As mentioned earlier I know little about the actual Indie magazine. In order for me to gain a deeper understanding of what happens in the Indie industry i watched the film named “Control” it was written about a famous INDIE band named “Joy division” who released the very famous song “love will tear us apart”.
Ian Curtis the lead singer of joy division he is epileptic and works as a civil servant in the employment exchange. Ian quits his job to tour with Joy Division, leaving Debbie to work and take care of the baby. Joy division also end up touring to America. Ian Curtis continues to have an affair with a Belgium women lying to his wife telling her it had ended.
Ian tries to commit suicide and tells his wife in a suicide letter to send his love to the Belgium lover. However doctors save him.
Ian tells Tony that he believes everyone hates him and that it is his own entire fault. His wife demands for a divorce after finding out that he is still having an affair and not coping well with Ian’s mood swings.
After the America tour Ian comes home and tries to force his wife not to divorce him when she refuses he gets angry and kicker her out of the house. He then drinks alcohol by himself and has an epileptic fit. When he wakes up in the morning he hangs himself and when his wife returns in the morning she sees him dead.
When I finished watching the film it helped me gain a greater insight into the Indie magazine. I learnt that it is not as glamorous as other industries such as Pop and R‘n’B. Rock is often known for sex, drugs and rock and roll. Indie is very similar to this as we see the man drinks a lot, has an affair and obviously music is very important to him and his way of life. However unlike rock there are a lot more negatives things, for example although Joy Division was a pretty big English indie group they still didn’t live in expensive houses and found it hard to pay for everything. Although being relatively big for a lot of the time Ian remanded in his other job in order to have enough money and only when forced to due to touring did he quit.
Although this was an extraordinary case it did make me realise that this could be why many of the indie artists wear what is deemed normal clothes to them compare to someone like lady gaga who purposely tries to be abnormal clothes. I also found out that in Indie music the songs are a reflection of the persons problems and experiences for example when He learns that Corinne Lewis has died of a seizure, and writes the song “She’s lost control" about her.
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