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Ah, that's right - Stockholm Monsters - cheers.
The Powerhouse had some great bands on in the 80s - NO, The Cabs, Cocteaus, Sonic Youth, WIN.
Thinking about it, I got a signed copy of 'Brotherhood' in 86 when they did a signing session in HMV before the Tower Ballroom gig - I'll have to have a dig about for it in the loft !
North London Polytechnic January 22nd Jan 1982.
Highlights were some muppet jumping up on stage to dance during Ceremony I think, unluckily it turned out for him, right in front of Mr Hook - didnt quite get his fifteen seconds of fame lets say!
Temptation at the end was great, everyone was waiting for it.
The day before me Steve!
They opened with Temptation at the Imperial Cinema, I'd only heard it once before on a tape.
oldmonkey wrote: The day before me Steve!
They opened with Temptation at the Imperial Cinema, I'd only heard it once before on a tape.
So I should change my moniker to Old something too I guess?! Thats 24 years ago...!
Still listen to the tape quite often, think it was done by Eddie Wolfram gassing away to his nearest and dearest as he liked to do. Somebody shouts something like "Hit me mama!" a split second before Temptation starts.
I'd heard the instrumental Taboo #7 at Sheffield Poly back in 81 and wore that tape out, then they played it on Beeb2's Riverside on Jan 4th and that was me hooked!
Very tense they were, not a word to anyone I dont think, all part of the mystique back then!
My first NO, as opposed to JD, gig was Retford Porterhouse 2/1/81. I was on my first Xmas hols after going to Univ and it was a great chance to see to them after missing the oop North gigs in late 80 due to being at Univ in the south. It was a really cold winter, with snow & ice for weeks, and I can remember worrying all the way there that it would be cancelled due to the weather. Four of us went down to Retford by car,(an old VW Beetle with a broken heater - constantly wiping condensation and ice from the inside and outside of the car windows!) as no trains were running from N. Lincs. Anyway I remember a really good set with both Mesh and Cries & Whispers - yay! Any idea if bootlegs exist of this gig? It would be great to relive it 26 yrs on! We were going to try and get over to Leeds two nights later, but the weather stopped us. The next time I saw them was the London debut at Heaven. Then the Talbot Tabernacle and Reading Univ on successive nights.
I've got a good Retford CD - mail me DC and I'll send you a copy. Big copying batch happening tonight and tomorrow as I catch up with all the CDs I'm doing for people!
Another old bastard who's first gig was at Walthamstow, London in Sept 1981. Stood in the front row below Hooky who did not appreciate my camera flash in his face during Dreams Never End.:\ohwell: Suported by Dr Filth and Airstrip One, remember the singer of one of these bands looked like Nosferatu! Bit dissapointed as Simple Minds and Caberet Voltaire played the same night elsewhere.
oldmonkey wrote: I've got a good Retford CD - mail me DC and I'll send you a copy. Big copying batch happening tonight and tomorrow as I catch up with all the CDs I'm doing for people!
Cheers Tim. is yr e-mail address the yahoo one?
Wembley, December 1987.
They were wonderfully bad that night, if you know what I mean and I was absolutely blewtered on Pernod too.
I had to give up Pernod not long after but thankfully not seeing New Order live !
DC wrote:
oldmonkey wrote: I've got a good Retford CD - mail me DC and I'll send you a copy. Big copying batch happening tonight and tomorrow as I catch up with all the CDs I'm doing for people!
Cheers Tim. is yr e-mail address the yahoo one?
Mine's quite good quality too, surprisingly for that era. So were you the guy giving the cursory "wahey" after ICB?!
Mine was also Summer '89, an outdoor show looking down on the stage from a ski slope at a ski resort just outside of Park City, Utah--supported by PiL and the Sugarcubes. It was a great outdoor venue, although the band (excepting Hooky) seemed to be exhausted.
Steve Lea wrote:
DC wrote:
oldmonkey wrote: I've got a good Retford CD - mail me DC and I'll send you a copy. Big copying batch happening tonight and tomorrow as I catch up with all the CDs I'm doing for people!
Cheers Tim. is yr e-mail address the yahoo one?
Mine's quite good quality too, surprisingly for that era. So were you the guy giving the cursory "wahey" after ICB?!
Probably! I'll have a listen hopefully!
DC wrote:
Steve Lea wrote:
DC wrote:
Cheers Tim. is yr e-mail address the yahoo one?
Mine's quite good quality too, surprisingly for that era. So were you the guy giving the cursory "wahey" after ICB?!
Probably! I'll have a listen hopefully!
There's a really good chorus of 'More' after Ceremony at the end, you must have joined in that?! Then a big clunk as the tape was switched off - had yer nine songs already! DJ was playing Spandau Ballet as they came on too, quite an occasion then..
Wasim wrote: Henry J Kaiser, Oakland, about... 3 months ago?
I memory serves me it was a friday and I couldnt concentrate at school all day cos that afternoon we were off to see the Order. So excited was I that I made sure we left early enough to be at the venue a full 3 hours prior to the gig, which wasnt met with complete satisfaction - I thought my brother and my mate would have wanted to stand outside and listen to the band soundcheck Run Wild and True Faith!
Much waiting around later we got in and we position ourselves right up in front of Hooky's amps. Serious ear-damaging territory, and not the best sound quality. Next to us was a NOOLer who I remember asking how much he paid for his NO shirt: $40. Behind us during the gig in his Celtic shirt was Jeff, but I didnt get to talk to anyone else from here.
Oh and the Chemical Brothers were opening. They were good. I like a lot of their music. A lot of energy, a lot of noise, a lot of dancing. A bit tedious as it seemed to be one long song played by two men on keyboards - and it was! A few dickheads with dodgy punk gear got on me nerves when they kept feigning scared screams when the video screens showed strange looking clowns. I momentarily forgot about the Chems because Mr Dicken/Albrecht/Sumner or Joy Division/New Order/Electronic was watching at the side of the stage.
Lots of standing around and getting squashed in the waiting period after the gig. Some yank dickhead (no offence) tried to stop me from getting back to my place on my way back from the toilet. I tried to explain to him very politely that he was a dickhead who wasnt going to stop me from getting back to my spot but he didnt understand, repeating "You can either go around that way or that way, but you're not getting through here." Cock.
Anyway, the crowd got more rowdy when the Order arrived. But I loved it, squashed up against the railings. They opened with She's Lost Control, which no one expected. Ramblings about how they could have picked a better set list aside, it was brilliant. I was ecstatic to have seen the Order because I didnt think I'd get the chance - I was incredibly fortunate they chose to play so close to where I live. I loved the experiance and cant wait to see them again (hopefully).
Wasim--I was also at this show! If you didn't already know, in the MULTIMEDIA section on this site, there is a recording of the song 'Run Wild' from that gig.
Henry J Kaiser, Oakland
I actually flew in from Florida to see them that friday night! Man...i was so psyched!!
My very first NO concert was at the Shoreline (Near SF) for their Republic Tour (with 808 State). That was an AWESOME concert. I remember the band before them could not finish their set because they were having some sort of technical problems. When they announced they would not be able to finish... They received a standing LOUD ovation in prep for New Order taking the stage sooner then expected...If I am not mistaken, they played a wider variety of songs compared to the Henry J Kaiser Gig. Didn't Bernard jump off the stage or something (cant remember if he was runnning and seemed like he jumped off or if he actually jumped off). 
Mine was also Summer '89, an outdoor show looking down on the stage from a ski slope at a ski resort just outside of Park City, Utah--supported by PiL and the Sugarcubes. It was a great outdoor venue, although the band (excepting Hooky) seemed to be exhausted.
my most significant memory of that tour is how horrible the Sugarcubes were.. LOL
MDMA420 wrote: Henry J Kaiser, Oakland
I actually flew in from Florida to see them that friday night! Man...i was so psyched!!
My very first NO concert was at the Shoreline (Near SF) for their Republic Tour (with 808 State). That was an AWESOME concert. I remember the band before them could not finish their set because they were having some sort of technical problems. When they announced they would not be able to finish... They received a standing LOUD ovation in prep for New Order taking the stage sooner then expected...If I am not mistaken, they played a wider variety of songs compared to the Henry J Kaiser Gig. Didn't Bernard jump off the stage or something (cant remember if he was runnning and seemed like he jumped off or if he actually jumped off).
I too was at the Oakland gig in '05 and the Shoreline / Republic gig. The band that had to cut their set short was The The. I was quite pleased about that. Do you remember the bungee jumping and the Young Offender-On Limited Release T-shirt?
Andy Swan wrote:
G-Mex 1988 - The Hac on Friday, Man City on Saturday afternoon, gig on the night. Mayhem, pure mayhem
Gig on the Saturday night ? I remember it as being on a Thursday night
Maybe i'm mistaken
edit: sorry , no you're right.It was the saturday night.I got mixed up with the TOTP performance of Fine Time. That was broadcast the Thursday before the gig.
saenger theater, new orleans, LA 4/16/89
hook did a walkthru of the packed foyer. i rushed thru the crowd and grabbed his arm. when he whirled around quickly i could barely say a word. i raised my hand in greeting and turned away. to my best knowledge i was the only person who recognized him, or at least approached him.
hook came out on stage in the same white, malibu t-shirt with his hair held back in the same small bun-like ponytail.
i had described my meeting to all my friends and they were shocked to see that my pre-concert description of hook was accurate. i dont remember much to the show other than it ended with me making out with some strange girl who disappeared once the white lights came on.
First show; Market Street Cinema, San Francisco 1981... I think the godawful Simple Minds opened up and got booed off the stage before the band came on and cast a spell over the place... I remember seeing Greil Marcus pacing around just before writing one of the early major pieces about the band...
The same weekend I followed them to the I-Beam in San Francisco where they continued the haunting of the city... I think they closed with a very early version of Temptation that sounded so utterly fresh, alien and totally different to anything that was going on at that time that I cannot express it in words in 2006... to me this show was eclipsed only by the Echo Beach show in SF in 1983 which was the best rock concert I have ever seen in 40 years of concert going... the opening Age Of Consent remains one of the two or three most thrilling moments of live music my aging memory can recall...
Ajw
leb wrote: saenger theater, new orleans, LA 4/16/89
hook did a walkthru of the packed foyer. i rushed thru the crowd and grabbed his arm. when he whirled around quickly i could barely say a word. i raised my hand in greeting and turned away. to my best knowledge i was the only person who recognized him, or at least approached him.
hook came out on stage in the same white, malibu t-shirt with his hair held back in the same small bun-like ponytail.
i had described my meeting to all my friends and they were shocked to see that my pre-concert description of hook was accurate. i dont remember much to the show other than it ended with me making out with some strange girl who disappeared once the white lights came on.
You're lucky he didn't gub you if you grabbed him!
AJ Wells wrote: First show; Market Street Cinema, San Francisco 1981... I think the godawful Simple Minds opened up and got booed off the stage before the band came on and cast a spell over the place... I remember seeing Greil Marcus pacing around just before writing one of the early major pieces about the band...
The same weekend I followed them to the I-Beam in San Francisco where they continued the haunting of the city... I think they closed with a very early version of Temptation that sounded so utterly fresh, alien and totally different to anything that was going on at that time that I cannot express it in words in 2006... to me this show was eclipsed only by the Echo Beach show in SF in 1983 which was the best rock concert I have ever seen in 40 years of concert going... the opening Age Of Consent remains one of the two or three most thrilling moments of live music my aging memory can recall...
Ajw
And you've done nothing but criticise them ever since for failing to sustain this memory! 
1989 glasgow secc i was 18 a guy called gerald supported i was absolutely skint and didnt have enough money for the nice t shirt but got one a few months later when they played reading which is still my fav new order gig i think. last gig was a couple of months ago at the apollo in manchester.
James Crosland wrote: Hull Tower Ballroom March '81.
Likewise! only I was 16 :) I remember EGG being superb also remember some kid shouting "play a song for fat Janet" or something similar :)
