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Losing Control: America forgets Ian Curtis is rather R.I.P.

Mike_Diver by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 21 comments 16:25 October 4th, 2007
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Shortlist magazine has revealed that distributors in the US, working the new Anton Corbijn film Control, asked if Joy Division could perform live at the US premiere.

Says Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook (pictured):

“Someone from the film’s US distributor’s office phoned up saying that the New York premiere was on 25 September and would Joy Division play?

“I replied, ‘Well, the last I heard, the lead singer was dead but I’ll give them a ring and see if anything has changed'.”

Control, which focuses on Joy Division singer Ian Curtis' life and eventual suicide on May 18 1980, is released in the UK on Friday (October 5); its soundtrack compilation, featuring David Bowie, The Sex Pistols and The Buzzcocks alongside the obvious two, is out now on Warner Music.

Joy Division New Order

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ehwhat | 4 Oct '07, 17:04 | X | Reply

You can..

just imagine Hookie's face! Priceless!

Oh dear i sound like one of those adverts...

Lucyjay @ehwhat | 4 Oct '07, 17:11 | X | Reply

Brilliant.

Good to see the distributor had no interest in what the film was about then.

black_rooster | 4 Oct '07, 17:24 | X | Reply

Lol... that's impossibly retarded

Actually far beyond retarded.

scarfo | 4 Oct '07, 17:40 | X | Reply

LOLZ!

Reminds me of the time when that Kate Winslet fronted Sense & Sensibility adaptation had just been released in America to great acclaim.

There was at least one American TV news team trawling around Hampshire in an attempt to to interview the screenwriter, Jane Austen!

Alex-in-Ciderland @mr_stranglehands | 4 Oct '07, 19:18 | X | Reply

u wat?!

I only know he's dead cos someone spoiled the ending of the film for me.

Acquiescence @Alex-in-Ciderland | 4 Oct '07, 19:30 | X | Reply

Fair play with digs on idiot Americans

I hope to be Canadian one day, anyway.

Though I can't imagine we need another JD movie, its gotten good reviews, eh.

oceanRain | 5 Oct '07, 06:21 | X | Reply

PS

Oh yeah... surprisingly enough, I don't hate the Killer's version of Shadowplay.

oceanRain @oceanRain | 5 Oct '07, 06:24 | X | Reply

exactly "Stupid Americans" LOL etc

but didn't someone from The Guardian recently try and arrange an interview with Joe Strummer.

JGJug @oceanRain | 5 Oct '07, 08:34 | X | Reply

I love Hooky

The sarcastic girlfriend beating alcohol prick. But yeah, I love him. Odd that.

redsleepingrichey | 5 Oct '07, 10:26 | X | Reply

in fact

Curtis was last sighted getting a piggy-back off an old lady in North Africa

jesechristo | 5 Oct '07, 11:05 | X | Reply

^

winnar.

LarsenB @canseideserstupid | 5 Oct '07, 11:51 | X | Reply

Ha

Absolute banter. Good times.

Tristant | 5 Oct '07, 14:00 | X | Reply

are you sure?

is that right? they've been performing as new order i thought, just doing a couple of joy division songs. that's not the same as performing AS joy division.

jimbobbley @garaint19 | 5 Oct '07, 16:32 | X | Reply

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