May 18th, 2020 marked the 40th anniversary of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis’s untimely death, so this #vinylcast today was a tribute to the long shadow his work and death cast. I spent the first part of the broadcast playing songs from Youtube, iTunes, and vinyl, trying to move seamlessly between the three. I was also able to incorporate some stories around the lore of Ian Curtis’s death as early as 1984 or 1985 as a high school sophomore. I’m getting live DJing through the web and beyond down, but without any real song list prep (which is the usual) I eventually fumble things sooner or later.In memory of #iancurtis planning on playing some Joy Division on the #ds106radio at the top of the hour https://t.co/vXRNHb42Qc pic.twitter.com/I1kSf12Sop
— Jim Groom (@jimgroom) May 18, 2020
Some live transmission on the #ds106radio celebrating #iancurtis https://t.co/eSM6AbxyT5
— Jim Groom (@jimgroom) May 18, 2020
I did play a few songs off the Vinyl Lovers version of “Love Will Tear us Apart” which is a gorgeous see-through vinyl, and eventually settled in for the entirety of Unknown Pleasures. I talked some when moving from the outside in, and it’s a general sprawl of a show as the usually areNow streaming on #ds106radio Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures #vinylcast https://t.co/vXRNHb42Qc #outside pic.twitter.com/TJfXos5E2S
— Jim Groom (@jimgroom) May 18, 2020
We are now on side 2, sorry I mean the Inside, of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures on #ds106radio pic.twitter.com/s2YcOsMJ0g
— Jim Groom (@jimgroom) May 18, 2020
