And they come with extra-long laces so you can hang yourself...

Bob Slydell · Jun 9, 2007

God, I wondered what this thread was about. Nice. Who are the ad geniuses who come up with this stuff?

Shoestrings, shoestrings will tear mehead apart...again. [Ian curtis singing]

24 Hour Party People was a fantastic movie.

write then drink · Jun 9, 2007

Football_Bat said:

ThomsonONE said:

Alley - Joy Division is the band that started the post punk/Manchester scene. They influenced just about every band out of the north of England in the '80s. Rent the movie "24 hour Party People" to get the story.

Nice to see Joy Division getting some much deserved attention, but how many people that know the band will buy these sneakers? Doesn't make much sense to me.
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Absolutely correct. In fact, Factory Records was the driving force behind the entire "Madchester" scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Joy Division was their first big act, then the band morphed into New Order after Curtis' death and became a commercial success. The scene didn't really take off, though, until the rise of Happy Mondays (a Factory band) and other Manc bands like James, Inspiral Carpets, and Stone Roses (that weren't signed to Factory.)

The scene centered around the HaÃ§ienda, a club that gave famous DJs Paul Oakenfold, Mike Pickering and Graeme Park their shot at stardom. The club was owned by New Order and actually had its own catalog number (FAC 51, IIRC). Of course, Ecstacy fueled the dancing, and soon the drugs and the gang wars forced the clientele out. Happy Mondays decided they liked heroin better than making good music, Factory went bankrupt, and the whole scene collapsed.

I went to the HaÃ§ienda numerous times on holiday (I even met the red-haired bloke from Simply Red there) and still own a long sleeve T-shirt I bought there in 1990.

(The HaÃ§ienda no longer exists; the building was sadly torn down in 1997.)

It was a fun scene while it lasted and I don't think we've seen one like it since.
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great post

i think Mojo (or was it Q?) devoted an issue a year or two ago to looking back at the Manchester scene. terrific stuff

deskslave · Jun 9, 2007

Football_Bat said:

ThomsonONE said:

Alley - Joy Division is the band that started the post punk/Manchester scene. They influenced just about every band out of the north of England in the '80s. Rent the movie "24 hour Party People" to get the story.

Nice to see Joy Division getting some much deserved attention, but how many people that know the band will buy these sneakers? Doesn't make much sense to me.
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Absolutely correct. In fact, Factory Records was the driving force behind the entire "Madchester" scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Joy Division was their first big act, then the band morphed into New Order after Curtis' death and became a commercial success. The scene didn't really take off, though, until the rise of Happy Mondays (a Factory band) and other Manc bands like James, Inspiral Carpets, and Stone Roses (that weren't signed to Factory.)

The scene centered around the HaÃ§ienda, a club that gave famous DJs Paul Oakenfold, Mike Pickering and Graeme Park their shot at stardom. The club was owned by New Order and actually had its own catalog number (FAC 51, IIRC). Of course, Ecstacy fueled the dancing, and soon the drugs and the gang wars forced the clientele out. Happy Mondays decided they liked heroin better than making good music, Factory went bankrupt, and the whole scene collapsed.

I went to the HaÃ§ienda numerous times on holiday (I even met the red-haired bloke from Simply Red there) and still own a long sleeve T-shirt I bought there in 1990.

(The HaÃ§ienda no longer exists; the building was sadly torn down in 1997.)

It was a fun scene while it lasted and I don't think we've seen one like it since.
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Happy Mondays, by the way, quite possibly got the name from a particular bread company (I don't know the name) that during the 60s at least would prove the freshness of its bread by wrapping the loaves in wrappers that said "Happy Monday" or "Happy Tuesday" or whatever the day of the week was.

I know this because my father has repeatedly told me the story of a friend of his whose job was to, after the store closed, take off the Happy Monday wrapper and replace it with a Happy Tuesday wrapper.

(OK, the band says it was taken from "Blue Monday," by New Order, but I don't have to believe that.)

Football_Bat · Jun 9, 2007

deskslave said:

Football_Bat said:

ThomsonONE said:

Alley - Joy Division is the band that started the post punk/Manchester scene. They influenced just about every band out of the north of England in the '80s. Rent the movie "24 hour Party People" to get the story.

Nice to see Joy Division getting some much deserved attention, but how many people that know the band will buy these sneakers? Doesn't make much sense to me.
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Absolutely correct. In fact, Factory Records was the driving force behind the entire "Madchester" scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Joy Division was their first big act, then the band morphed into New Order after Curtis' death and became a commercial success. The scene didn't really take off, though, until the rise of Happy Mondays (a Factory band) and other Manc bands like James, Inspiral Carpets, and Stone Roses (that weren't signed to Factory.)

The scene centered around the HaÃ§ienda, a club that gave famous DJs Paul Oakenfold, Mike Pickering and Graeme Park their shot at stardom. The club was owned by New Order and actually had its own catalog number (FAC 51, IIRC). Of course, Ecstacy fueled the dancing, and soon the drugs and the gang wars forced the clientele out. Happy Mondays decided they liked heroin better than making good music, Factory went bankrupt, and the whole scene collapsed.

I went to the HaÃ§ienda numerous times on holiday (I even met the red-haired bloke from Simply Red there) and still own a long sleeve T-shirt I bought there in 1990.

(The HaÃ§ienda no longer exists; the building was sadly torn down in 1997.)

It was a fun scene while it lasted and I don't think we've seen one like it since.
Click to expand...

Happy Mondays, by the way, quite possibly got the name from a particular bread company (I don't know the name) that during the 60s at least would prove the freshness of its bread by wrapping the loaves in wrappers that said "Happy Monday" or "Happy Tuesday" or whatever the day of the week was.

I know this because my father has repeatedly told me the story of a friend of his whose job was to, after the store closed, take off the Happy Monday wrapper and replace it with a Happy Tuesday wrapper.

(OK, the band says it was taken from "Blue Monday," by New Order, but I don't have to believe that.)
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And in turn, many believe Oasis (which I remember seeing in some club in Manchester in 1992) got the name of their band from the title of a Happy Mondays song. That isn't what Wikipedia says, but consider the source ....

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