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DATE. VENUE

Date: Tuesday 16 October 1979

Venue: Plan K – Brussels (Belgium)


 

DETAILS

Line-up: Ian Curtis | Peter Hook | Stephen Morris | Bernard Sumner

Audience: about 800 people

Other band: Cabaret Voltaire
Note: a
few day off from the Buzzcocks tour (Tuesday 2 October–Saturday 10 November 1979) permitted Rob Gretton to arrange a couple of concerts away from the Buzzcocks, including this one

Slow motion footage at the beginning of the video Here Are The Young Men are from this concert


 

PHOTOS

Philippe Carly


 

MEMORIES

Joy Division played at the opening of Brussels' new art centre, a recently converted sugar refinery in, coincidentally, rue de Manchester. Accompanied by Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division did not headline the debut of Plan K – that honour being reserved for American author William Burroughs. When Ian who was a great fan of his went up to talk with him, the author told him graphically to get lost. Ian got lost immediately, not a little hurt by the rebuff
(Source: Mark Johnson – An Ideal for living)