[peel] 14 Feb 1979

[m.luetchford]

I was 16 in 1979 and so was aware of punk largely from my older brother and the outrage/dislocation caused but Joy Division was my band. They spoke to me and  (in my mind) were the band that distinguished the trendy kids who read the NME, listened to Peel, suffered their teenage angst in darkened rooms - my pals! we bought raincoats, wore charity shop suits and stood knowingly at the back of jigs. Not dancing!when we heard of Ian's death I felt so sad and pretentiously vowed to wear black forever. I kept it up for 4 years. Yes i was a prat! Love Will Tear Us Apart came out after he died and it began to penetrate the wider consciousness. think it may have been in the ordinary charts - if you look at the festive 50 you can see how Peel's listeners were loyal to Joy Division. I never saw them (like Peel) but saw New Order on (what I think) was their first tour at Reading University in my raincoat. we requested the DJ to play Love Will Tear Us Apart and he had been asked not to play any JD. They played ceremony ep tracks. when power corruption and lies came out a lot of Joy Division fans (not me) were really upset at the new sound.To me Joy Division sounded very different. you can hear the punk influence when they were called Warsaw but seemed to bring a darker more intellectually angst ridden sound which is why the half man half biscuit oven glove song is genius.sorry I got a bit excited and went on a bit but I think the music you hear from 16 to 25 remains ever important so you touched a nerve!markSent from my Samsung device

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From: "'Stuart Brooks' stuartb@brooks22.plus.com [peel]" <peel@yahoogroups.com> 
Date: 26/02/2019  02:24  (GMT+00:00) 
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: Re: [peel] 14 Feb 1979 


 



  


    
      
      
      



I was slightly late to the game, only becoming aware of JD around the time 
of Ian Curtis’ death but by the time JP came round to rebroadcasting their 
sessions in 1983 I 
just knew I had to tape them, guarding my recordings (until I lost them...) not 
of course dreaming that one day they would be released on Strange Fruit and 
endlessly reshared on Youtube and FB all these later! But listening to the shows 
of 1979 and 1980, listening to Peel’s commentary and listeners’ letters to BFBS 
etc, NME articles/reviews and my own recollections from the early to mid 80s, 
they were definitely cult-huge, with a slight break-through to mainstream 
awareness, though you would have been surprised if your parents had heard of 
them. I would venture to say that they were huger then than now in the 15-25 yr 
old bracket
 
Stuart weatherman22


 

From: STUART 
MACLEAN sdmaclean@comcast.net [peel] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 1:11 AM
To: peel 
Subject: [peel] 14 Feb 1979
 
  


Just 
listening to 14 Feb 1979 (thanks Stuart for posting that one to the Moo), with 
Gen X and Joy Division in session.  
 
Hard 
to believe that is now 40 years ago! As a life long JD fan but too young at the 
time (I was 11), I can only imagine how this session must have sounded to older 
Peel listeners, ones who can come through punk and post-punk.  Was the JD 
session viewed as something outstanding at the time, or is it just with 40 years 
of elapsed time that JD have become so 'huge'?
 
Stu

	
        
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