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40 years......
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How long!? I’ve lost a decade somewhere...
Thanks for that, big fan here.
Excellent, I'll take a look at that. Joy Division were my favourite band growing up. I was in a band with one of my closest school pals Andy Poole who now plays keyboards with Peter Hook and The Light. He's in that YouTube preview. Andy wouldn't play any Joy Division songs back then because it wasn't his thing...😄
I'll be watching that, thanks
Whoa, I remember the first time I heard love will year us apart, played on the radio by Mark Radcliffe in I think his 10pm show back in the day on Radio 1...and that was to mark the 15th anniversary!
I went to school with Curtis' daughter also.
Game changing band
Nice edit Kilo!
Three way tie with Digital?
Thanks for posting that Low cover - I love Low but had never heard that one before 🙂
That track got me into Low.
Strange, was talking about Unknown Pleasures to my younger bother yesterday. How he used to steal my (VERY RARE!) version from my bedroom and play it when he was a nipper and I was out. How I had the t-shirt in '79 and he DJed 20 years later wearing one. Obviously I'd stopped wearing mine as they'd got too well known 😉
No interest in cover versions (Peter Hook's or anyone else's tbh)
Number 12. Of all time. On one of the most respected ranking sites of all. That's all.
Control was the last film to make me cry.
Time for some music...
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Ignoring how ridiculous Peter Hook looks on stage… this is great… this lineup make for a really tight band… basically Monaco and Hooky’s son, I think.
Ignoring how ridiculous Peter Hook looks on stage
Hahaha, was thinking the same!
this is great
Yep! Got pics on the big telly and sound through my hifi. Loud 🙂
Peter Hook’s books on his life and times are very entertaining and worth a read for any JD / NO fans
Influential iconoclast. And arguably not very nice.
Hard to argue with his musical contribution though.
That was bloody marvellous 🙂
Last three songs ended it all off perfectly.
Forty years ago, already! It's so much longer than he lived. I'll watch Hooky's tribute tonight. Thanks OP.
seeing as this tribute to an icon has degraded to this now....if you can't beat'em, join'em
Has it come to this?!?
Kelvin, I watched that 5 times and I’m still laughing.
How good is that Hooky and the Light gig. Less than 2 years of recordings to create 3 hours of material that is still brilliant 40 years on.
It's going to be a late night, my fledgling bass-ing needs a few more Joy Division versions.
Ian Curtis died when I was 5. In retrospect he left a huge hole in my experience of music. I have been fascinated by his story for the last 30 years.
Hugely enigmatic, soulful and such a waste...
Kelvin,
Loved that - I have Atmosphere down as a song to be play at my funeral ... may have to change that.
I missed going to see Joy Division in Derby - because my train back to Nottingham was later and my flat mates buggered off without me. Their comment on the whole nights was “the singer danced in a really weird way” and that must have been March / April time 1980.
Apologies to those who don’t like covers…
Am I the only one who thinks that Peter Hook just can’t sing?
You are certainly not the only one. I would say, being able to sing isn't one of my criteria for music, having a decent voice most definitely is.
If you read his autobiography, Hooky is certainly a bit of a knob ... I think he regards himself as being a “character”