Joy Division Central

OTD 1979: Joy Division at Bangor University on tour with the Buzzcocks joydiv.org/c181079.htm “The hall was used as a cafeteria during the day, and the soundtrack to me having my tea was Joy Division soundchecking” babylonwales.blogspot.com/2010/06/joy-...

OTD 1979 Joy Division at Plan K, Brussels, Belgium. Legend has it William S. Burroughs told Ian Curtis to "get lost" LWTUA Wilderness Disorder Colony Insight 24 Hours New Dawn Fades Transmission Shadowplay She's Lost Control Atrocity Exhibition Interzone joydiv.org/c161079.htm

Buzzcocks, Magazine, John Cooper Clarke, The Worst, The Fall, The Prefects, The Negatives and Warsaw's gig at the Electric Circus, Manchester reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 15th, October 1977. @jonsavage.bsky.social @buzzcocks.com

New hardback: A Cactus in a Dead Land… by Simone Puorto £11.85 on Amazon link.amazon/B02jXr9Ci (affiliate link)

OTD 1978: Joy Division played a Rock Against Racism benefit concert at Kelly's, Manchester with The Risk. £1.00 on the door joydiv.org/c121078.htm

Born on this day in 1957, Belgian journalist and music promoter Annik Honoré. Annik was influential in the European music scene by promoting events at Plan K and co-founding Factory Benelux and Les Disques du Crépuscule

Joy Division OTD 1978: Recording Digital and Glass - the Factory Sample session at Cargo Studios Rochdale joydiv.org/sessions.htm#4

A week today at @hatchards.bsky.social in central London I'll be talking about my new book, ‘Creative Journeys’ which features interviews with Neneh Cherry, Terry Hall, Maxine Peake, Jarvis, Bernard Sumner, Raymond Carver, Afrodeutsche, Jeremy Deller & more! Info www.hatchards.co.uk/events/creat...

OTD 1979: Joy Division & the Buzzcocks appeared at The Capitol, Aberdeen, Scotland. joydiv.org/c071079.htm Clipping: Aberdeen Evening Express

OTD 2016: Peter Hook's excellent Substance book published. amzn.to/2nqmDDC

Joy Division OTD 1979: Apollo, Glasgow, Scotland. On tour with the Buzzcocks. A quiet after concert drink in the Central Hotel bar led to games of ‘dare' between Buzzcocks and Joy Division, resulting in damage, a police visit, and a large bill joydiv.org/c051079.htm

There’s a new book on the way about a legendary Manchester nightclub. No, wait, come back! It’s okay, not that one. www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/i-want-...

OTD 1979 Second day of the Buzzcocks 24-date UK tour with Joy Division at Leeds University. Apparently 20-30 people fainted as they were crushed against the stage and Ian had to be helped off stage at the end of the set joydiv.org/c031079.htm

Watch This! The End post stunning retro looking video of the year. Great video of retro Manchester pop culture landmarks accompanies brilliant song from new band louderthanwar.com/watch-this-t...

OTD 2005: New Order ‘Singles’ released

Cult thing of the month - Ian Curtis portrait commissioned by Granada TV @cultmanchester.bsky.social www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/cult-th...

Ian Curtis on the cover of The History of Rock October 2016.

Joy Division OTD 1979 Mountford Hall, Liverpool University: opening night of Buzzcocks UK tour with Joy Division supporting. joydiv.org/c021079.htm Photos (C) Rick Alan

OTD 1977 Warsaw played just three songs at the Electric Circus. Warsaw At A Later Date Novelty Virgin recorded the last two for Short Circuit - Live at The Electric Circus but technical issues with Novelty meant only At a Later Date made it onto vinyl. joydiv.org/c021077.htm

Jon Wozencroft interviews prolific Joy Division taper Duncan Haysom about being a fan, smuggling a ghetto blaster into gigs, and seeing his recordings on vinyl bootlegs and later on official releases like Heart & Soul and now Eternal joydiv.org H&S outtake image © JW

Free screenings of 24 Hour Party People at over 100 UK independent cinemas next month to celebrate the film's 24th anniversary mixmag.net/read/uk-cine...

Joy Division OTD 1979: The Mayflower Manchester, with Foreign Press. Flyer: boredteenagers.co.uk/HOAXPAGE2.htm

Happy Birthday Jack Bates

New Order OTD 1981: Walthamstow Assembly Hall with Airstrip One and Doctor Filth Chosen Time In A Lonely Place Dreams Never End Senses Truth Procession Denial Everything's Gone Green Set list: tinyurl.com/y7bv9zzt

Unseen footage has emerged of 24 Hour Party People being filmed in Manchester a quarter of a century ago. Read the story, then watch it at Cult Manchester www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/exclusi...

OTD 1977: Warsaw opened for the Rezillos at Manchester's Electric Circus. Rezillo's roadie Bob Last hit it off with Warsaw leading to the band getting quite a few opening spots with the Rezillos and two tracks on Bob's label Fast Product Earcom 2 12" joydiv.org/c240977.htm

Eternal by Joy Division: An astonishing document of the greatest live act of them all - London Evening Standard www.archivebuttons.com/articles?art...

22 - 23 September 1980: “New Order enter the Eastern Artists Recording Studios in East Orange, New Jersey, to finish the single versions of ‘Ceremony’ and ‘In A Lonely Place’, produced by Martin Hannett”. - Peter Hook, Substance book

OTD 1981 New Order at Phoenix Hall, Sheffield Polytechnic with Section 25 & Stockholm Monsters. Temptation The Him Dreams Never End Everything's Gone Green Procession Senses Chosen Time Denial Photos: worldinmotion.net/neworder/pictu… Ticket: Stephen Butler

OTD 1980: New Order’s van is stolen from outside the Iroquois Hotel on West 44th Street, New York. Cutting: Substance by Peter Hook amzn.to/33LAOUL

The day Electronic formed New Order OTD 1987: Greek Theatre, Berkeley, California. Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr met in the toilet backstage and agreed to start a band…

Peter Hook and The Light OTD 2016: O2 Forum Kentish Town London

One week till the Eternal box set £109.99 at Amazon / HMV / New Order web site If you order via this Amazon link we get a few pennies towards our running costs www.amazon.co.uk/Eternal-Live... Better still, support your local record store

Peter Hook and The Light OTD 2011: Mezzanine, San Francisco

Monaco OTD 1997: Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth. Article: Daily Mirror

Joy Division OTD 1978: Royal Standard, Bradford Supported by Emergency (later Foreign Press). Or maybe not. According to Emergency's sound engineer Colin Blades, Joy Division hired him and Emergency's impressive PA system, but Emergency didn't perform joydiv.org/c100978.htm

Stephen Morris on the Eternal box set, stepping away from New Order… archive.is/2026.09.08-1...

Ian's memorial earlier today Photo: Ian Seivwright

📍 BOSTON..!! 🇺🇸 Our North American tour continues here tonight at the House Of Blues… This ltd edition print by Ghost Town Studio & @garageland.bsky.social is limited to just 7️⃣5️⃣, SIGNED by Hooky and available at the merch tonight alongside lots of other cool stuff!

Joy Division OTD 1978: Band on The Wall. "An audience will drift towards them (toward fashionable metal-industrial exploits), but Joy Division will need to fight the tendency to dilute brand new standards to seduce a larger audience." Paul Morley NME joydiv.org/c040978.htm

Looking through Ian Curtis’s record collection with Kelvin Briggs - a Cult Manchester exclusive @cultmanchester.bsky.social www.cultmanchester.co.uk/post/cult-ma...

OTD 2001: Heart and Soul box set is released in the US It covered a huge amount of Joy Division recordings joydiv.org/heart.htm but also missed quite a lot too joydiv.org/heart.htm#off

New Order OTD 1987: Mann Music Centre, Philadelphia. Elegia Touched By The Hand Of God Bizarre Love Triangle Ceremony True Faith Every Little Counts Leave Me Alone Subculture Face Up Age Of Consent Perfect Kiss Temptation Sister Ray Advert: Philadelphia Inquirer

OTD 1975 Ian Curtis & Deborah Woodruff were married at St Thomas's Church, Henbury followed by a reception at the Bull’s Head in Macclesfield market place. Ian chose Kelvin Briggs as his best man

OTD 2007: Anthony Wilson's funeral St Mary's RC Church, Mulberry Street, Manchester His life’s work at Factory was celebrated and Peter Saville designed the invitation, a translucent green card etched with Tony's date of birth and death

Joy Division OTD 1982: Here Are The Young Men video FACT 37v is released. It seemed pretty slurry at the time but now it's classic footage. joydiv.org/hatym.htm

Cult Manchester - a new independent online magazine promises exclusives like this… www.cultmanchester.co.uk @cultmanchester.bsky.social

4th August, 1976 an article on Tony Wilson's TV program 'So It Goes'. "...let them have Old Grey Whistle Test and to hell with it,". This TV program is discussed in detail and it's influence on the emergence of Punk in David Nolan's book 'I swear I was there' @nolanwriter.bsky.social

New Order OTD 1984: Mayfair Suite, Sunderland “I think they're a bunch of miserable bastards, but I'd go and see any band that play in Sunderland on a Wednesday night. We haven't had anyone here since Musical Youth." - Audience member Sharon, quoted in the NME review

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