DB7

The landmark track was Primal Scream's Velocity Girl, it was pretty much the blueprint for the Stone Roses. I think C06 was a tribute/covers disc.

Nick Dando

Was the original source for these follow-ons C81?

Nick

DB7

Not sure of the year but iirc the first was a punk compilation?

David Brent

I too, am looking forward to seeing this film.
After reading the book 'Touching From A Distance' by Deborah Curtis I am expecting a rather dour portrait of the introverted Ian Curtis.
He was as much remembered for his desperate mood swings as his artistic qualities.

I prefer New Order to most of what Joy Division put out. Yet who knows how JD would have progressed had Curtis stayed alive. More than likely he would have been kicked out of the band after the then planned US tour.

Factory was very innovative and groundbreaking for it's time. They "discovered" some great artists and music. Joy division, Happy Mondays, Durutti Column, Cabaret Voltaire and OMD before their move to Virgin. A rich vein of talent amongst that lot.

Dave.

Piccadilly

Touching From a Distance is a great book. Haven't seen the film yet, but, from what I've read in interviews, the makers have conducted extensive interviews with remaining JD members and researched what Macclesfield was like at the time (pretty grim, by the sounds of it).

dadsarmy

Being a member of movie sites which have links to uploaded films,i got to see this the other day,me and the missis loved it,the singing was spot on by the actors and it was a moveing touching film showing the beginnings of joy division and the tragic end of ian curtis.

Steve Crook

Today on BBC Radio 4 at 16:30
Great Lives: Ian Curtis

Poet Simon Armitage joins Matthew Parris to talk about his nomination for a Great Life - that of Ian Curtis, lead singer with Joy Division, who took his own life in 1980 at the age of 23. Curtis' fellow band member Peter Hook remembers his friend.

Steve