"World takes fright," splashes the Times today under a large gloomy image of the FTSE's closing performance: -391.06. So how thoughtful of those good men and women at the paper to offer today's readers a free CD of Joy Division's Closer, one of the most downbeat and miserably introspective albums in rock history (and released two months after the suicide of the band's vocalist Ian Curtis). Staff at the Thunderer may appreciate the sentiment, as rumours of job cuts at News International rumble on and the global economy melts down. And the sorrow doesn't end there. Tomorrow Times readers will be offered (groan) some more music, by Jesus and the Mary Chain, who produced the unforgettably appropriate lyric: "Inside I feel so bad/So low I feel so sad/Feels like I'm going mad". Could this be the new anthem of Wapping?
