Peter Hook has branded 'Aerial', a track that surfaced online this week that purported to be an unreleased song from Joy Division's seminal album 'Unknown Pleasures' as a "bloody awful hoax".
They start with the tropical strum of “Buenos Aires Beach”, from their debut album Wagonwheel Blues, whose balmy unfolding might strike you as an inappropriate opener for a chilly night in Camden, far from the sun-kissed climes the song so breezily evokes.
After this week's Oscars post-mortem it's a relief to find this viral clip designed to whet our appetites for Prometheus, Ridley Scott's maybe-it's-a-prequel to Alien.
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