New Order live @ Summercase Festival, Madrid & Barcelona - July 14/15
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Will keep this one brief. I've had some cracking weekenders away with this lot, but this was, quite simply, THE best weekend I've ever had away following New Order. Don't expect much from the band themselves these days but even they surpassed themselves. How the fcuk even they can screw up Ceremony is beyond me but it's one of the reasons I keep coming back. Again and again and again. And every single one of you who was there made it such a fantastic weekend for me. Special mentions to Dufford (he really does exist and is the soundest bloke you're ever likely to meet) and to Paul, Biggie's host for the weekend, for being such a star. Thank you all. I'm now just gutted they ain't giving us more weekenders like this one this summer. The Order are dead, long live the Order!
Oh, and Alex is a cunt. As everyone in my phonebook discovered yesterday arvo. 
Madreed -
Barca -
WHAT A FUCKING CRAIC!!!!!
It was just an amazing wee holiday.
I will keep it brief, cos I will do one of my stories when I recover.
Madrid - fooking brilliant. Barca - even better.
MANY MANY MANY thanks to Alex and Andy Robinson for getting me on my very first guest list for these two gigs. 
As Al says, Dufford and Paul were two great lads, keeping us entertained and cheers to Paul who had to keep asking for more beer for me in the pub yesterday as well as order my food :D
Octopus and Squid should stay in the sea.
Everyone involved in this wee mini tour was fucking ace, full story to follow soon.
NU ORDAH NU ORDAH NU ORDAH NU ORDAH 
Feeling wiped out after an easyJet 4 hour+ delay! However it was worth it! As El Jarvo has said one of the best ever NO jaunts. Besides the two spectacular performances, being with all you lot was absolutely brilliant. Barca was better first time that I have been surrounded by Vikings on the front 'row' as well as behind (knee barrier bruises to prove it!) which made such a difference. Shug, Bonz, Dave Legge, Ally were all up there with me (I 'protected' Shug by letting him cling onto me!)
- how the heck Bernard could wear a zipped up Adidas hoody and continue to execute his best dance moves in the Madrid heat is beyond me!
- apologies to any Starsailor fans who may read this. My rampage to the front for the last song and rapturous applause on both occasions was fake – early positioning is everything.
- good to see all the tattoos in their full glory
- Any bids for Big Clive’s blue sock gratefully received – wearing a bit thin around the toes, so it’s probably attended more NO gigs than I have!
I will remember more as the fog of tiredness passes and there are a few photos that are worth seeing that I will upload. Looking forward to seeing Dave's crowd shots.
Glad to see ye's finally got home! Total nightmare with the 4 hour delay, but well done to you and Greg for being such stars in Spain, I couldnae ask for a better bouncer on the front row.....no pun intended 
Top weekend, hats off to those that did both, not sure I had the energy for that, not in that heat. Liverpool probably a better gig, but Barca an all round better laugh. Good to put a few more faeces to names.
Only complaint was that friggin cameraman at the front taking shots for the big screen, kept pointing it in my face. fuck off!!!!
I gotta go to the Docs though..3 days on the lash and no hangover 
Gotta be something wrong with me :\ohwell:
yeh, I spotted the typo, though I'd leave it in though 
B.A...Is that the cameraman Hooky was saying"Just cos you got a camera,you think you own the gaff!!!Well do you Puuunk?"
Well sort of Without being Dirty Harry tho.
Hooky sounded narked on the broadcast
Superb weekend, as Al, Shug, Ness and Barney Army have mentioned - fcuking knackered now! :)
Anyway, good to meet up with Al, JG, Shugs, Dave Legge, Ness, Gregg, Big Clive, Wolfram, Mr & Mrs Milky, Mr & Mrs Manic, Ally, Digi Mike, Ren, Wolfram, German Order (confusion, Matize, etc - top lads!), Dufford, Gordie & Gary (Pompey Order), Andy (Hull Order), Barney Army & Bonz, BigInOil (Colin & mate), other Colin, Hi-Bell (!) and numerous others that I've forgotten (I'm crap at remembering names)!
To Madrid:
Met up at Luton airport with Al, JG, Shugs, and Dave Legge - just about managed to catch the plane, even though that was 45 minutes late taking off (good thing, too, otherwise we might have missed it)!
Madrid:
Got to the hotel, met up with Gordie and Gary (Pompey Order), and off to a bar for some drinks. Already there were Big Clive, Greg & Ness, confusion, Hi-Bell, Mr & Mrs Milky, and numerous others! Eventually got back to the hotel at 3am...
To another bar the next day - lots of organic beer, great Spanish food (Spanish Omellette, Potato Bravas - nice spicy spuds, plus seafood that I didn't have - being a veggie - and Shugs spat out!). Joined by the above NOOL'ers plus Wolfram, and others.
Off to venue - a major taxi ride (cost me & Dave 40 Euros!). I got "interviewed" for Spanish television (as did Gordie) - it probably won't be shown, though!
Beer = very expensive (had to buy tokens, and ended up being 6 Euros a pint... Also, watered-down San Miguel)... :-p BTW, both Starsailor and Keane are crap!
Great gig: had WFTSC and Turn in the setlist (no "Krafty"), plus a longer Perfect Kiss than previous gigs. Love Barney's comment about the World Cup ("fcuk the Portuguese!"). Bit of a fcuk up on the opening of "Ceremony", but turned out alright in the end.
Who beat up Bobby Gillespie? 
Barcelona:
Early start in the morning (had to catch a 10:30am flight in the morning, after only 4 hours kip) - Madrid airport a nightmare, queuing up for about an hour for check-in, another half an hour for security check, and a 45 minute late plane - arrived in Barca around 1pm...
Off to bar in a square near the Ramblas (called "Alex"!) - lots more beers, pizzas, Spanish food, and avoiding the pickpockets.
Off to gig: WFTSC and Turn were replaced with "Love Vigilantes" and "Krafty" instead. Perfect Kiss was shorter than Madrid, but seemed to have more guitar/bass parts? Better crowd in Barca - lots of manic crowd movement by all NOOL'ers!
I decided to get back to the hotel soon afterwards - too knackered, whilst others stayed and watched Primal Scream (Bobby Gillespie with black eyes!) and/or Chemical Brothers DJ set.
Next Day:
Woke up late on the Sunday, and back down to the Ramblas for a couple of beers and food with the reamining NOOL'ers in Barca. Managed to catch a taxi to the airport (last-minute check-in) only to find that the various EasyJet flights were delayed, so some more beers at the airport, and lots more on the plane (when it finally arrived - cheers to John on EasyJet for the plentiful beer supply)!
Now knackered, and have to go up to Telford for 3 days for work... Ouch... :dead:
Roll on October!
local news in madrid showed a wee bit about the festival & showed a clip of ceremony, though they didn´t pan along to hooky. mo other bands were shown, but the fact they had this clip makes you wonder if the whole gig was recorded for another dvd...
Digital Mike wrote: Think they only filmed the first 4 tracks Dave !
Yup, then members of the New Order crew told the cameramen to stop filming (much to their disgust)!
A brief one for me as well as I'm still a bit fooked (the lightweight I am) but once again cheers to all the usual faces and a few new ones for making it a very memorable couple of days. Barca is a fcuking lovely city and I would have loved to seen more of it.
New Order were on top form, a bit better than Liverpool I thought although there wasn't much in it. I had no idea they were going to play Love Vig (first time this year?!) but that was defo a highlight. The crowd erupted at that one and rightly so.
How big were those beers we were knocking back on Saturday, Shug?! I told you "Dos grande" wasn't 2 small! :D No regrets though
Photos to follow a bit later.
P.S. Ness and Gregg, good to hear you made it home safely after your nightmarish delay :)
Nick King wrote:
Digital Mike wrote: Think they only filmed the first 4 tracks Dave !
Yup, then members of the New Order crew told the cameramen to stop filming (much to their disgust)!
the crew rule!! 
Bloody Hell, it's hotter in London than in Spain!!
Or maybe it's just that I've not got a constant flow of beer to cool me down today. 
A few big are needed...
To Biggy Col and his local mates, Paul and Lisa for the hospitality in Barca.
I hope the new owners of the apartment appreciate that Jarvo went to the trouble of trying to clean the shower after using it
To Greg for showing me the food stall at the Barca gig.
You are a star, Sir and I might have starved to death without your help.
To Mark Pompy Order for the fishing tips that helped us hook a couple of cabs in Barca.
Congrats on your 50th and 51st gigs, fella.
To the booking clerk at Barca station who managed to get me onto a full train early enough to get me back to Madrid for the flight home.
To Shug, Ness, Al, JG, Bonz, Wolfram, Nick King, ATR, Diggy Mike, Ally, Barney Army, Milky & Maria, Hibster, Gordie and each and every Nooler on tour.
You're all fuckin' MINT
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The photos from Barca number 160.
And there's not a single one of the band.
I'll have a load of them uploaded when I get home from work sometime after midnight.
Ness Order wrote:
- apologies to any Starsailor fans who may read this. My rampage to the front for the last song and rapturous applause on both occasions was fake – early positioning is everything.
Ha ha ha!! Quality
Dave Legge wrote: I hope the new owners of the apartment appreciate that Jarvo went to the trouble of trying to clean the shower after using it
What did I do?! Saturday evening is rather a blur. 
El Jarvo wrote:
Dave Legge wrote: I hope the new owners of the apartment appreciate that Jarvo went to the trouble of trying to clean the shower after using it
What did I do?! Saturday evening is rather a blur.
You didn't block the plug hole up with body hair did you?! Disgraceful! 
Definitely a lovely flat, did you look out of the "inside" window in Col's room?
A drop and a half that.
El Jarvo wrote:
Dave Legge wrote: I hope the new owners of the apartment appreciate that Jarvo went to the trouble of trying to clean the shower after using it
What did I do?! Saturday evening is rather a blur.
We were just leaving and I went for a piss. You followed me in and went in the shower. You said, "It's alright, I'm going to flush" and then turned the shower on...
While standing under it. 
At the time I said it was a pity that I'd probably forget about it happening. Thankfully I didn't
just returned from barca ...
the three days with the vikings were very amazing. thx to all, especially to greg for the meeting point communications. new order played their best gigs in the last year. the festival area in barcelona with the sea was fantastique, in Madrid it wasn't. you couldn't sit in Madrid on the floor. the organisation in madrid especially with the after concert shuttle bus-service was terrible. in barca it was, how you could expected this. the prices for beer was 50% higher than during the football world cup. you only needed one two days-ticket for both shows.
Great weekend, what a laugh we had.
Judge a man by the company he keeps and I am one great geezer.
Can't think of one person to single out for special praise - the whole team was on top form.
For the record, the band were amazing too.
And there are 97 stairs up to that flat! I counted them several times on Sunday.
Dave Legge wrote:
El Jarvo wrote:
Dave Legge wrote: I hope the new owners of the apartment appreciate that Jarvo went to the trouble of trying to clean the shower after using it
What did I do?! Saturday evening is rather a blur.
We were just leaving and I went for a piss. You followed me in and went in the shower. You said, "It's alright, I'm going to flush" and then turned the shower on...
While standing under it.
At the time I said it was a pity that I'd probably forget about it happening. Thankfully I didn't
That's a fantastic story - we will never let him forget it. Nearly as good as his Re:Order/Ashton fall!
Lisa was watching the whole thing.
She was someone put out by the experience 
Her other favourite story from the weekend involves Dave L but is not for t'net!
Ness Order wrote: That's a fantastic story - we will never let him forget it. Nearly as good as his Re:Order/Ashton fall!
What do you mean, never let him forget it?!
It would help if I could remember it in the first instance!
That is a classic.
But the funniest thing I had all weekend (other than Alex asking for Condoms with his breakfast) was the story of Col and Pauls mate in a pub in Hulme, Manchester. I havnae laughed so hard since meeting Rocket Mick and Garymac in Dukes 92 before MOVE!!!!!
Johnny Come Lately wrote: Lisa was watching the whole thing.
She was someone put out by the experience
Her other favourite story from the weekend involves Dave L but is not for t'net!
Can't you tell us about Dave L by e-mail then??! Can't imagine him doing anything that bad! He ain't half as wild as Al
Arrived back this afternoon, got the overnight train from Madrid to Paris and the Eurostar home. Luckily we were not in the carriage with the broken aircon....
Big thanks to everyone we met for making it a really excellent weekend, definitely one to remember.... if you can...
Mrs Milky wrote: Arrived back this afternoon, got the overnight train from Madrid to Paris and the Eurostar home. Luckily we were not in the carriage with the broken aircon....
Big thanks to everyone we met for making it a really excellent weekend, definitely one to remember.... if you can...
Good to see you again Mrs and (Mr of course). Thanks for your touting abilities too!!
Ness Order wrote: Good to see you again Mrs and (Mr of course). Thanks for your touting abilities too!!
Glad to have been of service! Just gutted I felt ill on Saturday night and had to sit up the back and watch it on the big screen. Would have preferred to have been up the front again with you and Greg.
