NO: 14 JUN 1986 City Hall, Sheffield

 
Fractured/Image playlist
(image taken by John Bentley)

Setlist

Bizarre Love Triangle, This Time Of Night, Everything's Gone Green, The Perfect Kiss, Sooner Than You Think, As It Is When It Was, Subculture, Age Of Consent, Sunrise

The recording used for the transcription comes courtesy of TJ, which as provided ran about 50 cents fast. I have another one that's a M/1 copy, in a CH-designed photocopied sleeve, which is a different (superior) source, and what is used in the version on YouTube.  And a third source has made available courtesy of TBB and Tock, which has preserved the full compere introduction, by none other than Terry Wogan!

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Wogan for info about him.

TW: [trills] "Ladies and gentleman, my name's Terry Wogan. Good evening to ya. How ya doin'? Well, Terry Wogan, told you once. This evening, I'm going to introduce some of the fine acts on stage tonight. Amongst them, Billy Bragg, the inspirational choir, a newly (?), you're enjoying a dance routine from a local school in Pitsmore, dancing to music. So much for Pitsmore, dancing to music, courtesy of Cabaret Voltaire. And now, live on stage, a group from the heart of Manchester. They have come all the way across the Pennines in a helicopter, just to see you. The one and only New Order!"

Chants of "Here we go, here we go..."

Bizarre Love Triangle

BS: "Well, erm, hope that this isn't a letdown after that introduction. If I know it, it probably will be."

lyric: "I feel good, and I feel fine, I feel like a big fat swine." lyric: "Keep your thoughts inside you head, you think too much, and you'll be dead."

Very good guitar break.

BS: "Thanks very much."

This  Time Of Night

BS: "Thanks very much."

Everything's Gone Green

BS: "This is Everything's Gone Green."

Somebody yells out "1-2-3-4".

PH: "Same old boring bastards here. Some things never change." He adds, "You know, what's the point?" Barney coughs as he strums his guitar.

PH: "Any more requests?"

The Perfect Kiss follows.

Sooner Than You Think

As TJ comments, quite a big Gillian howler on the intro, though it sounds like her synth mysteriously detuned more than just bad playing.

As It Is When It Was

Major bump about 2:10 in, with a tape dropout. The CH version is clean.

BS: "One two, one two, one two, one..." (not present on CH version, which has an edit at this point)

Sub-culture follows.

(at end)

PH: "It's no [?], death when you're thirty, y'know?" (not present on TJ version)

Age Of Consent

Takes a bit of time to get this one started, but once they do...

Sunrise

Tape garble at 1:35 on TJ, version, not on CH.

lyric: "Your name might be God but you don't fucking say that much to me..."

Further garbles at 3:35 and 3:50 (TJ), not on CH.

BS: "Too much gone(?)".

Via the wonderful Joy Division & New Order Pictures Twitter.  Photos by David Smith.

Versions

AUD #1 TJ - Sony WM-D6 w/ unknown mics, ANA0.

AUD #2 unknown ANA1 from CH, most common, and best-sounding.  Used by Fractured/Image.

AUD #3 TBB - Panasonic RQJ6 w/built-in mics, ANA1 

AUD #4 unknown, a bit better than AUD #3.  Somebody giggles after the "letdown" comment, but it's in a different place/voice than #3's.  Whistle immediately after the end of STYT, and a tape cut point. You can also hear shout for "Temptation"  but it's further away than on AUD #2.

AUD #5 unknown, Quite muffled recording, but different than the others.  Distinguishing features is a volume raise at about 3:40 in "Sooner Than You Think", rendering the rest of that song brickwalled.This happens again about 3:15 into Subculture, though the end of the track, where the taper lowers the volume again right before A/B flip point between that track and "Age Of Consent"