NO: 27 AUG 1984 Heaven Ultradisco - London, England

 

Fractured/Image Playlist

Setlist

Everything's Gone Green, Temptation, Ceremony, Sooner Than You Think, Your Silent Face, Thieves Like Us, Confusion, Blue Monday, Age Of Consent, Sunrise, The Perfect Kiss

Supported by Life

Tape I have is a second gen audience tape, pretty listenable!  This is AUD v2.  There's at least one other version too (actually five total, see below)

Everything's Gone Green

BS: "Would you all move back, please, people in the front now are getting crushed."

Bernard "owws" at two and a half minutes in.

EGG_ segues into Temptation.

Ceremony falls apart after the first few seconds.

BS: "Sorry about this. The bass is out of tune. And we pretend to fucking drum, which of course it isn't, but this is an...improvised jam... Sue me, Steve."

During  Your Silent Face, instead of the usual "Why don't you piss off?" BS sings "Why don't you fuck off?"

Sooner Thank You Think, Your Silent Face, and Thieves Like Us pass by without incident.

Confusion

BS: "Gillian, turn the keyboards down a little bit, please."

punter: "Killboy!"

BS: "I agree with that".

Of course, the keyboards are still too loud, at least the bass keys are :-)

TMK recording has its A/B split at this point.

Blue Monday follows.

Age Of Consent

BS: "Very artistic, those lads are, they like it."

Sunrise has completely different lyrics, including the "you were right and I was wrong" that would end up in Face Up. A difficult transcription, but I think I got most of it right.  (see below)

The Perfect Kiss

BS: "And that's for pop pullin'. Who says, I've got no sense of humor?" (not sure if this is 100% correct)

Photo by Peter Petrou, courtesy of Joy Division Central Twitter

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Sunrise (Sustenance) 27 Aug 84 Heaven Ultradisco London

I've been waiting to hear your voice for a long time now
We've known you since you were a pig...a cow

Here is what I'm going to do
Guess what I'm gonna do to you
That is what I wanted to do
Guess what I'm gonna do to you

Sustenance
It's called sustenance
Same thing
Sustenance

For the present hour just face it
Always tells me a total disgrace
You were right and I was wrong
From the start we here so come

I'm sure when you were a boy(?)
We were brave and we were bold
And we refused to see your lie
Buried me your tears won't dry

Sustenance
Sustenance
It's called sustenance
The only one(?)

Someone told me you came in here
All the people came in here
We were young and we were bold
Your beautiful faces shone

I was right and you were wrong
From the start you really grown
We are there to masturbate
When I come you might be gone

Versions

AUD #1 KW - Shared to DIME back in 2005, and same as the YouTube version posted by Fractured/Image.

AUD v2 unknown taper/equipment. Cut between Confusion/BM, has a slight scraping sound at start of BM.

AUD #3 SH? - Sony WM-D6 ANA1.  Seeded to DIME on 2011-02-28, but that version only runs 70:30 long. Also has cut between Confusion/BM, but no scraping noise at start of BM, and end of TPK is cold-cut before all the frogs are done chirping.

AUD #4 unknown taper/equipment.  Received from Fiver (RIP).  Very similar to AUD #2, but a bit more intro. A bit better-sounding that that version, also split between Confusion/BM.

AUD #5 AAJ - Sony WM-R2 with built-in mics.  Rob (Gretton) told him to stop taping 25 seconds into EGG, so that song is cut, but he started up again presumably after Rob drifted elsewhere.  Also includes soundcheck, with an instrumental bit of TPK not documented in Dec's book.  Just shared on YouTube, see below:

thehappyone YouTube, Aadam Jacobs' recording for this shows 40th anniversary