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Joy Division, New Order, Factory Records, The Hacienda & Me
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Ged Duffy might be the unluckiest man in Manchester music. He could have managed New Order; he could have been the bass player in The Cult; he could have seen his band, Stockholm Monsters, take the mantle of the Happy Mondays and become the breakout scally-band on the coolest record label in the world... but of course none of this happened. Told with wit and a photographic memory for gigs and dates, Ged recalls his years as a stagehand at the Russell Club and later The Hacienda, touring with New Order and then turning down the chance to tour America with them, leaving Stockholm Monsters when they were about to hit it big, life in the colony of artists, oddballs and dropouts in Hulme and how he managed to successfully avoid fame and fortune.
BORN IN MANCHESTER INTO an Irish family, a childhood illness led Ged Duffy to discover a lifelong obsession with music and the advent of Punk spurred him on further as the city became the epicentre of the Alternative scene in the UK. Following a series of dead end jobs he ended up as a stage-hand at The Russell Club in Hulme where Factory Records boss Tony Wilson put on most of the bands associated with post-punk, most notably Joy Division. Ged soon formed his own band, Stockholm Monsters, releasing several singles on Factory before touring Europe with New Order. Yet his decision to leave the band following that tour was one of several huge mistakes he made in his life that he reflects on here.
- ISBN-13
- 9781909360914
- Publisher
- Empire Publications
- Imprint
- Empire Publications (UK)
- Publication date
- 30 October 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
