Joy Division => Dead Souls (31-3-2006)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

I'm pretty sure most of you have heard something about Joy Division. Which is remarkable in itself because they only made two albums and existed only an odd three years. And it was ages ago too!

I myself was only 6 years old the first time they played in Belgium (16 oct.1979 in Brussels). They did some gigs in the Netherlands and Belgium in January 1980 but obviously I was still too young to go to any of those.
And then, without me ever having heard them, Ian killed himself minimizing my changes of ever seeing them live.

When I finally discovered the joys of Joy Division Ian had been dead for many years. Luckily I also love New Order so I could at least see part of this brilliant band live some day (last year at Rockwerchter). I thoroughly enjoyed that, especially when they did two Joy Division songs.

I thought my experiences of hearing Joy Division live had ended there but luckily yesterday we had a chance to experience what we couldn't have in 1980.

Dead Souls came remarkably close to what a Joy Division gig must have been like in 1980. With my eyes closed in the dark and extremely hot room I could dream myself a dream of seeing an obscure new punk band live in 1977-1980 and being blown away by the sound, the performance, the voice...

Sadly for any-one who didn't see them and would love it: this was their last gig (well, most probably). But you can probably see and hear some live Joy Division and Dead Souls on these sites:

Joy Division: http://members.aol.com/lwtua/joydiv.htm
Dead Souls: http://www.deadsouls.be/