NO: 07 NOV 1986 Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara CA

Setlist

State Of The Nation, Love Vigilantes, The Village, Dreams Never End, Paradise, This Time Of Night, Shellshock, Bizarre Love Triangle, Weirdo, Ceremony, Blue Monday

Soundcheck (35 minutes): Let's Go, As It Is When It Was, The Village, TV Eye (The Stooges), This Time Of Night, Way Of Life

Source courtesy of RM and MB, who taped it.

Master tape has PA backing music from a few artists, first sounds like Karen Finley(!), mixed into Kraftwerk's "Telephone Call", third is unknown, some reggae track, fourth (as NO come on) is the Kinks' "Lola".

MB: "The sound is a bit better back a little bit, anyways."

Somebody then says "Ready" in a raggamuffin voice.

BS: "Hi, we're New Order, this is State Of The Nation"

(at end)

BS: "Thank you very much."

Love Vigilantes

A bit of a rocky start. Hooky's bass cuts during the intro, and Bernard appears to forget some of his vocals, humming in their place. Or this may be intentional.

lyric: "Well, I never knew you've never come when I was at the spark above" (or something like that)

BS: "Cheers."

The Village

This is where you hear the exotic creature known as the "LA Bird" ask "what did he say?"

PH: "What a pair of little bastards anyway."

Dreams Never End

Hooky's bass sounds especially chorusy here. This also features the "quiet" refrain as outro, which melds into Paradise.

A bit of a pause between tracks, you can hear an LA bird call out, "Mark, Mark".

This time Of Night is followed by Shellshock, with a little bit of Dubvulture thrown in at the end.

BS: "Right, that echo sounds a bit dodgy on the vocals, Oz. What are we gettin'? We're going to sound a bit dodgy."

Bizarre Love Triangle

lyric: "Everyday my behind gets [something]"

BS: (after the first verse) "Turn the fucking lights off!"

Break in tape here. (A/B split)

Weirdo

BS: "It's called Weirdo."

Ceremony follows.

Somebody afterwards can be heard to say, "What can't them fuckers do something?"

Blue_Monday

At the 4:13 a very agitated voice (with an English accent) says something about "I can't...what you're doing in here."

Ends on a long synth note. You can hear more swearing amongst punters right at the end of said note.

Soundcheck

Last known circulated audience-recorded soundcheck of the classical era.

Starts off with Hooky saying that "this wasn't the sort of place they were used to" and running through some basslines, like Sister Ray and Senses.

He's particularly talkative, making comments and "one-two"ing into the mic.

Then there's some guitar riffing, of which I can make out Let's Go. This continues on for a few minutes, followed by As Is It When It Was.

Then they soundcheck The Village, with Bernard calling for "more bass sequencer, Ed. One two." stopping proceedings and than playing another take to adjust monitor sound levels, and then a full rendition, after which Bernard makes some comments regarding the sound quality.

Then follows some raucous guitar, what is presumably the riff to TV Eye by The Stooges.

The synth of This Time Of Night kicks in. Notice that all the sequenced songs are being run through in order. The take is aborted while keyboards, guitar, and bass levels are adjusted.

Another TTON (with full instrumentation and vocal) take begins.

This is followed by Way Of Life (brief vocal take), followed by Hooky talking about the PA and how it relates to his hearing. Bernard also makes come comments about the sound, and at this point the tape runs out.

Versions

AUD #1 bcingyou Sony TC-D5 / ECM 990-F (this)

AUD #2 unknown, soundcheck (ANA3)