Rare Rehearsal/Demo Tape On eBay

In 1988, I was a simple bricklayer working in Box, Wiltshire, UK. Just around the corner from the executive houses I was building was Peter Gabriel's Real World studios.

Incredibly, I just wandered in there one lunchtime to find an empty studio full of instruments, where New Order were recording. The engineer from that recording session gave me a cassette.

The cassette is labeled A&M Studios and has "*New Order* (Various Takes)" typed on both sides. On Side 1 is hand-written "Ideas from Recording etc Jun/Jul etc". On Side 2 is hand-written "Rehersal [sic] - 25/4/88".

Side 1 starts off with some rather tinny jamming, samples, etc. However, the sound quality soon improves and there are lengthy jams, short snippets of conversation (presumably from Peter Hook and Barney Sumner) and various samples of instrumentation, including a couple of rough takes of complete songs. Most of the music has no vocals, but there are a couple of tracks with vocals. Not being a huge New Order fan, I'm afraid that I can't say whether these are early rehearsals of known songs or unreleased rarities!

Side 2 consists of numerous remixes of Blue Monday (I know that song!). They all differ in as far as they have odd samples, loops and synthesizer parts incorporated. It is also interspersed with some rough jams by the boys (and girl!), some bass lines by Hooky and a bit of noodling from Barney.

This tape is totally original and a one-off. I have not made any copies, so it is a totally unique piece of New Order memorabilia. You can find it at:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4833389128&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

anyone heard of this before and know what it might contain?

Unfortunately it's being sold by someone who doesn't know anything about the band and what the tracks might be.

Depending on who gets it we may never know.

Technique rehearsals seems the most likely although I'm not sure why Blue Monday should be on it.

Blue Monday 88 version I would guess.

Tom - make some copies and flog them as well, it's gonna end up with a collector otherwise, and none of the genuine hardcore will ever get to hear it! Plus you will make more money.

At the moment i am the highest bidder so if all goes well we will soon know what it contains :)

It would make sense for other NOOLer's not to start a bidding war on this one and hopefully the eventual winner can make these tracks availble to all!

of course i will make it available to all if i win that is !

i would be only to willing to trade copies for other new order electronic stuff its only fair :)

well I wish you good luck with the auction!

Hello everyone

look at this other new order item available on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-ORDER-Peter-Hook-Signed-Album-Flat-RARE\_W0QQitemZ7589234126QQcategoryZ61QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

was international and retro released as a joint album in the US ?

Blue Monday 88 version I would guess

that's a possible, although I thought that would have been done without the band involved, by Quincy Jones and in the US not Real World.

Maybe the tape has/had some mixes of BM88, then the band taped rehearsals over some of it. This could explain why there are handwritten additions to the labels.

The going bid is 5.50 which isnt going to land it so lets all cross fingers and give moral and other support to Fac 51 on Saturday..!

Hi guys just thought i would give you an update

The current highest bid on the New Order tape was £5.50 and i put a maximum bid of £30 on it of £30.00 to secure it , this was outbid today by someone bidding £31.00 on it and putting a maximum bid of £40.00 on it , i have bid again with £41.00 with a maximum bid of £50.00 to try and secure it , hopefully this will get us the tape and i can start to trade with you guys for other New Order/Joy Division/Electronic stuff :) but if it goes past the £50.00 mark i am afraid i won't be able to bid any higher , If i am outbid again i will post it on this forum so that someone else can step in and try

Hello, simon090970 (33Feedback is 10 to 49)

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Bidding: Bidding on: 1 Winning: 1 Winning cost: £41.00

Won: Quantity: 0 Amount: £0.00 (Last 31 days) Back to top Items I'm Bidding On (1 item) Customise Display Show: All | Winning (1) | Not Winning (0) Picture Current Price My Max Bid Postage Cost Time Left Action NEW ORDER. CASSETTE OF PRACTICE SESSIONS & DEMOS. RARE View Seller's Other Items £41.00 £50.00 £1.50 4d 04h 30m

nothing like this is ever won or lost this early.

A whole load of last second bids are where this gets played out.

Well hopsfully the last bid was a rogue one and £50 will be good enough , if not like i said i will announce it on here so another member can have a crack at it

I wonder if Barney & the gang bid on here for rare new order stuff ?

The way the price has gone up today i reckon this will sell for at least a ton. Only pray its someone off here that win it, then at least we can weed it etc. I by the way am not bidding- need money for next weeks babyshambles gigs

first time poster, many time conjecture-er--

do many people who claim to not be that familiar with new order refer to peter hook as 'hooky' as the seller has done?

something to think about if we aren't getting a tracklisting and with the proliferation of the basement tapes bootleg.

of course, theories aside, it may very well be technique-era recordings.

I, for one, would gladly pay upto £30 for a copy of this. Surely we could club together and create an account with enough wedge to buy it? Just a thought.

Andrew Sayer wrote: The way the price has gone up today i reckon this will sell for at least a ton. Only pray its someone off here that win it, then at least we can weed it etc.

I'm still waiting to weed :) I hit the required amount. maybe someone moved the (goal)posts? :)

Its at 51 quid today, same person who took it above 30, but if you look at his buying profile you wouldnt say its NO or nothing..!

sorry guys it has gone over my £50 limit now i am afraid it is up to someone else to take over on this one

i would say we could club together and buy it but how would we share it , i mean besides making sure all those who want a copy gets one who would keep the original ? , we should really have a NOOL bittorrent link where we could all share on

Simon

duroc wrote:

Andrew Sayer wrote: The way the price has gone up today i reckon this will sell for at least a ton. Only pray its someone off here that win it, then at least we can weed it etc.

I'm still waiting to weed :) I hit the required amount. maybe someone moved the (goal)posts? :)

Sean, scroll down the Forums till 'Weeding'(its after Community i think) Enter that & see whats what. If you need owt drop us a line

If anyone is interested, barney69 (the 51 quid bidder on this) says he/she is a Nooler! And Tom is not going to make any copies...

Steve Lea wrote: If anyone is interested, barney69 (the 51 quid bidder on this) says he/she is a Nooler! And Tom is not going to make any copies...

I hope a kind NOOLer wins and shares this.

One Brain wrote: I'm sure David Sultan is going to win this auction and we will never have the chance to hear these gems.

Ricardo

tente fazer uma proposta referente a nós nos cotizarmos e bancarmos esta fita evitando que o David caso entre no leilão ganhe isso. Seria uma boa iéia não achas?

Andrew Sayer wrote: Sean, scroll down the Forums till 'Weeding'(its after Community i think) Enter that & see whats what. If you need owt drop us a line

Nothing happening mate, tried IE and Mozilla still see nothing in side bar or the main page, ah well back to soulseek and bit torrent :)

it's quite possible David already has something very similar as it matches one of the tapes he bought previously (remember the box of tapes)

duroc wrote:

Andrew Sayer wrote: Sean, scroll down the Forums till 'Weeding'(its after Community i think) Enter that & see whats what. If you need owt drop us a line

Nothing happening mate, tried IE and Mozilla still see nothing in side bar or the main page, ah well back to soulseek and bit torrent :)

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