Next thing we knew we were doing an album with Martin Hannett. Once Rob started managing us, it all started to happen. He was a grown-up and we were a bunch of stupid kids. He saw us as Warsaw and then he saw us as Joy Division and he thought we were fantastic. SM: Meeting Rob Gretton was really important. So Stephen came along and auditioned and we thought, yeah, he’s pretty weird. He said he could get a lift in with him because he had a Ford Cortina and he had his own drum kit. I thought, "They’re on holiday? It must be a pretty good band if they can afford to go on holiday."īS: We had jobs! The jobs financed the holiday, not the band! We got back and Ian said, "There’s this guy from Macclesfield," which is where Ian lived by that time. I became aware that there was a bit of a drummer shortage! When I rang up Ian, he told me Peter and Bernard were on holiday. On the back page there were "Drummer Wanted" adverts for three bands: Warsaw, The Fall and V2. Stephen Morris: I was at a Blondie gig and picked up a fanzine.