NO: 06 DEC 1985 Central London Polytechnic
Soundcheck (20 minutes): Atmosphere (inst), Atmosphere, She's Lost Control (breakdown), She's Lost Control, As It Is When It Was (breakdown), As It Is When It Was, Bizarre Love Triangle (breakdown), Bizarre Love Triangle, Love Will Tear Us Apart (inst)
Description from http://slashmc.rice.edu/ceremony/neworder/no_disc/notapes.html
(archive.org snapshot from late 2001)
Ken Weingold on the "faclist" mailing list states:
"Someone I know was nice enough to put the New Order bootleg I ripped from vinyl up on his high speed connection. Download it and enjoy. It's from 12/6/85, except for the last song, which is from the next day or two." (Last song is She's Lost Control from the Fulcrum in Slough the following night)
Philip Collins (rest in peace) adds that contrary to my description that this was for a coal miners' strike:
"This was in aid of the Terence Higgins Trust, an HIV charity. The band were very late coming on stage - there was an interminable wait after Quando Quango's set had finished before New Order showed up. There were 3 cameras filming this gig but I've never heard of a video of it being in general circulation although the mixing desk recording (or the first 8 songs at least) surfaced pretty quickly on the 'More Than Despair' boot."
Also have this on CD now, which has quite a few glitches, alas, as the sound is otherwise excellent!
Atmosphere: 1:12 skip, popping throughout
Dreams Never End: glitches at 1:40 and 2:25
Sunrise: pop 0:06-0:07, skip 1:27
Lonesome Tonight: pop 5:21
5-8-6: glitch 1:28, 3:10
Perfect Kiss: skip 0:11, pop 1:09 (NOT 3:50, that sounds like
the master), pop 5:23, glitch 7:01
Face Up: pop 1:44, glitch 4:30
Age Of Consent: pops 0:43, 0:54, 3:38
(since then, I've sourced a clean version, but am keeping this for preserving the historcal entry)
Intro to Atmosphere:
BS: "Thank you very much, I hear those well..." (or 'a hero's wel...') (not present on soundboard, only on the audience version)
PH: "C'mon, a bit of respect!"
BS: "More guitar through the monitors, Ed."
It's remarkable that the drum pattern in this version of Atmosphere resembles the latter-day performances. I guess it's supposed to be a simulacrum of Hannett's echoplex that the drums got run to. The keyboards come in more than halfway through, overpowering the rest of the music. The "set down with due care" line is almost spoken.
Dreams Never End
Bit of a false start. This is the track Hooky gets a beer can thrown at him.
(from the parent page, contributed by Winston Winand)
"Someone must have disliked the fact that Hooky was singing lead on Dreams Never End. If you here the bootleg he doesn't come in at the right time halfway through. That's because he had just been struck on the head by an empty beer can thrown from deep in the audience. Hooky mumbled something back but I didn't catch it. Needless to say, there wasn't any encore that night. However, Atmosphere was brilliant with the audience dancing like crazy on the synth bits!" Thanks again to Winston Winand!
After some careful listening, I've gleaned on what Hooky was saying. What an accomplishment, I know.
PH: "You cunts make me fucking sick!"
By the way, the guitar interplay is simply amazing.
Procession
PH: "One two"
Synth wash, bass rumble. Barney whoops after first verse. Volume on vocals for intro of second version was low in the mix. No Gillian backing vox.
BS: "Thanks very much, thanks very much."
Promiment cabinet rumble leads us to the performance of Sunrise.
BS: "Thank you punters, thank you very much."
Lonesome Tonight
BS: "You all move back a bit, else we'll be doing a...a suffocation benefit next week. I'm sure you don't want us in London again."
Interesting lyrics:
"When you reached out in your sleep, and you felt my big fat cock."
Intro to Weirdo:
PH: "Fuckin' A, you're witnessing something extra special there, usually you get less people kicked in" (Barney interrupts at this point, so I'm indebted to the sharp ears of Jan Bollansee for the last part)
BS: "A bit less bass on the vocals, Ed....Put your chopper away."
(Philip Collins notes that someone had come onstage with a clapperboard as the gig was being filmed.)
(fans shouting out for crap)
BS: "Shut up! One-two-three!"
This version features lyrics slightly different than the recorded version, but is otherwise pretty well developed.
Lots of bass feedback, fans cry out for their favorites, "Let's Go" can be heard as one of the choices.
5-8-6
BS: "Drum machine, Ed, got to hear it to play in time to it."
There's technical difficulties with this one, the sequencer is messed up, but the synths finally come in near the end. This song also features a quite promiment keyboard solo, hey. Also, Barney's mic cuts out at about 2:50 where he says "heard you calling"
BS: "What did you move that monitor for? I can see you know."
The Perfect Kiss
Barney whips out one of his all time classics:
BS: "Can you move back a bit please, someone's getting crushed in the front. I don't give a fuck really, but it sounds good if I say it."
The source tape has distortion about 35-40 seconds into this song, which isn't present on the glitchy CD version.
Barney's vocals cut out after the first verse.
The source on the CD version gets garbed at about 3:50.
There's loud feedback during part of the second verse. At the end of it, Barney comes out with a bit of congratulatory bravado:
BS: "Ahead of our fucking time, ahead of our time. Bronski Beat ripped that song off, and I could name a few others as well."
A couple of syndrum beats greet the arrival of Face Up.
The vocals come in a bit late for the second verse.
Age Of Consent
PH: "It's his birthday today, we promised he could come up onstage."
..and a writeup for the soundcheck...which has excellent sound...
Soundcheck
Atmosphere (instrumental) [1:31]
Atmosphere [4:06]
She's Lost Control (breakdown) [0:24]
She's Lost Control [2:54]
As It Is When It Was (with LWTUA intro!) (breakdown) [0:44]
BS: (at 0:32) "Turn up the [?] a bit"
As It Is When It Was [3:26]
A bit of intro cut
Bizarre Love Triangle (breakdown) [0:32]
PH: "Right!"
BS: (at end) "Ed, please, turn the sequencers down a little touch, and bring the drum machine up a little bit."
Bizarre Love Triangle [4:46]
BS: "I'm getting the drum machine in through the side...all right!"
Every time I think of you
I feel shocked right through with a bolt of blue It's no problem of mine, it's just something I find You will take me by the hand and I can leave you far behind
There's no sense in telling me
The wisdom of a fool won't set you free But that the way that it goes and it's what everyone knows Keep your thoughts inside your head
You think too much and you'll be dead
(chorus)
Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You say the words that I can't say
Every time I think of you
I wish my life could be new
But that the way that it goes and it's what everyone knows Keep your thoughts inside your head
You think too much and you'll be dead
I feel fine and I feel good
I feeling what I never could
But that the way that it goes and it's what everyone knows Keep your thoughts inside your head
You think too much and you'll be dead
chorus x 2
Love Will Tear Us Apart (instrumental) [2:53]
Hear Gillan completely mess up the keyboard part. She has a history of.
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