YOUR FIRST NEW ORDER GIG?

supervboy wrote: First NO gig was 17 December '88 at the GMEX in Manchester. They played Fine Time off the then unreleased Technique album. Barney made a comment about their samples possibly not working. Everyone sang along to Ceremony.

My mate reckoned he saw Hooky in the crowd during the support which was from ACR and the Mondays. Will always remember Bez in oversized jumper shaking his maraccas.

First time but definitely not best NO gig I have been to.

That was my first 'un as well - my first gig ever in fact. I spent most of it in a strop as I was bored by my pisshead uncle and his mates who'd taken me (we'd been in the pub since midday, I was only 14 and hence wasn't drinking). I'd never seen so many pissed young people in one place before, and didn't understand how this little cult group could pull so many punters. And they didn't play Blue Monday which pissed me off no end.......

....how times change, eh?

Roskilde Festival 1993. Great concert as far as I remember. I was hoping they would play Sister Ray since Velvet Underground performed earlier that night or possible the night before. Well, they did´nt but they did play Special for the only time so the gig was a great experience anyway.

bansheeman wrote:

monty wrote: Go on>What was your first NO gig?Mine was 83,the Low-Life tour.Not the first time I'd been in THe Hacienda,M/C,but the first time I'd seen a gig there.Also first time I'd been to a gig when the crowd are pogo-ing around you.Being an uninitiated spotty oik who was used to seeing gigs at the Apollo with seats in front of you,I was pogo-ing against the tide,and I was fucked after half hour.I sweat that much,you could have made a pan of chips! Always remember after a few at the front were dragged out,Tony Wilson come on..."Come on come on..get back.They're a bunch of ugly bastards anyway!" Favourite song of the night,toss up between Temptation and This Time Of Night,which I heard them sound-checking early on.

Anyway,despite losing two stone,I got up to the front and I've still got some decent photos of the gig.If I get access to a scanner,I'll post them on the site.I was THIS close to Gillian...oh you can't see my hands. That's what I said to her!

i was at this gig too.which i am sure will get me an extra request on the night of your new order disco

Heh heh!! You can have as many requests as you want mate. I can't wait to play again.Last time I started the set off, using the pub's amplifier set, I started the set with FINE TIME.The F**king bass rocked!! I remembered thinking "I've got to get me one of these!!!" Back to the Hacienda gig,I'm popping into library on Thursday to use scanner,I'll post those piccies on forum.See you there mate,and anyone else who wants to come!

Hyde Park, 05. Yes, I know, but give me a break--I'm 16, after all. I thought it was amazing, but my opinion is probably a bit biased, and understandibly so.

Phil wrote: Wembley Arena 10 December 1987, 16 years old. My first ever gig by anybody, and still my favourite gig ever. Supported by Primal Scream, in their very early days - I seem to remember Bobby Gillepsie stumbling around drunk, and nearly/actually (can't remember which) falling off the stage. Highlights were Face Up - somewhat surprisingly, as on disc it's never been one of my favourites, but a blistering live version - LWTUA, which at the time was rarely played, and Sister Ray which was even rarer and seemed to go on forever! Still sounds good on the recording I've got of it.

Ditto. Do you remember everyone vaulting the barriers to get down the front when NO came on? Absolutely fantastic. Opened with TBTHoG.... Amazing night.........ah well........

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Montpellier 1989

The Haçienda must be (re)Built wrote: Sheffield Roxy - July 87

Highlights - Do The Ostrich & the star trek samples

yeah i was the Roxy gig too.one of my favourite NO gigs. Do The Ostrich!.Only found out recently that is a Lou Reed song.At the time i thought it was a new New Order song and although it was great live i couild never imagine it released.

Jan 86 - SFX hall in Dublin - both nights. First night i went on my own 'cause 'billy-no-mates' had only one friend who wanted to go & he would only go for the second night.

Highlight: actually was Blue Monday about 3-4 songs into the set on the first night - best live version of this song & Bernard belted out the lyrics while 2000 of us jumped & 'sang' along:D

NYC this year. Tried to see them on the Republic Tour, but no dice.

GMEX 1988 - supported by ACR and Mondays - fantastic times

I first saw New Order at Northampton Roadmenders Club, February 1981. Stockholm Monsters (the singer threw his bongos into the crowd then asked for them back at the end of one of their songs) and Section 25 supported. New Order played a 45 minute set and were simply amazing. They looked cool, doomed but not doomy, and they sounded magnificent. I seem to recall they had a quad PA in the hall. Some locals at the front who had no idea who they were started heckling Bernard, trying to put him off. Unfazed and ignoring them, they crashed into Ceremony. Wicked. It was so long ago but seems like yesterday. I've since seen them loads over the years and I reckon they're still as good today, but you never forget the first time , do ya?

Haus Nied in Frankfurt 1984.

Went from London on one of those coach/gig/hotel packages. Amazing experience.As nobody knew many people on the coach there wasn't a whole lot of communication.The coach(s) dropped us off outside the venue and everybody just piled into a little bar on the corner. In no time everybodys connecting.

Remember the band being a bit taken aback by the rowdy UK contingent in the pit. They played Hurt my fave all time B-side and encored with In a Lonely Place, which I believe must have been named after the film of the same name. Spookily that film is on Sky movies now !

Ended up that night in a gay club populated by US servicemen. Bit of an eye opener for an 18yo heterosexual!

Happy days.

My first gig was at the Berkeley Greek Theatre on September 18th, 1987. It was their first of two nights at the venue and New Order and Echo & the Bunnymen were swapping headline slots each night on the tour. On the 18th, New Order was second on the bill in between Gene Loves Jezebel (horrible) and the Bunnymen (superb).

The highlights of their set for me were the bookends. They opened with Touched by the Hand of God (which I hadn't heard nor even heard of) which sounded otherworldly and had a quite a strange effect on me as I had spent the weeks leading up the gig endlessly speculating on what the opener would be. The final track of the night was a stomping run through The Perfect Kiss in which Barney referred more specifically to his "pleasure zone".

Gerhard wrote:

Friendchip wrote: Dublin SFX Theatre January 24 & 25 1986...It was fu$%ing freezin'.Bernard told us to complain to the promoter about the lack of heating in the hall,it was baltic!Changed my life for ever.Last song of the Saturday was'Atmosphere',couldn't believe what i was hearing.Still have both gigs on bootleg tape...and the rest as they say is history!

One of those nights was my first gig also, Stockholm Monsters were the warm up act and were in a worse mood than New Order that night ! Still one of my favourite New Order gigs and Stockholm Monsters became one of my alltime favourites

So thats at least 3 of us on here who started at those SFX gigs

thats a point-was anyone else at queensferry/deeside futurama sept 82 i remember them walking off at end and leaving egg running for the longest ive ever heard of. icicle works and the wake were on,but i dont remember fuck all else--BIG drinking

Hull city hall in 1984 i think.Im sure they actually opened with Blue Monday.Seems an eternity ago now

Chilly February evening in 1985 at the Caley Palais in Edinburgh. Wake as support. Edinburgh was never their most responsive audience but a memorable first gig nevertheless. Mostly Low Life material which I hadn't heard before. Highlight in retrospect would have been LETS GO. Experienced 2 more gigs up till 1987 then an 18 year sabbatical until Hyde Park this year. Thankfully they still managed to make my spine tingle.

My first gig was at Alexandra Palace 98' for the new Years eve show. Awesome night. The highlight had to be when Bez came on stage for Blue Monday. I was an inch away from picking up Hooky' drum stick that he through ou after the song, I could'nt bend down in time to pick it up!!!!

I also saw them at Finsbury Park in 2002. Pissed it down with rain during the day, especially during Air.

Went to Hyde Park, where it also rained! Highlight on that day was Love Vigilantes, was gutted when I heard they couldn't play Everythings Gone Green because of tech probs.

Brighton Centre - 28 March 1986...

Chris

well i have been into nu ordr for 22 yrs now and my first Nu ordr gig was at wembley arena on the 10th of dec 1987.this is because my parents wouldnt let me go to a Nu ordr gig till i was 15.i loved the set which i had on a cassette until a few yrs ago. i thought it was wonderlicious.i remember barney saying "this song is for gene loves gezebell as they are big fans of ours"then played brocken promise off the brotherhood LP.

LOL

BONDY 05

the quote you mentioned was said at the tolworth recreation centre about march 10th 1983 which opened with blue monday as well.this could have been the first time blue monday was played live. i have a cassette of the tolworth gig which is good stuff.

nice one

bondy 05

Hammy Palais Nov 1985, it was cold outside and I got my car bashed into before the gig on the Hammy roundabout (git!). ACR supported. NO played Elegia which was fantastic. I remember lots of blokes in long overcoats!

They finished with (by doing a rare encore in those days) a tune....and I quote "for all you meat-heads out there....".

Any guesses - yep it was Blue Monday even way back then they were sick to the back teeth of plaing it, so how do you think they feel these days? 'Bout the same as us die-hards having to listen to it too!

AgentWood wrote:

Digital Mike Binoche wrote: The worst support I ever saw at a New Order gig was The WAKE - Shite

best support act (of the shockingly numerous gigs i've been to)--PIL.

*How can you be a New Order fan and not like The Wake? There's so much New Order spirit in them... maybe you've seen them when they shot the Uniform video at the Hacienda... it's so intense... they hadn't a good stage presence, but the music is wonderful... PIL must have been fantastic. My first gig, you know it, was Apollo 98. Lucky debut: seeing New Order reunited with best gig ever and also discovering the best support ever from Gabrielles Wish!

i was gutted when i missed joy division at the warehouse in preston, so imagine my disbelief when posters started appearing around chorley (new order where joy division)tatton comunity centre.81 now i swear to this day that it was new years eve they played although gigography says not?. even though i was really pissed at the time i do recall that they looked and acted very odd,almost scared. they played the usual suspects for the time but for me ceremony was the highlight,having slept with the 7" single under my pillow for months. next time was hacienda may 83 and WOW what a difference the confidence they had gathered was imense,the sound awsome,you just had to have been there it was totally amazing, i walked out at the end of the gig clutching my hacienda credit card membership thingy and thinking it was the best thing i had ever invested in. probally still is.

ive never heard chorley called lunar city but ive heard it called something similar i had a 1983 membership card,really wish now that i'd have kept it safe.:(

my first NO gig. welll.... i havent been to one cuz i live down here in texas and they never come down here at all. but hooky is supposed to dj down here so im gonna go to that if i have to fight my way in. and then ill post again. i cant wait. but anyway, turn your eyes from me, its time for me to go.

Hasn't happened yet.

Tell you what, if they come to Brisbane next year, as in months before I turn 18, and its an over 18s venue I am going to be seriously, seriously angry. The wrath of mil will be upon all.

bondy wrote: the quote you mentioned was said at the tolworth recreation centre about march 10th 1983 which opened with blue monday as well.this could have been the first time blue monday was played live. i have a cassette of the tolworth gig which is good stuff.

nice one

bondy 05

It was the first time they'd played Blue Monday at Tolworth, but it had been played a few times before that. It was the day that the Blue Monday 12" was released though!

Still waiting for it .