77 Barton Street

Dave Haslam

  • Juvenes: The Joy Division Photographs of Kevin Cummins
    To Hell with Publishing, 189 pp, £200.00, December 2007, ISBN 978 0 00 000097 2
  • BuyJoy Division: Piece by Piece by Paul Morley
    Plexus, 384 pp, £14.99, December 2007, ISBN 978 0 85965 404 3
  • Control directed by Anton Corbijn

In the 1970s and 1980s, journalists and TV producers looking to capture the full extent of Britain’s industrial and manufacturing decline would go to Manchester in search of empty warehouses, derelict workshops and canals clogged with debris. During the same period of post-industrial ruin, several influential bands formed in the city – The Fall and Joy Division in the late 1970s, The Smiths a few years later – and although they differed greatly in their sound and their ways of seeing the world, in each case it seemed as if the bleakness of the failed landscape around them was seeping into their music.

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