NO: 02 AUG 1985 Opera House - Boston, MA

thehappyone, posted on this show's 40th anniversary

 

Setlist

The Perfect Kiss, Sooner Than You Think, Everything's Gone Green, Subculture, As It Is When It Was, Leave Me Alone, Thieves Like Us, Weirdo, Face Up, Age Of Consent, Blue Monday

First generation recording done by Eric Moffat, supplied by RH. Probably done with built-in condenser mics from fairly fair back.  There may be other sources out there.

The band open with The Perfect Kiss,  not a common occurrence.

Sooner Than You Think

BS: "Thank you. See where change up my guitar, it's not very professional."

Everything's Gone Green

(at end)

BS: "Thank you."

Subculture follows.

Bernard ends this a capella, and Hooky's bass starts in on the next number in the set,  As It Is When It Was.

BS: "'Q, thank you, you've been very kind..." [rest is a mumble]

BS: "Say, we love you, we love you, each and every one of you."

Hooky starts up the intro to Leave Me Alone.

BS: "Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!"

lyric: "You get these words wrong, you stupid bastard."

(at end)

punter: "More orange juice!"

PH: "You're a very bad co...right after they squeeze it."

(not what he's saying, as it's very hard to make out)

Thieves Like Us follows.

Weirdo

Thank you thank you, we're going to attempt it (clears throat) the upcoming song. You know what horrible(?) bastards we are. You ready? Eh, Gillian? You ready?

This is the second performance of this song, the first having been at the Hacienda the month before. The guitars is in a different key than the final version, as well as the versions, though the chorus is very similar to release.

A/B flip point between this and the next song.

Face Up

BS: "You all are so nice(?) so we'll play something for you all anyway. But if we play it well, then we'll all encore late at night." [hard to make out]

Bernard than says someting difficult to make out over the start of the song

BS: "Thank you. This is(?)...going to be our last song, don't argue... [a few other words]

PH: "Our monitors aren't working(?) Nope, try again. Nope. Nope. Nope."

Then Hooky starts in anyway for Age Of Consent.

BS: "Thank you.  [a few more unintelligible words]

Blue Monday

At about the 1:30 point, Bernard starts talking. All I can make out is him giving directions to one side of the audience, and mentioning a sample.

lyric: "If it wasn't for your big bollocks, I'd be a big fucking cunt today."

About 4:30, somebody cries, "Whoever's got a tape recorder. Remove him!" and about 6:30, the inexplicable "Get shit on a horse."

Bernard says something at the end that's impossible to make out. Fans cheer and clap.

Versions

MA, Eric Moffat	AUD #1			ANA1	RH	Decent quality audience recording, a bit muffled and distant.
	AUD #2			ANA1~	perspexorange	perspexorange: "Doesn’t include the ‘orange juice’ comments from the end of LMA, as mentioned here: https://www.new-order.net/no/gigs/nogigs85.html#NO-850802 Instead, the end is missing." Taper also says "Everything's Gone Green" during the intro bit of the song. In addition to the truncated LMA, there's another cut between TLU and Way Of Life, and a third one between that song and Face Up.