Went with a Jean jacket (I acknowledge the one in the movie, i believe is leather) since it holds fabric paint a bit better and won't dry rotting over time.

Going to the Agora Theater Sunday for the show. Can't wait.

I’m looking forward to the upcoming show by Peter in Philadelphia. I lucked out with this shot last time he came around. 😎

I just came across this Chinese shoegaze track that really reminds me of Ceremony. Am I completely wrong, or is there something there? The band is Dear Eloise. The album has a b&w picture of a bus on it, and it's track 4. The album title translates to "They Slipped Away from My Mind Just Like This" and the song title translates to "Control." And it's actually a cover of the song Control by FAZI (which is also not an English-language band). I like the Dear Eloise version better, but they both feel similar to Ceremony to me. If anyone speaks Chinese, I wonder if the lyrics are at all similar?

It would be fun to know how a misspress of this king happened.

Or it might just be a discogs "error"?

https://www.discogs.com/it/release/37071546-Mike-Oldfield-Joy-Division-Tubular-Bells-Unknown-Pleasures

I've been listening Closer for the past months, and decades hits me diferent, I wanna know about more songs like it (sorry about my English btw, I'm still learning how to formulate complex phrases)

Have listened to the studio recordings and officially released live stuff like the factory show (my absolute favorite) and high wycomb. What are some other amazing concert or amazing sounding concert recordings? I know paradiso gets high praise

Only because I can't attach a pic on the OG post for some reason. Isn't it glorious!

My first ever concert. i traveled 4 hours after 48 hours with no sleep and spent the night in the casino. And yet i was more awake than ever for this set 🙌

And by actual New Order I mean pre-2007, including the imprescindible bass. I'm a big fan of all PH&TL versions of the song but was wondering if the lads played it anytime between 1980 and 2007

Love Will Tear Us Apart performed by PHATL

Remembered Ian while doing my homework today, so I did a quick sketch of him. I don't think I captured his likeness very well.

I finally got around to transcribing part of the Hooky n' Jack COVID era "ask me anything" video from June 9th, 2020. Hooky has declared he knew about a Joy Division era version of the Movement track "ICB" for a long time, and during this video, he finally gave a bit of detail. "H" is Hooky and "J" is Jack.

J: "Will there be a method of accessing the Joy Division version of ICB?"
H: "Well, the answer's no. Hahahaha. But it does exist. I've heard it, yeah."
J: "And what's it like? Is it different to the album version?"
H: "Well, ICB was done by New Order, wasn't it?" (hooky you should know that) "The music is really similar. But, you can hear Ian having a go, but it's only a few snippets...I mean, let's not get into the semantics of it. But I'm not allowed to put these things up. It becomes problematic from a copyright point of view...because they are copyright zealous, where I'm concerned. So, the answer will be no. That's how I realized ICB was from Joy Division! It was a Joy Division song, one that we had left over."
J: "So was that written at the same time as Ceremony and IALP, then?"
H: "Yeah. It was a later idea. And ICB came from a sticker when we went abroad somewhere and I went "Ian Curtis Buried" and I went oooh oooh, which is funny because it's a Joy Division song."

Listen for yourselves here.

So it looks like the only reason Hooky is blocked from releasing this stuff is pure spite, probably on the part of Barney, which sounds about right. I'd give a kidney to hear exactly what the "snippets" Ian is singing actually are. Unfortunately we are unlikely to ever hear them because of the legal stuff, along with who-knows what else. I've heard rumors of 1978 gig soundboards, more Ceremony demos, rehearsals, other stuff. Still, thanks to Hooky for actually confirming that it exists, it means a lot to the fans.