Sunday, 18 January 2009

See the Joy Division film for free


It's the excellent new documentary, steaming via Pitchfork. I can't recommend this one enough.

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7 comments:

  1. Sam Holliday18 January 2009 at 12:45

    Thanks Mas...will try and check it out.

    What did you think of Control? I thought it was superb...

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  2. Matthew19 January 2009 at 02:54

    I liked Control, especially the portrayal of Rob Gretton. But this documentary is something else entirely. I was lucky enough to go to the first screening, and Steve Morris did a Q&A. Lovely man.

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  3. bam20 January 2009 at 04:03

    This is well worth seeing - It does tend towards another 'Ian Curtis Story' and I would like to have seen a bit more analysis of what the others brought to the group. Hannett's 'They were crap, so I was able to bend them to my will' story is always accepted a bit too easily for my liking. Steve Morris, for instance, is one of the most innovative drummers in pop music, and seldom gets enough credit. Nevertheless, the surviving group members are much less guarded than they have been in the past - Morris is his usual charming, wry self but Hooky in particular drops his gruff exterior and we get some real insights.... highly recommended!

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  4. poge20 January 2009 at 12:05

    life feels better tonight having watched that. Wow, the beauty of forming a group, taking otherwise very ordinary young men albeit intelligence and sensitivity, but together having a will to prepare such Art. Fantastic. this is today's event for me, forget Obama, today was the day I finally "got" Joy Division. I'd always previously (to this day) associated Unknown Pleasures with Webby, primarily as he wore the T shirt to death, I'd decided they weren't really for me. I enjoyed Control, but as you say Mas, this is something else. exceptional documentary.

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  5. Sam Holliday20 January 2009 at 15:12

    Weird innit but I think of Web when I think of Joy Division too.

    Mas is New Order and the Bunnies in my eyes. I can still recall the night Mas bought Ceremony to Youth Club and was dead excited about it. He got the DJ to play it and (of course) no-one moved and he looked disappointed that not all of raved as much about it as he did. But as usual he was ahead of the game. We got there in the end...

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  6. Matthew21 January 2009 at 13:03

    I danced to Ceremony on my own that night. I was quite taken with it, and still think it's the Greatest Comeback Record of All Time.

    Anyone see Paul Morley's pop fashion doc? - still available on iPlayer and recommended. Steve and Bernard were on that, I think they're quite tight mates, with gruff old Hooky on the outside a bit. Steve Morris is a very modest self-effacing man. But everyone knows he was the greatest drummer of his generation.

    Great to have Poge signed up to this grim death cult! Welcome aboard!

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  7. poge22 January 2009 at 02:15

    I saw Paul Morley's fashion programme. The studied carelessness of Jarvis Cocker was really good. The funniset bit was when Morley put his really crap shoes on a table and said I got these, really pleased, do you like them?

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