Amazing show, new orders greatest in my honest opinion. For those of you who attended how was it? Was the atmosphere just as exciting as the recording?
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Reading Festival 1993
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[Awaits Al Jarvis' comment about it being the shittest, most funereal gig he's ever had the misfortune to attend]
Really wasnt my favourite gig at all.
I threw up a dodgy pint of cider during 'Ruined in a Day', it started pissing it down mid-gig, they played too many songs off Republic, and just didnt seem very cohesive at all. I'm sure it was this gig the weather went bonkers, and we got hit by torrential rain.
Listening to that recording is odd cos 'Everyone Everywhere' sounds great, but at the time, in the crowd, it was a jumbled mess of sound.
So in short, no.
Much better gigs in 89 and 98.
PETER COATES'S BELATED REDEMPTION wrote: [Awaits Al Jarvis' comment about it being the shittest, most funereal gig he's ever had the misfortune to attend]
EDIT: Can't some bright spark go back through the years and find all the previous comments on this? For all the Liams whinging about New-Order-by-Numbers gigs from 2001-6 they really ought head back to 1993 to see how New Order properly went 'through the motions' first time around. Fcuk me, it's not even a particularly inspiring setlist (especially when you compare it to everysinglegig they'd just done in the States! )
Yeah, well, carry on, I'm off to see that JoyDiv documentary right ... now! 
Lots of 30 somethings in Republic tee shirts.Fairly warm weather.We bumped into a lad from our town who was keen to tell us how Ian Curtis died.Went out of our way to avoid The Lemonheads (or was it Evan Dando solo? ).Gig was so so although the superb bootleg would suggest otherwise
Biggest dissapointment of the night was Melanie Williams failing to appear on stage at the Rivermead centre to do Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use) with Sub Sub.
Wasn't that bothered that it may have been New Order's final gig as just that week i had made the decision to jack my job in and go backpacking abroad for a year
i always thought it was odd they started their gigs in 93 with Ruined in a day. I'm a big fan of the song however it just doesn't seem like a song to jump start the crowd.
bushwick bill wrote: i always thought it was odd they started their gigs in 93 with Ruined in a day. I'm a big fan of the song however it just doesn't seem like a song to jump start the crowd.
That setlist didn't 'jump start' the crowd till True Faith (or was it BLT? Whichever came first). Regret wasn't then the classic it came to be and the likes of Round & Round and World were bouncy enough but quite 'nice' and 'safe'. Compare that to more recent gigs where you get the likes of Ceremony, Love Vigilantes and Tranmission chucked at you early doors and you can perhaps see my point.
Right, I'm defo leaving now. 
Carry on!
Intrigued, I just checked out '93 on the concert browser. Jesus, that must have been fun for anyone following them around! 
shame this was the first "gig" I ever downloaded by NO. Perhaps due to that im partial to it.
Burt Reynolds wrote: Really wasnt my favourite gig at all.
I threw up a dodgy pint of cider during 'Ruined in a Day', it started pissing it down mid-gig, they played too many songs off Republic, and just didnt seem very cohesive at all. I'm sure it was this gig the weather went bonkers, and we got hit by torrential rain.
Listening to that recording is odd cos 'Everyone Everywhere' sounds great, but at the time, in the crowd, it was a jumbled mess of sound.
So in short, no.
Much better gigs in 89 and 98.
Nah, it didn't rain: weather was pretty good all day in fact. That must have been a very dodgy pint of cider, Burt!!!
Now you mention it i think it did rain for a bit during the gig.Had been sunny all day though , aye.
From the video footage and the sound I have, it looks like a cracking gig.
Michael Jackson played with me. lol
Was never too keen on it, just very subdued compared to the 89 one. and i had nowhere to stay, just lazed around the site like a zombie till the trains went on and i could get out of there, wondering if this was really a way for a grown man to be acting, and i have often found myself thinking that on my jaunts to see them, lots of money, lots of drink, very little recollection of the gig and a long journey home. ah well i spose those days are over, i miss them.
I quite enjoyed it, but then, I was pretty stoned.
Was that when Siouxsie and the Banshees played the same year or was that '98?
No,I do think it was that year. Bad Brains played on the Friday afternoon and Chumbawamba too.
I've got no memory of rain, but then, I'm not the best as far as memory goes.
I think that was the year I woke up with my head sticking out of the tent and heard NO sound checking around 8am. Regret.
Or maybe their guitar roadies, to be honest
It was a decent enough gig, but nowhere near as good as many of the rest I've seen.
It wasnae the best gig I've ever been to, but I thought they were magic. Ok the set-lists had started to take a turn for the worse, but the band were tight as fcuk. I was very drunk, but I think the bootleg still stands up today, which is more than can be said of me and them Dinasour Jr cunts
As it is when it was & obviously Ceremony made it worthwhile, just always wish i did the New York & Denver shows stateside when i had the chance
El Jarvo wrote:
Andrew Sayer wrote: obviously Ceremony made it worthwhile
Now that would've made it!
Me & several lads around me spent the whole set bawling for that one. I swear to this day that Barney flashed us a right evil look at one point during a lull between songs....
PETER COATES'S BELATED REDEMPTION wrote:
Burt Reynolds wrote: Really wasnt my favourite gig at all.
I threw up a dodgy pint of cider during 'Ruined in a Day', it started pissing it down mid-gig, they played too many songs off Republic, and just didnt seem very cohesive at all. I'm sure it was this gig the weather went bonkers, and we got hit by torrential rain.
Listening to that recording is odd cos 'Everyone Everywhere' sounds great, but at the time, in the crowd, it was a jumbled mess of sound.
So in short, no.
Much better gigs in 89 and 98.
Nah, it didn't rain: weather was pretty good all day in fact. That must have been a very dodgy pint of cider, Burt!!!
Are you 100% sure?... I must admit I'm not... I ended up getting a day ticket at last opportunity. I'm just kinda sure it went cataclysmic almost as i arrived, somewhere towards the end of the Dinosaur Jnr set. (not Finsbury Park catacylsmic though, mind)
I remember giving up on a tent and sleeping in my lovely Ford Orion, and i don't think this was '89.
The cider was rank though....
i can't say nothing about the gig cause i was not there...but i love that recording. Actually i have 2...the Electronic Ecstasy and the cd called New Order Europe 1993.
Burt Reynolds wrote:
PETER COATES'S BELATED REDEMPTION wrote:
Burt Reynolds wrote: Really wasnt my favourite gig at all.
I threw up a dodgy pint of cider during 'Ruined in a Day', it started pissing it down mid-gig, they played too many songs off Republic, and just didnt seem very cohesive at all. I'm sure it was this gig the weather went bonkers, and we got hit by torrential rain.
Listening to that recording is odd cos 'Everyone Everywhere' sounds great, but at the time, in the crowd, it was a jumbled mess of sound.
So in short, no.
Much better gigs in 89 and 98.
Nah, it didn't rain: weather was pretty good all day in fact. That must have been a very dodgy pint of cider, Burt!!!
Are you 100% sure?... I must admit I'm not... I ended up getting a day ticket at last opportunity. I'm just kinda sure it went cataclysmic almost as i arrived, somewhere towards the end of the Dinosaur Jnr set. (not Finsbury Park catacylsmic though, mind)
I remember giving up on a tent and sleeping in my lovely Ford Orion, and i don't think this was '89.
The cider was rank though....
It might have spat a bit, but I'm pretty sure weather was good. So fucking long ago now, mind......
:D 
Right, lets get this settled.
It was awful.
Hooky was in such a strop with Barney that he actually SHAT on his AMP.
Steve spent the whole gig flicking his snot at the two gimps up front.
The entire set list was given out to fans before the gig, just to piss them off.
Gillian deliberately wet herself because she was so fucking bored.
Rob Gretton tried to hang himself at the sidelines due to the hell of hearing the same bastard set for the umpteenth time, then realised the band didn't deserve such a grand gesture and so did the crossword instead.
The entire crowd was boring and most people left about two songs in.
It rained all day and I got trenchfoot and syphilis.
It cost £33455 to get in.
WORST GIG EVER.
PETER COATES'S BELATED REDEMPTION wrote: Right, lets get this settled.
It was awful.
Hooky was in such a strop with Barney that he actually SHAT on his AMP.
Steve spent the whole gig flicking his snot at the two gimps up front.
The entire set list was given out to fans before the gig, just to piss them off.
Gillian deliberately wet herself because she was so fucking bored.
Rob Gretton tried to hang himself at the sidelines due to the hell of hearing the same bastard set for the umpteenth time, then realised the band didn't deserve such a grand gesture and so did the crossword instead.
The entire crowd was boring and most people left about two songs in.
It rained all day and I got trenchfoot and syphilis.
It cost £33455 to get in.
WORST GIG EVER.
The only way it could have been worse was if Jeff had shown up...
PETER COATES'S BELATED REDEMPTION wrote: Right, lets get this settled.
It was awful.
Hooky was in such a strop with Barney that he actually SHAT on his AMP.
Steve spent the whole gig flicking his snot at the two gimps up front.
The entire set list was given out to fans before the gig, just to piss them off.
Gillian deliberately wet herself because she was so fucking bored.
Rob Gretton tried to hang himself at the sidelines due to the hell of hearing the same bastard set for the umpteenth time, then realised the band didn't deserve such a grand gesture and so did the crossword instead.
The entire crowd was boring and most people left about two songs in.
It rained all day and I got trenchfoot and syphilis.
It cost £33455 to get in.
WORST GIG EVER.
WHAT?
No mention of BARGAIN buckets or BROKEN arms.
FINSBURY was a walk in a BIg park!
