What becomes a legend least? In the case of New Order it would seem to be a messy, never-quite-definite split and an inability to just let things go. Whereas contemporaries such as The Smiths and The Cure have seen their reputations burnished to eternal indie sainthood in recent years, New Order have spent the last [...]
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Mani has apologised over his Twitter outburst last week in which he accused Peter Hook of “living off Ian Curtis’ blood money”. The two Manchester bassists had recently played together in Freebass, though that band has now disbanded. Both Mani and Hook have spoken following the former’s Twitter outburst, which has now been taken down [...]
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A cracking EP called Ladies and Gentlemen landed on ELM’s desk the other day from a band called Johnny and the Giros. The name suggests punk, but it’s more a marriage of electro and what we quaintly term indie. Spidery synth riffs over Gang of Four-style agit-funk guitars, it’s also imbued with that searing ambition which Scottish [...]
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In news which would surely get even the most fervent Ingerlund fan praying Andorra stick three past them later this week, ubiquitous Gavin & Stacey star James Corden is being lined up to cover New Order’s 1990 World Cup classic ‘World in Motion’ as the Three Lions official tune for the 2010 event.
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Due to a football match being held there tonight, Manchester has been very much in the headlines in Glasgow for the last few days. ELM is a footy-free zone, but it did get me thinking about some great Manchester bands. there can’t be many provincial cities in the world with the rich heritage of the [...]
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Joy Division are one of the greatest and most important bands of all time. While others were happy to take Punk’s Year Zero as an excuse to indulge in wholescale yobbishness, they were interested in the darker places and possibilities that had been opened up. Their two albums ‘Unknown Pleasures’ and ‘Closer’ are absolutely essential. [...]
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With summer potentially peeking out from behind the clouds, and ELM looking forward to sitting in beer gardens in silly sunhats, we thought we’d take a look at some songs which sound superb in sunny weather. I promise no Hold Steady (though you could do worse than ‘Massive Nights’.) The Clash – Rudie Can’t Fail [...]
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People, as Depeche Mode once so sagely pointed out, are people. And some people are nice, and some people are nasty. The Beatles, unarguably the most influential pop band of all time, set the tone by being led by the relatively fluffy bunny who was Paul McCartney and the complete bastard who was John Lennon. [...]
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