Main image: “The Fall of Numenor,” an allusion to Atlantis made by J.R.R. Tolkien well after HP Lovecraft did his stuff.
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Last Updated on July 21, 2023 Leigh Festival I came across this video about the Factory archive a few years ago and forgot to post it to our history (sp) This second episode of two pretty much starts with the Leigh Festival. It really was cold and it really was pretty shitty just as…
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Last Updated on January 1, 2021 This is the text of a posting I made here. Angst in East Lancs Wasteland This was the banner headline in Melody Maker, I think, for the gig at the Leigh Festival. 8th September 1979 it says on this paywalled site. Two things stick in my mind about the…
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Last Updated on January 1, 2021 The gig at the Moonlight Club that led to the ridiculous slagging off by Adam Sweeting (can he play anything at all?)…. It was the one at which the live recording was made of Joy Division on that white LP. My (SP) recollection is of it being really dismal,…
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Last Updated on January 1, 2021 Site of the Gratton “joke”. Joy Division didn’t play too bad (but it was their home patch by then). There were a lot of really scary black guys wearing floor length fur coats looking like they were packin’. I also remember “Echo Beach” being played a lot between bands.…
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Main image: “The Fall of Numenor,” an allusion to Atlantis made by J.R.R. Tolkien well after HP Lovecraft did his stuff.
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