Even more of a highlight - and damned rare - is when Barn introduces the band. I think my crappy Kilkenny 83 tape reports that he introduces everyone and even says something like "...and behind me, Ian Curtis" at one point!
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Theres an interesting list of impromptu song titles I've got a cock like the M1. Princess Diana. Come on you bastard (after theis little cunt here in front of me). I got a wank off a girl with a spotty back.
Sure theres more..
Hey Shug - you stole my line ! - I was at that gig and I have to say it was one of the best I've been to. We were packed in like sardines. This lad at the front kept shouting "pop group" hekkling Barney and Hooky and Hooky broke first - "pop group - what' wrong with f****n pop group's - you're at the front you c**t". They then played a track (forgotten which one) and shortly after Barney asked this lad to come on stage - "you come on stage - go on you come on stage - we might be a f***in pop group but you're a f****n wa***r." It was electric. I bought the tape the next day from some guy at the now defunct bull ring market.
I've just remembered there is the classic Your silent Face - a c**t that never changes remains a stupid t**t......heard in Poole I think it was - mid 80's. Classic.
Gonna do a bit of improvisational singing now, fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck basically.
Yes, thanks very much, I always thought I was witty instead of being a pissed up twat.
Woolwich coronet.
Apparently in Seattle on the 89 tour, Bernard was singing "What is it you need that makes your pussy bleed?" during Round And Round, he may have sang that the night before in Portland, but I don't really remember.
Bernard changing a line in Ceremony in Oakland to "Avenue all lined with trees, turn the FUCKING lights off!" was a nice touch, as was his comment about "Excuse me. Still a bunch of fucking hippies, eh? Where's your flowers? They've all withered" later on in the set.
"I've seen what a man can do, i've seen what a kangaroo can do too. WOOOOO!" Cleveland '89, Vanishing Point
Barney
"Thank you very much. Good night, God Bless, and drive carefully on your way home. If you throw $20 on the stage, we'll come back on, or even $10."
12 FEB 87 Enmore Theatre - Sydney, Australia
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Spotnick...this would be a great thread to nail! What would be even better is if one day we can turn may pages into a wiki (hosted on NOOL, since you have the auth info, as otherwise you end up with wiki spam) and allow people to add their reminiscenses or correct what's there.
And check out this link for some of Barney and Hooky's greatest quips.
Two of my faves at the moment:
586 - 14 APR 83 Tiffany's - Glasgow, Scotland
BS: "Why do women have legs? So they don't leave a trail like a slug."
Temptation - 27 JAN 85 Tiffany's - Leeds
BS: "See, we've played that one so much that we can play it."
Australia - Big Day Out 2002 (I think)
Before 60 miles an hour
Bernard: This track is brand new its off our new album. The idea is you have to go out and buy the record tomorrow, that's the point. But you won't do that, cos you're not robots. That's why we love you so much.
Oh, Irvine Meadows, 1987:
Barney: "We've got these faggots in the audience..." Crowd boos, "Yeaaah, everyone. But that's cool, 'cause we don't care." Crowd cheers, "We're New Order and we don't care." Crowd goes nuts. Band plays The Passenger.
Pier 84? 1987 'I know everyone says this but we dolove New York....' Crowd cheers 'The drugs are so cheap here...and plentiful!' Face Up
Woolwich Coronet 2-4-87.
After Way Of Life.....
Barney : This is the first time we've played in ths part of London, and I think I can understand why really.
After ELC.....
Barney : That was one for the more sensitive one's in the audience, now this one's for all the one's who shout a lot...there's nothing wrong with shouting.
After YSF......
Barney : I only wished I was witty instead of being a pissed up bastard.
PIER 84 NY 26-8-87
Before Mlue Monday....
Hooky : Right we're gonna play a Paul Young cover for all you who people who wanted to see Paul Young.
IRVINE MEADOWS 16-6-89
Barney : I'd like to dedicate this set to Pete Defries from Echo & The Bunnymen who died yesterday.
After Dream Attack....
Barney : This is er.... All The Way which is off...er... our last album which is called er...
Hooky : Technique Barney
Barney : Technique yeah thank you
Hooky : See, what a fuckin double act!
After Mr Disco....
Barney : I guess I should do what all the other bands do and say Why don't you all come down the front and enjoy yerself........Because the security staff will stop you, that's why!
After Vanishing Point.....
Barney : Listen right, if you expect me to get into it, you've got to get into it, so, we need a lot of people at the front dancing....I know it's a cliche but it's true.....
Audience member shouts out (can't be made out from bootleg)
Hooky : I beg your pardon, you must be English with a turn of phrase like that....you ugly bastard, where's yer banana?
Before All Day Long....
Barney : This is a song we haven't played live for a very long time so bear with us. Hooky : We're very sorry we couldn't play for longer, but PIL played so fucking long we had to cut our set short, sorry about that.
CLEVELAND 5-7-89
At the end of Mr Disco....
Barney : Ibiza, Majorca, Benidorm too I've searched all those places but never found.... a stupid cunt like you.....thank you very much indeed, make the most of it.
MENA 29-12-98
Before Guilty Partner....
Hooky : Did you get anything nice for Christmas Alex? A new tape recorder? Blank tapes? No Durex in there then yet?
Barney : Ok this song we've never played it before live so bear with us it's called Gulity Partner
The song breaks down after 20 seconds.....
Barney : Like I said it's the first time we've played it so give us a chance, even we make mistakes.......alright, we'll get it right this time just you watch, and if we don't it's part of the charm innit!?!
After True Faith.....
Barney : I don't mind admitting we're a bit tired now, you don't mind if we go off after this next song....but we'll come back on won't we, we just need a little light refreshment....Class A....only joking Steve, you're witnessing the birth of the new new order!
After Temptation....
Barney : I hope you all ike Jazz, cos we're all gonna have a free form Jazz jam....this is our new direction, it's called Love Will Tear Us Apart.
ALLY PALLY 31-12-98
Barney : Hello we're New Order and we're a bit fucked.....but we're still gonna kick the shit outa ya.
After Heart & Soul.....
Hooky : I wish I knew what you were saying cos I'm sure it's so interesting cos you've all got nice friendly faces....for Cockney's.
After Paradise.....
Hooky (taunting the crowd again) Apples and Pears yeahhh?
After the gig:
Alan Wise : A fitting musical ending there, so it's good night from new order and we hope you have a lovely evening.....if yer drinking and driving remember to wear a seat belt, that's from Bernard!
LIVERPOOL 18-7-2001
Before Love Vigilantes....
Barney : Excuse my rather large embarrassing Melodica, I have got a smaller one, but it's not the size that counts is it?
After Close Range.....
Barney : Thank you that reminds me of when I used to be a punk.
Before True Faith.....
Barney : You having a good time? That's not supposed to happen at our gigs.....yer out of order.
Coming back for the encore.....
Barney : Sorry about that, Hooky had to put some Savlon on his arse.....only joking.
Bareny: This is our last song can anyone guess what it is? Audience : Blue Monday Barney : Well done did some say Blue Monday, come and see me afterwords to get a prize.......actually it's called Fuckin Blue Monday now, cos I'm fookin sick of it....only joking.
BS: Thank you very much. As Divine said: "I've had more people in bed than there is in this room tonight"... but not quite as much feedback. 
Crap, we need to get all this stuff SQL'd up and categorized ( lyric rewrites, starting fights with the audience, barney insanities etc) and get the audio's as well :)
Somewhere in 89 I think, possibly a festival.... After all the way, during which Our Beloved Leader has gotten both his guitar AND vocal a whole fscking bar out of time with the rest of them. "Sorry about that, but you gota admit it, it was shit. but the next one's gonna be good tho cos it's all done all by computers" Possibly the same gig... "this is the first festival I've ever been to where the band's been more out of their head than the audience"
Hooky, Kilkenny 83 "this is our nightly request spot, so errrr keep shoutin" Barney same gig "do you really want us to play everythings gone green ( huge cheer) alright, we'll play it" in a voice like Eor. "this is my ceremony guitar, only ever use it for ceramony........it's no 59 Les Paul, but it just suits ceremony, you what it's like, sort ....." Barney plays riff from ceremony very funkily, plays a trial chord and is about to start rambling again when hooky cuts him dead by hurling into the song.
Milan 82, mid way thru Sparks cover version "when I'm with you I neevr feel like garbage, when I'm (shrieeeeeeeeeeek) with you I never feel like feedback."....."this is why we don;t do encores"....."oh this was a bad idea"
Ian, not sure of venue or date... "everythin's fookin bust so we're playing EVERYTHING through the bass amp"
And everything either of them say at the 05 NYC gig is pure gold.
Auckland 1987:-
before launching into "Touched By The Hand Of God" someone in the audience must shout out for a Joy Division number and Barney replies with this classic:-
"We can't play any Joy Division songs cause the singer's dead!"
ULU 25/10/85....too many to single out any individually but there's an 'interesting' variation to the last verse of Love Vigilantes.
"and I said you dirty bastard what are you doing on that floor......" just part of it at ULU that night!
What we need to do is get all of these quips extracted from the recordings and all put onto one disc. Should be a laugh!
Geri wrote: are you volunteering, Tim?
If only I had the time! I haven't been in my house for longer than an hour in the last week (when not asleep) - work is so busy at the moment I don't even have time to read my emails!
...such giving a nice banter a chance...
...Peter Hook @ Reading '93 after playing 'Dream Attack': 'I wanna come down and kiss each and everyone here !'...
Guilty Partner wrote: My personal favourite is during the June 2002 Finsbury Park gig when after a frenzied Ceremony Barney asks "is everybody having a nice time?. Personally, I'd rather be sat at home watching Stars on Sunday, or the World Cup". He then proceeds to waffle on about Stars on Sunday as if he's talking to himself and Hooky just laughs at him with a face that says "you're not stoned mate, why are you talking rubbish!" in a humourous way. Quality.
Thats what makes it worth while.
