Peter Hook | Joy Division | Control
It somewhat of Peter Hook/Joy Division week in Toronto this week with Hook playing The Sound Academy on Friday (the 27th).
If you are not familiar with Joy Division (and New Order) this is a good week to explore this incredibly influential band. Joy Division became the first band in the post-punk movement by later emphasizing not anger and energy but mood and expression.
Here are steps to discovering Joy Division…
Pick up and listen to Joy Division’s 1979 debut album Unknown Pleasures. Allmusic.com describes the album as, “the ten songs inside, quite simply, are stone-cold landmarks, the whole album a monument to passion, energy, and cathartic despair.”
If you dig their first album, you might as well listen to their second (and last) album Closer. “If Unknown Pleasures was Joy Division at their most obsessively, carefully focused, ten songs yet of a piece, Closer was the sprawl, the chaotic explosion that went every direction at once.”
Lastly, rent and watch Control – Anton Corbijn’s 2007 black-and-white biopic about the late Ian Curtis (1956-1980), lead singer of post-punk band Joy Division. The screenplay written by Matt Greenhalgh is based on the book Touching from a Distance, by Curtis’s widow, Deborah, who is also a co-producer of the film.
Watch the trailer…
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