Edition : First / Hulme / Self published / 1979 / Softcover. / VG+
21 x 29.7cm. Xerox on white stock.
21 x 29.7cm. Xerox on white stock.
Flyer for a very early Joy Division night at the Russell Club, Royce Road, Hulme with Artwork by Jon Savage. Reputedly a reasonable number of flyers were made (low hundreds), though this is only the second I have seen. A handful of others are known, along with a few posters of the same image. The recording of the night was reissued with the 2007 CD of Unknown Pleasures and comprises- Dead Souls, The Only Mistake, Insight, Candidate, Wilderness, She's Lost Control, Shadowplay, Disorder, Interzone, Atrocity Exhibition, Novelty, Transmission. The gig was a month after the release of Unknown Pleasures, but which time Joy Division has become very popular as a Manchester band, with 5000 copies selling. A wonderful piece of epemera produced before Saville had cemented the Factory style, and almost a year before Cutis' death.
