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New Order on Channel 4 music program Switch:
I'm not sure if anyone has posted this previously, but I haven't seen this footage on YouTube before. Does anyone remember this show and what dates it ran? It seems like the type of thing I would've watched while I was living in the UK, but it doesn't ring a bell.
Never seen that before either, very nice.
I like how, at the start of BM, Gillian just stands aside while Barney goes to about 3 different keyboards and fiddles about 
whoa, even the original blue monday video is on youtube, and i havent even seen it up to this very day, like 23 years after its release
They did Switch the same week that they played Blue Monday live on TOTP. It went out the day after TOTP if I remember right.
nancyo wrote: New Order on Channel 4 music program Switch:
I'm not sure if anyone has posted this previously, but I haven't seen this footage on YouTube before. Does anyone remember this show and what dates it ran? It seems like the type of thing I would've watched while I was living in the UK, but it doesn't ring a bell.
Fantastic!! Have wanted to see this again for years!! Used to have it on vhs.Its from April or May 1983.Switch was on air when The Tube was ,um,off air
Cheers for finding and posting that, nancyo
FrogChorus wrote: I like how, at the start of BM, Gillian just stands aside while Barney goes to about 3 different keyboards and fiddles about
Yeah, and Hooky holding a tape recorder in front of the mic is also a nice touch. 
oh yeah i remember this,i tear arsed it home from southport just to hit the record button on the vhs a copy of which i still have.
i love the tape on gillians keyboard,(press here) ect,fantastic.
why i have aways loved em.
This was aired 1st April 1983. Classic performance on a Saturday morning kids show.
Someone above has a good memory cos Blue Monday TOTP was aired on the 31st March
Actually Switch was shown on a Friday evening around 5pm. I watched it from the Ideal Home Exhibition in Earls Court or Olympia. John Peel was hosting or guesting on Radio 1's review of new singles 'Roundtable' live there. Switch's other memorable performance was the Fun Boy Three (don't laugh) who covered The Door's 'The End' with a American Flag burning at the end of the song. In the words of Shakin' Stevens 'lovely stuff'
this is such a funny post, all you die hards not even seen or remember one of the best NO TV performances ever, bet you cant recall the 24 hr rock around the clock session either,(that was good for being bad)I still have these performances on VHS, to think someone slagged me off for not having many posts and being a NEW member!
Shug wrote: This was aired 1st April 1983. Classic performance on a Saturday morning kids show.
Someone above has a good memory cos Blue Monday TOTP was aired on the 31st March
Solly's right, Switch aired on a Friday Shug, TOTP was definitely a Thursday as New Order's performance was the talk of the school on the Friday.
offshore and need a beer wrote: this is such a funny post, all you die hards not even seen or remember one of the best NO TV performances ever, bet you cant recall the 24 hr rock around the clock session either,(that was good for being bad)I still have these performances on VHS, to think someone slagged me off for not having many posts and being a NEW member!
No, I think you were slagged off for having disappeared and not telling your mum or sister! 
i don't know any of the die-hards who don't have pristine copies of Switch or Rock Around The Clock, or any of the TV appearances for that matter!
Notable thing for me between TOTP and the Switch was the two different performances of Blue Monday - you have a listen/watch and see how different the arrangements are!
nancyo wrote: New Order on Channel 4 music program Switch:
Excellent ! 
In the middle of Blue Monday, we can see Stephen changing his floppy discs 
We want those TV Shows to be officially released with full quality on DVD
offshore and need a beer wrote: this is such a funny post, all you die hards not even seen or remember one of the best NO TV performances ever, bet you cant recall the 24 hr rock around the clock session either,(that was good for being bad)I still have these performances on VHS, to think someone slagged me off for not having many posts and being a NEW member!
No you were slagged off for trying to sell Bournemouth tickets for the highest offer above ticket price, If i recall. Touts were selling em outside for a tenner, in the end. 
offshore and need a beer wrote: this is such a funny post, all you die hards not even seen or remember one of the best NO TV performances ever, bet you cant recall the 24 hr rock around the clock session either,(that was good for being bad)I still have these performances on VHS, to think someone slagged me off for not having many posts and being a NEW member!
Living on an oil rig is making you a very happy bunny then ,eh?
Ceremony wrote: Notable thing for me between TOTP and the Switch was the two different performances of Blue Monday - you have a listen/watch and see how different the arrangements are!
that was down to the beeb being arseholes insisting they did a sub 3 minute version, and the gear being fooked, and barney prbobably had flu (his usual excuse, his nose was probably bunged up with something else!)
Jed Stephens wrote:
Ceremony wrote: Notable thing for me between TOTP and the Switch was the two different performances of Blue Monday - you have a listen/watch and see how different the arrangements are!
that was down to the beeb being arseholes insisting they did a sub 3 minute version, and the gear being fooked, and barney prbobably had flu (his usual excuse, his nose was probably bunged up with something else!)
Totally different versions - the TOTP one was very similar to the 7 inch edit, whereas the Switch version was just lopped off at about 5 mins, had been pretty much the full version until the drastically shortened end!
was in norfolk for"soul weekender" asked mum to record it ...she hit the play button,,,dam ..only saw it in b&w till the bootleg ... .. i think the boys played liverpool the night b.m. got its topp airing ,,,,,,
so tell me now how does it feel...............
