NO: 23 JAN 1983 - The Hacienda, Manchester
Fractured / Image playlist Setlist: Your Silent Face, Temptation, Ceremony, Truth, Leave Me Alone, Denial, 586, Age Of Consent, Blue Monday Soundcheck: Your Silent Face, 586, Blue Monday, Truth Tape from 'Dave Mings' listed as M/2-ish. In A Lonely Place Opens with some early-80s yuckage playing over the PA, before it transitions into the dulcet tones of this masterpiece. Punter yells at 1:02, "Get down you wanker!". Somebody else follows up, "Get out". Lots of chatter simmering at the surface during Barney's first verse. Hard to make it out but you can hear "freaking out" at one point. At 2:07, somebody really close to the mic says something like "Trixie", most mysterous. Lots of calling out in the gap between songs, of course. Age Of Consent Bernard's intro a bit off key. Band tunes up between songs. Ultraviolence A particularly good version. lyric: "Burned my soul/in this hellhole" On the BV version I have, after