Joy Division - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland. January 11th, 1980 (Remastered, Live On Broadcasting) '2025

Tracks list

	Tracklist:

1. Passover (Live) (02:52)
2. Wilderness (Live) (02:56)
3. Digital (Live) (03:21)
4. Day of the Lords (Live) (04:44)
5. Insight (Live) (03:46)
6. New Dawn Fades (Live) (04:43)
7. Disorder (Live) (03:16)
8. Transmission (Live) (03:41)
9. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Live) (04:13)
10. These Days (Live) (04:03)
11. A Means to an End (Live) (04:11)
12. Twenty Four Hours (Live) (04:24)
13. Shadowplay (Live) (03:46)
14. She's Lost Control (Live) (03:56)
15. Atrocity Exhibition (Live) (08:43)
16. Atmosphere (Live) (05:20)
17. Interzone (Live) (03:00)


 moreThe band was founded in 1976, soon after the Sex Pistols had made their
first appearance in Manchester. Guitarist Bernard Albrecht (b. Bernard Dicken,
January 4, 1956) and bassist Peter Hook (b. February 13, 1956) had met while at
the show and later formed a band called the Stiff Kittens; after placing an ad
through a Manchester record store, they added vocalist Ian Curtis (b. July 15,
1956) and drummer Steve Brotherdale. Renamed Warsaw (from David Bowie's
"Warszawa"), the band made its live debut the following May, supporting the
Buzzcocks and Penetration at Manchester's Electric Circus. After the recording
of several demos, Brotherdale quit the group in August 1977, prompting the hire
of Stephen Morris (b. October 28, 1957). A name change to Joy Division in late
1977 -- necessitated by the punk band Warsaw Pakt -- was inspired by Karol
Cetinsky's World War II novel The House of Dolls. (In the book, the term "joy
division" was used as slang for concentration camp units wherein female inmates
were forced to prostitute themselves for the enjoyment of Nazi soldiers.)

Playing frequently in the north country during early 1978, the quartet gained
the respect of several influential figures: Rob Gretton, a Manchester club DJ
who became the group's manager; Tony Wilson, a TV/print journalist and owner of
the Factory Records label; and Derek Branwood, a record executive with RCA
Northwest, who recorded sessions in May 1978, for what was planned to be Joy
Division's self-titled debut LP. Though several songs bounded with punk energy,
the rest of the album showed at an early age the band's later trademarks:
Curtis' themes of post-industrial restlessness and emotional despair, Hook's
droning bass lines, and the jagged guitar riffs of Albrecht.

The album should have been hailed as a punk classic, but when a studio engineer
added synthesizers to several tracks -- believing that the punk movement had to
move on and embrace new sounds -- Joy Division scrapped the entire LP. (Titled
Warsaw for a 1982 bootleg, the album was finally given wide issue ten years
later.) The first actual Joy Division release came in June 1978, when the
initial mid-1977 demos were released as the EP An Ideal for Living, on the
band's own Enigma label. Early in 1979, the buzz surrounding Joy Division
increased with a session recorded for John Peel's BBC radio show.

The group began recording with producer Martin Hannett and released Unknown
Pleasures on old friend Tony Wilson's Factory label in July 1979. The album
enjoyed immense critical acclaim and a long stay on the U.K.'s independent
charts. Encouraged by the punk buzz, the American Warner Bros. label offered a
large distribution contract that fall. The band ignored it but did record
another radio session for John Peel on November 26th. (Both sessions were later
collected on the Peel Sessions album.)

During late 1979, Joy Division's manic live show gained many converts, partly
due to rumors of Curtis' ill health. An epilepsy sufferer, he was prone to
breakdowns and seizures while on stage -- it soon grew difficult to distinguish
the fits from his usual on-stage jerkiness and manic behavior. As the live dates
continued and the new decade approached, Curtis grew weaker and more prone to
seizures. After a short rest over the Christmas holiday, Joy Division embarked
on a European tour during January, though several dates were cancelled because
of Curtis. The group began recording its second LP after the tour ended (again
with Hannett), and released "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in April. The single was
again praised but failed to move beyond the independent charts. After one gig in
early May, the members of Joy Division were given two weeks of rest before
beginning the group's first U.S. tour. Two days before the scheduled flight,
however, Curtis was found dead in his home, the victim of a self-inflicted
hanging.

Before Curtis' death, the band had agreed that Joy Division would cease to exist
if any member left, for any reason. Ironically though, the summer of 1980 proved
to be the blooming of the band's commercial status, when a re-release of "Love
Will Tear Us Apart" rose to number 13 on the British singles chart. In August,
the release of Closer finally united critics' positivity with glowing sales, as
the album peaked at number six. Before the end of the summer, Unknown Pleasures
was charting as well.

By January of the following year, Hook, Morris, and Albrecht (now Bernard
Sumner) had formed New Order, with Sumner taking over vocal duties. Also in
1981, the posthumous release of Still -- including two sides of rare tracks and
two of live songs -- rose to number five on the British charts. As New Order's
star began to shine during the '80s, the group had trouble escaping the long
shadow of Curtis and Joy Division. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" charted for the
third time in 1983, and 1988 also proved a big year for the defunct band: the
reissued single "Atmosphere" hit number 34 and a double-album compilation
entitled Substance reached number seven in the album charts. Seven years later,
the 15th anniversary of Curtis' death was memorialized with a new JD compilation
(Permanent: Joy Division 1995), a tribute album (A Means to an End), and a
biography of his life (Touching From a Distance) written by his widow, Deborah
Curtis. In 1999, the Factory label began a program of concert-performance
reissues -- all overseen by the remainder of the original lineup -- with Preston
Warehouse 28 February 1980. © John Bush



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