First-Ever Live Joy Division Album Due Out in September

Due out Sept. 25, Joy Division’s Eternal (Live), their first-ever official collection of live concert recordings, is available to pre-order now via Warner Music. Years in the making, this release brings together audio from 16 live performances across 14 CDs, meticulously sourced from audience recorded cassettes, soundboard tapes and broadcast recordings, all mastered at Abbey Road Studios. 

The track “Transmission (Les Bains Douches, Paris)” is available now on DSPs here. 

Eternal (Live) documents some of Joy Division’s best live performances, including two previously unreleased shows and three previously unheard recordings. It also features the band’s final live performance at High Hall Birmingham in 1980, where it played “Ceremony” for the first and last time on stage.  

There are two DVDs featuring over 2 hours 30 minutes of live shows, including the previously unseen Plan K concert in Brussels and two concerts and the soundcheck from the Apollo Theatre in Manchester that have only been partially released on VHS. It also includes a brand new edit of Joy Division – A Malcolm Whitehead Film.

Housed in a 12″ x 12″ lift-off lid box with artwork by Warren Jackson, Peter Saville, Howard Wakefield and Brett Wickens, Eternal (Live) is completed by a 16-page booklet, including personal notes by Simon Armitage and photography by Anton Corbijn and Kevin Cummins. 

A special exhibit honoring the late Ian Curtis is showing at New York’s Voltz Clarke Gallery and is open through July 22. Ian Curtis: Insight presents an intimate and revealing selection of handwritten lyrics, photographs, personal letters, ephemera and artifacts drawn from the Curtis archive, held by the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester as part of the British Pop Archive.

Photo credit Michelle Paradis