A Day Out With Joy Division by Alan Hempsall
This interview was originally published in the Extro sci-fi magazine, Vol.2/No.5. Overlooked by about everyone, it’s one of the most interesting Joy Division interviews ever, reprinted here with permission of the author. On January 8th 1980 Alan Hempsall interviewed Joy Division and their manager Rob Gretton, when the band and Martin Hannett were working on Love Will Tear Us Apart (original version, to be found on the B-side of FAC 23), These Days and The Sound Of Music, in the Pennine Studios in Oldham - Frank Brinkhuis
Celebrate his life, he brought so much to the world the only sad thing about it is he never got to know the effect he had on people’s lives. Without Ian Curtis there would never have been things like Factory Records or Blue Monday, it’s just a shame you can often only appreciate people truly when they’re gone.
Ian Kevin Curtis
15th July 1956 - 18th May 1980
Hooky liked the post I put on The Lights Facebook page!
No words can sum up my emotions right now
Well I’m a bit like this:
Everything on Factory is designed, as opposed to decorated.
Peter Saville, September 1979.
