Barney's Jig

personaly i'm sitting on the fence with bernards 'dancing', sometimes i think he looks a total prick and he's ruining new orders good name,yet other times i think its funny as fook and i do prefer to see him enjoying himself onstage which he clearly is when he's doing it,i also remember him getting a massive cheer(me included) when he started to do it at the 'and you'd forgotten...' night last year in the middle of blt with the doves,so others obviously like it too

thanks for your words, Your Holiness... yes, unfortunately, i'd never had the chance to see them live, but i keep my faith up!

i can understand not everybody have to like or dislike the same things. That's natural. What i don't understand, and i don't like at all is after you give your precious shit against the band one time, keep coming back just to keep throwing more shit.

Now after all this I would really like to see this apperance.

Tarbox23 wrote: they should kick sumner out. seriously.

he is the one bringing in the crappy Electronic type songs.

they could get that guy that sang in Monaco....

when stephen morris looks bummed, you know Sumner has to go.

I am really starting to dislike Bernard. Sometime in the early 90s, after the first (Good) Electronic lp, he started to sing like crap and get a silly ego...

his whistling, stupid monkey dancing, and teleprompter are all adding up to say "loser".

at this point, I honestly might rather just see New Order without bernard... no vocals....

and i say this with a heavy heart.

....aaand that my friends, is the greatest troll post in the history of NOOL!

Seriously though...are you insane?

Kick Barney out? Crappy Electronic songs? Get the guy from Monaco?

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...comedy GOLD!!!

Filmstardust wrote: i don't understand what the fuck some of you really want. Musically, INHO New Order is now almost at their best. Barnie and Hooky are fat and they look sometimes ridiculous, Morris is frozen/bored. So what?? I don't care, and i don't give a shit if he dances, spin, do kicks, or whatever. They are still doing excellent records. So everything else, means nothing.

Listen to this man. For he knows what he is talking about :)

Barney is going through the same thing Dave Gahan went through after he kicked the drugs and booze....a LIFE ALTERING NATURAL HIGH! That's right. Barney body is getting a reknowned boost of natural energy now that he's kicked the drugs and alchohol! I think it's absolutely wonderful too! The guy is 50 and he's prancing and dancing around like h's in his teens again. How can ANYONE be hatin' on that? Dave Gahan is in his 40s and look how he acted in the One Night In Paris concert! You'd think he'd of just gotten a shot of speed or something, but no...we is CLEAN as can be! And no one criticized his antics as far as I know.

And like Filmstardust said, it's about the music baby!!!! Unfortunately I've never seen the band live, despite having been a fan for 15 years. It's just that all my friends are into hip hop and shit like that.

Al Jarvis wrote:

Oslo Chateau Neuf 25th May 1981 Live wrote: Keeps the American fans happy! And the Vikings, of course.

Still waiting for you to explain this last comment?!

Come on, now there's a big brave chap.

AL, I can explain it to you if you like...

Al Jarvis wrote: Two questions:

1. When the fcuk has anyone ever seen Morris actually happy? Certainly never at a New Order concert in my lifetime.

2. What did everyone make of Barney's blown-out-cheeked acieed dance on TOTP approximately 16.5 years ago?! At the time I thought it was funny as fcuk. Don't really see the difference between what he did then, and does now, sorry. I was 20 at the time so to see a 30-something dance like he was at a rave just seemed equably ridiculous.

I believe Steve smiled or gurned on one Saturday in August circa 1984.

Al Jarvis wrote:

Explain away. Words of no more than two syllables though.

So I'm allowed to use 'moron', 'insane' and 'boring' but not 'ignorant', 'deluded' or 'irritating'?

Al Jarvis wrote:

That's just white noise to me, words are way too big for my cranium!

What did you think of the Wossy performance, Al?

Oasis are the daddy? Puff daddy more like.

Just remember people, Barney is a god and can do whatever he wants on primetime TV. He'll be our dancing monkey at Hyde Park soon. Can't wait.

Like the real Châteauneuf (du Pape), I agree that this performance ages very well! I certainly see no reason to tuck the New Order pin badges inside my blazer or to eat my sandwiches from my satchel - my New Order lunchbox was on display at morning play and dinner.

Can't wait for the end of term disco (June 24th) - I'll be running on the spot with the rest of the really cool kids!

I think I'm going to get this entire thread printed up on a t-shirt. Wonderful stuff!!!

Doctor Clayhead wrote: I think I'm going to get this entire thread printed up on a t-shirt. Wonderful stuff!!!

Clayhead, I don't suppose you were in O'Donahues on Saturday night?

Not being facetious, old chap. Just serious. In the old days we loved NO for being wilfully obscure. Today we should love them for being wilfully ... er whatever it was that was going on on telly. Couldn't agree with you more about the folks getting all worked up about it. For sure it was not the polished performance you get from most bands on the telly - but what do you expect - this was New Order.

And really - I can't wait for Hyde Park.

BIGINOIL wrote:

• my New Order lunchbox was on display at morning play and dinner.

Is that an 'M1' reference?

BIGINOIL wrote:

Doctor Clayhead wrote: I think I'm going to get this entire thread printed up on a t-shirt. Wonderful stuff!!!

Clayhead, I don't suppose you were in O'Donahues on Saturday night?

What, did you spot an ugly twat in a New Order t-shirt? Nope, it wasn't me, but keep looking out for ugly fuckers in New Order t-shirts and we're bound to bump into one another at some point. Do you shop at Sainsbury's???

Doctor Clayhead wrote: What, did you spot an ugly twat in a New Order t-shirt? Nope, it wasn't me, but keep looking out for ugly fuckers in New Order t-shirts and we're bound to bump into one another at some point. Do you shop at Sainsbury's???

It's been known.

The reason I asked was that had you been in O'Dogs on Saturday you would have seen a balding twat in a New Order t-shirt and white trainers drunkenly doing the Barney 'Run' dance.

I thought it was alright. Don't see what the fuss was about. Watched it on vid again last night after all these comments and it actually looked better second time around. Some of these people can't have seen New Order before, surely? Do they not remember Baywatch, 'singing' Blue Monday live on TOTP, the Fine Time acieed dance or the Touched video. I remember a gig at the Town & Country club nigh on 20 years ago when Barney spent the entire set with his hands up inside his t-shirt shadow boxing like he was trying to show the world he had a nice pair of boobies. Camus would've been spinning in his urn!

Couldn't have said it better myself!

I mean, I guess none of you have seen New Order live the past 15 years, what were you expecting, especially on the cheesiest, campiest song in their catalog?

And at least Barney has the right idea with the jogging. A few more kilos a day and he should slim down to his '83 self, right.

WIVING WEGENDS

BIGINOIL wrote:

Doctor Clayhead wrote: What, did you spot an ugly twat in a New Order t-shirt? Nope, it wasn't me, but keep looking out for ugly fuckers in New Order t-shirts and we're bound to bump into one another at some point. Do you shop at Sainsbury's???

It's been known.

The reason I asked was that had you been in O'Dogs on Saturday you would have seen a balding twat in a New Order t-shirt and white trainers drunkenly doing the Barney 'Run' dance.

We should meet up and do the dance in unison. It'll be a winner with the ladies for sure!!

Doctor Clayhead wrote:

We should meet up and do the dance in unison. It'll be a winner with the ladies for sure!!

You askin?

I'm dancin!

Isamu wrote: Seriously though...are you insane?

Kick Barney out? Crappy Electronic songs? Get the guy from Monaco?

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...comedy GOLD!!!

hahahahahahaha! i've thought that too!

BIGINOIL wrote:

Doctor Clayhead wrote:

We should meet up and do the dance in unison. It'll be a winner with the ladies for sure!!

You askin?

I'm dancin!

It's a deal, though you have to agree to do that bizarre gurning as well, where Barney seems to be trying to impersonate some prehistoric fish that lurks about 4 miles below sea level.

Dignity and self-respect, my friend, do not come into it!!:D

Doctor Clayhead wrote:

BIGINOIL wrote:

Doctor Clayhead wrote:

We should meet up and do the dance in unison. It'll be a winner with the ladies for sure!!

You askin?

I'm dancin!

It's a deal, though you have to agree to do that bizarre gurning as well, where Barney seems to be trying to impersonate some prehistoric fish that lurks about 4 miles below sea level.

Dignity and self-respect, my friend, do not come into it!!:D

Of course we'll be pulling the "dancing face" - otherwise people will think we're not taking it seriously.