Were New Order shite tonight?

there was a delay getting into the Park, because of technical difficulties on stage, whether this will come out on DVD, i dont think so

steve - you're spot-on about Barney's guitar playing. I think he's playing really well at the moment, espec noticeable on Temptation on Friday.

hibster wrote:

autocue had the night off?

what's this in front of barney then?

Errr, the back of a non-working autocue?

I love the thread title. How delicate and respectful Well I guess only New Order fans have such questions.

Has Phil been sent to Coventry? On Friday night the rest of the band seemed to give him the cold shoulder, Barney especially. It must be those god damn awful shades .. only pub bands and Bono need to hide behind dark eyewear. Will the real Gillian please come back. And its a definate no..they still keep it coming

Ah the same old argument perfection vs New Order. to me perfection is boring. Try going to a Cure gig. You'd have more fun putting on the cds. Some lige Diggy Mike might even argue that point.

Not having been there, but by what I've heard, and the comments of others who've been there I'd have to say It was a typical good-fun New Order gig. Man I would have loved to have been there especially with the audience singing along (knowing the words better than Barney :D).

Ok, only my fourth NO gig (last in '87). Even accounting for the fact I had my beer goggles on, they were blinding......the missus even remarked how tight they sounded. Shoulda heard them in 85 if you thought Hyde Park was bad Bernard even managed to give a dignified justice to the Joy D. numbers, even although I would have much preferred to have heard Hurt, Egg, the village and IALP in their place. Nice tribute from Bernard to those who could not be there. probably best I've seen em

" love, love will tear us apart - COME ON! "

Great to see Hooky so excited...

Seems to be some mutterings about falling axes...

http://worldinmotion.infopop.cc/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/9334038731/m/7940083453

Maybe that's what Hooky was hinting at with the 'embarassing Dad' infested moshpit comments...

And Dawn Zee was there again... (and at Glasto).

And yeah, Phil didn't look like he was very happy: Barney gave him some really evil looks when he pressed the occassional wrong button.

Of course they weren't shite. Loved it when the crowd went mad on LWTUA and BLT. Even enjoyed Run fooking Wild :D

NObabe wrote: Of course they weren't shite. Loved it when the crowd went mad on LWTUA and BLT. Even enjoyed Run fooking Wild :D

the crowd are MAD before they even went there MAYA!

Steve Campbell wrote:

The old electronic based peices require rebuilding from the ground up to play on current cack, lots fo work. If anyone wants to tell me what a piece of piss this would be....download one of the NO midi files from here (which is more than they have for most songs) and see how long it takes you to make it sound like a perfect NO instrumental. Of course, I don't much care for the studio-perfect mimed backing tapes, I'd rather they lashed up something to play the song in whatever form.

Not sure if I'm misinterpreting you here....But I think you're making the same point that I've made a good few times.

This explanation that they don't play a lot of the older tracks (The Perfect Kiss specifically) because they would take too long to program is bollocks. Any engineer with a musical ear could knock out the midi-file in a couple of days and you could match up the sounds in a couple of hours!

It appears to be accepted as gospel around here that this is the reason but it isn't. Far more likely that a certain band member digs his heels in and plays only what he wants to play. This explanation has been stated explicitly by a very reliable source!

[This explanation that they don't play a lot of the older tracks (The Perfect Kiss specifically) because they would take too long to program is bollocks. Any engineer with a musical ear could knock out the midi-file in a couple of days and you could match up the sounds in a couple of hours!

It appears to be accepted as gospel around here that this is the reason but it isn't. Far more likely that a certain band member digs his heels in and plays only what he wants to play. This explanation has been stated explicitly by a very reliable source!

You're absolutely right.