We can certainly forgive the somewhat errant track mastering (Twenty Four Hours starts about 24 seconds into the song). The quality is mixing-desk standard and almost as good as being there, minus the blood,sweat and tears (and the inevitable toilet-queue) and all for just over £20. Complete with occasional blips, rare bum-notes and technical hitches, So This Is Permanence is a warts-n-all collection designed to continue the worthy fundraising for the Epilepsy Society and The Churches Conservation Trust.
If you care about live music and, most importantly here, the legacy of an enigmatic, talented but ultimately normal working-class lad with extreme epilepsy (hence the chosen charity), Macclesfield's unassuming Christ Church sets the scene for what sounds like quite a show.įor us poor souls who couldn't wangle the time off work, this triple-CD released via concert-recording maestros Live Here Now (via Abbey Road mastering) is the nuts. If you think performing nearly four-dozen songs continuously is a piece of piss, kindly shit off and read about the new Will Young single instead. – Black, blind-blocked, cloth-covered slipcase.To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Ian Curtis' premature passing, Peter Hook gathered his acclaimed The Light, plus occasional extra Rowetta, for an epic three-hour concert featuring every Joy Division song. – Inside front of case to have paper envelope attached, containing exclusive high-quality print reproduction of ‘She’s Lost Control’ lyrics as per notebooks, also to be signed and numbered – Book to be full-bound in pale grey cloth, title blocked on front and spine in grey foil. – 304pp as per standard edition, plus tipped-in signed and numbered limitation page
– Limited to 200 copies worldwide £200 per copy. – Every copy will be signed by the surviving members of Joy Division (Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner) plus Deborah Curtis and Jon Savage. Joy Division released two seminal post-punk albums: Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980). Ian Curtis was born in Stretford, Lancashire and grew up in Macclesfield. Interspersed with the lyrics are previously unpublished facsimile pages of Ian’s notebooks, which throw his lyrics into relief and cast light on the creative process of this influential and legendary songwriter. Ian Curtis committed suicide in 1980, on the eve of the band’s first American tour. The songs of Joy Division were born of Manchester in the late seventies and of Ian Curtis’s inner tragedies, as he battled depression, epilepsy and debilitating stage fright.
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