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It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.
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But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
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That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular.
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Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live.
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'Unknown Pleasures' is a very important record for me. It was the first LP that I recorded.
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I don't find imitating other people's music easy at all. I remember being fifth in line for a Rolling Stones tour, early '90s, when Bill Wyman left, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn't get the call to audition. I wouldn't be able to play a Stones song if you put a gun to my head.
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I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of.
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I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
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When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.
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It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.
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There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.
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The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of the unique playing of all the individuals.
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A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.
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Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.
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It was nice doing my own Joy Division book to be able to put forward the fact that Ian was actually quite a nice guy and very hardworking, ambitious and loyal. But the thing was, he was battling such a dreadful illness in an era when they really didn't know how to treat it.
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Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.
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What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.
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I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.
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America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!
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There are so many bootlegged Joy Division/Martin Hannett tapes, a lot of really bad bootlegs on the Internet.
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When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night.
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You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.
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To be in one band that changed the world musically is pretty good, but to be in two bands that changed the world musically, that's amazing.
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I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations.
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I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.
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I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
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I've been very grateful and humbled by the fact that young people really dig Joy Division's music. It's a great testament to the chemistry and the songwriting prowess between the four original members.
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Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order.
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I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment.
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The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.
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The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
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There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn't have much money. You couldn't be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn't afford it.
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