Mammoth box set of Joy Division rarities set for September

Joy Division's ETERNAL (LIVE), the first-ever official collection of live concert recordings, is out on Sept. 25. 

The box set is available to pre-order now via Warner Music. It brings together audio from 16 live performances across 14 CDs, sourced from audience recorded cassettes, soundboard tapes and broadcast recordings, all mastered at Abbey Road Studios.

ETERNAL (LIVE) documents two previously unreleased shows, Hope & Anchor and Acklam Hall, and three previously unheard recordings: The Factory, Lyceum, and Moonlight Club (2nd April). It also features the band’s final live performance, at High Hall Birmingham in 1980.

There are two DVDs featuring over 2hrs 30mins of live shows, including the previously unseen Plan K, Brussels concert and two concerts and soundcheck from the Apollo Theatre, Manchester that have only been partially released on VHS (in 1982) and a brand new edit of Joy Division - A Malcolm Whitehead Film.

Go to rhino.com for full track listing.

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In related news, "Ian Curtis: Insight" is now showing in NYC. The major exhibition exploring the life and legacy of Ian Curtis brings rare archival material to the United States for the first time.

Presented through a revealing selection of handwritten lyrics, photographs, personal letters, ephemera and artefacts drawn from the Ian Curtis archive, held by The John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester as part of the British Pop Archive.

The exhibition shows Ian Curtis as a writer and observer whose words captured a time and place while speaking to themes of alienation, vulnerability and connection. Curated with full access to the archive, the exhibition reveals the tension, tenderness and energy that defined his – and Joy Division’s – short life and enduring influence.

Runs through July 22.