Ian Curtis Gravestone Stolen
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I suggest you put that back where you got it from, Mr. Badger, there's a good chap. After all Rochdale's not that far from Macclesfield.
cant say im suprised really,amazed it hadnt vanished long ago. if u ask me its a good job ian was cremated otherwise some cunt would have dug him up by now. very sad behaviour all said and done. no wonder yoko wont say where lennons ashes are scattered.
They best not show their face around here. All that time, all those fans who've gone to see it and whatnot, even that fella who casiotoned next to it, all that and nothing sad like this.
someone's off their rocker and deserves what's coming to them.
My ex burds dad was killed by the IRA in '91. They planted a bomb under his car when he was visiting her granny in a town on the Antrim coast. The family put up a small remembrence stone at the spot where his car was parked (in a car park behind Woolworths). They gave up looking after the stone after the umpteenth occurrence of vandalism to it (sectarian slogans daubed on it, broken in two, dog shit smeared on it etc etc). Sometimes you've really got to despair of the human race.
a very small boy wrote:
fAT bastard -DOUBLE CHIN-SHIT jacket-SEEMS DESPERATE TO feel WANTED.gRAVE mistake!
The work of a clinically insane person surely. Someone who thinks they have a special friendship with the dead geezer.
(assuming the pic is just someone's idea of a "joke")
The 'funny' thing is that i just found today that a reporter from Dutch newspaper 'de volkskrant' just wrote a blog about him visting the gravneston of Curtis a few hours before it must have been stolen.
Read it here (in Dutch): http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/bericht/209148
Short translation: He was in Manchester to see the gigs of My Bloody Valentine last week and decided, in order to kill time, to go to Macclesfield (he's a great fan of JD) to see Curtis's house at Barton Street and to visit the grave of Curtis. He's impressed by Macclesfield (to him it still looks and feels as in the late '70's) and by the fact that in his eyes it still feels as if Curtis is still around there. At first he can't find the gravestone but when he finds it he's blown away with emotions.
Later he talks about strange it was for him to read and heard about the stone missing, needless to say he's shocked to read about the stone missing.
Strange world sometime don't u think?
The train stopped in Macclesfield on the way to Manchester last weekeend. I nearly got off to go and take a look at the gravestone but decided i'd do it another time.
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I'm actually going to Macclesfield in a couple of months (never been before), and had finally given a bit of consideration to visiting said landmark. *
* although, if truth be told, it was just a very fleeting thought and I will almost certainly just stop in the pub instead.
You will spend your time there in your usual North-of-England-shcoked state and marvel at the closed down mills
Strange and sad that someone has stolen it, it is probably the usual issue of the longer an suicide-icon is dead, the more mystical they seem to become.
I'm sorry, but real fans don't desecrate graves. 
At the very least, they can make a new one to put in its place, right?
Taboo # 7 wrote: I'm sorry, but real fans don't desecrate graves.
At the very least, they can make a new one to put in its place, right?
Nice to see ya'round again, Trevor! Take care, mate.
Big Mouth Julio wrote:
Taboo # 7 wrote: I'm sorry, but real fans don't desecrate graves.
At the very least, they can make a new one to put in its place, right?
Nice to see ya'round again, Trevor! Take care, mate.
I like to pop in every now and then, though I must say I feel a bit like "the creepy old guy hanging out with the kids" (AKA Mr. Belding). I've done a little of this thing they call "growing up," so I'm not as starved for attention as I once was :)
David Thorpe mentioned the story in his latest music humor column.
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/64745-Vicious-squircles/
Thorpe is a sarcastic bastard, but he's actually a big fan of JD and NO.
Whoever stole this is a donkey...what's the f-ing point? I hope they use it to smash in their senseless head.
