Next tour: Sun 11 March 2012

Meet: Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 12 noon.

He was a tortured soul; a visceral, troubled mind with a voice that echoed Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop and Matt Monro.

Ian Curtis briefly led Joy Division, the finest flower of the early days at Manchester’s Factory Records, shaking sensibilities and sending shivers down the spine on an all too brief catalogue of classic works, epitomised by the Gogol-influenced “Dead Souls” and the harrowing “Shadowplay” in which he prefigured his own sad suicide.

OK, this is one of the more tragic tours in the NMW roster – but also one of the most powerful, heading into the very “centre of the city where all roads meet waiting for you”.