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Outburst,comment,gesture or response a member of the band has made onstage/offstage.
From *Pumped Full Of Drugs:
Bernard "Turn that light off you cnut",also liked the one Hooky made about they'd be as big as U2 but Barney couldn't carry the flag cos it was too heavy!
At Sydney on 18th May 1985, the fifth anniversary of Ian's death. Bernard introduces We All Stand with the immortal line "I'd like to dedicate this song to someone who couldn't be with us tonight because he's dead, I think you all know who I mean............Mr Elvis Presley."
"By the way, everyone says this but we do love New York... the drugs are so cheap here.... and plentiful"
Barney in '87 
SFX Dublin Jan'86
'I'd complain to the promoter about the fuckin' heatin' in this place if i were you...fuckin freezin'...Bernard.
Geri wrote: "a moment of silence for the dead we left behind in Glasgow." Ayr 1983 (I think)
Spot on Geri. Barney to the audience in the Paradise Garage gig, New York 7th July 1983-"seldom have I met an audience more lethargic than we are....."
"it's the fist time we've done a gig where the bands been more out of their heads than the audience" Reading 1988 i think
I doubt it's true but it's a great quote.
Gillian Fanciers Association wrote:
Geri wrote: "a moment of silence for the dead we left behind in Glasgow." Ayr 1983 (I think)
Spot on Geri. Barney to the audience in the Paradise Garage gig, New York 7th July 1983-"seldom have I met an audience more lethargic than we are....."
"...you all must be Joy Division fans."
Steve Morris ...
"on the opening night I had to pay to get in! Gillian's sister used to impersonate Gillian and get in for free. I'm not a bitter man".
P.S. How do you join the Gillian Fanciers Association and what are the membership benefits?
UK,sure it's '83,I've got the boot but can't rem which one..........
Hooky; "You shouldn't swear,there's several big blokes here who'll RIP YER FUCKIN' HEAD OFF!!!"
Quality....
if bernard weren't 25 years older than me, i'd shag him...there i finally admit it. i love the keyboards...
and i have no favorite line of theirs except "whoo!"
*Animadversion* wrote: if bernard weren't 25 years older than me, i'd shag him...there i finally admit it. i love the keyboards...
You want a 25 year younger Bernard to shag you with a keyboard?
After making a pigs scrotum of All the Way and just prior to Round and Round......
"sorry about that, but you gotta admit it, it was shit, the next one's gonna be good thogh, cos it's all done by computers"
And the entire "Ian had it easy, he didn;t have this sore foot" thread from NYC 05.
Steve One wrote: Steve Morris...
"Im not a mod or a rocker. Im a mocker".
I'm sure you know that, if he did say that, he pinched it from Ringo Starr.
Jemma's right
I also like how Barney came on stage at the Ally Pally NYE gig - Hi we're New Order and we're a bit fucked.
Geri wrote: "a moment of silence for the dead we left behind in Glasgow." Ayr 1983 (I think)
Sorry I don't know the background to this one, why did they say it?
FrogChorus wrote: "We might be a pop group but you're a fucking WANKER"
Brum 86
Aye , a classic
Wasim wrote:
Geri wrote: "a moment of silence for the dead we left behind in Glasgow." Ayr 1983 (I think)
Sorry I don't know the background to this one, why did they say it?
Because Bernard was completely fucked that night. He says it at the start of Blue Monday, which is a very memorable performance indeed. He giggles quite happily and completely forgets to sing, so Hooky starts giving him the lines.
"Can you move back a bit please, someone's getting crushed in the front. I don't give a f**k really, but it sounds good if I say it."
London 1985
Geri wrote: "a moment of silence for the dead we left behind in Glasgow." Ayr 1983 (I think)
"And this is the one that left 'em for fookin' dead, right?" - Hooky
Listening to Woolwich 1987 just now and Barney says: "This is the first time we play this part of London, and I think I understand why really" and
"You have to keep up with the improvisation ... FUCK FUCK FUCK ... you missed it .."
There are loads like these, the only real reason for collecting these boots, isn't it?
oldmonkey wrote:
Geri wrote: "a moment of silence for the dead we left behind in Glasgow." Ayr 1983 (I think)
"And this is the one that left 'em for fookin' dead, right?" - Hooky
I'm sure that was Barney as well 
for those who don't know, there's a whole page dedicated to these on new order dot net.
http://http://www.new-order.net/no/facs/livequotes.html
just listened to a few songs from Kilkenny 1983 tonight.. Ceremony's a classic... almost completely done impersonating Elvis "Thankyou, Thankyouverymuch"
(and, copied from new-order.net because my memory's shit)
"So pleased to see you all here. I'm so pleased you like Ceremony. [Bernard raises voice] I'm so pleased you like Temptation. (Hooky shouts affermation) I'm so pleased you like Blue Monday. (Hooky: "Yeah!") Straight from Top Of The Pops, we have New Order! On my left, I have Peter Hook. On my right, I have Gillian Gilbert. Behind me, I have Ian Curtis."
NOOLigan wrote: for those who don't know, there's a whole page dedicated to these on new order dot net.
http://http://www.new-order.net/no/facs/livequotes.html
Do I know! Excellent site.
Geri wrote:
oldmonkey wrote:
Geri wrote: "a moment of silence for the dead we left behind in Glasgow." Ayr 1983 (I think)
"And this is the one that left 'em for fookin' dead, right?" - Hooky
I'm sure that was Barney as well
Nah they were both Hooky, I'm pretty certain
I'm still confused about what "the dead we left behind in Glasgow" means?
Mari wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: for those who don't know, there's a whole page dedicated to these on new order dot net.
http://http://www.new-order.net/no/facs/livequotes.html
nic eone. great minds..... .
Wasim wrote:
Geri wrote:
oldmonkey wrote:
Geri wrote: "a moment of silence for the dead we left behind in Glasgow." Ayr 1983 (I think)
"And this is the one that left 'em for fookin' dead, right?" - Hooky
I'm sure that was Barney as well
Nah they were both Hooky, I'm pretty certain
I'm still confused about what "the dead we left behind in Glasgow" means?
Absolutely not ! This is classic Barney, pissed as a fart.
And I don't think it means anything in particular. Maybe there had been a fight in Glasgow ?!
Mari wrote: Definitely Hooky. Listening to it now.
I think the first line could be debatable but definitely not the second one 
Geri wrote:
Wasim wrote:
Geri wrote:
oldmonkey wrote:
Geri wrote: "a moment of silence for the dead we left behind in Glasgow." Ayr 1983 (I think)
"And this is the one that left 'em for fookin' dead, right?" - Hooky
I'm sure that was Barney as well
Nah they were both Hooky, I'm pretty certain
I'm still confused about what "the dead we left behind in Glasgow" means?
Absolutely not ! This is classic Barney, pissed as a fart.
And I don't think it means anything in particular. Maybe there had been a fight in Glasgow ?!
Sorry Geri, but both utterances came from the esteemed bass fiend. They'd played both long and short versions of Blue Monday the night before at Glasgow Tiffanys, and it had ended up a bit of a wild night backstage!
Geri wrote:
Mari wrote: Definitely Hooky. Listening to it now.
I think the first line could be debatable but definitely not the second one
undebateably (?!?) Hooky!
I'll send you the mp3 if you won't believe us...
If Oldmonkey says so, it has to be true ! How come Hooky sounds the sober one further on though ? Never mind,
I admit defeat :D
Mari wrote:
Geri wrote:
Mari wrote: Definitely Hooky. Listening to it now.
I think the first line could be debatable but definitely not the second one
undebateably (?!?) Hooky!
I'll send you the mp3 if you won't believe us...
No need, I've already dug it out, even forced Deek to listen to it. But of course he always agrees with whatever I say, so that was a waste of time
"this is true faith, for all those who wanna groove out there... if you don't.. you can fuck off"
Roskilde 2002
Turn the disco off. It's not a fooking wedding you know. It's a RAWK concert - Barney
BIGINOIL wrote:
Steve One wrote: Steve Morris...
"Im not a mod or a rocker. Im a mocker".
I'm sure you know that, if he did say that, he pinched it from Ringo Starr.
He definitely said it,on that MTV interview when their on the pennines overlooking Manchester (think it was for Technique).
RFH - looking directly at the large leather jacketed geezer that had been 'dancing' much to the mirth of those around him:
'This one's for all the fat bastards in the audience'
Further pleas for the Central Poly Of London crowd to move back "or we'll be here next week doing a suffocation benefit"
"So you're ROCKET MICK"....STEVE (lifting his eyebrow in the quizical way THE SAINT used to)........said to me at the ROB GRETTON TRIBUTE.Made my night especially when i MIXED up GILLIAN with her sister.What a briliant INTRO to the band!
Not sure if this counts , but Glastonbury 1987 Just before Age of Consent hooky says "this ones to warm you up for that long , cold night you got ahead of you" and someone in the audience retorts with a heartfelt "fuck off!" always makes me chuckle
although my all time fave is "you shouldnt swear...."
no just been thinking about it maybe my fave is Barney's audience baiting :
"sorry to keep you waiting , just waiting for the sequencer to load up ......not sorry really , don't give a shit really....." New York '83 i think
Edinburgh 85 or 86.....
Barney:" it's like the fookin blues brothers here, need fuckin chicken wire with you lot"
later in a large gap...... Hooky: "What's the matter, never waited for an Emulator to load before?"
Barney: "Black Power!" - from out of nowhere after Love Viglantes, New York Hammerstein, 2005?
Anyone shed any light on....
Hooky at Gmex '86,before BLT; "This ones' for the,er,Blackburn lads,'cos we all know what the Blackburn lads get upto,don't we?"
& I'd love to know what Hooky said during STYT at the Hac' in '86 after someone launched a bottle at the stage & it just missed Steve.All I could see & hear was he stopped playing,stormed upto the mic',shouting,swearing & pointing a lot....not impressed at all.No-one else threw anything tho'....
Surely the Dave Fanning interview with Hooky from '82 has to be one the bass fiends' finest hours
Has to be when they supported robbie williams in cologne (2001,my first no gig!)- BARNEY to the crowd :
Do you like "marching" music? (rapturous applause from the german public)
Do you like dance music? (even bigger applause)
Well heres fucking blue monday!
think it went like that if my memory serves me.......
mark kelly wrote: Anyone shed any light on....
Hooky at Gmex '86,before BLT; "This ones' for the,er,Blackburn lads,'cos we all know what the Blackburn lads get upto,don't we?"
& I'd love to know what Hooky said during STYT at the Hac' in '86 after someone launched a bottle at the stage & it just missed Steve.All I could see & hear was he stopped playing,stormed upto the mic',shouting,swearing & pointing a lot....not impressed at all.No-one else threw anything tho'....
Surely the Dave Fanning interview with Hooky from '82 has to be one the bass fiends' finest hours
Is that Dave Fanning interview online anywhere by chance?
Bernard @ Liverpool 06 - "I hate it when someone passess you a microphone covered in vaseline....... you don't where its been"!!!
From the same gig, after the encore - "Sorry that took so long, Phil decided that was a good time to have a shit"
Barney : 'Dianne, turn the foldback up a little bit please'
Punter : 'Fcuk Off!'
Barney : 'You fcuk off you big tit..........In fact your a cnut not a tit..............in fact your a bollock brain and not a cnut and if you want a fight, I'll see you in the dressing room afterwards.'
Immortal banter from Birmingham 1984
ally wrote: "By the way, everyone says this but we do love New York... the drugs are so cheap here.... and plentiful"
Barney in '87
Introducing Face up!!
intro to Elegia at Red Parrot, Perth 21 Feb 1987
Barney:"Sorry about that, we all had to go to get some heroine.Oh, I'm joking,i'm joking! cuz remember, drugs are bud for you!!
:D :D
intro to Vanishing Point Reading 1989
Barney: "Uh, i'm gonna weigh all you mission fans up now. I see you all, dressed in black, picking your fucking noses. What we want is New Order fans!!
"You are small but you have a fucking big mouth" - Peter Hook to Julio in Brasilia.
Apparently Julio liked to be insulted by Hooky himself.
"at least when i wake up in the morning im human"! barney to some loud mouth circa 83/84.
dont spit!! you wouldt do that at home would you ? barney again.
can you move back at the front,,,see we do care realy ,,barney tongue in cheek finsbury 87.
"this is only cos youve been here as long as us" hooky introduces encore futurama 82.
(fuck off)this is a benifit for martin hannet!!! hooky to promoter type who was trying to wind up his stage time at ,,,a benifit for martin hannet.91.
"on drums ,,steve morris" barney to bemused morris the band left steve to carry a drum solo.,womad 85.
im waiting for the sirens call...
LIVERPOOL 06! Hooky: "I'm talking to you cunts in the yellow.I can see yer from up here,and as far as I'm concerned you fooking started it. If you don't lay off now,I'll fuck off and let you deal with it."
Straight after,launching into a song,Hooky sez:- "I hate that,playing a top song and you sound shit!"
at the Electric Picnic, last year... lots of fun ones, but I remember this especially
Barney: "Okay this is, uh, bringing it up a bit more up-to-date, this is a track off our last album, whatever the fuck that was called, and it's called Krafty. Just can't sell stuff, y'know. My record company want me to, but I just can't put my heart into it. Buy it if you like it, if you don't, fuck it up."
longing back to Factory days, maybe?
and Hooky: "Just a quick dedication before we go, I'd like to congratulate Kelly Osborne and Matty on their marriage, but don't tell her Mom and Dad because they're gonna fucking kill her!
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: if you want Rock The Shack....pull out your penises....
Rock the shack it is then!
That´s fantastic! Always makes me laugh when I think about it.
mika
In no order
agreed to all that hooky yelled. but with new order jokes and stuff...
"it's been a hard day's night" beatles song joke from a manc?
liverpool, liverpool so much more beautiful than manchester (fuck offs from audience)which is so much more ugly than liverpool
barney daring "slim" the roady to sing BM with them, and he does. got a photo of that somewhere. Was it Blackburn?
Whatever the (gay??) joke was between Barney and Hooky at London's Heaven which involved a pair of knickers being placed on the end of Barney's guitar. He couldn't sing or play for laughter
" tonight we play especialy long set for you german audience." barney to delirious crowd,,haus nead ,frankfurt,march 1984. 1 song later they were gone!!
first to paris.
did slim sing bl at blackburn
not blackburn 85,, seem to remember he sang some "disco" tune with them ,,love juice ? at a london gig.
anyway what happened to slim?
then to spain.
The abuse of the Berlin Metropol audience in 1984 prior to Temptation takes the biscuit for me i.e." Your the worst fucking audience we've ever played to in our entire fucking lives, you bunch of miserable bastards".......
Followed by an apology after the song :D
79 order wrote:
did slim sing bl at blackburn
not blackburn 85,, seem to remember he sang some "disco" tune with them ,,love juice ? at a london gig.
anyway what happened to slim?
That was Blue Monday/Love Reaction, at Brixton Academy 1st Dec 1983. "Love Juice" was a guitar jam at Auckland in 1985.
No idea what happened to Slim though!
"Well you didn't deserve that...." Hooky after Decades at Amsterdam 84
"....and you certainly don't fookin' deserve this" Hooky before LWTUA, three seconds later!
"Notice how all our songs finish with big endings? Big songs.....small dicks....."
Don't know what gig but have it somewhere. Barney, mid 80s.
Someone asked about the "Blackburn Lads" quote. It was a dedication for members of Blackburn Youth, Blackburn Rovers hooligan firm.
Blunderer wrote: "Notice how all our songs finish with big endings? Big songs.....small dicks....."
Glastonbury '87 I do believe, it's on the BBC Radio 1 Live CD.
After BLT (on the CD anyway).
hooky to barney,"they dont trust us cos were from manchester." march 83 2nd night at the state,liverpool.
this was also the gig when barney took camera off a fan and took a picci of him.
causing frustration
The wit of Steve Morris on Ian Curtis (1988)
"I think the main thing we decided was that we didn't want to get a singer in as it would be a bit much to expect someone to step into his shoes..........we've still got his shoes haven't we?"
Lee Saunders wrote: The wit of Steve Morris on Ian Curtis (1988)
"I think the main thing we decided was that we didn't want to get a singer in as it would be a bit much to expect someone to step into his shoes..........we've still got his shoes haven't we?"
my word almost three years for the first post.
may there be many more.
well have you all outside,,, were from manchester,
barney to "bemused " liverpool audience 83.
as i was from near manc at the time i had to keep shut for the rest of the gig !!..
the lengths i had to go.
As regular readers may know I was at school with Barney and Hooky but had never spoken to them since they left in 1972. I spotted Hooky in Manchester on our way to the Ian Curtis tribute night 2 years ago and approached him from behind. "Been trying to catch up with you for 30 years" I said. "Fuckin hell, you must have been walking slowly" was the response.
Lee Saunders wrote: The wit of Steve Morris on Ian Curtis (1988)
"I think the main thing we decided was that we didn't want to get a singer in as it would be a bit much to expect someone to step into his shoes..........we've still got his shoes haven't we?"
class!
I still use his 'I'm not a bitter man' line all the time (its on the neworderstory video - when he's telling the story about having to always pay in to the Hac, while Gillian's sister got in for free by impersonation her)
SM is king of the one liner for me. Who can forget, again on the same subject:
"There's not many groups do it. We thought it was a good gimmick at the time, I'm very surprised he went along with it"
a very small boy wrote: As regular readers may know I was at school with Barney and Hooky but had never spoken to them since they left in 1972. I spotted Hooky in Manchester on our way to the Ian Curtis tribute night 2 years ago and approached him from behind. "Been trying to catch up with you for 30 years" I said. "Fuckin hell, you must have been walking slowly" was the response.
You approached Hooky from behind and all you got was a witty retort?
Lucky man
Are you on that class photo that crops up here from time to time?
Somewhere along the lines of, from Barney to Hooky,
'Would you please turn yer fookin' bass down?'
[And of course, Hooky's reactions... ]
BIGINOIL wrote:
a very small boy wrote: As regular readers may know I was at school with Barney and Hooky but had never spoken to them since they left in 1972. I spotted Hooky in Manchester on our way to the Ian Curtis tribute night 2 years ago and approached him from behind. "Been trying to catch up with you for 30 years" I said. "Fuckin hell, you must have been walking slowly" was the response.
You approached Hooky from behind and all you got was a witty retort?
Lucky man
Are you on that class photo that crops up here from time to time?
I am indeed. I actually sent it in so I made sure I was on part of it!
barney586 wrote: no just been thinking about it maybe my fave is Barney's audience baiting :
"sorry to keep you waiting , just waiting for the sequencer to load up ......not sorry really , don't give a shit really....." New York '83 i think
Right again-just before Confusion at the Paradise Garage gig in NY 1983.
Lee Saunders wrote: SM is king of the one liner for me. Who can forget, again on the same subject:
"There's not many groups do it. We thought it was a good gimmick at the time, I'm very surprised he went along with it"
Lee you and Steve have very similar senses of humour as i recall .
I have another couple - listening to the 82 - 83 gig Kilkenny , Ireland recently , just before confusion . Hooky chips in with.... "This is our nightly request spot , so keep shouting.."
and Barney with a sarcastic
"Basically were very misunderstood , we love people really"
