UK.
Post-punk.
Sparse, haunting. Bleak.
Not Goth (Curtis was dead by the time the Goth scene proper scene started to appear and not considered Goth by Goths), but influential to the early Goth bands
Bleak, remote, obsessively introspective music and lyrics 'godfathers of goth'. Pre-Gothic punk. Malaise.
Inactive (three of the members formed New Order after the death of Ian Curtis).
Curtis commited suicide, partly as a result of his worsening epilepsy.
Proto-gothic, Punk, Rock, bleak personal themes. Started off as Warsaw (Sex Pistol-ish dark punk).
releases: Unknown Pleasures (debut album); Closer (second album); Still (studio out-takes, live recordings); Subtance (rarities, b-sides); Preston 28 February 1980 (live recording); Permanent: Joy Division 1995; All the Lyrics (book and 4-track CD including Warsaw track, Italian release)
1979-06 - Unknown Pleasures released, debut album.
