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Meeting with David Nolan

Stockport Library and Information Service is very proud to welcome local author David Nolan who is launching his latest book You’re Entitled to Your Opinion, a biography of ‘Mr Manchester’ Tony Wilson, at Marple Library. We invite you to come along and hear David talk about his book and the research he did with local people into the early life of Tony Wilson when he lived in Marple. You will be able to buy a signed copy of David’s book for a great price too! When? Thursday 30th July 2009, at 7pm Where? Marple Library, Memorial Park, Marple, Stockport, SK6 6BA The evening is FREE ... But you will need to book your free ticket to get a place. Please contact our Reader Development Team on 0161 474 5751 or email readers@stockport.gov.uk

Jude Rogers On The Right Way To Remember Joy Division

As Unknown Pleasures reaches its 30th anniversary, Jude Rogers looks behind the commercialisation and Paul Morley's jowls at Joy Division's eternal truth. Read the full article at: http://thequietus.com/articles/02105-jude-rogers-on-the-right-way-to-remember-joy-division

Source: The Quietist

New book Shadowplayers The Rise and Fall of Factory records

Sam Harrison at Aurum has acquired World English Language rights from Matthew Hamilton at Aitken Alexander Associates to James Nice’s Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records. The book will be the first definitive account of Factory Records, perhaps the most radical and innovative label in British pop history, and will draw on the author's professional association with many of the key players - some of whom rarely speak publicly - as well as contemporary sources and previously unpublished documents. Published in Spring 2010 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of era-defining single

Former band members create a new order

FIRST came Joy Division, then New Order – and Macclesfield’s latest claim to musical fame is Bad Lieutenant. Following the demise of New Order, three of the group’s former members have teamed up for a new band – along with a member of Blur. Frontman Bernard Sumner, drummer Stephen Morris and guitarist Phil Cunningham have joined with Blur’s Alex James for Bad Lieutenant’s debut album, due out in October. Rainow resident and drummer Stephen, said: "I think it’s going to be a great record. I’m only on a few tracks, but it’s great to be playing with them again – any chance to make a racket these days." The record has been road-tested on his kids Tilly, 13, and Grace, 11. "They loved the version I played them, which is always a good sign," he added. Bad Lieutenant formed after the acrimonious break-up of New Order – created by members of Joy Division after the suicide of Macclesfield singer Ian Curtis in 1980. Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 crime-drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel. In response to rumours an American band of the same name already exists, Stephen joked: "I’m sure we can settle it over a game of darts."

Source: Macclesfield Express

New Order’s Bernard Sumner announces new project

Bad Lieutenant formed in 2007 with New Order’s Bernard Sumner (guitar and vocals) alongside Phil Cunningham (guitar) and Jake Evans (guitar and vocals). We can now confirm that they have completed their long awaited debut LP “Never Cry Another Tear” which is set for worldwide release on 5th October 2009 on Triple Echo Records. The album features sounds that have helped make New Order such a treasured, innovative force over the past three decades, but also featured is a brand new voice from exotic Macclesfield, Jake Evans. The new album centre’s around crisp, streamlined, 21st century guitar music – underscored by keyboards and occasional melodica. The record includes Sumner’s seemingly effortless melodic invention, but now these familiar joys blend with vocals and the talented guitar work of Jake Evans. “This album is very important to me,” says Bernard. “We’ve worked hard on it and I’m proud of it. It’s also important because it gives people the chance to hear a gifted new singer and guitar player who I think’s really talented.” Together, the band have spent over a year writing, recording and mixing the album near Manchester, which features additional musicians including Alex James (Blur) and Stephen Morris (New Order and Joy Division) on several recordings. Song titles and live dates will be announced in due course. The live band will include Stephen Morris on drums and Tom Chapman on bass. A debut single, “Sink or Swim” is expected to be released prior to the LP, on Monday 21st September 2009. “There is some continuity to the music I’ve made in the past,” says Bernard. “But this is very different – because different people are playing on it. This is just how I now want to make music – it feels right to me and I hope at least a few other people feel the same.” http://www.myspace.com/badlieutenantmusic

Ceremony Tribute website launched

The website for the upcoming charity tribute Ceremony is now up. http://newordertribute.com Many bands from that tribute albums are members or NewOrderOnline and we wish them good luck with the project!

Factory Records: Communications 1978-92

A new digital release of the Factory Records box set. This collection is now available in the U.S., and features many, previously unreleased recordings from some of the iconic label's most celebrated artists, including Joy Division, New Order, Cabaret Voltaire, and the Happy Mondays. It also includes a 38-page booklet containing rare photos, and in-depth liner notes detailing some of the stories from The Factory.

Listen to "Stalingrad" by Freebass

An exclusive new track from the upcoming album of Peter Hook's new project Freebass was aired on XFM last night, the song is called STALINGRAD. You can listen to the song online on XFM's website while the show is archived. It also features a full interview with Pete Mitchell. The song is featured on the show Razor Cuts and is aired around 1:41:00.

Source: XFM

30 years of Unknown Pleasures

New Musical Express (NME) is releasing today a special edition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the release of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures. In stores June 17.

Mark Reeder and Blank+Jones releasing a collaboration

Mark Reeder, long time collaborator of Factory and New Order, has a forthcoming album REORDERED for blank&jones, featung songs with vocals by Robert Smith (the cure), Bernard Sumner, Anne Clark, Claudia Bruecken (propaganda/one two), Steve Kilby (the church), Bobo in white wooden houses, Vanessa Daou and Elles de Graaf. Scheduled for release in late summer 2009.

Rocksnail interview Hooky

New interview with Peter Hooky in Rocksnail Magazine, just released now. http://www.rocksnail.co.uk/

Source: Rocksnail

New Order’s Bernard Sumner announces new project

Bad Lieutenant, a new group put together in 2007 by New Order’s Bernard Sumner (guitar and vocals) alongside Phil Cunningham (guitar) and Jake Evans (guitar and vocals) are pleased to confirm they have completed their long awaited debut LP, which is set for release in autumn this year. Together, the band have spent over a year writing, recording and mixing the album near Manchester, drafting in additional musicians including Stephen Morris and Alex James. Song titles and live dates will be announced in due course. A new single is expected to be released prior to the LP

New Order man guests on new Crystal Method album

The Crystal Method have recruited a star-studded cast of contributors on their new album 'Divided By Night'. New Order bassist Peter Hook, Matisyahu, former Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle and Metric frontwoman Emily Haines are among the artists who have contributed to the Los Angeles electronic duo's latest effort, due out in the US on May 12. Matisyahu provides vocals on 'Drown In The Now', the album's first single, while Hook appears on 'Blunts & Robots' and 'Dirty Thirty'. Haines and drummer Samantha Maloney, formerly of Hole and Peaches, lend their talents to 'Come Back Clean'.

Source: NME

Peter Hook discusses New Order's split

New Order bassist Peter Hook likens his recent split from bandmates Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris to the unravelling of a marriage. "You know in a marriage or in a relationship when a few years after you get together you look 'round and see a stranger?" said Hook, down the line from his home in Manchester leading up to Tuesday's release of War Child Presents: Heroes, featuring a Hot Chip cover of Joy Division's Transmission. "It was just a change of attitude, really. I mean over the years we (in New Order) developed different tastes and different attitudes. Being in a group is all about compromise and the more you compromise, each of you, the better that group works ... Basically it just got to the point where I thought I had compromised enough. What surprised me is that I didn't think Bernard was bothered about New Order. It was only after we split up that I found out he was." Since the split, Sumner and Morris have indicated that New Order, formed by the three musicians in 1980 out of the ashes of Joy Division after the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis, would continue without Hook. But Hook is not convinced that could ever happen. "They wouldn't be allowed to go out as New Order 'cause I'd sue 'em," Hook said. "It'd be a Spandau Ballet moment -- that thing where Tony Hadley can go out playing the songs of Spandau Ballet. It's childish but that's what being in a group is all about, isn't it?" Hook, who was a founding member of Joy Division with Sumner in 1976, said he'd never considered touring without him.

Source: Toronto Sun

New Order releasing 7" for Record Store Day

New Order will be releasing a 7" if Temptation/Hurt for Record Store Day (April 18th 2009) This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances

Source: Record Store day

Peter Hook interview with Filter Magazine

Peter Hook is a big deal. As the co-founder of Manchester greats Joy Division and a driving force behind New Order, the man has been a bass-wielding god for over three decades. For a new compilation called "Heroes" being released by the War Child International Charity, Hooky gave British electro-pop fivesome Hot Chip his blessing for their cover of the legendary Joy Division track “Transmission.” In part one of our five-part series, Hook chats with FILTER about his involvement with War Child and his reaction to Hot Chip’s version of his favorite Joy Division song. He opens up about Ian Curtis, New Order and the digital revolution a little later. Stay tuned. War Child approached you to pick a band and a song for that band to cover. So why choose Hot Chip? Steven Morris is a really big fan of Hot Chip and he was telling me about them before I had even heard of them. With DJing, I was going out and hearing this really wacky music that I eventually found out was Hot Chip. For this comp, Steve suggested Hot Chip and I thought they were a perfect choice. I like the way they look at the music and I am inspired the influences they pull in. They sound very current, very fresh and they have a great irreverent attitude to this business that we’re in. How did you get involved with War Child? I was first approached by War Child three years ago for another sampler CD. It’s so important and breaks your heart as a parent to think that there are children that don’t have access to a great childhood. When this came about it was an interesting way to look at the compilation in general and it's really done well so far in England. The people that are involved in putting this together are music fans themselves. It’s nice to be included, now that we’re at home now and New Order is no more it’s nice that people still remember us. How did you feel when you heard the Hot Chip cover for the first time? Strange thing was it really made me smile. I thought it was quite irreverent. The way Joy Division did it was very angry and aggressive and Hot Chip made it very endearing and warm and it’s more personal that way. With a song like “Transmission,” it's the best song we wrote. It’s sort of hard for me to remove myself from the song, but their version really did make me smile.

Source: Filter

CEREMONY: A New Order Tribute

Indie Covers Album To Benefit Salford Foundation Trust’s Tony Wilson Award Florida independent record label, 24 Hour Service Station, is assembling a tribute album honoring the music of New Order. The double CD and digital album is scheduled for release in the Fall of 2009. Slated participants include LambChop, Jah Division, Battles, Duane Peters, Light Yourself On Fire, The Beauvilles, Kingsbury, Allegra Gellar & Kites with Lights. Artists will be offering up a version of their favorite New Order track, as well as their take on “Ceremony” for the extra disc. A portion of the proceeds from record sales will go to the Salford Foundation Trust’s Tony Wilson Award. Established in memory of the founding father of landmark independent record label Factory Records, who died of cancer in 2007, the trust will benefit children and young people who can demonstrate a special talent or ambition in the arts or creative skills. Interested artists please contact Sonshine Ward at 24 Hour Service Station: sonshine@24hourservicestation.com 24 Hour Service Station (813) 944-4900 http://24hourservicestation.com http://salfordfoundationtrust.org.uk/tony

Rob Gretton's notebooks to be published

Notebooks of Joy Division manager Rob Gretton to be published by his widow, shedding new light on one of the most talked-about bands and music scenes in recent history. October 7th will see the release of '1 Top Class Manager' – The Notebooks of Joy Division's Manager 1978-1980. Published by Rob Gretton's widow, Lesley Gilbert, with a foreword by Jon Savage, the book condenses over twenty working notebooks into one volume, and contains posters, letters, diaries and studio notes, dating from August 1978 to late 1980 – the Joy Division years. Editor Abigail Ward said, "Rob Gretton remains one of Manchester music's most influential, yet elusive, characters. '1 Top Class Manager' allows us a glimpse of his thought processes and working methods during the Joy Division period." "It gives us a new perspective on post-punk Manchester and the birth of Factory Records, and retells the Joy Division story through a collage of 'to do' lists, gig plans, band manifestos and scribbled ideas." '1 Top Class Manager' is strictly limited to 1500 copies and is available to pre-order now at www.1topclassmanager.co.uk It will be available to buy over the counter for a limited period from Vinyl Exchange, 18 Oldham Street, Manchester from October 7th. It is published in association with Manchester District Music Archive. www.mdmarchive.co.uk

Warners To Release Re-mastered, Re-issues of New Order’s five seminal ‘80s albums

On 28th September Rhino Records will re-issue one of the most consistent and influential music catalogues of the 1980s, that of New Order. All five albums will come with bonus discs featuring extended versions, b-sides and remixes, as well as extensive sleevenotes, including interviews with all four band members. The re-issues are double Disc Collectors editions. Each disc features both the album remastered from the original master tapes and, a bonus disc containing non album singles, B sides and remixes. Highlights of the bonus discs include. Movement- The early Singles and b-sides. Both versions of Ceremony, the original Temptation 7” and 12”, Everything’s Gone Green 12” and rarity Cries and Whispers Power, Corruption and Lies- The 12” singles versions of Blue Monday, Confusion, Thieves Like Us and Murder. And their flips The Beach, Confused Beats, Lonesome Tonight and Thieves Like Us Instrumentals. Low-Life- More 12” single versions of album tracks and their b-sides. The full 17 min Elegia. Let’s Go Instrumental and Salvation Theme from the film soundtrack. Brotherhood- The 12” Touched By The Hand Of God and Blue Monday 88 remix. Dance mixes from Shep Pettibone of Bizarre Love Triangle and True Faith, with its rare B-side Evil Dust. Technique – The 12” singles Run2 and Round and Round, and rare b-sides MTO, Best and Marsh and Vanishing Point Instrumental. The Steve Silk Hurley remix of Fine Time and b-sides Don’t Do It and Fine Line. New Order’s last release on Factory Records and only NO 1 UK Single, World In Motion in it’s Carabinieri mix. Buy: Movement on Amazon UK Power, Corruption and Lies on Amazon UK Low-life on Amazon UK Brotherhood on Amazon UK Technique on Amazon UK

Win a copy of New Order Live in Glasgow DVD

You can win a copy of the US edition of New Order Live in Glasgow courtesy of Rhino. To participate, just email us your full postal address to competition@neworderonline.com and you will be entered automatically. New Order's performance of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" from the New Order: Live In Glasgow DVD will be a featured music video on YouTube this coming Wednesday. The url : http://www.youtube.com/neworder. Imeem began an exclusive premiere event on Friday June 20. They had a first look at video disc 1 that will end Monday night right in time for the physical release -- with a link to Amazon for pre-order. The imeem url is: http://www.imeem.com/neworder. You can buy this DVD: Amazon.com Amazon UK

Screenings of "Joy Division - The Documentary"

Following a screening of "Joy Division - The Documentary" on Sunday 4th May at 8pm, there will be a Q & A session, hosted by John Robb, featuring Joy Division and New Order drummer Stephen Morris and documentary screenwriter Jon Savage. Tickets are £6 full price, £4.50 concession - available from Cornerhouse Box Office (open 12pm - 8pm) 0161 200 1500. "Joy Division - The Documentary" will screen from Friday 2nd May until Thursday 15th May - screening times available from the website www.cornerhouse.org

Interviews with Stephen Morris

We have been contacted recently by a few people who were able to interview Stephen Morris, so here is one and we'll keep you posted about the others: Interview: Stephen Morris on Joy Division

Joy Division documentary screening in New York City

Joy Division - Turtle Festival Screening [ http://www.turtlesalon.com/newyork.html ] @ IFC Center [ http://www.ifccenter.com/index ] 323 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10014 Thursday, May 8th @ 8:00 pm Tickets can be purchased at http://www.movietickets.com/house_detail.asp?house_id=9598&rdate=5%2F8%2F2008 Q&A with one of the documentary’s producers, Tom Atencio, following the screening. The Turtle Festival is curated by Michael Shamberg, long time Joy Division and New Order collaborator.

Source: Turtle Salon

Stephen Morris on BBC 6 Music

Stephen Morris will be talking to nemone on Tuesday 6th May about the new Joy Division documentary film. You can listen via this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/nemone/

Source: BBC 6 Music

Microsoft Zune To Release Joy Division Player

Microsoft is readying a Joy Division edition of its Zune MP3 player to coincide with the June 10 release of an eponymous DVD about the band. The Joy Division Zune will feature an adaptation of the cover art from the band's 1979 debut, Unknown Pleasures, which artist Peter Saville created using a graph of one hundred pulses from pulsar CP 1919 (apparently the first radio pulsar ever discovered). So far, no images are available of the Joy Division Zune, so to remind you what the pattern looks like, here's a picture showing how it looks on the underside of a pair of New Balance running shoes. A Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed via e-mail: "Zune is working with Peter Saville on a design for a limited edition device in conjunction with 'Joy Division The Documentary,' and will be announcing further details regarding that design in the near future." Note: This is not the real look, it's a mock-up the guys at Engadget.com did, sort of wishful thinking.

Source: Wired