Transmission

One Summer Booster A Day Keeps Insanity Away – Today: Indies ENGLISH TEACHER And RICHARD HAWLEY Dance To The Radio

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Holey moley. What a surprising team-up doing a surprising cover.

Last year British indies ENGLISH TEACHER won the renowned
Mercury Prize with their debut LP This Could Be Texas played
a gig for BBC Radio 6 last March. They were joined by Sheffield
crooner RICHARD HAWLEY.

Together they performed a bold and sterling cover of
Joy Division‘s bone-chilling debut single Transmission
from 1978.

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio

JOY DIVISION – British Post-Punk Icons Released Their Buzzing Debut Single ‘TRANSMISSION’ 45 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past

19 November 2024

Iconic Manchester post-punk band JOY DIVISION released their
fabulous, buzzing single TRANSMISION on 16 November 1979,
45 years ago.

It was originally recorded in 1978 for the aborted self-titled album, re-recorded
the following year at a faster tempo and released by label Factory as the band’s
debut single.

Famous British music journalist Greil Marcus said about the song: “It’s a dramatization
of the realization that the act of listening to the radio is a suicidal gesture. It will kill your
mind. It will rob your soul.”

Peter Hook (bassist): “We were doing a soundcheck at the Mayflower (club in Manchester)
and we played ‘Transmission’. People had been moving around, and they all stopped to listen. I realized that was our first great song.”

“Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio“

Here’s JD’s live performance on BBC’s
youth television program Something Else.

JD: Story

TRANSMISSION – JOY DIVSION

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8 April 2023

Listen to the silence, let it ring on
Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun
We would have a fine time living in the night
Left to blind destruction, waiting for our sight

And we would go on as though nothing was wrong
And hide from these days we remained all alone
Staying in the same place, just staying out the time
Touching from a distance, further all the time

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio

Well I could call out when the going gets tough
The things that we’ve learnt are no longer enough
No language, just sound, that’s all we need know
To synchronise love to the beat of the show
And we could dance

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio

1979

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

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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 –

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