NO: 22 AUG 1985 Civic Auditorium - Santa Monica, California

 

Fractured/Image playlist

Setlist

The Perfect Kiss, Temptation, Dreams Never End, Thieves Like Us, Leave Me Alone, Love Vigilantes, Subculture, State Of The Nation, Everything's Gone Green, Face Up, Confusion [encore] Blue Monday, Sunrise

MDMArchive (Rob Gretton archive)

Fairly good sounding tape from the archives.  There were more than seven songs played, the extant recording that circulates is incomplete, as Waterrat, et al don't list more than seven songs here.

Pre-gig intro sounds like Run-DMC.

The Perfect Kiss

BS: "This is called 'A Perfect Kiss'".

Apparently the wrong part was triggered, and the song comes to a stop after about 25 seconds, with Barney saying, "Sorry."Song restarts with the proper bit first.

Quite a bit of 'bird noise' (annoying audience chatter) during this. Really, it's just a single annoying b*tch.

BS: "Thank you very much."

One can hear some guy call out, "Relax",

b*tch: "I don't need your bullshit", and "They actually were once Joy Division... give us a break! (as Temptation starts up).

This is not Depeche Mode, people.

Song suffers from a few feedback squalls, and lots of Barney's cooing. :)

More commentary: "They were even better last time."

Dreams Never End

PH: "Okay, kids."

More annoying commentary from the b*tch.

Thieves Like Us

BS: (after about one minute of intro) "Hello, everyone!"

Another entry in why one should not tape around catty bitches.

b*tch: "These fat girls over here....they're like...slapping their butts..."

Leave Me Alone

Guitar intro starts off way off-tune...

"You get these words wrong..." portion sung in a more drawn-out fashion, as was common during this tour.

More commentary...

PH: "This is a pause while we change basses on the QX...[last bit drowned out by the intro to Love Vigilantes]

Alternate lyrics: "Then I saw the telegram, that said I was a miserable bastard and that I should be shot."

Good one!

Sub-culture

Some time spent tuning...

BS: "Okay, we know this number a bit now, we're going to get to know you all. My name's Bernard, this is Gillian, this is Steve, and this is Hooky. Yes, please...I'm dumb."

[the last part may have been directed to one of the crew]

State Of The Nation

BS:  "This is not a ? cover.  This a new song that is called 'Shame Of The Nation'".  Given it a little face-lift!

Everything's Gone Green

BS:  "Hello again."

Face Up follows.  

PH:  "Scroll to the end."

BS (at end):  "Thanks very much.  That's what it is... So not...  Apparently not.

False start at the beginning of Confusion.  The band quickly restarted the track.

Blue Monday

BS (at end):  "Thank you very much, motherfuckers".

Sunrise

BS:  "Thanks very much, cuntfaces.  Stop snorting coke."

Stephen ends it with a single cymbal crash.  The very end has The Cure's "The Walk" over the PA.

AUD #2 (ijwthstd recording, complete show)

Versions

"Rialto guy"	AUD #1			ANA1-2	bcingyou	Audience tape is incomplete. 7 songs (up to Subculture). Includes Abecedarians recording (opening set), bcingyou met the taper at his parents' house in Rialto. bcingyou: "The guy who recorded AUD#1 version was a listener of my college radio show answering my on-air plea if anyone recorded. He also recorded opener Abecedarians (for which we have the only known recording of unreleased epic 'Pipe Dream') then flipped tape capturing first part of NO on only tape he brought. He wasn't a tape trader recording only a couple shows for fun and recall he was only interested in a copy of a Wire Train (a Paisley Underground band from Davis, CA) tape I had in return." (They were another opener)
ijwthstd	AUD #2				ijwthstd, bcingyou	Shared on https://ijwthstd.blogspot.com/2023/08/new-order-santa-monica-civic-1985-08-22.html for the shows 38th anniversary.  Worth it for no b*tch.
MDMA	SBD			SBD0	JSZ	http://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/artefact/aid/2721/NEW_ORDER_MASTER_TAPE_1985.html