NO: 11 NOV 2001 L'Olympia - Paris, France
Setlist
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, Ruined In A Day, Blue MondayComments:
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:43:17 +0100
From: "N21"
Subject: (Fac33) Paris gig
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Emmm. WONDERFUL Paris gig.
Playlist is exactly the same as the UK shows. I am completely exhausted, back home after a 2hr drive in the fecking fog.
Tomorrow is me getting back to Paris AGAIN for the second show, but I'll make sure to review the gig just before leaving.
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Encore was Rock The Shack, Ruined In A Day, "Blue Fucking Monday" as Bernard
+mentionned.
It was the "press-play" version, of course :o( Dodo !
N21
> http://www.new-order.net/no/audio/iv/851210-barney_speaks_french.mp3 >
> I hope either N21 or anybody else proficient in French can translate
> what he's saying, assuming it's even understandable. The Barney of that
> time period was hard enough to understand in his native tongue. ;-)
Don't have time right now, I gotta get a new bone-breaking session tonight. They came onstage with Barney going like : "Je m'appelle New Order, Je m'appelle Bernard, Je m'appelle Pierre, Je m'appelle Stephane, Je m'appelle Phil Cunningham, Jem'appelle Crystal." - also I was right in front of Bernard, like 2nd or 3rd row, +with me head emerging from the whole audience (1m90) and bernard staring at me in the eyes during two third of the gig, finally pointing at me and admitting he never looked at me in a sexual way in his life before :op
Just before Transmission, he mocked at a guy wearing some bootleg Joy Division Tshirt, asking some guys where they were from ("Scotland", they shouted) and asking them what they wanted the band to play "no no we don't play Age Of Consent anymore..." Favorite bit was True Faith (with some additional Barney guitar riffs during the intro) and weakest moment was Bizarre Love Triangle cos I thought the song was slowed down a bit (in fact it seemed the whole set was slowed down), Bizarre Love Triangle, being one of my favorites, was not at its highest musical potential. Hook stayed for a minute or so at the end of LWTUA, playing bass for the song, the crowd chanting the chorus. Nice. At the encore, Bernard came back with his coat on, telling the crowd he was ready to leave already, some roadie took his coat off, and then, as he was finishing with the synth bits during Blue Monday, the roadie put his coat on as he was still playing, and then he just left. It seems to me the set was beautifully rendered, it looks like they didn't fucked up one song at all. The beginning of the show was a bit injuring, everybody got crushed, I thought I couldn't stand it really. It went quieter during Your silent Face and Atmosphere, thank god :o)
Rock The Shack, despite being nicely played, didn't seem to gain much interest from the audience. But all in all the band wasn't very talkative. Hook performed his whole old floor-sweeping bass routine.
From: "Mike Serieys"
Subject: (Fac33) Paris gig
Like, wow.
Right in front of Hooky throughout, who was regularly looking straight at me. My yells throughout of 'C'mon Hooky' were probably something to do with it, but still. Was hoping to get the drumstick, but he inexplicably gave it to someone in front of Barney.
Amusing bits as follows:
- Introduction in French - Quatre jeunes hommes plein de spunk...
- Hooky's bass breaking during Blue Monday, which was disappointing, but him playing the rest on a standard six string was worth seeing. And he managed it too, with finesse.
- The dedication of 'Touched by the foot of god' to Eric Cantona. As an Aston Villa fan, that was very funny, especially as Bernard has admitted to knowing nothing at all about football. Typical Man Utd fan.
- Understanding what they said, whilst the rest of the francophone crown were in stunned silence. Fantastic.
Anyway, just wish I could afford to go tonight, but hell, there's always France Inter.
My second NO concert, and definitely better than the last one.
Ciao,
Mike
Transcription, using the French "promo" 2xCD, labelled as being from the first night.
Alan Wise intro
AW: "Ah, look we have been told that we have to do the announcements in French because it breaks the law if we have to speak English to you. So I've brought my charming assistant Miss Fou Fou Lemond to explain what we're talking about.
Packet of crisps anyone, oh it got nasty there. Listen. You don't have to like bananas to enjoy these fine spunky boys who come from Rochdale. They're not the Beatles. They're not the Beatles. They're not the Rolling Stones. They're not the bananas. Instead, it's fucking New Order again!"
Crystal
BS: "Bonjor. We are New Order. As I'm sure you know. It's good to be in Paris again. One-two, one-two, one-two We're going to start the set tonight from our new album, it's called 'Cristal'.
BS: (at end) "Thank you. Merci beaucoup".
BS: "Okay we're going to continue with a very old song of ours by Joy Division, it's called Transmission.
BS: (at end) "'ack you. Woo. It's a lot hotter than last night, man."
Regret
BS: "Okay, this is Regret."
BS: (at end) "'Q. Woo!"
Ceremony
BS: "It's not my glass of orange juice. Here's to Paris. And Manchester. We got any Manchester United fans out there? I think that was a yes. We got any Liverpool fans out there? Fuck off, the lot of ya!
BS: (at end) "Thank youuuu...."
BS: "I'd like to take this moment in time to introduce my assistant guitarist, 'Filthy' Phil Cunningham. He's here with us only on a temporary basis, we'll see how he's getting along, it's a bit touch and go at the moment. He's in a group called Marion. That didn't get a big response did it, you've obviously never heard of them. All right, we tracked him out of the quarter and he's here with us tonight, we did him a big favor. How about a big thank you, Phil?"
BS: "Okay this is a track off our new album and it's called 60 Miles An Hour."
This features a different high-pitched chattering synth line during the chorus than I've heard elsewhere.
BS: (at end) "Thank you. Muchas gracias.
BS: "Okay we're going to steal things out a little bit now, and this is a very old song called Your Silent Face."
At 1:13 of KW1, Barney loudly exclaims, "boom!".
BS: (at end) "Thank you... (the 'you' echoes)
BS: "Are you enjoying yourselves?" in 'slow' English. He then says in bad French, "je m'appelle Bernard, je m'apelle Phil FIFA, je m'apell Stefan, je m'apell Hooky, unfortunately I can't speak any better French than that expect eh...(and a few words I can't make out, in French).
BS: "This is Atmosphere"
PH: "Alec, Alex (couple words) wherever you are, this is for you!"
Note that KW1/Atmosphere are flipped on the cut version that I received.
Close Range
(end of) BS: "'ank you. Merci beaucoup".
Touched By The Hand Of God
Sadly, the dedication mentioned above got cut from this.
lyric: "And I never fucked up like this so desperately before."
Whistles and whoops galore to close out the song.
BS: (at end) "Thank you."
Bizarre Love Triangle
Ends in a whoop.
BS: "'ack you!"
True Faith
A bit of a different guitar sound from Phil, in line with one of the remix versions.
Temptation
BS: (at end) "Thanks a lot."
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Acoustic guitar intro, as Hooky counts out: "1-2-3-4!"
BS: (at end) "'ank you very much, you've been a fuckin' great audience. It's great to be back in Paris. It's a beautiful city, you're a beautiful audience. Thank you everyone!"
Rock The Shack
A "woo" during the guitar intro. They have it as a triggered sample during the bridge.
Ruined In A Day
Quite a nice version of this 'Republic' track.
BS (at end): "'ack you!"
Blue Monday
BS: "Here's the fuckin' Blue Monday. Dread the day we ever fucking wrote it. Played it 5,000 times. I never liked it in the first fuckin' place. No, it's fantastic!"
Versions
SBD #1: two-disc French promo disc.
AUD #1 DS - Sony DAT w/Soundman OKM IIr. Two tracks (Regret & Close Range) on YT.
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