![]() Monday's edition of Quarantine Life had me fascinated in front of the TV completely enthralled with the Joy Division thing going on in honor of the anniversary of Ian Curtis' passing. Watching Peter Hook & The Light run through the gamut of Joy Division's musical output was both humbling and life affirming. "A toast to absent friends", Mr. Hook said before the band launched into their set. ❤ They sounded sooooooooooooo good I wanted to fucking kill myself. 😉 The songs sounded refreshed, revitalized, different yet very familiar because you've heard these songs a million times before in the same million versions from the studios and the bootlegs that there is out there, but to hear them played like this, played with a reason, played with a mission, played like they had something to prove, played with such passion, whatever the reason was, was both enchanting and intoxicating. The band opened with At A Later Date (WOW 🤩🤩🤩) and proceeded to bewitch and mesmerize everyone in the place where Ian Curtis used to be a choirboy when he was a child, for the next 3+ hours, playing everything you can imagine, including Ceremony and In A Lonely Place, which were written by Joy Division but never recorded and which were later butchered and mangled by New Order. Blech. Standout surprises played included The Drawback and The Only Mistake, and mind blowing versions of Glass, Ice Age, No Love Lost, Something Must Break, Colony, Heart And Soul, and my all time favorite Joy Division song ever... Day Of The Lords, which is probably one of the most evil, most saddest songs ever written. 🖤 The sound was fanfuckingtastic, the venue and setting didn't really do much for me, and Peter Hook's pseudo seig heiling salutes got annoying really quick but overall what a magical day spent listening to the music of one of my all time favorite bands and, as Hooky said at the begining, just toasting and remembering absent friends. Cheers! 🍻
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