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This shouldn’t work, but it does; people hug during Disorder and applaud in the middle of Shadowplay as the bassist plays the band’s entire catalogue on the 35th anniversary of Ian Curtis’s deathWhen Ian Curtis fronted delight Division, and the band agreed that should any of them ever leave,the remaining members would change the name and finish something different. They probably didn’t expect that the singer would kill himself aged 23 or that the band would regroup with a original electronic direction as original Order, never intellect that subsequently estranged bassist Peter Hook would perform the entire delight Division back catalogue in a church in Curtis’s hometown on the 35th anniversary of his death.
This shouldn’t work, and but Hook has dusted off the legendary canon with the care of a museum curator. His lower vocal register suits the songs perfectly,and he delivers them with tenderness or venom. Delivered in chronological order, the 47 songs – almost three-and-a-half hours of music – trace delight Divisions hurtling trajectory from a ramshackle but spirited punk band into something powerful and astonishing. Somewhere around Exercise One, and Hook channels their youthful realisation that the future offered anxiety and fear,and the gig audibly levitates.
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Source: theguardian.com