NO: 01 MAR 1986 Spectrum Arena, Warrington

 

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Setlist

State Of The Nation, The Village, Broken Promise, As It Is When It Was, Your Silent Face, Confusion, Age Of Consent, Temptation, Sunrise, Blue Monday, Shellshock

Soundcheck (20 minutes): The Village, Subculture, Sooner Than You Think, This Time Of Night, Confusion

Source is a CD made from the master cassette mixing desk copy. Sound is superb. Barney's guitar playing here is superb as well.

State Of The Nation

BS: "'Right"

(at end)

BS: "Thank you very much".

Fans shout out.

The Village

Bass sequencer fires off at 2:45, likely a mistake.

Barney strums guitar in the 15 seconds or so between this and the next track.

Broken Promise

Hooky counts out "1-2-3-4".

Lyrics here significantly diverge from the released version.

lyric: "I don't know why people die, and I don't know why [fortunes?] fly..."

lyric: "If you're right and I'm [not 'sinful'], then our father must be wrong"

Second verse starts out:

lyric: "I don't know why fuckers die, and I don't know why you've got big eyes. What I know is that you're a loser, and [that depends?]...and I'm a loser."

Break bass solo is different.

lyric: "But I never could forsake you... (instead of 'could believe it')"

Your Silent Face

Has to be the only version where Barney doesn't sing "piss off" or its variant...his voice gets real quiet and trails off...

Barney plugs in his bass for Confusion.

Age Of Consent

Widely-available CD copy has diginoise starting at about 2:20. A newer one has surfaced without this.

Age Of Consent on Retro "Live"

BS: "Thank you very much, thanks a lot."

Temptation

Bernard's guitar is delicous here.

Volume gets louder at 4:09.

Last fucking time.

Sunrise

Cut after the first minute, alas. (SBD).  Audience versions such as the one below have this complete.

Blue Monday

Another one with great guitar work.

Hissing at 3:45. Memorable guitar solo work at about 5:00.

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

(encore)

Shellshock

BS: "Eh, this is Shellshock. The instrumental version."

Which turns out to have vocals. New Order had soundchecked this at two prior gigs, but this is the first time they had aired this one out.

At 1:15, Barney says, "Put more echo on the vocals, Ozzie!" This is in mid-verse, and Barney stops singing for a while. An interesting version, have to study it in a bit of detail, but it seems 90% there in terms of structure if not lyrics, which were likely not completely written.

Soundcheck

We find The Village in progress, there being only a couple minutes preserved.

After Sub-culture, which there are two takes of, the second having a very neat unused synth line, Hooky can be heard saying "yes, yes..."

Between This Time Of Night and Confusion, it sounds like Bernard is playing Joy Division's "The Sound of Music"!

Versions

	SBD #1			ANA0	One of those from the infamous "box of tapes". Diginoise through 'Age Of Consent' on the original circulated version, newer versions should be clean.
TBB	AUD #1	Panasonc RQJ6	built-in	ANA1 (master taped over)	Soundcheck was taped, about 50 minutes worth, in addition to the gig.
	AUD #2			ANA1	'Big Al' tape, Different recording, includes much less of "Funeral From A Viking" as the AUD #1 version.