Joy Division's Manchester: Annual Ian Curtis Memorial Walk

Name: Joy Division's Manchester: Annual Ian Curtis Memorial Walk
Start: 2024-05-18T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-18T13:30:00+01:00
Location: Portland Street,Manchester,M1 4PH,GB

Schedule

Sat May 18 2024 at 11:30 am to 01:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Portland Street,Manchester,M1 4PH,GB | Manchester, EN

Every 18 May we honour one of our finest, Ian Curtis, on a walking tour through Joy Division's Manchester City Centre sites.
We honour Ian Curtis on the day he died: 18 May. Ian Curtis, a tortured soul, a visceral, troubled mind with a voice that echoed Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop and Matt Monro.
Curtis briefly led Joy Division, the finest flower of the early days at Manchester’s Factory Records, shaking sensibilities and sending shivers down the spine on an all too brief catalogue of classic works, epitomised by the Gogol-influenced “Dead Souls” and the harrowing “Shadowplay”, in which he prefigured his own sad suicide.
This tour of Curtis’s Manchester haunts – Rafter’s, Pip’s, the Afrique Club, Rare Records, the Briton’s Protection, the Beach Club...a forgotten, almost pre-historic Manchester – is one of the more tragic tours in the NMW roster, but also one of the most powerful, heading into the very “centre of the city where all roads meet waiting for you”.