![]() ![]() Gradually my curiosity got the better of me, though after all, I did study photography and am interested in film. ![]() ![]() Macclesfield was somewhere I'd always associated with lush, green, rolling hills and I didn't want to associate it with a film about my father's suicide. When filming began in Macclesfield, I declined the opportunity to go. Although it took my mother's memoir, Touching From A Distance, as a starting point, books are read in private, whereas a film is something much more public, an experience shared with an audience. Initially I was dead against visiting the set of Control, the film about my father's life directed by photographer Anton Corbijn. As I grew older, it was a shock to discover not everything was that amazing. I assumed all music was done with that level of style and intelligence. The first time I heard their album Closer, I thought it was out of this world. ![]() When I was growing up, neither myself nor my mother were in the public eye, and Joy Division were more cult than mainstream. I remember hearing Love Will Tear Us Apart on the radio and realising he was known in some way, but I never thought of him as famous. I was about three when my mum first told me that my father, Ian Curtis - who died when I was one - was a singer, but it just seemed normal, like having an uncle who was a tradesman or whatever. ![]()
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