NO: 25 OCT 1985 University Of London Union - London, England
A benefit concert for a Mexican earthquake.
Sound is pretty dodgy on this one. Bad cycling hiss. I've since received another copy from Simon Park, which he taped, I believe. It has better sound. A big thanks to Philip Collins (RIP) for the assists with the transcripts and explanations!
I've since received a third version which is different than the first two. There's a fourth one that I don't have that's superior to any of these, but a low-gen version of this version is only available in MP3 format. TJ says that his version (which would be a fifth, but hasn't circulated to the best of my knowledge) is badly distorted due to being taped at too high a level and being too close to Hooky's bass amp.
State Of The Nation
BS: (after they presumably take the stage): "Thank you very much." The third version misses this.
BS: "This song's called State Of The Naton"
Hooky says something a minute in about turning something off, can't make out exactly what it is.
There's a few minor variations in the lyrics, like:
lyric: "If I only knew you were our friend, you could drive us where we've been."
BS: "Thank you very much."
The Order than play Everything's Gone Green.
Age Of Consent
Barney plays a bit of the Let's Go riff, whilst Hooky makes the following announcement:
PH: "Good evening. This one's for, erm, Gary Holton, because I learned of his demise earlier today."
(According to Philip Collins, he was an actor who had died that day)
The Park tape has a dropout on the right channel at the 1:00 mark for this song that lasts for about a minute. This is likely an issue with the source.
Edit on the Park tape between the preceding song and the next.
This Time Of Night
Sound of a guitar string getting scraped in the intro.
Hooky blurts out the following in the middle of the tune:
PH: "You gotta love this smoke machine, fucking hell!"
Hooky goes a bit off-key near the end.
As It Is When It Was
BS: "Thank you very much, we're geting into it a little bit now. I sincerely hope all of you are as well..."
Hooky starts playing the bass riff...
BS: "We're going to play a brand new song...it's called As It Is When It Was."
lyric: "those fucking crooks" (instead of 'those thieves and crooks')
BS: "Charlie, put a little bit more top on the vocals, please."
Subculture follows. Bernard's mike cuts off at one point, so we only hear Hooky's backing vocals.
Broken Promise
This version of the tune has substantially different vocals than the released version. It was introduced by Barney as follows:
BS: "Er, this is a new one. It features all guitars just to prove that we don't need the synthesizers to sound good...actually, we always knew that anyway."
Thanks to Philip for providing this tidbit, I didn't catch it the first time around. Philip wrote that he says, "but I bet you all knew that anyway", but upon further listening of both of the versions I have, I think what I have above is correct.
"I'm so glad I found you..." is the chorus.
Absolutely stunning guitar solo here.
BS: "There's a few goals in it, anyway, we'll get it right... anyway, I'm sure..."
BS is cooing and the crowd is clapping in tune to Face Up, which on the third version you can hear Hooky's "three-four" count-in.
That song melds into Temptation without a break.
"Oh it's the last fucking time"...pretty shambolic near the end. Song cuts out on the tape on my archive copy before it can finish, oops. On the Park copy, there's a cut near the beginning as the taper flips over the tape. The third version also cuts near the end.
The Perfect Kiss
BS: "Thank you very much...Charlie, Charlie...put the vocals through the front a a bit brighter please...thanks very much Charlie, thank you."
BS: "It's nice to be nice so why doesn't everyone be nice? I am. It's what my uncle Bill said."
Beware the super-woo!
BS: "Thank you very much."
It's mellow venue music...we keeping forgetting we're not in love anymore... bring back the 80s now...
There was a long wait for the encore. The Park tape has a couple of quick edits here. The third version only leaves a very small bit of the backing music on before New Order come back on for the encore, in accordance with other tapes from this source which also tend to be tightly edited.
Love Vigilantes
BS: "Sorry about the delay, we've just been getting a few drinks down our necks. Got to get your priorities right haven't you, people? Pernod before people, that's what I say"
(Yet another thanks to Philip for the transcript!)
lyric: "Got to get a home, I've been so alone you see, motherfucker."
Here's a great stanza for the ages, an assist from Philip to get the wording right:
"When I walked through the door, my wife, she laid upon the floor She was sucking cocks, she had 4 in her mouth. And I said, 'You dirty bastard, what are you doing on the floor sucking big fat cocks you whore'. Oh, oh fucking hell!"
The ending bass part melds into Blue Monday.
Blue__Monday has cool feedback noises. Philip notes:
"The feedback on Blue Monday was from Barney's guitar - for a while around this time Barney would play guitar at the end of Blue Monday and basically make lots of feedback!"
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