All Joy Division TV Appearances Video

 I do love the fact that YouTube can allow you to time travel through portals to old TV shows and uncover footage that I would have had to search out at record fairs.

The video below is a compilation of all the known footage of the brilliant Manchester/Salford/Macclesfield band Joy Division. Worth watch along with Grant Gee's the Joy Division documentary film  and the Bowden Youth Vale Club footage. 

00:00 - Shadowplay, Granada Reports, 20th September 1978 Only broadcast in the Northwest, and my personal favourite. Peter Hook was peeved here as he also came from Salford, not just Bernard. Credits to FageOner for remastering the footage to such a beautiful quality. Original video can be found here:    • Joy Division - Shadowplay (40th Anniv...   4:41 - She's Lost Control, What's On (Granada TV), 20th of July 1979 Only broadcast in the Northwest, this episode was lost from its original broadcast to around October 2020, 41 years. The full footage is still lost, with only around half of it recovered. Notably, the Granada archives show a different broadcast date for this episode, showing the 19th of July rather than the 20th. Once again, credits to FageOner for remastering the footage, even if their remaster's quality is completely ruined by my reupload. Original video:    • Joy Division - She's Lost Control, li...   7:18 - Transmission, Something Else (BBC2), 15th September 1979 Broadcast nationwide. This is by far the most well-preserved and well-known of all of JD's live performances. Recorded on the 1st of September along with She's Lost Control. Original video on the Joy Division channel:    • Joy Division - Transmission [OFFICIAL...   10:30 - She's Lost Control, Something Else (BBC2), 15th September 1979 Broadcast nationwide. She's Lost Control was recorded before Transmission and shown before it on the original broadcast, I just have it last on this video because I don't like the song as much as Transmission. This video is one of the best showcases of Ian Curtis' unique flailing dancing style. Original video:    • Joy Division - She's Lost Control (Li...  

Panic Radio is 10 !!!

Panic Radio on Warminster Community Radio turns 10 this week. I thought I would share some of my favorite tracks from the last 10 years. 

Panic Radio Cover Version Special

Just recorded an hours showcase of cover versions for Panic Radio on WCR (Warminster Community Radio). 

This is the track listing:

1. 1.       Panic - 2012 Remaster Carte USM
2. 2.       Kiss - Vocal Age Of Chance
3. 3.       Yesterday Once More -Redd Kross
4. 4.       Fancy -Colleen Rennison
5. 5.       The Testimony Of Patience Kershaw -The Unthanks
6. 6.       Grace Cathedral Hill- Cerys Matthews
7. 7.       A Change Is Gonna Come -Aretha Franklin
8. 8.       In My Life -Johnny Cash
9. 9.       No Easy Way Down -Mark Eitzel
10. 10.   Thunder Road -Frank Turner
11. 11.   That's How I- Got To Memphis Karl Blau
12. 12.   Walk On -Smith & Mighty
13. 13.   This is How We Do It – Aluna George
14. 14.   Temptation - Moby

Below is the Spotify Playlist .

DJ Eclair Fifi Bolier Room Edinburgh June 14th 2019

One of my favourite DJ  Eclair Fifi giving it some HOUSE in Edinburgh this morning! What do they put in the water up there :)

https://boilerroom.tv/recording/eclair-fifibc89142f-8b7d-4ce9-a2a1-8c48aedaedfd

Charity Shop Special June 2019

Panic Radio is pre recorded this evening. An hour of charity shop finds. 9pm to 10pm.

Them - Gloria
Pernice Brothers - Weakest Shade of Blue 
Grant Lee Buffalo - Mocking Birds 
R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend
The Sundays - Can't Be Sure
Francoise Hardy - Voila
Nina Simone - Mode Indigo
Ancient Beatbox (featuring Shelia Chandra) - Raining (my eyes are filled with clouds)
Toumani Diabate - Mani Mani Kuru
Peter Tosh - The Day The Dollar Die
Bob Marley - Small Axe
Peter Gabriel - Red Rain

Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures

Unknown Pleasures is one of the touchstones of the alternative music scene. It is the Rosetta Stone of new wave, from its deep vinyl grooves you can decode the influence in bands as diverse as Interpol and The Cure, Editors and Mogwi. Without the sonic template of Unknown Pleasures U2 would have never found a voice and a direction. Those early U2 records sound like smudged facsimiles of Joy Divisions latent power.

Unknown Pleasures was san genesis, an individual and eviscerating blend of punk fury, existentialist dread and post war industrial decay. An audio document that could have only been produced at a certain junction, immediately post the Sex Pistols and from a specific location, the UK . Despite its historical position it still sounds as vital and eerie as it did in 1979.

Inspired by a combination of the first wave of UK punk rock, and the American racket of The Stooges and The Velvet Underground Joy Divisions sound was a happy accident. Peter Hook’s high trebly bass playing a result of the cheap equipment the band initially used. Hook was forced to play higher than normal in order to be heard. His bass carried the melody of the songs, Barney Sumner’s guitar spiking the sound with caustic riffs and metallic textures. The whole sound was anchored by the breath taking human drum machine rhythms of Steven Morris.

The unusual combination of sounds marked the band out from the standard three chord thrash of the second generation of punk. Its not that the band could play any better than their peers, the reality is the opposite of that. They simply played to their strengths and in the process created a unique and potent sound. The majestic noise the band created was heightened by the poetic lyrics and sorrowful croon of Ian Curtis.

Curtis’ death hangs over the music of Joy Division draping it in a solemnity, carving it into memorial stone, yet on Unknown Pleasures, Curtis lyrics are troubled and questioning but not the extended cry for help of Closer. They have a depth that was out of time with the plastic nihilism of the moment more John Paul Sartre than Johnny Rotten.

Amazingly Sumner and Hook where disappointed with the production of Unknown Pleasures. They believed that producer Martin Hannett had emasculated their sound. Stripped away the fierce loud clanning punk rock and hollowed them out. Listening to the live tracks on the bonus disc you can see that he did prune away the volume but the harsh reality is that the songs are better for it.

Hannet’s use of found sound, breaking glass and empty lift shafts, coupled with a pioneering use of delay resulted in sound that owed as much to dub as it did to punk. The music is bathed in shimmering ether, the taut rhythms seem to ripple, the minimal bass lines stretching time. Sumner’s guitar adds textures, obtuse broken riffs, corrosive discordant tints over the restless clatter and hum.

The record has stuck with me since I first heard it as a callow fourteen year old. Other records that I loved at the time have fallen by the wayside, their adolescent angst unable to translate themselves into my adult life. There is something honest, harrowing and timeless at the heart of Unknown Pleasures that has kept me hooked. In my opinion it is the greatest debut LP of all time. If you don’t own a copy your music collection is missing a major cog, go and buy this record today.

Tony Heywood ©

China's Underground Club Scene

A great mix of tunes from China

Panic Radio Playlist 21st March 2018

Panic Radio March 21st 2018

• Pulp – Common People

• Marisa Anderson – Cloud Corner
• Finley Quaye – Butterfly Lovers
• Pixies – Bone Machine
• Guess the a-side - The Wedding Present – All Above Eve
• Sandy Shaw – Hand in Glove
• Robert Foster – I am So Happy For You
• Slonk – We’re Going to Be Fine
• Shopping – The Hype
• Junk Shop – Noel Coward – Nina
• X Ray Spex – I am Cliché
• Idlewild – The Wooden Ideals
• Long Track – Rising the Titanic (Big Drum Mix)
• Diana Ross & The Supremes – Love Child

• Mismatched socks – Circumstance
• John Tejada – Heal
• Location Kent – Kate Bush – Sunset
• Location Kent – Siouxsie and The Banchees – Cities in Dust
• Location Kent – Sawhney – Beyond Skin
• Why?- One Mississippi
• Cover Version of The Week – Meshell Ndegeocello – Waterfalls
• August Greene – Optimistic
• Portishead – Roads
• DJ Taye – Pop Drop (Featuring DJ Pay Pal)
• One Dove – Why Don’t You Take Me (rank outsiders mix)

Second Hand Music Special

Playlist July 13th Second Hand Special Panic Radio

1. Blondie – Rapture
2. The Killers – Jenny Was A Friend of Mine
3. Buzzcocks – Everbodys Happy Nowdays 
4. Guess the a-side – Disapointed – Everyday is Like Sunday B-side
5. The Cocteau Twins – How to Bring A Blush To Snow
6. Johnny Cash – Goodnight Irene
7. Nick Drake – Northern Sky
8. Lemonheads – Into My Arms
9. Rockingbirds – We Had It All
10. Jack Johnson - Banana Pancakes
11. Monaco – Sweetlips
12. Moloko – The Time Is Now (Francios K Main Vocal Mix)
13. Aretha Franklin – (You Make Me Feel) Like A Natural Women
14. Money Mark – Information Contraband

Location London
15. Soul II Soul – Joy
16. Leftfield – Open Up
17. The XX – Shelter

18. Bille Ray Martin – Loving Arms

19. KLF – 3 am Eternal

20. Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance

21. Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper

22. Smith and Mighty – Higher Dub

My playlist from the radio show on WCR FM. A second hand music special playing tracks from CDs and LPs I have picked up second hand from car boot sales, charity shops, jumble sales, second hand record shops, market stalls and school fetes. 

Panic Radio Site

I have launched a new site that is focused on the radio show that I do weekly on WCR FM in Warminster Wiltshire on a Wednesday evening. The show is called Panic radio and below is a link to the site and also a link to the Mixcloud account that carries some of the shows. The one below is the third anniversary cover version special.

Panic Radio
Mixcloud