Theres a track by track review of the new Franz Ferdinand album due out in January up at the Quietus.

Well worth a read – I’m looking forward to hearing it!

B

Cos maybe you need this from the good people of Mishka:

Get it here from Turntable Lab if you’ve got a spare US$160 + shipping!

I 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 edge, then read this Black Sky Thinking: The Joy Division Industry by Chris Roberts – worth a read.


Haha, and to completely skewer my point – another article worth a read by Jon Savage in the Grauniad – Controlled Chaos

… I hope you went to this: the Tony Wilson Experience.

At noon on 21 June, 2008 some of the biggest names in design, the creative industries, media, and the arts will launch a 24 hour conversation and debate in the centre of Manchester, with a selected audience of two hundred talented and creative young people from across the city and beyond.

The event is designed to stimulate, inspire and engage the next generation of cultural innovators and is being held in memory of the broadcaster, entrepreneur and creative champion, Anthony H Wilson.

It will be a unique occasion – organised and programmed to reflect Tony’s inimitable creative style and the ways in which he engaged the people he met, worked with, played with.

The Tony Wilson Experience is deliberately experimental because that’s how Tony would have constructed it. In fact, there are some elements of the event which will remain open to change right up until our launch. We have a carefully considered framework but we want to ensure that there’s some freedom in the programme; in short, the event will be structured and managed, but not constrained.

Bill

Just 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