NO: 10 OCT 2001 Academy, Brixton
Crystal, Transmission, Regret, Ceremony, 60 Miles An Hour, Your Silent Face, Atmosphere, Close Range, Touched By The Hand Of God, Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith, Temptation, Love Will Tear Us Apart [encore] Rock The Shack (with Bobbie Gillespie), Blue Monday
Alan Wise introduces. Recording is faded up.
AW: "...Arthur Baker. You won't guess who that was. That, my friends was Arthur Baker. Just one, just one minute of your time before the band come on. Because I want to tell you something about them that will touch ya. These guys love music. These guys love music. Just today, they came up to me they said, "Dad, we want you to come and listen to this guy." And they took me to an old tramp in Brixton. They said, "Just listen to the beautiful music he's singing." And, listen, he was going, "My old mum's a dustman..." Which just shows that those fucking cunts have got no taste. Welcome, the band formerly known as Joy Division, NEW ORDER!"
Loud chants of NU ODAH NU ODAH NU ODAH.
BS: "Hello."
Hooky interrupts, can't make it out besides "You...". Bernard talks over it.
BS: "Sorry about that, I ain't got a clue what he wants."
Weird high-pitched female voice says, "Stand on me...I wan't to see 'em!".
BS: "Okay..."
She whines and then says, "Oh, stop it!"
BS: "It's been a while since we've played in London. Probably going back the region of fifteen years."
Female: "Fifteen years."
BS: "But believe you me, we've done some very interesting years in our private time. Hooky's got into Acid, 'en. Phil's gotten into bestiality. Stephen's gotten into the Beastie Boys."
Crystal
BS: "Anyway, this is Crystal."
Levels adjusted a bit downward at about 1:30. The woman continues to scream as if she's getting crushed, it's a bit unpleasant to listen to.
BS: "Thank you! Thank you."
Weird female voice mutters in another language, sounds like Chinese.
Transmission
PH: "That's very kind, you're very kind. This one's for Jane tonight, it's you're birthday, Jane. And we know what every girl wants on her birthday. Phil."
At 2:39, Hooky yells out (off-mic): "C'mon, you gits!"
BS: "Thank you. That was a bit of a surprise, wasn't it?"
Fade-out at this point.
Regret
BS: "I must apologize in advance for the whiteness of my trainers. They're not brand new, but they were a gift from Adidas [drum fill], our sponsors [cymbal crash] this evening. Only joking, we don't resort to sponsorship. Anyway, this is Regret."
(at end)
BS: "Thank you!"
Ceremony
BS: "Thank you very much. This next one, there's a group of English people that followed us around America recently on our tour when we supported Moby and, erm, there's a lot of requests for Ceremony, and this is for them."
A few seconds while they tune up a bit, and then they get right into it.
(at end)
BS: "Thank you!"
60 Miles An Hour
BS: "Wow, it's hot. You want a towel? I've not got any, anyone got one? It's not...anyway...give it back when you've finished."
(this is where he throws his towel into the audience and then asks for it back)
BS: Okay, this is...off our new album, it's called 60 Miles An Hour, it's about not quite breaking the speed limit, but getting up close to it, because we're all rebels, basically."
BS: "Thank you!"
BS mutters something, and then says, "Anyone got a towel?"
Your Silent Face
(original CD I have of this recording doesn't tracksplit here)
BS: "Okay, just to show that we're not about just throbbing guitars, this song features a throbbing melodica. If you don't know what one of them is, I'll show ya. This song is called Your Silent Face."
BS: "Thank you."
Atmosphere is missing from my version.
Edit at this point. Tape misses the first part of Bernard's introduction for the following song.
Close Range
BS: "...a little bit now with a song off our new album called Close Range."
(at end)
BS: "Yo!"
Touched By The Hand Of God
PH: (menacingly) "I know I'd fucking jump at you, you tight cunt!"
BS: "We're professionals...tune up...is the first thing. Okay, this is Touched By The Hand Of God...and it's about...God."
Really good version.
BS: "Thank you!"
Bizarre Love Triangle
BS: "All I can see are these fucking trainers. Everybody need a little room? I bought them in Glasgow two days ago. Had to do something while I was warbling off. Okay, this is Bizarre Love Triangle, features Ayatollah Hook on bass, Ayatollah Morris on keyboards."
Yes, this is what he actually said, it seems...unless someone can prove me wrong.
BS: "Thank you!"
More loud shouts of NU ODAH NU ODAH...
True Faith
BS: "You know, no matter how shit you get, it's nice to hear what a great bunch of songs we're written. Don't know if that makes you feel any better, but it certainly makes me feel better. And I'm not being [mutters] and this is True Faith, and we're just start fe...the gigs(?)"
(need a bit of help with the last part)
Intro funk-style guitar part is wretched. Bernard says "Whoa!" and people exclaim a bit...maybe he's dancing again.
BS: "Thank you!"
BS: "Well, thought that was young pants for a minute, Hooky."
PH: "He shouted, he didn't even fight me for that, you noticed."
Somebody cries for Mr. Disco.
Temptation
BS: "Okay, this is Temptation. No smart comments, nothing, just a beautiful song."
BS: "Good night(?)!"
Love Will Tear Us Apart
PH: "Ready, Bernard. Tell me when."
BS: "Yeah, I'm ready, ready, ready.
PH: "Ok. No, you're wrong. 1-2-3-4!" (probably directed at heckler, not Bernard)
Barney yells "Come on!!" about 1:45 into the track, and Hooky says "Here we go!" about 2:12 in.
BS: "Thank you! See you again in fifteen years. More like fifteen minutes." Fade out.
Fade in.
Some fiddling and tuning goes on before the Order start the encore. Hooky says "Hey Hey", though it could have been Phil for all I know.
Rock The Shack
Humorously, the liner notes credit vocals to a "Billy Gillespie".
BS: "Yeah, please welcome...on stage with us, Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream. We're gonna do a song off our album which he's featured on called Rock The Shack. We've played it six times, and fucked it up every single time. Actually if you wanna spot it, his guitar solo in the middle, let's give it another go. Here we go!"
And indeed they fuck up the intro.
BS: "Hang on...fucked up...whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. (can't make out whatever is repeated twice after this) Peter, pay attention please! I've gotta wait for you. Here we go, here we go again, start it, here we go. It's punk."
I hold the minority viewpoint that this is the better of two collaborations on the Get Ready album, but you probably wouldn't know it by listening to this. :)
Rock The Shack w/Bobby Gillespie (Everything Is By Design YT)
Blue Monday
BS: "Okay, let's see, what song haven't we played yet? It was a big hit in 1981...1982...1983...1984."
PH: "Let's go on, Bernard. Hahehehe."
BS: "This is Blue Monday."
Blue Monday is performed.
Really expressive instrumentation starting at the 5:30 point.
PH: "It's nice to be back, thank you. Good night, London(?) We could play for all bloody night, we're still up for it."
Comments
From: jo
To: <ceremony@monkey.org>
Subject: (Fac33) setlist 10/10/01
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:23:02
owww my ears really hurt... here's what was played tonight, it was bloody loud. And all the new songs were really distorted where I was sat, whereas the older ones came across brilliantly
From: "spiky"
To: <ceremony@monkey.org>
Subject: RE: (Fac33) setlist 10/10/01 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:00:27
Bloody Bloody Loud!
Wasn't sure I was going to enjoy them after all this time, but a very chirpy Bernard and a seriously posing Hook-meister made for a very memorable set. I took 3 NO newbies along and they were as enthusiastic as the die hards.
Roll on tomorrow night
Spiky
From: Andrew Balgobin
Cc: ceremony@monkey.org
Subject: Re: (Fac33) setlist 10/10/01
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:08:42 +0100
Seconded. ear-splitting stuff, but hooky's mannerisms and barney's chat made for a very fine gig. the roof came off the place for LWTUA. andrew
From: "Mark"
Cc: <ceremony@monkey.org>
Subject: Re: (Fac33) setlist 10/10/01
ate: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:14:08
Well, no time for a review at the mo, but the sound mix was rough as hell : Close Range sounded awful and all over the place (I didn't recognise it) True Faith (The intro was near enough the same) and Rock The Shack (just terrible full stop)
More later, see you all tonight, I swear I saw some listees there...
Mark
From: "Steve Waller"
To: "New Order Mailing List (E-mail)" <ceremony@monkey.org> Subject: (Fac33) Brixton
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:20:20 +0100
For some reason I just knew Barney was going to do the countdown in Temptation!
I agree with Dan's comments on the songs, Close Range didn't really work, and to have dropped BM, TBTHOG and True Faith wouldn't have concerned me.
I'd also almost forgotten Barney throwing his towel into the audience and then asking for it back.
I quite like Turn My Way, so would've been pleased to hear that. Absolutely nothing from Technique or Low Life either - sacrilege!
(he also goes on, in a seperate message...)
I agree with the others - sound was really awful at first - just like a wall of guitars. It did get better though. I don't think I've ever seen the band as chirpy, and to see Hooky roaming all over the place was an oddity - think it even surprised Barney as he told him to go back to his corner. Other good bits of banter were Barney admitting that 60mph isn't really that fast, giving the crowd an introduction to the melodica, and admitting they'd made a hash of RTS before (and promptly doing it again). Liked the cheesy lights going with the colours in Temptation.
First time I've ever seen LWTUA or Transmission, so both made it special.
They even had a female backing singer - whatever next - dancers?!!!
Someone remind me who introduced them? I know it's Alan something...
So, tonight would be great if we could have Dreams Never End or Everything's Gone Green, but I think I may be disappointed!
One last thing - selling Technique t-shirts there?!! Was that remaindered stock?
From: Daniel Butt
Cc: ceremony@monkey.org
Subject: Re: (Fac33) Brixton last night Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:15:24
Agree about the sound, but it did improve, so you should be alright tonight. Funny, cos normally the Academy's pretty good like that. I couldn't hear much of what Barney was saying, but he was certainly talkative. Have to get a boot and find out :) If I'm being hyper-critical,
a couple of the bits of the set are sounding a bit over-familiar now, TBTHOG and the Perfecto style True Faith in particular. I do think they could do some reprogramming. Crystal and (to my slight surprise) 60MPH were both fantastic, really rocking, and it's always great seeing NO do a track for the first time. Ditto, of course, Your Silent Face, although I wish now that I hadn't known they were going to play it. Still, one of my favourite NO songs, and a real treat to hear it - and obviously the same goes for Transmission. No "wooh!" after "we can dance", Michael! In fact, the yelps seem to have an increasingly harder edge. Ceremony and BLT were terrific some great riffs from the Hookmeister. Close Range was pretty much a non-event - not my favourite song on the album, and not a particularly good version. Wish they'd done Primitive Notion instead.
Still, gave me a chance for a breather. No "Turn My Way", thankfully. Went off pre-encore with Barney saying something like "See you in another 15 years. Or maybe 15 minutes", which gave us a clue that we weren't going to be in a Glasgow situation. I really enjoyed "Rock the Shack"! Barney said they always cocked it up, and they did, although it was (allegedly) Hooky's fault. Blue Monday was Blue Monday. "Barney: "There's one song left. Now, which song haven't we played? It was a hit in 1981 or 2 or 3 or 4...") I really think they're wrong if they think they have to play it. Imagine the rection if they did Perfect Kiss, or Procession, or, damnit, Round & Round instead. Never mind - still good to see Hooky pounding that drum thing and chucking his sticks into the audience.
Out of guilt of not paying him enough attention in the past, I spent a goodly time watching Steve last night. The man is a legend. Many thanks to the bizarrely mysterious benefactor who draped a (bootleg) T-shirt over my shoulders as I was tying up a shoelace outside the front and then disappeared. I'm wearing it now. No thanks to the absolutely-off-his-tits goon at the front who flailed about like a drunken Cyberman, refused to allow his legs to support his body and then had to pulled out the front by the bouncers - only to reappear 3 minutes later. Moderate your intake, my man.
(Chris Au says "hey, i was one of guys who helped lift him over the barrier. he wasn't exactly impressed...")
Best moment - Temptation - Barney, "One, two, three, FOUR!"
Dan
From: Ashley Williams
To: <ceremony@monkey.org>
Subject: Re: (Fac33) what time.
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:28:45
They came on at 9:15 although it looked like it might be earlier but seemed as if they were having probs with one of the bass amps (i think). Finished at 10:50.
Tube strike starts at midnight tonight but service could be affected earlier. Depending on where you need to get to (mainline) trains go from Brixton to Victoria...tomorrow night should be more difficult... (political rant deleted)
ash.
Quoting glenn cox :
> Hello,
> Can anyone tell me what time they came on stage > and finished last night ? With the tube strike tonight
> I am trying to find the best way back ......
>
> Glenn.
From: "Sijad Malik"
To: ceremony@monkey.org
Subject: Re: (Fac33) what time. (and setlist 10/10) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:34:27
they came on about 9.15 and finished about 11-ish. The tube strike starts at midnight so you should be alright.
The sound was loud yesterday, but the vocals were way too low. The new songs sounded shite and the audience didn't really respond, though I thought RTS was quite good. best bit though was Temptation followed by LWTUA, just amazing. I intend to get up at the front 2morro!
Versions
All three Brixton shows were taped by UKBT, Sony D6c / AT-9400. I don't have these recordings currently, as at one time, I must have since I have put out transcriptions...but know who does, maybe these will be featured in time for their 40th/50th anniversary.
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