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Live Transmission – Joy Division Re-Worked – Scanner/The Heritage Orchestra – 25th Of September 2013
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One of the things I hated about the pre-internet music industry was that everything was geared around the top...
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I could be really flippant and just say that this album is just what it says on the tin. However,...
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It’s an oft-repeated fact that New Orders’s ‘Blue Monday’ was the biggest selling 12 inch vinyl record of all time, and...
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“Are you looking forward to Brian Wilson later?” a friend of mine asked as we were sitting in the last...
This week: Bristol’s Figure 8 Festival takes place this weekend, I celebrate the return of ska-punk legends Culture Shock, and...
Lets’ be clear first of all, this is neither Joy Division or New Order, and doesn’t claim to be. So...
As the punk explosion of 1977 died down, and the filth and the fury became little more than a distant...
Signs for the first New Order album, following their enforced transformation from Joy Division, were good, as they had already...
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