Joy Division + New Order Decades by John Aizlewood

i ordered the book last week, and should be getting it shortly.

looking forward to it..

later -1

got the book yesterday.

skimmed through it.

pictures are excellent, and there are lots of them.

very high quality.

later -1

I have this book and it's decent. No real new information of note and he didn't interview any of the band but as a coffee table book, it's a good book for the price

Then like Cliff Richard, I can't be fucked (like I would've been anyway). This story's been gone over more than my mother, and you'd have to offer some new insight, not that there can be much left. Even if you interviewed the banned themselves, they can't have a lot to add. The hilarious thing is people still go on about how they're shy of talking.

Ordered in August. Amazon BR is taking its time to bring me my copy.

At least they got my Juvenes copy delivered. Looks pretty nice

On a positive note though, kinda nice to have the entire story in one book as opposed to all those JD to NO transformation takes. But I won't be dedicating serious beer money or wanking time.

50poundnote wrote:

Jcp7 wrote: I didn't read this shit. Should I?

No. The only person who finds Monkhouse entertaining is Monkhouse. His schtick is tired, boring, and completely predictable.

Agreed. If he is trying to be funny or ironic, it's not working.

Apologies, Lenny fucking Bruce.

Finally here... arrived in pretty bad shape, so I would guess Amazon BR has taken a few lessons from the infamous Brazilian Postmen.

Plenty of nice photos indeed.

Glad yours arrived (relatively) safely.

It's a nice book with a lot of cool colour photos. Definitely worth a punt, IMHO.

I've acquired a lot of New Order related books in recent weeks:

This one; Morley's Wilson biography (signed); Cummins' Juvenes reissue (signed); The newly arrived Marc Tilli 'Rotterdam gig' booklet (which is a splendid little item).

I need to set aside some reading time. Maybe over Christmas with a couple of pints of some nice festive dark ale; a porter or stout. Perfect.

It amazes me the amount of books published on the band in the last 25 years or so... when I started, back in 1988, it took me more than six months to see how they looked like. By then, living in Brazil and having to import magazines, books and fanzines (which I still do), the only videos shown on TV were Shellshock, BLT, Fine Time and Round & Round. When WIM debuted I wasn't sure the people on the video were actually them.

This year alone I got three books on JD. The one on the top is a brazilian book published in 2019.

Mr. Disco wrote: Finally here... arrived in pretty bad shape, so I would guess Amazon BR has taken a few lessons from the infamous Brazilian Postmen.

Did you mean the packaging? The book looks perfect in your pictures.

Mr. Disco wrote: When WIM debuted I wasn't sure the people on the video were actually them.

When Low Life came out I remember thinking: "hang on a minute, I thought the dark haired guy was the drummer. Surely they didn't put the drummer on the front, and put the singer on the inner sleeve?"

I was quite confused about Barney/Steve until the infamous Smash Hits piece with Sylvia Patterson ('86?) where Barney's on-tour cheating was documented.

Oh here's the Smash Hits article. I remember that pic of the girls with Barney's shorts.

Debaser wrote: Did you mean the packaging? The book looks perfect in your pictures.

The packaging seemed Ok, but it got pretty battered on the corners, affecting every single page inside. Plus, some of the pages have some sort of stain on the corners

Not going for a replacement but for the cost of an import item I'd expect it to be handled more carefully.