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Joy Division
28th February 1981

Flip side of last article.All that Manchester grimness,greyness stuff,especially around Factory Records just seemed a load of tosh.Of course it rained a lot which gave rise to the cotton industry and hence the birth of the Industrial Revolution,Trade Unions,(thanks in part to Marx and Engels having a good old chat down The Queen's Head (!) round Stockport way),Suffregettes,first commercial railway,Manchester ship canal,mostly built by Navy(gator)s,and countless other things that seem surprisingly to have stuck in my head from History lessons in school; but,back to my point,(there is one...?);I'm sure I recall people actually smiling and occasionally, the sound of laughter being heard at some of these Rainy City gigs.I think ,for the most part it was just a media beat-up and lazy journalism that gave rise to that particular image at the time...
Oh yeah and I remember some local lads in a knockabout band had a song called "Never Boogie On a Wet Pavement...".It would have been foolhardy not to heed their advice......Here endeth the lesson...