Joy Division News

It is music that is as overwhelming today as it ever was, and its power goes beyond the tragedy of one man unable to cope with the world.

The Killers headlined day two of Isle of Wight Festival last night , playing a lengthy set including a number of covers.

Iconic post-punk English quartet Joy Division, best known for the moody single "Love Will Tear Us Apart," didn't write songs about surfing and sunshine.

AN Altrincham shop has a very rare item in stock - a guitar made from parts of an iconic Manchester nightclub.

It's Friday. A work week has come and gone for most of us. Let's do things a little different for Fridays on this little corner of the Internet.

THE STONE ROSES: MADE OF STONE *** Directed by Shane Meadows. Featuring Ian Brown, John Squire 15A cert, Odyssey/QFT, Belfast; Light House/Cineworld, Dublin, 96 min While we wait patiently for Shane Meadows to make another proper film , this study of Manchester's The Stone Roses will do well enough.

By now you've heard of 3-D printers and how they can make a gun or a turkey or a spleen or other junk like that.

Ever since 98.7 per cent of new bands started sounding like they'd fallen off the back of 'Unknown Pleasures' around 2010, indie rock has been playing a three-year game of What Would Joy Division Have Done Next? Now it's Chapel Club's turn, and on their second album they've decided to play the wild card of Wafty Psychtronica.

Michael Zoellner recently celebrated the illustrious Peter Saville "Unknown Pleasures" album artwork for Joy Division via the creation of a 3D printing.

After watching Grant Gee's documentary " Joy Division " I wanted to print the iconic cover of their first album " Unknown Pleasures " in 3D.

They will lead a collection of musical royalty to help the inaugural Junction 16 Festival in Betley turn the last of its three days into a celebration of the world-famous Manchester sound from the 1980s and 90s.

It will be hankies at dawn as five novice Morris dancers shake their best ribboned stick as part of the 42nd Chippenham Folk Festival when it takes over the town for the Bank Holiday weekend starting tomorrow.

Bassist Peter Hook, who played Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures at the Bluebird in 2011 , returns to the area with his group, the Light, to perform New Order's Movement and Power, Corruption & Lies at the Gothic Theatre on Saturday, September 28.

Peter Hook doesn't want to play with New Order. But that doesn't mean he won't play his old band's music.