28th July 1978: The Factory I (Russell Club), Manchester
Suicide, Joy Division and The Actors (who later became
Right Said Fred)
Admission £1.00
After the show, the Actors spent time with lan Curtis, who had
just turned 22.
"I liked lan," says Fred. "We chatted backstage for quite a
while. A window was open in that room, I think, and he
mentioned that he was cold. I was wearing a sweatshirt over a
long-sleeved jumper, so I said, 'You can have this' and gave
him my sweatshirt. He gave me his white short-sleeve shirt in
return. That was a nice gesture. Two years later, he was
dead."
"It was incredibly sad, and also quite shocking," says Rich,
who was just three months younger than Curtis. "I was
surprised to hear that lan had had problems with depression,
because he showed no sign of that when I spoke to him. He was
quite chatty and sociable, and we hit it off." - Fred
Fairbrass of the Actors interviewed in Record Collector
December 2022
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