and interviews with all the band members, Peter Saville, Paul Morley and Tony Wilson –…