6. Joy DivisionUnknown Pleasures
The first time we saw them was on this program Something Else, a teenage youth program or something, which was generally pretty shite, but they had occasionally good bands on it. We’d never heard Joy Division and we watched that performance on that TV show, and it was like, fuck. It was like what I imagine if you’re a kid and you see The Doors for the first time or something. We were just knocked out and we went to see them shortly after that at the Glasgow Apollo. It was them and the Buzzcocks but everybody, and I’m talking about everybody, was there to see Joy Division. Fucking jaws dropped when they came on. And the poor Buzzcocks were great but they couldn’t follow it. It was so intense. If I’m being totally honest, when I first heard the record I felt as though they could have done with those live rough edges on it a bit more but I just love the record now for what it is. I’ve lived with this record for so long that I can’t imagine it any other way.
