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Curtis berated Wilson for not putting the group on his Granada Television show So It Goes; Wilson responded that Joy Division would be the next band he would showcase on TV. [26] Gretton, the venue's resident DJ, was so impressed by the band's performance that he convinced them to take him on as their manager. [ 6 ]
Apr 9, 2019 · Tony Wilson, trickster-broadcaster and high theorist of the Manchester Geist, signed them to his new label, Factory. “The degraded city was part of Joy Division’s life,” said Wilson.
May 17, 2019 · Tony Wilson: I still don’t know where Joy Division came from. Mark Reeder: I met Ian when he was working at Rare Records. They were very elitist in that shop: all beards and long hair, tweed jackets, and they all thought they were something else.
Jul 13, 2020 · It’s an album of hauntology, in that it seems to yearn for Manchester to be – as its most tireless advocate, Tony Wilson, saw it and talks about it in the documentary Joy Division (2007) – a city where the future is being invented, as it had been during the industrial revolution.
As a co-founder of the independent label Factory Records and founder-manager of the Haçienda nightclub, Wilson was behind some of Manchester's most successful bands, including Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays.
Jun 15, 2023 · In fact, Wilson was an early enthusiast and later approached Joy Division to contribute a pair of songs for a sampler for his new record label, Factory Records. A Factory Sample featured the songs Glass and Digital , showing significant growth in the quartet's sound, with the latter going on to become one of their most beloved songs.
Apr 30, 2019 · I wanted to touch on the cast of characters in the book who were drawn towards Joy Division. People like Paul Morley, Tony Wilson, Martin Hannett, Peter Saville, Anton Corbijn – so many who...
