Archive for the ‘Ian Curtis’ Category
By
Simon Sellars •
Jun 16th, 2008 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, CCTV, Iain Sinclair, Ian Curtis, Shepperton, Will Self, film, music, psychogeography, suburbia, surveillance
Iain Sinclair and Will Self together on stage talking about Ballard, Orson Welles and CCTV. Garden gnomes, Simon Reynolds and John Lydon get roped into the ring, also.
By
Simon Sellars •
Jun 12th, 2008 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, Ian Curtis, William Burroughs, music
Did William Burroughs really tell Ian Curtis to ‘get lost’? And how did the younger man take it? RealityStudio finds out.
By
Simon Sellars •
Aug 18th, 2007 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, Ian Curtis, film, music
The other night at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), I saw Control, Anton Corbijn’s Ian Curtis biopic. In the first part of the film, before Curtis has met the rest of Joy Division, he’s in his bedroom and the camera focuses on his bookshelf. The shot lingers for a few seconds on the spine [...]
By
Simon Sellars •
Jul 11th, 2006 •
Category:
Chris Marker, Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair, Ian Curtis, Philip K. Dick, William Burroughs, architecture, film, interviews, music, psychogeography, surrealism
by Simon Sellars
an image from John Foxx’s Cathedral Oceans project
John Foxx, the former lead singer of Ultravox, is an undisputed electronic music pioneer. Before Midge Ure came along, the band’s three Foxx-driven albums, Ultravox! (1977), Ha! Ha! Ha! (1978) and Systems of Romance (1978), fused near-future melancholy with icy man-machine interfaces and the remake/remodel aesthetic [...]
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Simon Sellars •
Jun 15th, 2006 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, Brian Eno, David Cronenberg, Futurists, Ian Curtis, Steven Spielberg, William Burroughs, architecture, interviews, music
by Simon Sellars
I think I’m the only person I know who doesn’t own a record player or a single record. I’ve never understood why, because my maternal grandparents were lifelong teachers of music, and my father as a choirboy once sang solo in Manchester Cathedral. But that gene seems to have skipped me.”
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- JG Ballard, [...]
By
Simon Sellars •
Feb 17th, 2006 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, Ian Curtis, music
From Flagpole Magazine, an ‘alt.weekly’ based in Athens, Georgia (USA)
“J.G. Ballard: Conversations (San Francisco, 2005) is the latest dispatch from the hell-raising subculture documentarians at RE/Search Publications. Between its covers, J.G. Ballard engages in exactly what the title promises with RE/Search’s taste-making head honcho V. Vale and a few other well-informed fans.”
I’m very interested in [...]