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Ian Curtis
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It’s 40 years today since Joy Division’s Ian Curtis died. Hooky is apparently streaming a three hour gig that his band did in 2015 which includes every JD song ever recorded.
Barney and Steve Morris are hosting an online event ‘Moving Through the Silence: Celebrating The Life and Legacy of Ian Curtis‘ and raising money for mental health charities.
I daresay there will be other tributes to. I shall give Unknown Pleasures and Closer a listen today. I rarely play them despite them being at the top of my top 10.
“And here we are in the kitchen where Ian hung himself…”
A Joy Division fan has paid 190k to buy Ian Curtis’ Macclesfield home, going as far as to pay compensation and legal fees to prevent someone else from buying it as a home. He plans to turn it into a tourist attraction. I’m not sure what I think about this – feels a bit ghoulish. I can understand people wanting to go Lennon’s old house where he and Paul would have hung out in the porch, strummed their guitars and dreamed of becoming the poppermost. This house has a much darker history. As much as I love Ian’s music I’m not sure I need to go and sit in “that” kitchen or see ‘The Idiot’ still spinning on the turntable – that feels like something very private and personal and the people who would have been most closely affected are still very much alive – I’d feel like I was intruding on Ian’s privacy and theirs somehow.
