NO: 01 MAY 1985 Koseinenkin Kaikan Hall - Tokyo, Japan
Setlist
In A Lonely Place, Subculture, This Time Of Night, Denial, Your Silent Face, Leave Me Alone, The Village, 586, Thieves Like Us, Face Up, Age Of Consent, The Perfect Kiss, Ceremony, Blue Monday, Sister Ray
The is the "other night", as 02 MAY 85 is (mostly) featured on FACT177 (PFD).
FM broadcast provided courtesy of GaoBest... there's a bit of tape/FM hiss, but the sound is otherwise high quality. This was subsequently released in 2019 as a 3CD bootleg, which includes a full audience recording by the mysterious "Kinney".
Turns out that Koseinenkin Kaikan = Welfare Pension Hall or Welfare Insurance Hall (info courtesy of Zsolt)
The first track features an announcer in Japanese talking in the background through the warmup music.
All I understand is "Manchester", "Joy Division", the band members' names (including Ian Curtis) and "New Order", so I presume they're getting the Nipponese up to speed...
And...it's some announcer with a Brit accent.
AN: Good Evening! New Order, all the way from Manchester, England to Kosei Nekin Tokyo Japan, which is where I come from, New Order! (the FM announcer talks over this, annoyingly, so it's harder to make out than it should be)
In A Lonely Place
BS: "Thank you, thanks very much."
Subculture
They must have been having equipment problems, or somebody majorly messed up the intro. I'm thinking the bass sequencer was acting up, given Barney's comment below. You can Hooky clearly on backing vocals, as well as guitar(!)
BS: "Bass sequencer"
This Time Of Night
Has a lovely guitar intro I've not otherwise heard on any other version, then kicks into the usual synthetics. Hooky's intro bass sounds off-key, but later there's very good interplay, at least by my low standards. Big whoop about 3:30 in.
BS: "Turn up the foldback, Ed." (I think)
Denial
For the first time, I can make out the line after "It comes and it goes", which is "and it TERRIFIES me".
They segue right into Your Silent Face.
BS: "Thank you very much, thank you very much indeed. Must apologize for the fact that I don't speek any Japanese whatsoever. The only language I speak is the international language of love. And...uh, right."
Leave Me Alone
BS: "Eh...the next song is called..." (he stops there)
He throws in an "oh yeah..." after one of the "leave me alone" stanzas.
NO then play The Village, and then follow that with 5-8-6.
BS: "I heard you calling...you bastard!" And a bit later on I swear he says "Bronski Beat!" There's quite a feedback, so at another point, instead of "Can you hear me?" he sings "can you hear this feedback?"
Thieves Like Us
BS: "The next one's called Twats Like Us."
Different intro guitar melody line, Barney's well done pissed at this point, which always makes for entertaining listening.
BS: "Thank you very much. Is it possible to have a bit more treble on the vocals? It sounds like a double-decker bus has fallen on that system there. Volume on the vocals up...
Face Up
At this point, Barney starts getting really insulting, knowing full well they don't understand a word that he's saying.
BS: "Ehm...this is where we go apeshit because you all obviously don't have the guts to do it yourself."
I nominally speak the same language and have difficulty understanding what he's on about half the time in these old gigs.
The song ends in Barney's guitar and feedback.
Age Of Consent
BS: "Thanks again, thank you very much. I hope I added a little love and care into your otherwise humdrum lives."
The Perfect Kiss
A punter calls out "Bah-nee!" Bass noodling, and feedback.
BS: "And here we are."
(after some seconds)
BS: "Okay, motherfuckers!"
It's Rock The Shack with that gee-tar, heh. The mix is strange, has the synths very low in the mix. And it souns like Barney's voice is giving out.
Ceremony
The Japanese announcer cuts in again as the punters clap for an encore. Amazingly enough, NO oblige. It's hilarious hearing the announcer read the song titles. Interestingly enough 'Denial' and 'Your Silent Face' are announced as 'Little Dead' and 'KW1'
The damn announcer talks through the middle part of the song, which is faded out.
Hooky says at the end of this track that this show was being recorded for a radio station, exact wording is somewhat hard to make out.
Blue Monday
This along with Sister Ray only exists in audience tape form, as the soundboard/FM recording fades out at Ceremony, as noted above.
Sister Ray
This is the legendary "phantom encore". I guess the goading had worked as the concert-goers were standing up out of their seats begging for more.
Versions
FM #1 - TMK: " Co-sponsored by FM-Tokyo and FM-Osaka. After checking archived newspapers and a concert handbill, I believe that the actual broadcast was by FM Osaka Gig time: 6:30-8:00 pm. This was one concert in a series billed as "Live-Alive '85 - Tomorrow's Superstars." Other artists in this series were Scandal, John Waite, and Nik Kershaw. The other Japan NO dates were not broadcast according to the news paper and advertising listings."
AUD #1 - "Kinney" ANA0 - 1st floor C row 14 on May 1. Released on Wardour 3xCD issue (Wardour-369)
AUD #2 - Phantom encore of "Sister Ray" only. Poor quality recording...so what you're hearing from Fractured/Image above is from Kinney.
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