Genre: Alternative rock
Places I remember: Marbecks Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Atrocity Exhibition
Gear costume: Isolation
Active compensatory factors: Mervyn Peake's prose is often grotesquely bleak and full of meandering cobwebby corridors of sentences. I'm sure Ian Curtis was a fan.
Listening again to this album on a rainy day while reading Gormenghast was the perfect circumstance. The mood was right.
Although that's not the only time to listen to Joy Division, a melancholy atmosphere does help. As does a working knowledge of Manchester in the late seventies. It was grim up north!
Where do they all belong? Sadly, that was it for the troubled Ian Curtis. He committed suicide before Closer was released and the band retired the Joy Division name - re-emerging as New Order.
