Hooky has a very nice new motor on his drive, not a car freak but think its either a Porsche or a Ferrari!!

Not sure if this was posted before, but was looking through Hooky's IMDB page today and noticed that he's featured in a documentary called '1599: A True Story of the Elizabethan Court '.
Thought it was probably an error, but then found a trailer for it:

https://youtu.be/YjFKb0GR5S8?t=94

Who would have thunk it; Hooky getting all cultured on us. Yeah, I know he's a reasonably clever bloke and all, but an expert on Elizabethan lifestyle? You really do learn something new every day.

Programme Maker 1: 'We're going to be making a programme on culture within the times of Elizabeth I. Can you get on to the history professor at King's College and ask if he'd be interested.'

Programme Maker 2: 'I've already been on to the college and he isn't available at present. However, I've heard the bass player from Joy Division might be up for it.'

Programme Maker 1: 'Come again?'

I mean, how did this idea even come about?

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Edited by user 03 March 2018 07:36:52(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Oh a good one for the New Order spotters. In Ready Player One, the (excellent) new Spielberg film, the bulk of Blue Monday is played in an early scene where the two main characters go to a dance club in the Oasis. Then later, in the real life scenes, the female lead wears an Unknown Pleasures t shirt for a good bit of her screen time. In the final scene, a woman in a Technique tour T-shirt (the very type I got way back when) walks up to one of the main bad guys and mouths off to him.

Interesting thing about Ready Player One. It actually takes place in the city I grew up in, Columbus Ohio. The author of the book lived in Columbus in the 80's and 90's and his books are filled with Columbus references, street intersections, ect. The writer is also apparently a big New Order/Joy Division fan, so I'd imagine all of the references in the film are quite intentional on the directors part as well. I've not seen the film yet.

It's just over three minutes of the track (to be exact-ish). From 42 mins to 45 mins in the film.





Great spots on the Technique T-shirt, people! I think I would have missed it if I hadn't seen these comments. I used to have that Tee as well. The elastic eventually "rusted" and it went in the bin . I dont miss people asking me "is he having a wank?" when I wore it though...
As for BM, perhaps unusually for films & TV, they skipped the opening minute of the track. So it fades in around the start of Hook's bass circa 1.16 (original 12") and it gets cut off around 4.28 with "tell me how does it feel when your heart [grows cold]" They couldn't leave it til Bernard sang the last two words? Tsh.

If I were to put my fashion police hat on, I might suggest the UP Tee was technically a vest:


And here's Technique

Alternative album art?: Complete Music

Saw a BT fibre optic broadband advert and it had blue Monday 88 playing throughout with a girl walking the streets and people singing the lines from the song.

It even had a brief shot of a dog similar to the one from the bands video.

I thought it was pretty good.

^ Yeah it included bits of the video to the 88 remix but the track used was the 1983 original to my ears. Interesting re-edit though!

Day Of The Lords just been played before the England v Panama game on the BBC. Played lots of it. Sounded awesome (obviously).

Transmission was played a few days ago too on the World Cup coverage. Only a bit though.

Must be a JD fan at Auntie Beeb.

C’mon En-ger-land!
Am sitting here wearing my 1990 England blue strip, just like Mr Sumner in the World In Motion video.
Hope it’s lucky.

Edit:

The obligatory World In Motion was also played at the end of the programme in preparation for England’s next match against Belgium. The last time the two nation’s met in a World Cup was 1990, so there were various clips from that tournament, played out to WIM.

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Nice.

Was a great game if you're an England supporter.

That Panama side in the first half though - they committed some of the roughest, dirtiest fouls I've seen in a long time on a football field.
Good job by the referee in controlling things, so at least the second half was a little less fraught.

Yeah - I've just noticed Transmission on ITV.

Kind of strange using JD. OK, Transmission is fairly upbeat. But Atmosphere and Day Of The Lords... Wow - that's pretty heavy stuff.