Set List

I notice the set list for the dates in the States was more or less the same each gig.

I was wondering whether this was a thing they particularly did in the US as most UK gigs have different set lists each gig though not as radically different as when they almost played completely different songs each night.

Let's hope they mix and match abit on the UK tour as while the Liverpool gig was excellent I wouldn't want to hear the same songs every concert.

It would be nice to hear Age of Consent, This Time of Night, Sunrise, Sub-culture, Perfect Kiss, Ceremony, Vanishing Point, Dream Attack, Lonesome Tonight, Thieves Like Us, 1963, Face-up, 5-8-6, Everything's Gone Green etc at various points on the tour as well.

I think one of the limitations is that they actually have to rehearse the songs on the set list. I don't think they can just blow the dust off a song they haven't played in years and pull it off without rehearsing their butt off. I think Barney had mentionned recently that they had to rehearse quite a bit for the current tour because of the inevitable rust.

I thought the set list was quite good, but of course a longer set would be great. The one song that I felt was really missing was Ceremony. It was quite funny, a gang of fans from the UK were bugging them to play it at the 2 shows that I saw (Vancouver and The Gorge). Very powerful live, it's the song I remember most vivdly when I saw them in 1998. I was blown away by how much more powerful that song is live compared to the studio version.

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P.S. I agree, I would love to see the songs you mentionned played live too! :)

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New Order rehearsing... hah! you obviously haven't heard their early gigs. - they used to pride themselves on getting on-stage and blagging it.

Let's face facts, your right, now London Records are on the scene they have to do things more 'properly' - no more making a complete hash of gigs, which is a shame, half the reason we used to see NO live is to watch how many mistakes they'd make.

NO now is not the NO of late, I would guess they decided the recent set list last year, and hoped they could learn it by now... all three chords.

(don't panic, I love 'em all)

Half the fun of seeing NO used to be the not knowing what they were going to play (B-sides, album tracks or new stuff that they were still writing) and HOW they were going to play them (ad-libs, out of tune etc.) and the crowd involvement - the 86 Tower Ballroom gig in Birmingham was the one of, if not the best.

Nicely put Allen! As they made quite obvious in the Interveiw for getmusic.com and onstage at the Gorge, NO hate to play Blue Monday and I don't particularly care to hear it AGAIN so why not drop it and pick up Ceremony or Someone Like You or Primitive Notion from the new album?

yeah! i totally agree with hunter and andy! if anyone out there is a real new order fan, you should already know that they are not the tightest perfoming band live. barney even admits to not remembering a lot of his lyrics. when electronic played out here in los angeles with depeche, "try all you want" had to be played as an instrumental because of bad memory with lyrics. anyone notice the teleprompter on the footage of reading 98?

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