{"id":1156,"date":"2002-08-26T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-26T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2002-08-26T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-26T23:10:00","slug":"squirrel-and-g-man-twenty-four-hour-party-people-plastic-face-carnt-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/08\/26\/19\/10\/squirrel-and-g-man-twenty-four-hour-party-people-plastic-face-carnt-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"


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And On The Seventh Day God Created Manchester<\/a>… The Second Summer Of Love<\/a>…<\/p>\n

We went to see a remarkable movie at the weekend in the Embarcadero – 24 Hour Party People<\/a><\/i>. It’s a cool narrative pseudo-documentary about the birth of “Madchester<\/a>” and Factory Records<\/a>, following Joy Division<\/a> through their evolution to New Order<\/a>, how the Blue Monday<\/i><\/a> dance track funded the Hacienda<\/a> nightclub (while failing to enrich the band itself), and how the Hacienda birthed rave culture and the Happy Mondays<\/a>. This movie is really something special, and worth seeing alone for the acapella version of Blue Monday<\/i>. The understated performance of Sean Harris<\/a> as the doomed proto-goth Ian Curtis<\/a> is amazing, and Steve Coogan (who based his “Alan Partridge TV comedy character on Tony Wilson) finally gets the chance to be a better Tony Wilson. It’s also amazing how unearthly similar John Simm<\/a> (the Jip guy from Human Traffic<\/a>) actually is to New Order’s enigmatic vocalist Bernie Sumner<\/a>. Spot-on casting there. Unfortunately in a bit of Stalinist-type revisionism, it deletes Gillian Gilbert<\/a> from New Order<\/a> as she’s nowhere to be seen. Sadly though, the guy playing the OG Freaky Dancer<\/a> Bez<\/a>, the archtype for all the hardcore ravers that were to come, “Fred Astaire’s baggy bastard son”, doesn’t look nearly wasted enough to seem authentic<\/a>. It’s time to go listen to the John Cale-produced and immaculately titled Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)<\/a><\/i> album again…
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