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Month: June 2013

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Darling BOY added to our Lord’s bill

June 30, 2013 Alex Gold 0

Those of you who attended our Divine Comedy show when The Word Magazine was alive may remember a group called The Wutars. Considerably younger than […]

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Daniel Tashian of the Silver Seas makes a video at the mall

June 27, 2013 David Hepworth 0

I can’t decide whether this has been expensively art-directed to look like a slice of American apple pie or whether Daniel just popped down the […]

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“Chat” added to Duckworth Lewis shows

June 27, 2013 David Hepworth 0

There’s going to be a chat element as well as music at the Duckworth Lewis shows at both Lord’s and the Nottingham Playhouse. Neil and […]

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Peter Hook looks back at Joy Division, New Order and how not to be a DJ
byMark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Peter Hook, bold pioneer of the high, clambering, tune-filled bassline, is touring this autumn with Peter Hook & the Light. We talk to him in Prestatyn – about to deejay at mate’s birthday – about the first gigs he ever saw and played, heavy-handed club owners, tough crowds on dance floors, the world audience for his two old bands and few key moments of a long life onstage, which involves …

 

… why you should never read your reviews.

 

… how Ian Curtis was precisely the opposite of how people imagined him.

 

… why deejaying is “the loneliest job in the world” and three tunes to play when it all goes wrong – “and I don’t play Blue Monday for obvious reasons”.

 

… seeing the Nolans at Salford Rugby Club, aged 15.

 

… his bell bottoms, clogs and Heavy Metal phase.

 

… seeing Led Zeppelin and the Sex Pistols the same week – “the Pistols were so bad they were relatable. I thought I could do that!”

 

… Stiff Kittens’ first gig: “a third-rate punk band aping all the others”.

 

… how DJs need to be “belligerent” and why people find them hard to love – and the book he’s writing, ‘How Not To Be A DJ’.

 

… how Ian Curtis’s vision of an international Joy Division following has finally been realised – “and with three generations in the crowd”.

 

… radiogram-wrecking early adventures in bass guitar.

 

… and the reasons he wanted to leave New Order and the thrill of maintaining their legacy.

 

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