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DATE. VENUE |
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Date: Wednesday 25 January 1978 |
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Venue: Pips – Manchester (UK) |
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CONCERTS |
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Joy Division |
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DATE. VENUE |
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Date: Wednesday 25 January 1978 |
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Venue: Pips – Manchester (UK) |
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DETAILS |
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Line-up: Ian Curtis | Peter Hook | Stephen Morris | Bernard Sumner |
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Opening acts: Connection
| The Stance |
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This was the first
concert played under the name Joy Division, although the venue billed
them in the advertisements as Warsaw to ensure an audience – no one ever having heard of Joy Division
before. The New Musical Express dated Saturday 21 January 1978 list the band
as Warsaw in the Gig Guide |
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MEMORIES |
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Tony Wilson had promised Steve Morris that he would come
to see them, but he didn't make an appearance. They performed what
seemed to me to be a very brief set to an audience which had at
last latched on to Joy Division's special aura. I sat at the top
of the steps above the dance floor and observed a fan as he ran
across the front of the stage and quickly picked up a discarded
set list written in Ian's giant scrawl. It amused me that someone
wanted to collect the set list when the band had only been paid
£60 |
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Ian Curtis, well into his pints,
was thrown out of the very club in which he was to sing. He was
attempting to clear the stage of some glass broken by The Stance
and, ending up making even more of a mess, was ejected by the doorman.
"But I'm the lead singer," pleaded Ian. "I don't care if you're the Pope,"
answered the bouncer, who kept Ian cooling his heels outside for fifteen minutes
until just before Joy Division came on stage. The group's set was
disrupted during their third song, when a fight broke out and Peter dived in to get at the troublemaker. Joy
Division almost didn't finish that night because the club's manager
threatened to shut the gig down if the fighting continued |
