What's your favourite New Order gig?
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El Jarvo wrote: Is the answer 'Birmingham', Mike?
No Al 
I have not selected one yet, it's too difficult !
Sheffield Roxy 8th June 87. Last time I was to see them before True Faith and Substance and all the estate agents and yuppie tossers jumped on the bandwagon
Tim wrote: Today, it's Leeds Tiffanys 1985.
That was a hell of a night. In my top three, for sure. 
Tim wrote: Today, it's Leeds Tiffanys 1985.
That was a hell of a night. In my top three, for sure.
Nu Ordah wrote: Woolwich Coronet 2nd April 87 stands out, buth there are more.
I went out and bought a pair of tan cords after this gig, like what Barney was wearing. 
Can't remember the cut, but I think it was 'Aviation' stylee or something? They were really high-waisted and came up to the armpits like something out of the 1950s.
He had a shit jumper on though, from memory? Sports casual number in various blobs of pastel. Jumper got ditched after the first track though.
some memories here, Cornet 87 was a couple of days before me Birthday and they plyed Atmospher, that was special., Leeds 85, very snowy night and a interesting drive back to manc land, my favess,, liverpool march 83 2nd night....Hac 83, july, hac 87 june,, stag night,, paris last year...........Brighton 87, first gig with the mrs,,,my fave always the next one.
all those years ago.
Hmmm let's have a little casting back and digging out the old memory box.
Birmingham 81, everything was new and fresh Deeside 82, first signs for me of a different crowd Brixton Ace 83, the first truly great UK show? Bradford 84, the medley and then Face Up, and then going years without realising they'd come back on and done Thieves! The 84 UK tour, Chippenham, Gloucester, Portsmouth All of 85, simply a golden year when they were at their live peak Oxford and Poole 86 That October week - Brum, Malvern, T&C then the fookin' Albert Hall Not much in 87 to be fair, the curse of Poo Faith and the rot had set in, though some of the foreign gigs sound ok. Time travel in 88 at the start of Ceremony at GMex, how to move 50 yards in 5 seconds without being Usain Bolt 89 - can't remember much! 93 - I Remember Nothing 98 - wasn't interested 91 - boring 92 - good craic in Paris and Finsbury 95 - Les Vielles Charrues the highlight 96 - all good, especially Athens 11 - Troxy great night besides the Order!
Preston Guildhall 85 My first New Order gig £4 for the ticket, well worth it even thought I was only on £27.50 a week on a YTS scheme
Tim wrote: Not much in 87 to be fair, the curse of Poo Faith and the rot had set in, though some of the foreign gigs sound ok.
Blimey, I'd have said that was their zenith. A band at the peak of their powers.
I never experienced a ruck at a gig to mirror the Finsbree Park one!
El Jarvo wrote:
Tim wrote: Not much in 87 to be fair, the curse of Poo Faith and the rot had set in, though some of the foreign gigs sound ok.
Blimey, I'd have said that was their zenith. A band at the peak of their powers.
I never experienced a ruck at a gig to mirror the Finsbree Park one!
They probably were at their zenith, yes, but it started getting more predictable, and the mass exposure Toothache got changed everything.
Part of me sees this in an almost identical way to how Dec expressed how it changed for him in 1984 - they were still my band, our band in 86. In 87 they were everyone's band, and the affinity had changed. Ironically it had changed back by 2005-6 but has gone the other way again now.
What ruck at Finsbury? That was nothing compared to Reading 1998.
Manchester Apollo 1998. That's the one.
Bootleg : the august 1984 tour Margate, Sunderland, London Heaven and Portsmouth
In real life : Orleans 1985 : My first NO gig... Lyon 1989 : for the joy i did receive when i listened to Mr Disco Bruxelles 2011 : unbelievable.
and the next one with Barney, Steve Gillian and Hooky on stage together...
Moka wrote: Bootleg : the august 1984 tour Margate, Sunderland, London Heaven and Portsmouth In real life : Orleans 1985 : My first NO gig... Lyon 1989 : for the joy i did receive when i listened to Mr Disco Bruxelles 2011 : unbelievable. and the next one with Barney, Steve Gillian and Hooky on stage together...
Don't hold yer breath
mark reed wrote: What ruck at Finsbury? That was nothing compared to Reading 1998.
Manchester Apollo 1998. That's the one.
You jest, surely? Largest widescale ruck I've ever experienced at a gig. Barriers at the front of the stage got buckled during ACR's support set, and it just got worse from then on. Band were delayed going on, everyone had to move right back, and then the whole thing kicked off with Touched again. Listen to the bootleg and all the 'move back' comments from Barney and Hooky.
G-Mex 88 too, on a similar scale.
Don't remember Apollo 98 being particularly hairy, but I think the world had moved on since then and big moshes at gigs were starting to be a thing of the past.
Nu Ordah wrote: Woolwich Coronet 2nd April 87 stands out, buth there are more.
Do the Ostrich !
Listening to this gig quite a lot lately,not that i attended this one. Loving Shellshock Subculture,and of coarse Do The Ostrich.
The live show attended SSEC 89 "Mr Disco" Outstanding Opener
OutofOrder wrote:
Nu Ordah wrote: Woolwich Coronet 2nd April 87 stands out, buth there are more.
Do the Ostrich !
Listening to this gig quite a lot lately,not that i attended this one. Loving Shellshock Subculture,and of coarse Do The Ostrich. The live show attended SSEC 89 "Mr Disco" Outstanding Opener
I lost my shoe during Mr Disco and didn't get it back until the end of the gig :D
Nu Ordah wrote:
OutofOrder wrote:
Nu Ordah wrote: Woolwich Coronet 2nd April 87 stands out, buth there are more.
Do the Ostrich !
Listening to this gig quite a lot lately,not that i attended this one. Loving Shellshock Subculture,and of coarse Do The Ostrich. The live show attended SSEC 89 "Mr Disco" Outstanding Opener
I lost my shoe during Mr Disco and didn't get it back until the end of the gig :D
I bet you still enjoyed your night mike?
OutofOrder wrote:
Nu Ordah wrote:
OutofOrder wrote:
Nu Ordah wrote: Woolwich Coronet 2nd April 87 stands out, buth there are more.
Do the Ostrich !
Listening to this gig quite a lot lately,not that i attended this one. Loving Shellshock Subculture,and of coarse Do The Ostrich. The live show attended SSEC 89 "Mr Disco" Outstanding Opener
I lost my shoe during Mr Disco and didn't get it back until the end of the gig :D
I bet you still enjoyed your night mike?
Tis true I did :D
Listened to Hamburg Trinty Hall 84 today in work.
How fucken good is that?
They certainly perfected the tracks off of Movement, (faster and more viberant) Its probably the best live version of confusion ive heard as im not a big fan of confusion live.(I prefer the 12" record to be fair).
10/10
OutofOrder wrote: Listened to Hamburg Trinty Hall 84 today in work.
How fucken good is that?
They certainly perfected the tracks off of Movement, (faster and more viberant) Its probably the best live version of confusion ive heard as im not a big fan of confusion live.(I prefer the 12" record to be fair).
10/10
I'll have to did Hamburg Trinty Hall 84 out and give it a blast, love all the old boots
