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« Previous EntriesHow much Joy Division is too much Joy Division?
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008I know it seems like all I ever do is post about nothingelseon stuff & Joy Division, but really, this takes the cake:
Full details here: http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/joy_division_trainers.html
**Actually that site is great if you’re in any way interested in Factory records**
So, yeah they’re ‘unreleased’ or whatever, but really?????
Oh, there’s these too:
If that’s enoughto put you over the […]
Perfect song length proven by Science!
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Just go and read this - otherwise I’d have to paste the whole thing in here - it’s all gold!
Two Minutes and 42 Seconds in Heaven by Joshua Allen at The Morning News.
He even provides a mix of 2:42 songs for your aural pleasure at Muxtape.
Enjoy!
Bill
How to lose 3 million fans in one easy step
Monday, March 10th, 2008Nice article in the Guardian from St Etienne’s Bob Stanley.
With just one album, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark more or less destroyed their career. And they weren’t the only ones: the early 1980s were littered with commercial suicides. Bob Stanley finds out how it all went wrong
Read it here.
Mani, Hook, Rourke, … Briggs??
Thursday, February 21st, 2008From the NME
Freebass, the group consisting of The Smiths’ Andy Rourke, New Order’s Peter Hook and The Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Mani, have revealed their new singer.
Gary Briggs, formerly of Cornish-by-Manchester band Haven, will join the trio, alongside a number of celebrity guests.
Speaking to BBC 6Music, Peter Hook said: “We have had trouble […]
My list is BIGGER than your list!
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007You know how magazines & newspapers always seem to be printing lists of the best <genre> albums ever, or 100 albums you must hear before you do <activity X>? Well, the Guardian’s obviously trying to be the Daddy of ‘em all, as it has compiled 1000 albums you should listen to before you shuffle off […]
Slash Story
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007In what could quite possibly be a better book than the Crue’s The Dirt, Guns N’ Roses own Slash has a story to tell. Guns! Drugs! Porn Stars! Axl! Drugs! More Drugs!! Even More Drugs!!!
‘Yeah, yeah, cool, man,’ I said. I slapped down the toilet-seat cover and cut out four thick lines of coke. […]
Just like waiting for a bus, along comes another Joy Division movie…
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Just when you thought Control may well be the only Joy Division related film you’d ever see, comes news of another, showing at the Toronto Film Festival (naturally enough alongside Control). The imaginatively titled Joy Division is directed by Grant Gee, who has also directed Radiohead’s Meeting People Is Easy movie. More info at Reuters […]
Tony Wilson R.I.P.
Monday, August 13th, 2007Tony Wilson, legendary co-founder of Factory Records, has died at the age of 57. Other people can put this better than me, but a sad day, the loss of a true personality & innovator. Rest in peace.
Announcement from the Manchester Evening News
Obituary from the NME
Obituary & comment from the Guardian
Bill
Where are my friends tonight? Again…
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Great article on the ‘melancholy greatness’ of LCD Soundsystem’s fabulous ‘All My Friends’ by Hua Hsu at Slate.
Read it here.
Big thanks go to ‘friend of nothingelseon’ James for the link.
B
Smiths still split! New DVD out though!
Saturday, July 21st, 2007In other news, former bassist with The Smiths Andy Rourke has quashed hopes for a future Smiths reunion, insisting Morrissey is impossible to even contact, let alone coax into reforming, so says the NME here anyway.
Best quote of the story must be this (if you don’t want to read the whole thing!):
…when asked if Morrissey […]
