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“No one expected it to sell, but it did sell, didn’t it?”: the crazy story of an era-defining 80s classic that shifted millions but had such an expensive sleeve it sold at a loss

Someone forgot to run the numbers…

Louder · Oct 17, 2025

“Every time I hear Love Will Tear Us Apart, I grit my teeth and remember myself shouting down the phone... I can feel the anger in it even now”: The story of Joy Division's swan song

"He was obsessed. Martin sensed it was a song that was going to last forever and wanted to make it really special"

MusicRadar · Sep 8, 2024

“I slid to the floor in shock. I didn’t speak, didn’t want to say a word to anyone.” The day that Joy Division learned their friend and frontman Ian Curtis had died

Remembering Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis

Louder · Jun 7, 2024

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‘Nature reminded me you still have to live’: Jane Weaver on grief, reinvention and 80s Russian aerobics music

The psychedelic musician’s new album trades her obscure influences for stark folk, inspired by the death of her father – then warped through Google Translate. ‘You don’t want to write too much about yourself,’ she says

The Guardian - UK · Mar 21, 2024

“We don't want people to know what we think”: Why Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures may be the most important record to emerge from the UK punk scene

Released on June 15, 1979, Joy Division's bleak, beautiful masterpiece has lost none of its power or stark dread

Louder · Jun 15, 2023

Liverpool's 80s music scene, lost nightclubs and the legends who performed there

"Find something you love to do and you’ll never work a day in your life."

Liverpool Echo · Dec 4, 2022

Hacienda Classical to return to the Castlefield Bowl next summer

The seventh installment is all set for July, 2023

Manchester Evening News · Nov 1, 2022

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Shaun Ryder and Peter Hook share memories of club where Madonna did first UK gig

Stars of the 1980s 'Madchester' acid house music scene pay tribute to the legendary Hacienda nightclub, which opened in a former warehouse in the city in 1982 but later closed after drug and gun chaos

Daily Mirror · Jun 4, 2022

The magical place in Manchester where the Hacienda should really have been, revealed by founder Alan Erasmus

Factory Records co-founder Alan Erasmus reveals his initial reservations about the Hacienda - and the location where HE had wanted the superclub to originally be built in Manchester

Manchester Evening News · May 29, 2022

Hacienda at 40: The highs, the lows, the £6m losses - as told by key figures behind 'greatest club on earth'

It's 40 years to the day that the Hacienda first opened its doors in Manchester...

Manchester Evening News · May 21, 2022

The striking 'last ever' photo of Ian Curtis taken just days before his death

The passport picture of the iconic Joy Division frontman has sold for thousands of pounds at auction

Manchester Evening News · Apr 30, 2022

From Shakespeare to Ian Curtis: British pop archive to open in Manchester

Exclusive: John Rylands Research Institute and Library to house collection that will also include Granada TV treasures

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2022

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