NO: 12 SEP 1986 Barrowland, Glasgow

 

(thehappyone23)

Setlist

Your Silent Face, Dreams Never End, Face Up, Age Of Consent, Every Little Counts, As It Is When It Was, Broken Promise, Temptation, Sunrise, Love Will Tear Us Apart, The Perfect Kiss, Blue Monday

From: "Colin Kerr" 

> Fair enough but it pissed me off many times the scant regard they showed. 
> I don't mind bands saying nothing or having a laugh but when they, or rather
> Barney deliberately riled the crowd it was just boring and childish. Three
> times they played Edinburgh and three times Barney baited the crowd and said
> some really stupid things. And setlists? Yeah in the early/mid 80s it was
> good but they took it to some stupid extremes is Edinburgh 11/09/86 - check
> out the setlist and you work out how many had been released by then. One or
> two from memory. Fair enough again if it was a diehard small crowd but this
> was 1900 or so in Edinburgh's biggest theatre and then the next night in
> Glasgow a favourites set with the usual 'we love Glasgow, we hate Edinburgh'
> speech. The irony being that that night there were at least 7 buses through
> from Edinburgh. There were many crap NO shows I went to in that time
> especially when I travelled 100s of miles to see them then they were too
> pissed to play properly. That used to get to me.

Personally, I think that the unreleased stuff is a bit more interesting to hear, but Colin's talking about the live experience, not what's more interesting from a listening standpoint.

Source for this one is Malcolm Beaton, with sound nearly perfect.

Your Silent Face

Marred very slightly by some lass chatting away on the right channel.

BS: "We love you!" (cheers, amid guitar strumming) "Whoa..."

lyrics: "You caught me at a bad time (Barney then adds 'You little twat')." Audience sings the "piss off!" part (which isn't sung by Sumner).

Dreams Never End and Face Up are bolts of pure energy.

BS: "Thank you very much."

PH: "That's the quickest that I've been called off on this tour."

Age Of Consent then follows.

BS: "Thank you very much! This is is a new song, eh, you may know I need my Mach 2 guitar for this because...a much [strum] different song. I hope you like it, it's called [as song starts] Every Little Counts."

lyrics: Barney sings 'cunt' instead of 'pig'. He also coughs as Hooky cuts him off at the end of the first stanza.

lyric: "Even though you're stupid, i still fuck the ass up you!"

(at the end)

BS: "More guitar through the foldback, Ed, please."

As It Is When It Was

Barney sings "makes you fucking see".

End of this song has a brief right channel dropout.

"Velvet glove" tacked on acapella at the end of the song.

BS: "My guitar is out of tune."

Long pause as Bernard strums it a bit.

Broken Promise

BS: "Another new song, I'm afraid, it's called 'Broken Promises'. I'm glad someone likes it, I fucking don't."

Temptation

BS: "Thank you again, thank you very much. Ingratiate(?) me, personally ingratiate(?) me. I much...much prefer Glasgow to Edinburgh as well, I must admit. What a bunch of twats they were last night, I tell you. Hurt my feeling a bit...[can't make out last mumbled word]"

(Before the first verse)

BS: "Turn the lights down over there..."

lyric: "People in this fucking world..." and of course "last fucking time"...

Cut here for A/B change.

Sunrise

PH: "Ready, punters?"

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

Love Will Tear Us Apart

PH: "This one's for uh, a dear friend of ours who couldn't be with us tonight, because she' dead, so here we go, 1-2-3-4!"

Keyboard comes in strangely.

Backing tape comes on. Then an edit. The encore is upon us.

The Perfect Kiss

Barney says something off-mic.

BS: "Then again, I'm a limey twat. This is The Perfect Kiss...played perfectly by New Order".

(for all of about a second)

BS: (during intro, right before Hooky's riff, probably directed at audience antics): "Do it again, do it again, do it again, I love it!"

Chanting throughout.

BS: "Thank you very much. We may be miserable bastards, but we enjoyed ourselves. Without drugs. I don't like it!"

Blue Mondday

The fans sing the first three lines before Bernard's vocals come in.

(during break between verses)

BS: "You were fucking singing it a lot better than me!"

Ends in bass feedback.

BS: "Thank you very much for a most enjoyable evening!"

One second of the backing music before tape runs out.

Versions

AUD #1 - MMB Sony D6 - Aiwa CM-30

AUD #2 - unknown, the version originally shared online runs too fast

AUD #3 - cnkcnk, unknown equipment

AUD #4 - Lazlo, Sony D6, ECM-929LT

TJ also recorded but his was rendered unlistenable due to levels set way too high.