Anyone have good memories of the event? Soon to be the third aniversary.
Mine are:
- Mud
- Rain
- CTC playing on a short-circuiting rig
- Losing my (cheating-whore) ex-girlfriend after Crystal
- Me looking stupid in the DVD
- Mud
- Mud
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Memories of Finsbury Park - 3 years on
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I have no memories, but I did have a souvenier in that I broke my fucking arm. Medical people tried to send me to hospital: "Fuck that!! New Or-DAH!!!".
You can see my bandaged appendage waving frantically throughout the DVD....
Biggest NOOL drink-up in history in the World's End pub for about 7hrs solid before the Order took to the stage!
Quality! 
yeeesss,lots of pints at world´s end pub,the wet pitch and a frozen night at liverpool street station.like hyde park this year?ok,i think we will drink another pub.
daniel wengorz wrote: yeeesss,lots of pints at world´s end pub,the wet pitch and a frozen night at liverpool street station.like hyde park this year?ok,i think we will drink another pub.
Christ, the amount of times I've spent a cold, miserable night outside Euston amongst the finest human waste London has to offer after gigs in the capital!! Never again. Thank God I earn enough to afford a hotel these days.....
And that Finsbury gig was at a weird time of year: what with the World Cup, I imagine a lot of us had been in the pub as early as 8 or 9am in the three or four days before, necking ale all day. Think I was still pissed from the Argentina game when I got to Finsbury!!!
remember being in the pub. & the ordah. down the front, mad dash back to the coach station for last bus home
Al Jarvis wrote: Biggest NOOL drink-up in history in the World's End pub for about 7hrs solid before the Order took to the stage!
Quality!
And me getting Baldrick to take my picture with just about everyone in the pub 
I can remember always having at least 2 bottles of Becks on the go at all times, cos it was a fookin nightmare at the bar, double and triple rounds were necessary. From the gig itself I can remember taking Jeff The Chef down the front with us, he'd never witnessed anything like it, murdered at its most horrid, we went to the side after about 6 songs to get more beer and stand with Lorraine. Loadsa memories of them daft buggers diving through the mud right in front of us. Muffy got several of us this upmarket hotel on the cheap, and I remember the look on the people's faces as we strolled through the lobby about midnight. Quality Piss Up, Quality Gig.
Al Jarvis wrote: Biggest NOOL drink-up in history in the World's End pub for about 7hrs solid before the Order took to the stage!
Quality!
Im sure that record will be in jepardy come Hyde Park 
I'd like to hear Jeff and Rocket's recollections. I can only guess wildly as to what their stand out memory might be.
Shug wrote:
Al Jarvis wrote: Biggest NOOL drink-up in history in the World's End pub for about 7hrs solid before the Order took to the stage!
Quality!
And me getting Baldrick to take my picture with just about everyone in the pub
The bar staff were fucking hilarious: they'd clearly seen nothing like it. This is a genuine exchange between two of the behind the bar at about 1pm:
Bar person 1: "Bloody hell, where'd they all come from?"
Bar Person 2 (clearly in awe): "Some of them have come from as far as Manchester..."
You'd think it was fucking Outer Mongolia from the way they were talking!!!
Finsbury was the first time seeing new order. My wife and I were on our honeymoon. Not really her thing, but she braved through the rain, mud and everyone up front :). I regret I didn't meet up with you all when I was there.
Actually, might have been a good idea not meeting up, or else my marriage might have ended there...:P
Oh yeah...let's all laugh at Jeff and Mick!!!
What a great time that is!!!
I'd just like to point out that my follies...follys...how is that spelled??? occurred the day BEFORE Finsbury...
My memories of Finsbury itself...
well, walked across London (from the Gloucester Road Station to Finsbury Park) in a mist...but I found it quite fitting...since London is supposed to be so dank and dreary...
Finally met up with the NOOLers not long before the order got on stage...made my way to the front with Shuglet and Baldrick...stuck around for a bit...felt like I'd gone a few rounds with Mike Tyson, then we retired to the side for beers and fags...
gig was wonderful...then we went to some pub, where several NOOLers endeared themselves to me...then I fooked off back to the hotel to get my way back home...
and life has never been the same since!!!
Cheers lads 
I was fookin pissin masel whilst digging round for them photies, espescially the one with Rocket Mick and his bandage!
Jeff, you should know by now that you and Rocket are here for our entertainment
I was there with Mrs Wonderer.
Just passed my accounting exams and got wasted. Fantastic day. Was up front with some of you lot i guess.
Stayed in a hotel on Seven Sisters Road. Traffic was mental all night outside the hotel window...didn't sleep a wink!!
The hotel was plastered with mud from fellow NOOLERS!!
Got tickets (not arrived yet!) for HP in a couple of weeks. Can't wait!!
Fookin' tremendous day despite the rain (or maybe because of it, as it kept us in the pub). If Hyde Park is anywhere near as good (and I suspect it may be better because the momentum has built up so much on here) it will be an unforgettable one. Hibster's round as well!
I take it from most of the posts here that the 'ardcore will be staying in the pub until the last minute? Like several others I really want to catch Rilo Kiley but ain't particularly fussed about the rest, which is a shame 'cos they'll be on first. However, if the weather is toss like at Finsbury I'll be staying in the boozer regardless. Either way, should be in the pub from about 2pm, depending on how shit Virgin trains/the WC mainline is....
- Didn't know anyone of you lot.
- Had to punch old woman who was screaming 'Love Will Tear us Apart' over and over whilst pulling my hair to try and get to the front.
- Lost my Miffy purse containing £20 in the mud.
- Nice lad sang Temptation to me, in the beer tent, think he was Welsh.
Got pissed, got wet, got muddy, NO, rain stopped, sun shone, great gig, World in Motion, World Cup, jumpers for goal posts.....Worlds End 
memories of you........
Brilliant day. The Grolsch was too tasty. Conversation with two fans of Air - they spoke no English I spoke no French, how did that work. Lost my coat, my hat, my mate. Danced like a Barney. And could relive it all again on dvd.
Doctor Clayhead wrote: I take it from most of the posts here that the 'ardcore will be staying in the pub until the last minute?
I have never been able to remember too much of ANY gig I've ever been to, which is why it's great to have Jarvo and Johnny Giles with you, they can tell you exactly what was played in almost the same order as the set. Barcelona was the most sober I've been at a gig and memories of that are STILL pretty hazy, I remember clinging onto DoN for dear life at times and singing along very loudly and badly whilst pogoing
Shug wrote: I have never been able to remember too much of ANY gig I've ever been to, which is why it's great to have Jarvo and Johnny Giles with you, they can tell you exactly what was played in almost the same order as the set.
Oi! No 'almost' about it. I can tell you what was played in what order at any gig I attend. Some of us don't have the attention span of goldfish, Shuglet!
Waved at the camera loads as it flew past, was quite near the front, but can I find myself on the DVD? Can I fook! Missed my best chance of being part of a New Order recording...
Still, started the long path of converting my now wife into (an eventual) mildly enthusiastic NO fan... A path of carnage surely littered with divorce papers and contact orders... I must be blessed!
Al Jarvis wrote:
Shug wrote: I have never been able to remember too much of ANY gig I've ever been to, which is why it's great to have Jarvo and Johnny Giles with you, they can tell you exactly what was played in almost the same order as the set.
Oi! No 'almost' about it. I can tell you what was played in what order at any gig I attend. Some of us don't have the attention span of goldfish, Shuglet!
Sorry, you lost me after "Oi" 
I really thought, I had stayed sober enough to remember song for song at Barcelona, but nope, Love Vigilantes was easy enough to remember as it rarely gets the opening song, kinda like Move. The only reason I could remember the rest of the set was cos it was same old same old as America basically. But when you started naming the songs after the gig.....I was like "Cannae remember too much about that one or that one or...." I do remember Road To Ruin being the best though
Hmmm - the day after the Barca show all I could remember was that they started with "LV" and ended with "Blue Monday". The rest I had to check on here!
I didnt take a coat or jumper and hence nearly got fucking hypothermia during the afternoon. And as much as i like Air, nothing was dragging me out of the relative warmth of that big tent/bar until 15 mins before NO. And then the sun came out etc etc. The passengers on the bus looked a bit bemused when 20 of us got on covered in mud
