Eurofile

Bernard Sumner recounts his cultural European journey, from the early days of Joy Division to New Order's latest album

In the mid-nineties I was living in Penge, south London, and I was on the dole. A pretty harsh double whammy in anyone’s book. I’d spend my days laying on the sofa feeling sorry for myself, finding my swooning self-pity resonating at regular intervals with a particular sound that drifted in from outside; a mournful, […]