neworderdude wrote:
The entire gig at the Apollo 14th November 05
Best night of my life
New Order were on form that night like never before
My first gig, worth waiting 20+ years for too. And my all time personal favourite moment was that night too. When Barney started fumbling around with the chords from TPK over Blue Monday, I actually cried (I was physically destroyed by that point, but I don't think that mattered a fuck).
There are too many great moments, and too many fuckups, so what about those that are both......
The Blue Monday from Barrowlands 85(6?) mentioned by the original poster is BREATHTAKING, all the more so cos it fucked up and fell over first, so a double score there.
Somewhere in 85/6 (perhaps Hull perhaps not), the drum machine (which drives the 2 synth parts too) won't play nice on Temptation, constantly stopping and resetting after a couple of bars. Steve and Hooky play on together while Gillian (and maybe Bernard) take a cricket bat to the fucker. When it's sorted, the sequenced parts just drop in SEAMLESSLY with Steve and Hooky, instantly proving not only their unfuckingbelievable timing, but also Gillan's unholy trigger finger (if you've never had to drop a machine in to something that's already playing, by hand, you won't appreciate this, but I bet at least a dozen NOOLer's read that and contemplate it with awe, for they too have faced that bastard of a task).
The aforementioned guity partner, like the Glassgow BM, once restarted, is blissful. Hooky plays like a man possessed, and the whole groove is much better than the studio recording (are there demos or sessions of this track out there?).
On the tech fuckup department, there has to be the sound cretin at Glasto 81 who, upon seeing Hooky knocking FUCK out of some cymbals during IALP, neglected to spot him picking up his bass half way through. The result turns what should be the definitive recording of that piece, into a fucking joke, with a teeny bit of bass being heard though leakage into the drum mics.
Runner up would be Mr Philip Cunningham Esq, earning a whole new world of respect from me by actually breaking a Roland keyboard without using a tactical missile. I got a nice view of Mr Lyons blankly astonished gob as he realised the thing was in fact dead, and saw it turn to....."hmmmmm where the fuck IS the backup". the just gave up on the bugger. That was Bournemouth 06.
Fucked up gig award has to go to the Swedish debacle from 01 or o2, falling over, tuneless basses, pure alzheimer's all round.
Greatest moment for me ever was hearing the PFD version of BM at a church disco, it sounded fabulous......well the first half of it did 
Apart from that I am at a loss for a greatest moment (apart from what I said about tpk/BM at the Apollo avoce), it's ALL so bloody good.
Oh, and the PEEL TRIBUTE
MEN was it 
and that was a great moment for me at the time.
