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Joy Division: University of London

Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, July 1980

THERE IS NO joy in Joy Division. And no division either. At the University of London the band presented an hour of unrelenting, uncompromising bleakness; the most striking characteristic was the unity of purpose.

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