Editing Joy Division (section)

=== Formation ===
On 4 June 1976,<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/sex-pistols-free-trade-manchester-11423565 |title=Four Manchester bands we owe to the Sex Pistols' Lesser Free Trade Hall gig 40 years ago |date=3 June 2016 |publisher=[[Manchester Evening News]] |access-date=4 June 2020}}</ref> childhood friends [[Bernard Sumner]] and [[Peter Hook]] separately attended a [[Sex Pistols]] show at the [[Free Trade Hall|Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall]]. Both were inspired by the Pistols' performance. Sumner said that he felt the Pistols "destroyed the myth of being a pop star, of a musician being some kind of god that you had to worship".<ref name="Mojo 1994">{{cite magazine |last=Savage |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Savage |date=July 1994 |title=Joy Division: Someone Take These Dreams Away |magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]}}</ref> The following day Hook borrowed £35 from his mother to buy a bass guitar.<ref name="Barrett">{{cite web|title=Joy Division |last=Barrett |first=Christopher |date=25 August 2007 |website=[[Music Week]] |url=http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storyCode=1031301&sectioncode=2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104025745/http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storyCode=1031301&sectioncode=2 |archive-date=4 January 2012 }}</ref> They formed a band with Terry Mason, who had also attended the gig; Sumner bought a guitar, and Mason a drum kit. After their schoolfriend Martin Gresty declined an invitation to join as vocalist after getting a job at a factory,{{sfn|Ogg|2006|p=571}} the band placed an advertisement for a vocalist in the Manchester [[Virgin Records]] shop. [[Ian Curtis]], who knew them from attending earlier gigs at the [[Electric Circus, Manchester|Electric Circus]] music venue, responded and was hired without audition.<ref name="Mojo 1994"/> Sumner said that he "knew he was all right to get on with and that's what we based the whole group on. If we liked someone, they were in."{{sfn|Curtis|1995|p=42}}

[[Buzzcocks]] manager [[Richard Boon]] and frontman [[Pete Shelley]] have both been credited with suggesting the band name "Stiff Kittens", but the band settled on "Warsaw" shortly before their first gig, a reference to [[David Bowie]]'s song "[[Warszawa (song)|Warszawa]]".{{sfn|West|1984|pp=9–10}}{{sfn|Curtis|1995|pp=43–44}}{{sfn|Gimarc|2005|p=68}} Warsaw debuted on 29 May 1977 at the Electric Circus, supporting the Buzzcocks, [[Penetration (band)|Penetration]] and [[John Cooper Clarke]].{{sfn|Gimarc|2005|p=68}} Tony Tabac played drums that night after joining the band two days earlier.{{sfn|Gimarc|2005|p=68}}{{sfn|Curtis|1995|p=44}} Reviews in the ''[[NME]]'' by [[Paul Morley]] and in ''[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]]'' by Ian Wood brought them immediate national exposure.{{sfn|Johnson|1984|p=13}}{{sfn|West|1984|p=10}} Mason became the band's manager and Tabac was replaced on drums in June 1977 by Steve Brotherdale, who also played in the punk band the Panik.{{sfn|Gimarc|2005|p=73}} Brotherdale tried to get Curtis to leave the band and join the Panik, and even had Curtis audition.{{sfn|Curtis|1995|p=48}}{{sfn|Ogg|2006|p=572}} On 18 July 1977,<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Hook | first1 = Peter | author-link1 = Peter Hook | title = Unknown Pleasures | publisher = Simon & Schuster | year = 2012 | pages = 92 | isbn = 978-1-4711-4833-0}}</ref> Warsaw recorded five demo tracks at Pennine Sound Studios, [[Oldham]].{{sfn|Ott|2004|p=10}} Uneasy with Brotherdale's aggressive personality, the band fired him soon after the sessions. Driving home from the studio, they pulled over and asked Brotherdale to check on a flat tyre; when he got out of the car, they drove off.{{sfn|Curtis|1995|p=49}}

In August 1977, Warsaw placed an advertisement in a music shop window seeking a replacement drummer. [[Stephen Morris (musician)|Stephen Morris]], who had attended the same school as Curtis, was the sole respondent. Deborah Curtis, Ian's wife, stated that Morris "fitted perfectly" with the band, and that with his addition Warsaw became a "complete 'family{{'"}}.{{sfn|Curtis|1995|p=50}} To avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt, the band renamed themselves Joy Division in early 1978, borrowing the name from the [[German military brothels in World War II|sexual slavery]] wing of a Nazi concentration camp mentioned in the 1955 novel ''[[House of Dolls]]''.{{sfn|Ogg|2006|p=572}}{{sfn|Reynolds|2005|p=111}} On 14 December, the group recorded their debut [[Extended play|EP]], ''[[An Ideal for Living]]'', at Pennine Sound Studio and played their final gig as Warsaw on New Year's Eve at the Swinging Apple in Liverpool.{{sfn|Johnson|1984|p=17}} Billed as Warsaw to ensure an audience, the band played their first gig as Joy Division on 25 January 1978 at Pip's Disco's ''Roxy room''<ref name="dailypost/14726116">{{cite news |last1=Whelan |first1=Zara |title=Legendary DJ Dave Booth on why the Hacienda was the worst mistake he ever made |url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/legendary-dj-dave-booth-hacienda-14726116 |access-date=13 April 2025 |work=dailypost.co.uk North Wales Live |date=4 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref> in Manchester.{{sfn|Johnson|1984|p=19}}