MYSTERIOUS: 4 - What They Never Told You

‘Good for Chanel and good for Manchester’: Fashion show delights city’s luminaries

Catwalk in the city’s fashionable Northern Quarter celebrated its musical, cultural and sporting prowess

The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2023

Chanel drafts Peter Saville to design record sleeve for its blockbuster Manchester show

Chanel’s Métiers d’art show invitation came encased in a record sleeve by Peter Saville, heralding a blockbuster show that paid ode to his home city of Manchester’s cultural might

Wallpaper · Dec 8, 2023

Goth connections that led to the Cure

From Sylvia Plath to Joy Division, the Cure co-founder examines the roots and impact of the oft-maligned subculture

Salon · Oct 28, 2023

A beginner's guide to Factory Records in five essential albums

The story of the Manchester indie label that changed the world

Louder · Jul 5, 2023

‘They found ways to do the impossible’: Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve for ever

Control director Anton Corbijn’s new film tells the chaotic, tragic story of the creative duo behind some of the most recognisable covers of all time

The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2023

20 things you could do in 1970s Manchester you can't do anymore

Manchester has become a very different place since the 'decade that fashion forgot'

Manchester Evening News · Jun 28, 2023

“We don't want people to know what we think”: Why Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures may be the most important record to emerge from the UK punk scene

Released on June 15, 1979, Joy Division's bleak, beautiful masterpiece has lost none of its power or stark dread

Louder · Jun 15, 2023

Must we hate Noel Gallagher’s version of Love Will Tear Us Apart? I’m loving it

Noel’s own brother has apologised for a ‘blasphemous’ reinterpretation of the Joy Division classic. Sorry, Liam, you’re wrong, writes Rich Pelley

The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2023

"The way that we're doing it now feels kind of fresh to me, it feels like it's a High Flying Birds song, almost" – Noel Gallagher defends his Joy Division cover and issues a challenge to brother Liam

"He should concentrate on what's left of his f*****g hairdo and not worry about what I'm getting up to"

MusicRadar · Jun 6, 2023

Noel Gallagher has a new message for Liam: "He should concentrate on what's left of his f***ing hairdo"

Liam Gallagher has responded to brother Liam's unfavourable review of his badly-received cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart

Louder · Jun 5, 2023