アンダーグラウンドのインスタグラム(resul80k2) - 10月5日 20時57分

Continuing our look at the music of #TheNorth

#Manchester, #1981. It’s the place and year we open our first store but what’s happening on the music front.
Surprisingly, the catalogue of music releases from Manchester in 1981 is sparse. There were releases from #Factory signed Cabaret Voltaire and #TheDuruttiColumn, and was the debut album from #NewOrder, ‘#Movement’. Things weren’t particularly easy for the remaining members of #JoyDivision. #IanCurtis had tragically committed suicide only a year earlier, and after agreeing to continue under the new moniker they were struggling to function as artists in that transition phase without the particularity of Ian’s ear. It was a clouding struggle between new and old, celebration and bereavement. ‘Movement’ was released by Factory Records, but was not met with success from critics of the time.
But releases aren’t the measure of what was really happening in Manchester at that time. What was happening underground, so to speak, is all that really mattered. Ian Curtis has departed us, The #Buzzcocks had split up and even nearby #WiganCasino, one of the temples of #NorthernSoul, closed.

Nothing is born from comfort, not least of all in Manchester and it’s because of this loss and upheaval that people and places have the room to grow. Nightclub dancefloors like Pips perfectly reflected the city’s confusion, and were rammed with Punks, Goths, Football Casuals and New Romantics clubbing as one. It paved room and pruned an environment for people to experiment and to exercise their identities like nowhere else in the world. And the lull in music that we see with our hindsight was certainly felt by those there, and it gave them the drive to create. CONTINUED IN COMMENTS BELOW

[BIHAKUEN]UVシールド(UVShield)

>> 飲む日焼け止め！「UVシールド」を購入する

• undergroundengland