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New Order's Bernard Sumner has expressed he is torn when it comes to the campaign to turn Ian Curtis' old house into a museum.
Joy Division fans started the IndieGoGo campaign earlier this month, after news emerged that the late singer's house was up for sale on Rightmove for £115,000. The house in Macclesfield is where Curtis, his wife Debbie and daughter Natalie lived in the last years of his life - as well as being the site of his tragic suicide in 1980.
In a new interview with NME, Sumner told of his concern that the house could become a morbid tourist attraction for fans and runs the risk of romanticising the death of his bandmade.
He said: "One part of me says it's a monument to Ian, and it would make a great museum but the other part of me says it's a bit ghoulish, and a bit of a monument to suicide as well. I'm torn down the middle over it, really."
On whether or not not the museum is a good idea, he added: "It's not for me to judge whether that's right or wrong, because I'm too close to it. To me it's a place of sadness; it's not really a place I'd want to go to."
Curtis took his own life in the house at the age of 23 on May 18, 1980, just days before the band were due to embark on a US tour.
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