The Village wrote: I saw two different DVDs of this today.
I forget what the difference was. I'll have to go back and look at them...
The closing credits?
In the original version shown on ITV, the closing credits were accompanied by the Perfecto remix of World, which at the time had, if memory serves me right, just been released as a single in Britain.
However, the DVD version ends with something else entirely, a JD track from memory methinks.
Saying that though, the DVD version varies considerably from the original TV version insofar as all(?) the single releases are played on full.
BEST BIT OF NOS?
Has to be Bernard's finger pointing "You ruined my career" stab at Tony Wilson, but there is also the following from the mock quiz:
Keith Allen: "What's Tony Wilson's occupation?" Peter Hook(?): "Twat."
OTHER DVDs?
Go for the 'double' and purchase the "Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival" DVD.
Why a 'double'? The drunken band interview featured in NOS was filemed whilst NO were in Montreux playing the festival, so this concert complements NOS perfectly.
The gig itself is low key, but the performance is tight, the production is polished and Bernard's voice in fine fettle. There are some superb performances, particularly "Regret", "Everyone Everywhere" and "Temptation".
The Montreux appearance also came just before the famous Reading triumph, so we have a band at the top of its game. In fact they are magnificent, and Bernard looks especially fooking cool. I had my hair styled like Bernard's at the time, and the girls fooking loved it.
Which makes it all the so depressing. It just leaves you left wondering what they would have achieved if they hadn't fallen out and remained together throughut the 90s.
Here was a band that was ready to take on the world, but instead went home and didn't talk to each other for five years.
