NO: 16 MAY 1981 Markthalle - Hamburg, Germany
Truth, Doubts Even Here, ICB, Dreams Never End, The Him, Procession, Chosen Time, Denial, Ceremony, Everything's Gone Green
Soundcheck (5 minutes): Chosen Time
Soundcheck (5 minutes): Chosen Time
Many thanks to 'booomboom' for making this one available.
One of the best '81 performances, IMHO.
A fade-in to Truth opens the set.
Second to last ever performance of Doubts Even Here.
ICB follows.
Somebody calls for "Incubation". They get Dreams Never End
instead.
The Him follows, quite a tight performance. Procession
comes next.
For some reason the LP bootleg ('Dreams Never End') leaves out
Chosen Time, but it is present on the master clone that
'booomboom' made available in April 2004.
Punter cries out for "She's Lost Control". Bernard says something,
of which I can make out "brain-dead", before the band play a storming
Denial.
False state to Ceremony. Fans yell out...
BS: "If any of you screwheads have any interest than to shout out..."
Bernard than says something about Joy Division, and "you realize
that we're not trying to rip you off...I think it's tonight...".
Would love for somebody to transcribe this part, it's bugged me
for years. And somebody has, none other than Wallflower from the
Joy Division Central forums...
Oh and I saw your post on the NO blogspot about 1981-05-16
Markthalle, about not knowing what Bernard says before the band
plays Ceremony. Audience members shout things like "She's Lost Control."
He says, "Uh, if youse jerks got anything interesting to shout out...right?
'Not as good as Joy Division,' eh? You cunt. You realize we're not trying
to rip you off. I think it's tonight, you stupid pig."
He was just two days off the 1-year anniversary.
Then a marathon version of Everything's Gone Green, the second
time the group ever performed it. An amazing intro, only marred
by a few dropouts at about the 2:15-2:20 point, and being faded
at the 17:55 point (due to the reel length being about an hour,
presumably).
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