24 Hour Party People.
Thursday, April 18th, 2002(2002, dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Factory Records and its bands occupied thirty to forty percent of my brain between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. I had the most appalling collection of Joy Division and New Order bootlegs. (To the point where the record shop guy granted me access to the box of UK bootleg cassettes under the counter, knowing how far gone an addict I was.) I didn’t get to the stage of dreaming of having my own FAC number, but it was damn close.
24 Hour Party People was a religious experience for me. Wonderfully realised and very amusing.
