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New Order: Decades

?? In the shadowplayacting out your own death ♪ ♪ Knowing no more ♪ ♪ As the assassins all...

�� In the shadowplay
acting out your own death ♪ ♪ Knowing no more ♪ ♪ As the assassins all grouped
in four lines ♪ ♪ Dancing on the floor ♪ It was less than
two years after that TV debut that Ian Curtis, our singer,
took his own life

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♪ In the shadowplay acting out your own death ♪
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♪ Knowing no more ♪
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♪ As the assassins all grouped in four lines ♪
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♪ Dancing on the floor ♪
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It was less than two years after that TV debut
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that Ian Curtis, our singer, took his own life.
Duration
27 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:05:13
Uploaded
Jun 22, 2025
Genres
documentary, music
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

Part concert, part documentary, this film follows the band’s preparations in the re-staging of their acclaimed collaboration So It Goes.. with the artist Liam Gillick and the 12-piece synthesiser orchestra that spectacularly captured the headlines during Manchester International Festival 2017.
It was extremely tragic, - New Order: Decades 00:06
It was extremely tragic,
Our second Joy Division album Closer - New Order: Decades 00:09
Our second Joy Division album Closer
But the rest of us were trying to work out what to do next. - New Order: Decades 00:06
But the rest of us were trying to work out what to do next.
This is where we got the title - New Order: Decades 00:04
This is where we got the title
Yeah, we looked at it - New Order: Decades 00:05
Yeah, we looked at it
When Joy Division were on television, - New Order: Decades 00:08
When Joy Division were on television,
Six years old, not really, no. No, living in France, no. - New Order: Decades 00:05
Six years old, not really, no. No, living in France, no.
I was ten. Steve was nine. - New Order: Decades 00:04
I was ten. Steve was nine.
That Joy Division TV debut was the fateful outcome - New Order: Decades 00:09
That Joy Division TV debut was the fateful outcome
But more importantly, he was a passionate advocate - New Order: Decades 00:09
But more importantly, he was a passionate advocate
Seeing as how this is the program - New Order: Decades 00:13
Seeing as how this is the program
We'd done a gig at Rafters, I think, in Manchester. - New Order: Decades 00:06
We'd done a gig at Rafters, I think, in Manchester.
It was like a Battle of the Bands competition - New Order: Decades 00:07
It was like a Battle of the Bands competition
And he went up to Tony and said, - New Order: Decades 00:16
And he went up to Tony and said,
And then we did the gig - New Order: Decades 00:06
And then we did the gig
And in fact, Tony liked that concert so much - New Order: Decades 00:09
And in fact, Tony liked that concert so much
It really is history, yeah. - New Order: Decades 00:04
It really is history, yeah.
Factory Records was Joy Division's record label - New Order: Decades 00:07
Factory Records was Joy Division's record label
It was more of an idea - New Order: Decades 00:07
It was more of an idea
Everybody who was involved were kind of drawn in - New Order: Decades 00:10
Everybody who was involved were kind of drawn in