The Sirens' Tour -- Setlist ?

My suggestions:

From the new album :

• 5 or 6 songs, maybe up to 8

From Get Ready :

• Crystal
• Primitive Notion

From Republic :

• Regret

From Technique :

• Vanishing Point

From Brotherhood :

• As It Is When It Was
• Bizarre Love Triangle

From Low Life:

• Love Vigilantes

From PC & L :

• Your Silent Face

From the singles:

• Temptation
• Blue Monday
• Ceremony
• True Faith

From Joy Division:

• LWTUA
• Transmission

From Get Ready :

• Crystal
• 60 Miles An Hour (Wouldn't be too bothered if there were no Get Ready songs)

From Republic :

• Regret
• World

From Technique :

• All The Way
• Love Less
• Round & Round (This would be very welcome)
• Dream Attack (Wouldn't that be great!?)

From Brotherhood :

• Paradise
• Bizarre Love Triangle

From Low Life:

• The Perfect Kiss (It's got to make a return sometime)
• Sooner Than You Think

From the singles:

• Thieves Like Us
• Blue Monday

From Joy Division:

• Atmosphere

Oh yeah, and the original True Faith MUST be played, please no perfecto mix this year.

From Get Ready :

• Crystal

From Republic :

• Regret
• Ruined in a day

From Technique :

• Round & Round
• Mr Disco
• Vanishing Point

From Brotherhood :

• paradise
• wierdo
• angel dust

From Low Life:

• The Perfect Kiss
• Sooner than you think
• subculture
• elegia

From the singles:

• Thieves Like Us
• 1963
• Touched by the hand of god
• lonesome tonight

From Joy Division:

• Love will tear us apart
• decades

in order:

behind closed doors denial your silent face the village dream attack let's go (instrumental version) sunrise way of life murder lonesome tonight vicious streak age of consent run wild

encore:

sister ray (15+ minute version) disorder turn the heater on

also maybe they can throw in a Section 25 cover in tribute to Jenny Cassidy...

So you're saying 5 from the new album, and 15 other tracks?

The following is not in order and in no way grounded in reality:

[5 Waiting for the Siren's Call Tracks] Here to Stay Primitive Notion Close Range Regret Mr. Disco Vanishing Point Dream Attack Bizarre Love Triangle The Perfect Kiss Sub-Culture Lonesome Tonight Age of Consent Your Silent Face 586/Temptation/Everything's Gone Green (counts as 1, Motherfuckers!) Ceremony

Songs rehearsed to play in place of above songs for variety during their massive world tour:

Crystal Run Wild [acoustic: Barney on melodica, Phil on ukelele, Stephen on bongos, Hooky pounding his syndrum thingy] Round & Round All the Way Touched by the Hand of God True Faith 1963 Paradise Weirdo All Day Long This Time of Night Sunrise Face Up The Village Ultraviolence Leave Me Alone Blue Monday Hurt Dreams Never End Isolation Love Will Tear Us Apart

Get to work boys. Practice makes perfect!

Denial Hurt Chosen Time Age of Consent Temptation EGG In a Lonely Place Ceremony The Village We all Stand Senses ICB

In no particular order:

Ceremony Temptation Everything's Gone Green Age Of Consent Your Silent Face Thieves Like Us Lonesome Tonight The Perfect Kiss Sunrise Weirdo As It Is When It Was Round And Round Vanishing Point Regret Crystal Transmission Isolation

To be honest, although I will love it whatever they play, I'm not that fussed about hearing Blue Monday, Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith, etc. again... Classics obviously, but they do play them EVERY time and things like Perfect Kiss get left out because of it!

Personally I would like to see Touched and True Faith dropped as they don't cut it anymore! Plus I think Bernard struggles with vocals on these tracks.

Keep the Get Ready tracks...I think they still sound contemporary!

Bring on March!

:D

Interesting nickname

Angel Dust Chosen Time Age of Consent Love Vigilantes Face Up True Faith Primitive Notion Here to stay Ceremony Temptation In a lonely place Dream attack Dreams never end Slow Jam Bizzare Love Triangle Such a good thing Leave me alone

Now what's a NO concert without BLT Although they can leave True Faith out if it's perfecto mix, just play the god damn original, so annoying, sure maybe there is programming involved but surely they can get up off there arses and get it together.

Alan Wise introduction

Waiting for the sirens' call Krafty Jetstream Guilt is a useless emotion

• Hooky bass so-low -

Who's Joe? Here to stay Primitive notion Crystal

-Steve drum solo -

True Faith (87-93 era) Regret Blue Monday Temptation

-Encore- Age of consent Sunrise Broken Promise Vanishing Point Working Overtime

Wise - FAT BASTARD

Originally posted by Diggy Mike Hillage Binoche the Postman from Brazil Wise - FAT BASTARD

Don't you mean MORCAMBE?

LOL @ "solo's" No way man, that's for jazzers, everyone stand up now and clap the sax player. the great bearded bassbeast needs no such poncery to get a cheer, usually the first 2 notes of ceremony are enough. Face it, we can't pick a set, THEY can't pick a set, so they'll fall back on lowest common denominator tunes again.....the ones most people will like....so steel yourself for the shock of TF and BM.

Please also remember that with a lot of the older electronic pieces, the files are gone, or at least the machines that the files were for are gone ( or did I miss the Emulator and Voyetra's on 511). While temptaion or YSF could be programmed by a chimp, some of the other songs are never gonna happen.....first cos they would essentially be cover versions, since they'll have to work it all out from tape, and secondly, a lot of what makes an electronic tune what it is, is the noise of the specific machine that made it. imagine hearing Blue Monday played on a tr909 with a yamaha slap bass sound playing the bassline and the choir of a Korg M1.....F*in horrible.

On that note....I'd like to hear EGG, cos you don't even need to program it.......ooops I forgot NO use stupid automatic-no-better-than-a-tape-deck midi playback now, so none of that interesting Drum machine triggered bass....just flappy crappy midi timing.....sigh...every time technology moves on, we so easily forget about so many things the last generation could do ( like stay in time)...I'd bloody kill for A. a machine that can actually respond to a pulse and B. a machine that plays the note AT THE SAME TIME as the others....as opposed to some random number of bytes and clock cycles later.

I vote for:

DNE Ceremony EGG Senses Procession Temptation AOC TPK Sunrise Angel Dust Vanishing Point Regret Crystal Here to Stay LWTUA Transmission Decades and a few new tracks

Thinking along the lines of the Stones Stadium/Club tour of a few years back where they played the tradititonal stadium anthems, and then rehearsed long dusty, rarely played tunes to play in clubs (with some of the hits), I'd love New Order to follow their example. If a band is big enough, i can't imagine a more enjoyable way to tour, if you can learn the songs, anyway.

My Fifteen Songs (I think it's more likely they'd do about 3-4 album songs and an additional 7-9 non-album songs, as that seems their m.o. lately):

1981: Ceremony

1982: Temptation 5 8 6

1983: Age of Consent Leave Me Alone

1984: Thieves Like Us

1985: Face Up Sunrise

1986: All Day Long

1987: 1963

1989: All The Way Mr. Disco Don't Do it (always loved that and Best and Marsh)

1993: Special (lets try again with the best tune off Republic)

2001: At Close Range

Going with 17 songs, here is what i think....

from "WFTSC" -

4 songs, maybe 5 including the title track, which the band seems to love, at least Barney does so I'm sure that means they'll play it....

from "Get Ready" -

Primitive Notion Crystal

From "Republic" -

Regret

From "Technique" -

Vanishing Point (because it would be awesome at night in the Desert) Fine Time All the Way (guitars, guitars, guitars - could be great with Phil)

From "Brotherhood" -

Every Little Counts (why not?) BLT (play the extended version)

From "Low-Life" -

This Time of Night Face Up (needs to be resurrected)

From "PC&L" -

Leave Me Alone Age of Consent

the rest -

Shadowplay Thieves Like Us Dreams Never End or Love Will Tear Us Apart

Just my thoughts....

Originally posted by Diggy Mike Hillage Binoche the Postman from Brazil DenialHurtChosen TimeAge of ConsentTemptationEGGIn a Lonely PlaceCeremonyThe VillageWe all StandSensesICB

You had me 'til you threw in ICB.

(Cue the ICB lovers)

i'm sure it'll be a pretty similar setlist to the last tour with new songs replacing the get ready tracks, but if i were to write it, it'd be something like this:

1. the perfect kiss

(let the older fans know you still care by resurrecting a classic while at the same time not losing the casual fan because most know it.)

2. krafty
3. new song

(crowd still buzzing from the opener so you get away with some new ones that noone's really there to see)

4. regret

(rev the party back up)

5. bizzarre love triangle

(mosh pit begins)

6. a really beat-heavy take on everything's gone green

(craziness at this point)

7. new song
8. new song

(everyone glad for a breather but building in anticipation for something they know)

9. ceremony

(ok here we go again)

10. your silent face

(everybody hug)

11. true faith

(ladies and gents, we have an all out dance party)

12. blue monday

(beers are flying, bodies slamming, etc.)

1st encore:

13. decades

(older fans weeping, newer fans still excited as they were obviously sticking around after the main set's onslaught)

14. new song (the second single that's current at the time)

(crowd putty in their hands at this point)

15)fine time

(everybody's happy, dancing and remembering the summer of '89 when new order was the biggest band in world, but still yelling for more)

2nd encore:

16. temptation

(you guessed it, you wanted it, and here it is. good night)

They don't know what to play And they don't care anyway!

+1

Everythings Gone Green would be great,but unlikely to happen. I dont buy this "it takes too long to program the songs" shite,they could sample the original synth sections and add live guitars and drums.

Joy Division : Heart & Soul Transmission

New Order : Hurt EGG Age of Consent This time of night As it is when it was Let's go BLT All the way Regret Crystal Vicious Streak (taking over from Your Silent Face)

• 3 WFTSC songs

And they should play it backwards

Pure fantasy island stuff, but here goes anyway....

new song Crystal new song Hurt The village new song new song Thieves like us This time of Night Vanishing Point New song True Faith Age of Consent

Encore for the 'ardcore

Truth In lonely Place Your silent Face