In the hands of orchestrator/conductor Tim Crooks and musical director David Potts, the music was less angular and industrial. Of necessity, the show was radically different from the grungy club experience of its origins. Saturday night’s show was only a remnant of the original group from Salford in Greater Manchester, as founder member Peter Hook substituted his estranged ex-bandmates with guest singers and musicians, not least the Metropolitan Orchestra. Joy Division has been described as being “like the centre of a wheel” in continuing “ to influence not just music, but graphic design, literature, film and more” four decades after the band died, along with its lead singer, Ian Curtis. The occasion was Joy Division Orchestrated, performed not long after the 40th anniversary of the band’s landmark debut album Unknown Pleasures. How strange that I should become re-acquainted with that scene at the shimmering Sydney Opera House. In a previous century, I conducted doctoral fieldwork among the abandoned warehouses, smoky pubs and crumbling squats of the British post-punk, independent rock scene.
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