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Pat McCrotch wrote: but the two that I enjoyed most were Finsbury in 2002 and Oakland last year...
not for the gigs themselves...but from meeting up with the NOOLers...
By this last comment I presume you specifically mean April. 
I'm in agreement though. 
Ive been far and wide just like most of you here.But i think the best for me as a whole night was Hydye Park 2005.
As you all know it was pissing down and i think we all felt as though we were going to have a shit night ?
Then every thing came in to place !
I had such a good time in the pub before hand meeteing a few of you lot,then the rain stopped !
I would say that New Order were not at there best but it was just a great fucking night.I was with the right friends and we were in the centre but about thirty rows back.And all around us the people were buzzing and having a very good time.
I was well away from the mosh pit for a change,but i really did enjoy the night with the people around us.
:)
oldmonkey wrote:
Desmond Tierney wrote: Hacienda 1983
January or July?
It was July and it was my first time seeing New Order live.
1989 Jones Beach. Long Island. Only damn show I saw - too poor when they were touring the states regularly and now they don't tour anymore (last year was way too f-ing short to be a tour). Awesome set loaded with Technique stuff. WEent with a friend who was a big Twsited Sister fan, and even he was impressed. PIL and Sugarcubes opened too.
They'd better do really well at Electric Picnic, because that will be my first gig ever...
(where's the green newbiesmilie ;) )
Generally I'm not a gig person; hence only seen NO three times in 20 years of fandom!
The best would have to be Finsbury Park;
Highlights for me were;
'Digital' & 'Brutal'
and NO stopping the rain on cue!
Oh... It's Finsbury 2002 I'm talking about as well.. as I think they've played there more than once!
The crowd-band banter was on top form and NO looked to be really revelling in the moment.
Looking forward to Summer Pops (last UK NO gig as off to KiwiLand) and hoping to see NO sometime in the future (which i'm sure will be their last time) in NZ???
:ipray:
Seeing a few people mention Reading 98, did anyone by any chance go and see spiritualized (in a huge tent nme stage or summat!) afterwards, I thought they were amazing! I was a bit fucked though!
Hacienda 83, baking hot atmosphere, girlfriend fainted. Brilliant debut of Thieves and a two song encore!
Macc '85.
Has there been a more violent gig?
Barriers broke after the 3rd song so we all ended up on stage with them.
Anyone else seen Hooky stick his bass into the face of a gobshite in the audience?
I touched Barneys guitar while he was playing Elegia....yup, an intimate gig. Ok, it was cool for a 15 year old :\ohwell:
oh, and I'll give £100 to anyone who has that gig on video.
G-MEX 1988.It was such a GREAT time in my LIFE.And they played VANISHING POINT.And my life ain't be no holiday since!
Polytechnic of Central London - 1985!!
Anyone else on here go to this one?
Second best: QEH, Music for Miners benefit - 1984
Apologies Phil!! Wrote the above before noticing your post!
Glad I'm not the only one to have had a good time that night!
the best one was Manchester Apollo in oct 2001. Temptation at MEN Arena was mental Manchester Apollo Nov 2005 was most excellent but spoilt by lack of keyboards Move at Old Trafford 2002 was good - touching tribute to the late John Entwhistle by Hooky GMEX in 1988 was the first and set the scene nicely for the summer of love that was to come.
Polytechnic of Central London - 1985!!Anyone else on here go to this one?Second best:QEH, Music for Miners benefit - 1984
yep - did both of these (although technically the Miners ben. was actually next door in the RFH) - CLP still tops it for me 10 song set of perfection, and the best ever starting trio - Atmosphere, DNE, & Procession - brilliant atmosphere - compact and heaving. It was actually a benefit for Terence Higgins - hence Barneys quip about doing a suffocation benefit next time!!
Hammerstein Ballroom May 2005: Got there late, got yelled at by audience members for being too tall, my nutty ex-girlfriend flipped out, couldn't afford beer, got my moshed by most of you fuckers, no Ceremony despite repeated shouts for it, no YSF, too much Blue Monday and fog machine in my face.
The next time I see them can only be better so I'll count that. Whenever it happens.
Glasgow Barrowlands 2001 (x2 gigs)
Sunday-pub :beer2: Neworder 
Bed 
Monday-pub :beer2: Neworder Bed
If only every day was like that?
The one I'm going to in October as I haven't seen them live before!
Bit worried about the "Barney Whoop-ometer" scale, though.
If enjoyment of a gig varies with the band's "we're having fun" factor as measured by the number of "whoops" from Barney, is it necessarily a bad gig if he doesn't "whoop"?
If so, I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy myself anyway - unless one of you finds out where I'm sitting and starts asking where my zimmer frame is - but I may be in trouble with my lady friend if the gig is completely "whoop-less".:(
my fave was at the Brixton Academy last year. so much better on the Hyde Park gig
second best is Wembley 87, isnt it cool they're going back this year
Has to be Move 2002 Lancs CCC
Absolutely awesome, the whole crowd were bouncing up and down, atmosphere was amazing. It was the first NO gig I'd been to where they played mostly singles and crowd favourites as opposed to what tracks they wanted to do! Your Silent Face what a classic! The gig where my girlfriend finally realised what my obsession was all about
The first live "Come On" though, how annoying
I'm torn between Apollo 98 for the sheer emotional rush of their return and Liverpool Olympia with all the new material from GetReady.
From the town that brought you James Anderton....
Brixton 1987, mental crowd, superb set list, New Order at their best.
