Brilliant……
https://shop.pinkfloyd.com/products/wish-you-were-here-sculpted-candle
Joy Division Oven Gloves
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My 16 old son now wears my old and faded Unknown Pleasures T Shirt. Far too snug for me these days. He doesn’t know much about JD but he knows it’s (sorry about this) iconic.
If you’ve Republican leaning Irish roots, this is available…
https://waterfordwhispers.shop/products/no-division
Ooh – very clever.
The shite n tat being pushed to fans takes the piss sometimes. Dare I ask what idiot would buy this? Makes me think the artist is not involved in the decision. At least, I hope not. Is this what happens when you sell off the songs and band rights? I’m all for functional tat merch – T-shirts, mugs, iron maiden beer, Todd rundgren grass (apparently true). Even a Kiss coffin has its uses. This seems a real piece of crap. Maybe Neil Young can sell a ‘piece of crap’ piece of crap.
Maybe sponsor something worthy for that hard to please relative who likes music and has everything?
Well it amused me. Better than the official boxed set tat.
It amused me, but appalls me, too.
It would be more realistic with several wicks stick out of the figure on the right so you could light them all at the same time and recreate the album artwork and maybe set your home on fire
Destined to be the prog rock equivalent of the Crying Boy painting
the red tops blamed for starting all the house fires in the 1980s
Proper bargain!
I’m more intrigued by the bicycle bell
https://store.pinkfloyd.com/products/limited-edition-wywh-50-bicycle-bell
Well, I would be if it was a tie-in with the Syd song. Then it might look good.
If I had a choice between the oven gloves or listening to the music I would be hard pushed. What a boring band they are – never understood the hype.
If you find the music boring – then that’s fair enough. But I have to say: I don’t remember much hype in the 1970s, when the actual music was being made. It was all after the fact – the serious hype kicked off with the re-issue programmes. Much like other bands, I suppose…
I assumed that Steve’s remark referred to the Floyd and answered based on that – but, looking at the comments below and rereading Steve’s remark – maybe he was referring to Manchester’s Finest…
Oven gloves are a Joy Division thing. Is it the Mancunian miserabilists or the Cantabrigian concept album merchants you find boring?
Or indeed HMHB
The bringers of badinage from Birkenhead?
There’s quite a dark connection between Joy Division and ovens. I often wonder if that was deliberate on Mr Blackwell’s part.
I think that was the (perverted) point
You should have seen them live. Spellbinding!
Martin Hannett had a lot to do with the studio sound. Personally, I love what he did.
Martin Hannett worked with the Floyd? Who knew??
Decades is astonishingly good
They didn’t like it at first and wanted a more punk sound. Acts aren’t always their own best judge though.
They were ahead of their time.
I saw a bit of the Chelsea-Arsenal match yesterday and, apart from the two kits and the green pitch, everything in the picture was grey… the backroom staff, suits in the distance, the crowd… hundreds and hundreds of people… all men… all grey.
But no one can ever say that Manchester didn’t get there first.
City or United?
As @fitterstoke alludes, it is easy to forget that this is all a relatively recent thing ( see also my post about Jimi Hendrix Monopoly, God help us), but I always remember going to that big Rolling Stones exhibuin Chelsea a few years ago, and of course there was a shop. The only thing that wasn’t on sale was music – not a record or CD in sight, but just about everything else you can imagine.