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DATE. VENUE |
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Date: Thursday 17 May 1979 |
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Venue: Acklam Hall – London
(Kensington) (UK) |
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CONCERTS |
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DATE. VENUE |
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Date: Thursday 17 May 1979 |
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Venue: Acklam Hall – London
(Kensington) (UK) |
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DETAILS |
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Line-up: Ian Curtis | Peter Hook | Stephen Morris | Bernard Sumner |
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Concert organization:
Final Solution |
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Audience: about 100 people |
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Opening acts: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | A Certain Ratio | John Dowie |
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MEMORIES |
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Factory Records contacted
Final Solution to set up Joy Division's next London date, and Rob Gretton even had 100 or
so special badges made up by Better Badges London which read "Joy
Division At The Aklam" (sic). Unfortunately, despite advertisements
in the rock press and handbills passed out at record shops, only
about a hundred people (many of them rock journalists) turned out
for this "Factory Night". Joy Division had been well-received
in the small club atmosphere of the Hope and Anchor [Wednesday 27 December 1978 and Thursday 1 March 1979] and Marquee [Sunday 4 March 1979], but they were
still not well enough known to hope to fill a hall the size of the
Acklam as headliner, especially with the support of other Factory
bands even more obscure than they were |
