This album is considered a landmark recording: its innovative combination of bass led rhythm and angular guitar with motorik drums played mostly on toms, made it a pioneering work of the post-punk genre.
Filmed and recorded at a sold out London’s Alexandra Palace November 9th 2018. The set includes all the New Order favorites such as ‘Blue Monday’, ‘True Faith’, ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ as well as 4 from Joy Division with ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ closing
Closer, the band's 1980 sophomore album released two months after the death of lead singer Ian Curtis, continued where the first album left off, with "Heart And Soul", "Isolation", and "Twenty Four Hours".
This record preserves a live Joy Division gig in High Wycombe from Feb 1980 (the Mancunian band being supported by a slot of cult heroes like Killing Joke, A Certain Ratio and Section 25).
This is the full Paradiso Jan. 11, 1980 concert which has never yet been released. This is the full concert, cut from the Original Master Tape and now a double LP. It comes with a general jacket and with unseen photos of Ian Curtis.
"Tied to a film-related renewed interest in the band, Joy Division's three formative, formidable works get cleaned up and reissued in deluxe form." -Pitchfork
Joy Division's dark, brooding sound has inspired more artists than could be listed. With the sad passing of Ian Curtis, from the ashes rose New Order; the same core band but with a new fresh approach.
This gig, taped at the Warehouse in Preston, took place during the final round of UK dates Joy Division was to play before jetting off to the US. The live captures the band raw sound with Ian Curtis's haunting vocals.
