NO: 12 AUG 1984 Inside Festival - Hall Des Foires - Liek (Liege) Belgium
Your Silent Face, Procession, Dreams Never End, Face Up, Hurt, 586, Denial, Everything's Gone Green, Temptation, Blue Monday, The Perfect Kiss, Sister Ray
Soundcheck (15 minutes): no setlist
JB's notes:
"From a fantastic festival line-up that also included Shriekback, Fad Gadget and Echo & The Bunnymen, here's a fair audience recording of New Order's performance (don't know who were the headliners). The band was in very good spirits that night (check out Bernard's notable quotable prior to The Perfect Kiss!) and played a very long set. Interesting to note is that The Perfect Kiss starts with a minute-long synth drone while the sequencers were loading up AND that at least one punter can be heard in the crowd calling out the song title, which means that it was already known by that name among the hardliners at this point in time!! (Bernard Sumner also mentions the song title, but after the punter's yell).
The final song of the recording is a rendition of Sister Ray allegedly played by both New Order AND the Bunnymen (and not just Ian McCulloch alone on vocals). At least, this much can be gathered from The Bunnymen Concert Log 1984 (http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/setlists/page5.html), where it says: "We did 'Sister Ray' one time in Belgium with [New Order]. Me and Barney sang and there were eight people on the stage. We only taught them 'Sister Ray' five minutes before that encore." - Ian McCulloch (talking a load of rubbish, of course, as the band knew the song already from their Joy Division days). To me, it's not clear whether this performance was the encore of the NO- or the Bunnymen-set; all I can say is that the sound quality is different (inferior) compared to the rest of the set. Legendary is the debate among NO fans on various internet discussion forums regarding the identity of the "Willy" Bernard can be heard singing about during the song (Google yields no less than 2,530,000 hits for new order willy!). Some have claimed that it's a loose adaptation of the Velvet Underground's "Lonesome Ferryboat Bill", prompted by Bernard's seafaring interests which go back a long time. Others insist that it's one of Bernard's typical improvised ramblings about one of their roadies. Me, I think he's singing about another "member" of their entourage, but you be the judge yourselves, after listening to this recording. Enjoy!"
A bit of audience chatter before the first tune, including a comment about Joy Division.
Your Silent Face
BS: (during intro, about 1:15 in): "Some keyboards, Ed."
BS: (at about 1:45): "Some fucking synth now."
A bit of talking from the punters throughout.
BS: (at about 4:42): "For God's sake, turn the vocals up!"
More chatter through the intro of Procession.
BS: "Eddie, the guitar's not in tune(?), if you can turn it down a little bit."
PH: "One two, can you turn me down Eddie, please, in the front and in the side."
Dreams Never End
More audience chatter at the end, including a cry for "Leave Me Alone".
Face Up
Early version, still having the "knowing you like I used to do" line in the chorus.
BS: "It's all right, lad, just turn down the vocals a little bit."
Hurt
(at end)
BS: "Pretty [few unintelligible words]....put it this way, Ozzie, it's good that you lost it."
5-8-6
Bernard cries "sequencer" in between lines (and breaths), at about 1:10.
Tape edit in between songs.
Denial
(at end)
BS: "Eddie, baby, you should be...guitar...these." (can't quite make this out)
Everything's Gone Green segues into Temptation.
Main set closes out with Blue Monday.
lyric: "If it wasn't for your misfortune, I'd be a fucking cool bastard today."
BS: "I said yes, I said yes, you bastard, you bastard. Mothers, tits, assholes, cunts, mothers, tits, assholes, cunts."
Fans clap, and then start booing and shouting during the first encore break.
BS: "This one's a song called A Perfect Kiss, it's a new song...and it goes like this, we like to please you, not to tease you."
BS: "I'm just...sequencers blowing up."
The Perfect Kiss starts out with an extended bass sequencer drone.
BS: "Sorry about the slight delay...it's not working, Ozzie!"
BS: "Thank you very much, we deserve it!"
Sister Ray
Ian McCulloch on vocals.
This begins the first in a long line of memorable profanity-laden stream-of-consciousness lyrical turns for this song performed live by New Order.
Fades out with punters chanting, "We want more, we want more..."
AUD #1 Sony WM-D6 w/built-ins, unknown taper, ANA0. The version on YouTube uses this source.
AUD #2 Klaus Th. from Aachen, Aiwa recorder, ANA2.
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