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Sure this has been asked and answered before but..........
Is there any official or bootleg footage of New Order, A Certain Ratio, or the Mondays from this gig?
Very fuzzy memories, the clearest being the Mondays being on stage before the doors had opened................
Mondays weren't on before doors opened but they only did 6 songs, 5 of which were off the new album Bummed, from what I remember? Looking back, sounds like a good set, but in reality, at that time, it was shit (opened with Country Song, hilite was Tart Tart?) cos it was just new stuff.
There's a bootleg video for New Order, Jake. Shot from miles back. Just looks like one big fcuk off mental rave with strobes going everywhere!!!
EDIT: ACR were fucking shit though. All new stuff off that bollocks album they did for EMI, was it? Had the blonde bird (Flo?) singing most of the stuff. Awful. Level 42 eat your heart out.
My memories of this gig were that ACR were shit, the Mondays were riotous with Shaun Ryder singing the new songs from a piece of paper, Rowetta was wearing a blue Teddy with thigh high black kinky boots, Tony Wilson was wearing a big grey overcoat and had a smug smile on his face as if to say 'Aren't I brilliant', and NO were just brilliant. Barney when introducing the new songs from Technique kept saying 'heres another new song you wont like - give it 5 years and you will'
great gig happy memories
darran clarke wrote: My memories of this gig were that ACR were shit, the Mondays were riotous with Shaun Ryder singing the new songs from a piece of paper, Rowetta was wearing a blue Teddy with thigh high black kinky boots,
Might be wrong, but am sure Rowetta weren't there then?
Way, way before her time? 
El Jarvo wrote:
darran clarke wrote: My memories of this gig were that ACR were shit, the Mondays were riotous with Shaun Ryder singing the new songs from a piece of paper, Rowetta was wearing a blue Teddy with thigh high black kinky boots,
Might be wrong, but am sure Rowetta weren't there then?
Way, way before her time?
Memory is shot here. December, '88 ish if i recall?.. Some fucker will correct me, no doubt. Rowetta didnt hit the scene til over a year later, as far as i can remember. Think she started doing stuff with them just after Oakenfold remix of Hallelujah hit the shops, and on record on 'Step On' in mid 1990. I dunno. Tis all a bit blurry, still.
Was this the gig where NO fucked up the intro to 'Fine Time' and Barney restarted it by saying 'Go for it Gillian' etc..
Burt Reynolds wrote: Was this the gig where NO fucked up the intro to 'Fine Time' and Barney restarted it by saying 'Go for it Gillian' etc..
Jake- Video was shit (a la Bournemouth town hall) Think it was either shot from the back or seats at the back/side, but terribly blurred.
Mondays were shambolic but good, not as good as the Ritz showcase 2 months earlier disdappointingly (Rowetta was not even in the plan at this stage). As Jarvo- mentioned they started with 'Some C*nt from Preston' (Country Song)
Again, As Al etc... said ACR were going through one of their 'crap' phases after signing to a major (A&M) (just as sad & crap as their T&C Club show a bit earlier).
Why they do this i'll never know but it irritates the f**k out of me.
I thought the day was terrific - met some Macclesfield lads who we (Darlo) had 'encountered' 2 months previous in a F.A cup game down their way
As I had broke my foot (pre met-arse-al fad) I sat in the seats on the left right by stage, never seen a crowd going wild from stage to back before, too naive to know disco pills had arrived, could see the Mondays were dancin around to NO behid the stage, saw mr Echo and the Bunnyman in the entrance before thought he may jpoin them again not they needed his help great night if my memory serves me well.
Burt Reynolds wrote:
El Jarvo wrote:
darran clarke wrote: My memories of this gig were that ACR were shit, the Mondays were riotous with Shaun Ryder singing the new songs from a piece of paper, Rowetta was wearing a blue Teddy with thigh high black kinky boots,
Might be wrong, but am sure Rowetta weren't there then?
Way, way before her time?
Memory is shot here. December, '88 ish if i recall?.. Some fucker will correct me, no doubt. Rowetta didnt hit the scene til over a year later, as far as i can remember. Think she started doing stuff with them just after Oakenfold remix of Hallelujah hit the shops, and on record on 'Step On' in mid 1990. I dunno. Tis all a bit blurry, still.
Was this the gig where NO fucked up the intro to 'Fine Time' and Barney restarted it by saying 'Go for it Gillian' etc..
Apologies my memory is shot! Ive mixed the New Order concert from Dec 17th 1988 at Gmex, with the Happy Mondays concert 24th April 1990 at Gmex. I now remember that after the Mondays concert I walked into a lampost and banged my head and had to take the Monday off work. Something that could not have happened after the New Order concert since I was still a student.
Top night! I drove over on the M62 from Bradford (living in Leeds then) in my old jalopy with only one windscreen wiper working...as the snow came down!
The Order were top: loads of strobes, lasers and a non-functioning Emulator that didn't want to reproduce its parts on Fine Time but eventually did. Result: the whole place went nuts. One of the greatest Order gigs I've ever been to.
Mondays were quality,short,but quality.I'm a massive ACR fan,but it's correct,they were indeed quite poor,the material letting them down really.N.O. tho',were absolute fookin' quality,even now,probably the best I've seen them,from the moment Hooky walked on,bass round his knees & said 'alright punters!!' Quality 
Fantastic night even though we wasted too much time trying to find a bar in the general vicinity of G-Mex. Missed Happy Mondays and most of ACR. couldn't get anywhere near the from but one of my alltime favourite NO gigs. these were the days, even travelling by boat and train to get there and back.
it was professionally filmed at the behest of Tony W but little has surfaced - officially. Unofficially however there are tapes of New Order and The Smiths' performances kicking around. The boot stuff is fucking awful though i did see an amateur edit of 3 angles back in 1989. Avoid.
J
Jonathan wrote: it was professionally filmed at the behest of Tony W but little has surfaced - officially. Unofficially however there are tapes of New Order and The Smiths' performances kicking around. The boot stuff is fucking awful though i did see an amateur edit of 3 angles back in 1989. Avoid.
J
Think you are getting mixed up with the Festival of the 10th Summer gig big yin.
wow,a new order gig that i actually remember very well.
being a mid week fixture i was driving and was sober
:D
banshee wrote: wow,a new order gig that i actually remember very well. being a mid week fixture i was driving and was sober
:D
Midweek? Your memory is shit, Banshee! It was a Saturday! 
I also was thinking it was defo at weekend cos i went back to DARWEN after the gig where i used to live before moving over to Chorley in 1982!Superb gig and crap video.I gave my dodgy copy away.Highlight for me was VANISHING POINT.Hell what fun days they were.
first ever N o gig and probably the best atmosphere of all the gigs i have ever seen since, the place liereally exploded when true faith and ceremony were played
El Jarvo wrote:
banshee wrote: wow,a new order gig that i actually remember very well. being a mid week fixture i was driving and was sober
:DMidweek? Your memory is shit, Banshee! It was a Saturday!
tee hee ,so i was once sober on a saturday then
actually i now know why i was driving.it was because i took this hippy girl to the gig on a 'date'.
gmex88 wrote: the place liereally exploded when true faith and ceremony were played
I must have missed that then. The Arndale is a few miles away and was a few years later.
oldmonkey wrote:
gmex88 wrote: the place liereally exploded when true faith and ceremony were played
I must have missed that then. The Arndale is a few miles away and was a few years later.
I just remember my feet not touching the floor for the first 4 songs and moving 100m when Ceremony kicked in. Cracking gig compared to Wembley the year before.
Wish I could remember more of this gig, it was my first NO gig too.
In fact all I remember clearly of NO is Fine Time, basically because my mate who was a Red Rock era U2 fan (with a Bono mullet) decided it was a perfect time to start "making boxes" and generally raving like yer dad would. Fuckin pissed myself.
Remember Shaun Ryder had the short hair look that was far better than the RIDICULOUS curtains he would have a year later, and was hunched at the front of the stage singing lyrics off bits of paper. I'd bought Wrote For Luck on CD single the week before and the gig made me realise they were destined for the big time........
Still got the original review of the gig from NME somewhere.....
I can't remember a bloody thing about this one! Remember staying at my mate's gaff by Victoria Park, but was not exactly on my face for the gig :)
Was anyone right down the front, at the end?.
Barney lobbed his guitar into the crowd after the last song. Kicking off a big free-for-all of lads trying to claim it. Anyone managing to smuggle that out of the gaff would've 'kin deserved it in my eyes. Eventually security jumped in and retrieved the thing.
I'd been carried right back after that True Faith/Ceremony salvo. Don't think anyone in the place coulda been within 50 yards of where they started after that.
Anyone involved?
Lot of action outside the G-MEX afterwards. Small groups of Manc scallies (Gooch/Doddington?), who didn't look like they'd been to the gig, walking round picking lads off. Couldn't see why either. Didn't seem to be mugging them, just having a pop. I watched from the safety of a coach!
Great gig...fucking rained cats and dogs before..got soaked right thru !! Not sure if it was 'Shellshock' that they messed the intro up ?? Remember Bernard chanting ManUtd !! Good 'E's that nite.
same as gmex88, my first order gig and after i felt that i had passed a milestone in my live, it was as big to me as my first pint, wank, losing virginity, becoming a dad.
remember the week b4 got gastroenter.... shits and throwing up and was still ill when we went.
mondays were great, place still half empty, acr were shit hot for me coz i like the big pop band shite ( i know!! before anyone starts.) then it started going crazy!!!some big dudes in denim jackets turned up stinking and i mean STINKING of garlic and a bit lairy which pissed me off at the time coz i was trying to tap off with my mates norwegian bird, then when order came on it was like a last minute goal at wembley, FOOF1 what an eruption, then guess what? the rest is a fooking blur, too excited to take it in and by now im holding hands and thinking more about my semi-on, at 17 i must have been starstruck...aahh.
Johnny Giles wrote: Was anyone right down the front, at the end?.
Barney lobbed his guitar into the crowd after the last song. Kicking off a big free-for-all of lads trying to claim it. Anyone managing to smuggle that out of the gaff would've 'kin deserved it in my eyes. Eventually security jumped in and retrieved the thing.
I'd been carried right back after that True Faith/Ceremony salvo. Don't think anyone in the place coulda been within 50 yards of where they started after that.
Anyone involved?
Lot of action outside the G-MEX afterwards. Small groups of Manc scallies (Gooch/Doddington?), who didn't look like they'd been to the gig, walking round picking lads off. Couldn't see why either. Didn't seem to be mugging them, just having a pop. I watched from the safety of a coach!
I'm not so sure the Gooch/Doddington gangs would be quite happy being labelled 'Manc scallies',being black & from Moss Side,but I got the gist!! Glad I fookin' missed that tho'
The highlights for me were hearing Mr.Disco & Vanishing Point for the first time,& a blistering TPK
