The North, in juxta

Found Joy Division: The Documentary broken up on YouTube (bless you, rretarded). Of course, despite the obvious bounty of its subject, the film’s perspective and style are both astonishing, and though I’ve not yet seen Control, I’m sure there’s no comparison. So you should watch it all and not just the fragments below.

Anyways, from 8:40 until the end on pt. 2 and then the first 20 secs of pt. 3, director Grant Gee and writer Jon Savage use stock footage of Northern Soul nights in the ’70s to establish the connection between the band and that really fascinating, seemingly very bright movement, about which you can watch the as-it-happened documentary done by Granada TV.

Pt. 2

Pt. 3

Northern Soul – This England