funeral home of rock....that sense of loss and longing
Section 25, maybe more than any band I can name, have had a tough go of it. They spent 30 years trying to shine through the shadow of a dead man's band. In 2004, Jenny Cassidy died of cancer.
Larry Cassidy died of a blood clot on February 27, 2010.
Section 25, maybe more than any band I can name, have had a tough go of it. They spent 30 years trying to shine through the shadow of a dead man's band. In 2004, Jenny Cassidy died of cancer.
Larry Cassidy died of a blood clot on February 27, 2010.
Always Now, is a rather plodding, grey and gloomier Joy Division without the drama and chaos (or synth). The Key of Dreams, the second Section 25 album ....The 15-minute long "Sutra" is a Mancunian musical hookah, as overseen by the ghost of Ian Curtis.
It wasn't until their third album, 1984's From the Hip, that the band re-tooled its sound to the point I could fully come on board. Drum machines and synths tangled angrily ("Beneath the Blade") or played pastorally ("The Process") but the best tracks were clean, streamlined, heavily sequenced dance-floor stompers. And From the Hip's stunning, Peter Saville-designed cover is still among the 80s most iconic.
Section 25's career, as Larry lost Jenny and then he himself left Bethany behind.
Formed in Blackpool in 1978 by brothers Larry and Vincent Cassidy, Section 25 later added guitarist Paul Wiggin and a drummer who quit soon afterwards. With an early template similar to Joy Division's atmospheric post-punk, the group played around England in 1979 and released its debut single, "Girls Don't Count" (produced by JD's Ian Curtis), on Factory Records in early 1980. Following addition singles on the Factory Benelux imprint, Section 25's debut album, Always Now, appeared on Factory proper in 1981.
Section 25 reconvened in 2001, but a few years later, Jenny Cassidy's life was taken by cancer. The Cassidy brothers nonetheless kept the group afloat. Assisted by guitarist Ian Butterworth (Tunnelvision) and Roger Wikeley (bass, keyboards), Section 25 played several gigs and recorded Part-Primitiv -- featuring a couple songs with Jenny Cassidy's vocals -- released in 2007. Steve Stringer eventually replaced Wikeley, and in 2009 the group released another studio album, Nature + Degree. Larry and Jenny's daughter, Bethany, provided lead vocals on a pair of its songs. Larry Cassidy died of a blood clot on February 27, 2010. Retrofit, an album of remixes and re-recordings that was near completion before his passing, arrived in September of that year. The band supported its release with a series of U.K. shows featuring Bethany as vocalist.
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