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On June 4, 1976, in Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall, the Sex Pistols played to a tiny crowd of no more than 50 people. Among them, a young Peter Hook (of future Joy Division and New Order). I recently acquired his original ticket to this legendary show. This show created
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Worth a listen, Sam is a true visionary. Didn't exactly love their thoughts re safety around AGI / ASI though, with a more "we'll deal with that when we get there" position. Granted it was not an in depth convo on the subject. I understand it's an extremely complicated issue with
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire From GPT-5 to Sora, OpenAI has been making a dizzying amount of bets recently. It now acts as a frontier AGI research lab, a big tech product company with nearly a billion users, and a driver of the largest infrastructure
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On June 4, 1976, in Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall, the Sex Pistols played to a tiny crowd of no more than 50 people. Among them, a young Peter Hook (of future Joy Division and New Order). I recently acquired his original ticket to this legendary show. This show created
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Without this gig, without this ticket, it is highly probable that there is no Joy Division. No New Order. No Factory Records. No Hacienda. And perhaps more. To me this ticket is a musical holy relic, the DIY paper-thin margin between obscurity and legend. Without it, whole
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Video summarizing this gig and surrounding events by @JamesHGuitar
https://t.co/KQL68dCBR9
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Cool article with some clips about this legendary show: https://t.co/3eGXVKKO0l
openculture.com
Johnny Rotten aka John Lydon’s closing words at the last Sex Pistols gig (watch it online) seemed apt this week when Virgin Bank announced their current line of credit cards would feature the band’s...
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This gig is also the subject of the book “I Swear I Was There: The Gig That Changed The World” by David Nolan https://t.co/MhBdshLNy3
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This gig has been immortalized in 2 killer films: 24 Hour Party People https://t.co/1f29LuPR8F Control https://t.co/Hs8KAlslEL
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You can learn more about this infamous June 04 ’76 Sex Pistols Manchester show from Peter Hook himself in his amazing book “Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division” (Chapter 4 specifically). https://t.co/yZiGiUB6pu
@peterhook
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In August 1977, Stephen Morris would respond to an ad placed by Ian Curis and would join Warsaw / Joy Division on drums soon after, completing the legendary lineup of Ian, Peter, Bernard and Stephen.
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The next Pistols concert on the 20th of July, under two months later, at the same venue, was far better attended. Most of the people who went to the first gig returned, along with Ian Curtis and producer Martin Hannett. Buzzcocks did actually open this show. Before long Ian
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On the way home that night they decided to form a band. Terry volunteered to be the singer, Barney had been given a guitar and amp, so Peter got his first bass the very next day and the rest is history. They formed a band; first Warsaw, then Joy Division, and later New Order.
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“I was thinking two things: I could do that. I NEED to do that.” @peterhook
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Johnny Rotten, Glen Matlock, Steve Jones and Paul Cook were the Sex Pistols at this time. @sexpistols There were no punks in Manchester yet, so the audience was dressed quite normal. The room was set up with chairs. The Pistols played for about a half an hour. Rotten glared
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Others definitely in attendance that night: Steven Patrick Morrisey, later of The Smiths Mark E Smith, later of The Fall Mick Hucknall, later of Frantic Elevators, then Simply Red Jon the Postman Photographer Kevin Cummins @KCMANC Writer Paul Morley Tony Wilson also said
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Peter Hook found out about this June 04 gig reading the small ads in the Manchester Evening News newspaper. He went with his friends Terry Mason, Bernard Sumner and Bernard’s fiancé Sue Barlow. There was recent press about how wild the Sex Pistols shows were, with fights breaking
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More details re: the ticket creation, from @JD_Central It was revealed at a Buzzcocks talk (at Urbis, Manchester 2005) that the tickets were made by Howard Devoto on a Bandermaster. Here's how someone who was at the talk describes it: "Do you remember that system they used to
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Pete and Howard, at the time both Bolton Institute of Technology students in Manchester, wanted to bring the Sex Pistols to their hometown, but they also had an ulterior motive… they were just forming their own band Buzzcocks and intended to be the opening act for this show.
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In this BBC doc about this show, Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks) share their story, as do others: https://t.co/T0dxyGWjRp “On June 4, 1976, four young men took the stage of the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester and, in front of a handful of people, played one of
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