NO: 27 FEB 1986 Civic Hall, Wolverhampton

 

thehappyone

Setlist

Love Vigilantes, Bizarre Love Triangle, Hurt, Sunrise, Elegia, Leave Me Alone, Everything's Gone Green, Subculture, Face Up, Broken Promise (encore) The Perfect Kiss

Soundcheck (30 minutes):

Bizarre Love Triangle (instrumental), Shellshock (instrumental), As It Is When It Was (instrumental), Broken Promise (instrumental)

Love Vigilantes

Both tapes have a bit of the Vikings theme.

BS: "Hello, we're New Order" (reverb makes it appear 'New Order' is said twice).

There's talking in the BV version.

Explosive guitar solo.

BS: "Thank you very much."

Weird series of descending bass notes.

Bizarre Love Triangle

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

Lyrics aren't the final version yet, has the "you think too much you might be dead lyric." common with early live versions, plus a variant I hadn't heard before.

lyric: "Every time I see your face/
I lose my life and I lose my place

Drum strike and lots of punters shouting.

Hurt

The final performance of this song.

Lots of chatter by somebody with a thick brogue, perhaps Scottish?"

BS: "Thank you very very much indeed."

Sunrise

Interesting pick-on-string noise at the start.

Scruff near the end of the BV version.

Elegia

BS: "Thank you very much, thank you very much. We've got...we've got to take the set a bit more sensitive now. That is what we're gonna play."

The BV tape has a few drop outs and pitch shifts during the intro.

During a quiet portion of the song Bernard says something.

BS: "Finish it, you daft cunt."

Leave Me Alone

(at end)

BS: "Sounds a bit like Big Country that song, don't you think."

Everything's Gone Green

On the BV version somebody calls out for 'Ceremony'. His wish is not fufilled, though he was fairly close.

BS: "Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you very much. I feel I know...that I know each and every one of you personally from...from the moment I was born."

O-kay.

Sub-culture

BS: "This is Subculture."

Edit on ST-sourced recording.

Face Up

(the BV version misses the first sentence below)

BS: "Anyway, this is the first time we've ever played in Wolverhampton in our lives. Just thought I'd tell you that. And I must say, I'm very impressed..."

Gillian inexplicibly plays the keyboard line to Subculture.

BS: "Just played that one, Gillian. I must say I'm very impressed with Wolverhampton. I've always liked the name of it, it reminds me of wolves. Wolves with big dicks. There's one 'ere." (thanks to TJ)

BS: "Thank you again, thank you very much."

Feedback squall.

Broken Promise

PH: "One, two, three, four..."

lyric: "So the things in life that mean so much to me they fuck you too."

Excellent version of this song, if not quite on par to the ULU version.

BS: "Thank you very much, good night."

The ST recording has a bit of the pre-encore backing music, some techno-funk sounding piece. The BV recording contains someone commenting, "but for that, two more songs, and he would have been on top of me." as well even more of the PA backing pre-encore, which was Cabaret Voltaire's "Product Patrol".

PH: "Well, that was a really rotten tape, that was."

You can then hear a punter then riposte "Better than you, you cunt..."

The Perfect Kiss

PH: (off-mic): "Yo!"

At 0:34, Hooky yells, "Where are you, Twinny?"

The BV tape has some dropouts about 8:30 in, likely the B-side of the damage on 'Sunrise'...probably from the upstream copy.

Soundcheck from thehappyone

Versions

Multiple tape sources, a second gen from BV, believed to be sourced from "Eddie Wolfram", who also appears to be the source for the soundcheck, though this isn't totally clear  and unknown gen but very clear recording from ST.  The ST version is recorded more closely to the stacks, it sounds like.