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Thread #125319   Message #2779245
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
03-Dec-09 - 03:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas? A rant
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas? A rant
"Echoes of the Festive Subway perhaps?"

As a dedicated follower of human & cultural resonance I find it highly significant that a few days after eating my first Festive Subway I read of Joy Division being fed on basically the same thing some 32 years earlier for the recording of their debut EP. I might add that whilst much early / unofficial / bootleg material from the Joy Division archive has passed through my hands in the last 31 years, it's not until we bought the Heart and Soul box set a few weeks back that I came to appreciate the genius of the tracks they recorded for An Ideal for Living. Such things are part of my cultural folklore; I find them invigorating on every possible level - religious / seasonal / ceremonial etc. - and find it highly significant when Subway start serving up what is basically Xmas Dinner Leftovers in sandwich form, thus confirming something truly wondrous and bringing back to the freezing, impoverished Xmasses of yore.