NO: 20 MAY 1985 Easts Leagues Club, Brisbane
Sound quality on this one is really nice, although my source says this is 4th generation. Sounds more like 1st to me. It's still an audience tape, though.
I've since obtained this on CD, which appears to have better sound, with much less trebly hiss (thanks to GaoBest). But later examination turns up that there's no frequencies above 16khz, so either these are MP3 sourced, somebody applied a bandpass filter, or it passed through 32khz DAT (probably the latter).
Opening acts were "Let's Get Naked", who were scheduled to go on at 8PM, and "Love's A Blur", at 9PM.
Blue Monday
BS: "One two" (during pre-gig backing music over the PA)
BS: (during intro) "Sorry about the delay, we've just had to polish three bottles of champagne off."
Hooky has the strange bass sound as featureed on the other Australasian gigs.
"Thanks very much", Bernard says after the opener, Blue Monday, finishes up.
Followed by one of the best versions of Ceremony ever. They were ON that night.
"Steve's supposed to be a bit louder in his monitors", Bernard tells the sound crew after the song finishes up.
Dreams Never End is also superb. No drawn out "sooouuuuulll" though, but a nice yelp on "scream".
Hooky bums the bass outro, though.
PH: "Eh, wrong string...try this one."
Sumner cuts him off.
BS: "Eddie baby, turn this monitor down a little bit."
This is the last time The Him is ever played live.
Steve for some reason uses Atrocity Exhibition's drumline, before switching to the more usual pattern for the song. Tons of echo on the vocals at some point.
Ghostly synths add to its appeal. And people are singing along!
PH: "...you, twat face."
Bernard cuts in mid-sentence with "Pardon?".
This Time Of Night...again, very good version here. Vocals get overdriven...sounds cool.
Subculture
BS: "Pardon."
Hooky may be saying a few words off-mic, can't tell if it's him or not.
After the song finishes:
BS: "Thank you very much, I say it's a pleasure to be here tonight to entertain. Well, I wish that we could be here more often."
Very impassioned vocals on The Village.
Hooky calls out "Ready?" right before they start into the number.
BS: "Eddie...turn the acoustic drums up a bit."
Temptation has a false start. Somebody can be heard to cry for Everything's Gone Green.
PH: "Wrong, try again Eddie(?). Naw, naw, sorry. Naw naw, sorry, it's just not doing anything. Try again."
There's a dropout on my tape about a couple minutes in. This is missing from the CD recording I have now.
Bernard yells out in between verses, "[something] this drum!".
PH: "Think it sounds better out there as it sounds terrible up here! Out for a bit."
That's a long pause after Face Up, with some good guitar tuning.
As It Is When It Was
BS: "This is a new song. It's called As It Is When It Was."
Which they play.
BS: "Thanks very much. Good night". The tape is left on while people call out for their favorites, which was not preserved on my previous copy. Eventually, New Order come out again to play The Perfect Kiss.
BS: (talking to someone) "The guitar doesn't seem to be working again." Then they run through what sounds like Hendrix' "Are You Experienced" real quick, which turns into the intro to The Perfect Kiss.
PH: "Brix Smith [something]...let's go!"
BS: "One, two!"
Neat effect as the drums fire out of sync.
The performance ends abruptly, like somebody pulled out a plug.
Humorous, somebody calling out "more! Isolation more! Isolation more! more! more!" as the tape comes to a close.
Both versions on YouTube are taken from AUD #1.
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