HISTORY – 2 May 1980 – Post Punk Legends JOY DIVISION Played Final Gig… 39 Years Ago

2 May 2019

Manchester’s post punk icons JOY DIVISION played their final show with IAN CURTIS
on 2 May 1980, today 39 years ago at High Hall, Birmingham University, England (gig poster on top). A Certain Ratio was the support act. The troubled Curtis committed suicide two weeks later, on 18 May.

Setlist. First song, the new one was Ceremony
The last played song was Digital not ‘Decades’
More details of that special evening here.

Turn Up The Volume! selected three live versions of classic
Joy Division songs to remember this memorable event…

– TRANSMISSION –

– DIGITAL –

– LOVE WILL TEAR US APART –

JOY DIVISION: Facebook

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