Postpunk Déjà Vu
Sep 21st, 2002 by Jinja
From: http://www.ausoug.org/working/dennis/factory/faq96.html
New Order …the band’s official story is that Rob Gretton had spotted a
news article in the daily paper which spoke of the “The people’s New
Order of Kampuchea”, taken from from a piece in the UK paper, The
Guardian(according to Select 9/93), and the phrase “new order” caught his attention. The reality may be a mixture of this and the following
(from NME, 28 Feb 81). The name New Order, which was obviously appropriate considering the circumstances, had been used before.
At 08:48 AM 4/19/02 +0700, Jinja wrote:
This is too weird. I enjoyed New Order’s ‘deeply shallow’ music back
in the day, alongside the Dead Kennedys. It seems every band I like has written some song about Cambodia. Way before I even decided to make it my academic focus.
best
- J
From:
—– Original Message —–
From: “Ben Butler”
To: “jinja”
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: New Order
It’s probably true – the band are a bookish lot.
It’s interesting that people in bands seemed to be a lot more aware
Of what was going on in Cambodia than the public at large – I wonder why?
