Ian Curtis’ Home Sold, May Be Turned Into a Museum

Earlier this year, a Joy Division fan launched an an Indiegogo campaign to purchase the home in Macclesfield, England where Ian Curtis committed suicide, with the hopes of turning it into a museum. The Indiegogo campaign only raised a fraction of the requested funding. However, the home has been purchased by another fan, as the NME reports. Hadar Goldman, who’s described as a “musician and an entrepreneur” by NME, purchased the home for its £115,000 listing price, plus £75,000 in assorted fees. 

“Although I paid £190,000 – nearly double the asking price – I felt as if I had to get involved, especially after hearing the plight of the fans who had failed to raise the necessary funds to buy the house owned and lived in by one of the musical heroes of my youth,” he told NME. “Joy Division left a musical legacy which has influenced many of today’s bands.” 

“This is not just about history and the past,” he also said. “The Joy Division legacy deserves to be taken into the 21st century, to raise awareness into one of the most seminal bands in the history of contemporary music.” 

NME quotes a press release that says “any venture to preserve the heritage of Joy Division would be sympathetically conceived and developed.”

Previously, former Joy Division member Bernard Sumner expressed ambivalence over turning the home into a museum. “To me, it’s a place of sadness,” he said. “It’s not a place I’d want to go.”