NO: 24 JAN 1986 SFX Hall - Dublin, Ireland

thehappyone

Setlist

Everything's Gone Green, Blue Monday, Dreams Never End, Bizarre Love Triangle, Thieves Like Us, Sooner Than You Think, Broken Promise, Subculture, Denial, State Of The Nation
(encore)  The Perfect Kiss

Source is from a tape in my archives. Sound isn't as good as the following night's....however, the version posted by dropdeadfred on DIME is significantly better, even if both are affected by the Dolby C bug.  And even better than that is the version from elegymart, taken from the Stonecutter Archives.

The given set list in nogig is correct, except that on my tape The Perfect Kiss is left off. See below on why.

You can hear the last few seconds of the pre-gig prerecording before the Order take the stage.

Everything's Gone Green

PH: "Good Evening".

Blue Monday

BS: "Thanks very much. Thanks very much. Complain to the promoter about fucking eating in this place if I was you. Fucking freezing."

(not the song, but as part of a toast)

The crowd goes absolutely apeshit and start chanting. What's annoying is that a few times in between later songs, you can hear somebody loudly crying out for EGG, as if he came in late and missed the first song!

BS: "Thank you very much."

Dreams Never End sounds absolutely massive. Hooky nails the vocal.

Bizarre Love Triangle

BS: "This is a new song, it's called Bizarre Love Triangle".

Bizarre Love Triangle has slightly different lyrics. This is the second time they had played this song live (the first was Hemel Hempstead on 08 Nov 85) but that first version was an instrumental, so this could perhaps be the first vocal airing of BLT ever! I don't know if BLT played during Hemel's soundcheck was instrumental or not.

"Keep your thoughts inside, these(?) are things you won't forget" is one example of a lyric in this version that didn't survive to the final version.

Some audience shouts between tracks.

Thieves Like Us

(at end)

BS: "Turn the lights off, it's too fucking bright up here, man."

Sooner Than You Think

lyric: "Your country is a fucking awful place, if I don't work(?) here, be in disgrace."

BS: "Thank you very much."

The group fiddle around with their instruments for a bit afterwards.

PH: "Sounds nearly in tune."

Broken Promise has a completely different chorus, and somewhat different instrumentation. I seem to recall that the Preston Guildhall version played on OCT 22 85 being lyrically identical to the version on Brotherhood, so they may have been experimenting, meaning that BS was probably pissed and pulling stuff out of his arse.

opening lyric: "I don't know where the money goes, and I don't care where the profit lies."

Chorus

"I'm so glad I found you, I'd never hope that we will love(?) you."

Sub-culture follows.

There's a tape edit between Sub-culture and Denial, right before which the group can be heard turning. This is the last time New Order every play Denial, and they make it a good one.

State Of The Nation

(notable quotable...mark for Barney Says)

BS: "This next song is another new song. It's called "The Shame Of The Nation". And its about shagging, mindless shafting, so you'll probably won't understand it."

BS: "Emulator!"...and naturally, one can be heard staggering into the intro.

BS: "Thank you very much, [something, definitely not 'good night']"

The Perfect Kiss is absent from my copy, it's unknown whether there are any copies with it present.

"email email" on faclist gives insight as to why.

"A similar thing happened at the first of two nights at the SFX Hall in Dublin in 1986. NO took about 15 minutes to come back on, and played Perfect Kiss to about 15 people and the cleaners. The rest of the crowd came roaring back in, but the local bootlegger missed the encore, so it is not on most tapes of the gig."

There are some gig recollections up on NewOrderOnline, for however long it continues to remain, erm...online at: http://www.neworderonline.com/live/Concert.aspx?ConcertID=112  ...a big project for me is once it's offlined, I'll incorporate some of the reviews here, making sure to give proper credit.

Going forward, I'll only provide source information when there are multiple known recordings.