By my reckoning, Brussels and Paris will take me up to 30.
Disappointed that I never made a bigger effort in my younger days though. 
Anyway, just out of curiosity, what's everyone else managed?
I'm sure the likes of JG and Jarvo must be nearing the century! 
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How many New Order gigs have you been to?
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About 22 / 23 times. Would have been loads more if they had been together in the 1990's when I was really into my gigs. Also seen Monaco, Electronic, Revenge and Bad Lieutenant. Sadly never saw the genius of Freebass :)
I think its 24, but i lost count over a decade ago. Seen all of the other lot too, including Freebass. 
Let's see...
Apollo98 Peter's Square 98 (Commonwealth Games) Reading 98 MEN Arena 98 Ally Pally 98/99 Liverpool Olympia 2001 Finsbury Park 2002 Move 2002 Blackpool 2006
8 gigs + 1 'appearance' (Also Monaco at Reading 98 & Manc Uni 2000.)
Rocket Mick wrote: One but i got thrown out...still one LESS than my failed marriages!
Ah, Liverpool Summer Pops! 
Wasn't Shug involved in an altercation with the bizzies outside?
Two for me, but I flew all the way to London for one of them!
Moby's Area One tour, San Francisco (Mountain View), 2001 Wembley Arena, October 2006
16, i think (17 if i hadn't been refused entry at Brum Powerhouse June 84 for being underage)
Brum Tower Ballroom 86 Sheffield Roxy 87 Wembley Arena 87 Brum NEC 89 Reading 93 Reading 98 Manchester Evening News Arena 98 Manchester Apollo 2001 London Hyde Park 2005 Brixton Academy 2005 Manchester Versus Cancer MEN Arena 2006 Liverpool Summer Pops 2006 Blackpool 2006 Wembley Arena 2006 Wolverhampton 2006
Electronic twice Manchester Heaton Park 91 Wembley Exhibition Hall 1 91
Revenge once Manchester Heaton Park 91
Monaco once Reading 98
Bad Lieutenant once Preston 2010
John Sludden wrote:
Rocket Mick wrote: One but i got thrown out...still one LESS than my failed marriages!
Ah, Liverpool Summer Pops!
well if anyone would know, It'd be you Uncle John..
Oh and Re:Order 4 times
London ULU 2006 Corby Viking Club 2007 Nottingham Rescue Rooms 2009 Nottingham Rescue Rooms 2010
johnny wrote: Oh and Re:Order 4 times
London ULU 2006 Corby Viking Club 2007 Nottingham Rescue Rooms 2009 Nottingham Rescue Rooms 2010
oooh blimey... might be 8, fuck knows
Rocket Mick wrote: One but i got thrown out...still one LESS than my failed marriages!
You AGGRESSIVE DANCER you!! 
Auckland (Logan Campbell Centre) 1985 Auckland (Galaxy) 1987 Auckland (BDO) 2002 or was it 2001?
Oops I don't even come close.. NEW ORDER
HACIENDA 1985 FESTIVAL OF THE 10th SUMMER, G-Mex, Manchester 1986 MEN ARENA with Underworld 1998 Manchester Apollo 2001 Manchester Apollo 2005 MANCHESTER VERSUS CANCER, MEN Arena 2006 BIG TOP ARENA, Liverpool 2006 BLACKPOOL Empress Ballroom 2006
Plus MONACO Manchester Academy 2 (supported by TRAVIS!!) 1997 - Manchester Academy 2 2000 HARD ROCK CAFE reunion 2007
REVENGE and ELECTRONIC CITIES IN THE PARK 1991 Heaton Park,Manchester
FREEBASS FAC 251 2010 (opening night & proper gig)
BAD LIEUTENANT Manchester RITZ 2009 MEN ARENA supporting PET SHOP BOYS 2009(?) PLATT FIELDS supporting IAN BROWN 2009 (?)
THE LIGHT FAC 251 Opening night 2010 FAC 251 UNKNOWN PLEASURES 2010 FAC 251 CLOSER
PETER HOOK Q+As Albert Halls, Bolton 2010 (with Howard Marks) PMT MUSIC, Salford (with John Robb)
Hooky Bass Monster wrote: Auckland (Logan Campbell Centre) 1985 Auckland (Galaxy) 1987 Auckland (BDO) 2002 or was it 2001?
Do you remember LOVE JUICE? What was it like live?
I've got recordings of those top two and they both sound like they were great gigs :)
Berkeley, CA Nov. 1986 Berkeley, CA Sept. 1987 (x2) Mt View Ca. 1989 Mt View Ca 1993 Oakland, Ca 2005
Revenge 1990? SF, Ca Canceled Electronic show in 1991 SF Monaco 1997 SF, Ca The Light, Portland, Or 2010
Missed botched BL gig in SF 2010 due to Volcano
Too young for the 80s :-(
New Order Brixton London 2001 Palladium Cologne 2001 Finsbury Park London 2002 Primavera Barcelona 2005 Rock Werchter 2005 Apollo Manchester 2005 Summercase Madrid 2006 Wembley Arena London 2006
Revenge Paradiso Amsterdam 1990
Monaco Melkweg Amsterdam 2000
Bad Lieutenant Markthalle Hamburg 2009
Hooky with Section 25 Plan K Brussels 2007 De Groene Engel Oss 2008
Re:Order ULU London 2006 University Manchester 2009
Looking forward to finally seeing Gillian in Brussels.
I can never remember, hence the avatar below :D
Baldy got done for agressive dancing and I got done for abusive language in Liverpool, Slipper got done for abusive smoking of spliffs in a tent. It's good to know that the polis everywhere are cants.
I reckon I'd easily have done a hundred gigs if I was as old as some of you buggers and if they hadnae taken more time off than they've toured since 89.
In 2006, we were in a pub in Bournemouth before the gig. I was with Big Clive/Alex and John. I asked them how many gigs they'd done. About an hour later they had a written list of about 120!
They remembered the order too, ie. "Hang on, no we were in Wolverhampton the day before that."
Myself, I've only seen them about 13 times. Before the internet I never knew when they were touring. One of my regrets in life.
New Order x 15 - G-Mex '88, NEC & Reading '89, Reading '93, Reading, Apollo, MEN & Ally Pally '98, Liverpool Olympia & Manchester Apollo '01, Finsbury Park & Move '02, Wireless '05, Wolves Civic Hall '06 + 1 appearance Town Hall, Manchester 1998.
Electronic x 1 Revenge x 2 Monaco x 2 BL x 1
I think....
The one I wish I had gone to was Wembley Arena 1987. Paying for the trip down to London at the age of 16 did not appeal.
Met one lad in Blackpool before the gig who said he was nearing 150. There's a lot of old skool Vikings who have never posted here, which is a shame, cos I'm sure they'd have some cracking stories 
Stalled at 8:
Berkeley 1987 (1st night) Santa Barbara 1989 Irvine 1989 Mountain View 1993 Hollywood 1993 Mountain View 2001 Oakland 2005 Coachella 2005
Also, Monaco in San Francisco 1997
Had tickets for cancelled Electronic show in San Francisco 1991 (or was it 1992?) and Bad Lieutenant in San Francisco 2010
MONTY wrote:
MANCHESTER VERSUS CANCER, MEN Arena 2006
ooh forgot that one, went to that one too
Saw them more in 2006 (5 times) than the whole of the 80s(4 times) which is a bit.. dunno.. kind of regret that
Can never figure out why i didn't go to the Loughborough Uni gig in June(July?)86
It's only 20 odd miles away and it was on a Saturday night
Without working it out I think it's 86. Summat like that. Give or take a couple. That's the number in my head.
I've just sat and tried to work out how many countries I've seen them in though, and that's coming to 15.
Travelling to see them abroad was a must after Johan Scott's fabulous piece in Paradise about some US gigs in 1989. He made the whole thing sound so fcuking exciting!
The likes of John, Oxford Steve and Mawhinney are all the early 100's though - I think the latter two were even doing daft tours like US '85, amazing given New Order were doing plenty of gigs here back then and travel arrangements weren't easy like they are now. Molly's probably broken the 100 barrier too; I was at Bury vs Luton with him two years back and we met John for a drink after; they both recognised each other from some California gigs in '89.
How many gigs did Electronic ever do? I know I missed their only ever London gig but saw them in Glasgow the same week and had to catch the overnight train back to London straight after.
I was at the Revenge gig in Cambridge when Hooky rapped someone over the head with his knuckle when his pint got knocked over. 15 years later I found out that person was Molly! Actually, I saw Revenge in some right tiny places including the Powerhaus on a Tuesday night, a Student Union bar round the corner from my current office in the City where there was literally just me and one mate paying any attention, and another gig at the old Wag club where there was probably just 20 people in attendance (Northside had supported to just one man on the dancefloor)
I've been to half-a-dozen Bad Lieutenant gigs. Made the mistake of signing up for Paris, Brighton, London and Manchester having only heard Sink or Swim. When I heard the rest of their album I realised I didn't actually like them! Still decided to book up for Hamburg after Paris though cos we'd had such a larf in France. That Hamburg weekender was proper messy.
I've seen Freebass once, and also saw Hooky with Hybrid a few times - including a support slot for someone else in Shepherd's Bush when me and JG were up in the Gods and could see Hooky doing stretching and limbering-up exercises in the wings as he waited to come on.
The trouble with this thread, is that we're all going to feel a little bit jealous of those who've been to a lot more (El Jarvo at 86!) Like John S, I wished I'd more or an effort when I was younger.
I've been to 32, starting with Brixton Academy in 1983 and ending with Wolverhampton Civic Hall in 2006.
There's surely a gig we most regret missing thread here. Mine would be Portsmouth Guildhall in 1984 - I had a ticket but was ill - and they played a stormer.
I also had to give away my Glasgow ticket in 2006. I gave it to Monty at the Blackpoll Empress Ballroom gig (I'm a long time lurker on this site, so I recognised him)- so I hope someone on here got it.
New Order is 20
Portsmouth Guildhall 84 Doncaster Rotters 85 Hemel Hempstead Pavilion 85 Brighton Centre 86 Poole Arts Centre 86 GMEX Festival 10th Summer 86 Newcastle Mayfair 86 Brixton Academy 87 Wembley Arena 87 Reading 89 Reading 93 Reading 98 Brixton 2001 Brixton 2001 Brixton 2001 Finsbury Park 2002 Hyde Park 2005 Queen Elizabeth Hall 2006 Bournemouth 2006 Wembley Arena 2006
Plus Monaco Redaing 98 and Bad Lieutenant Brighton Digital 2009
clone theory wrote: There's surely a gig we most regret missing thread here. Mine would be Portsmouth Guildhall in 1984 - I had a ticket but was ill - and they played a stormer.
I missed a gig because of a miscommunication between my ex-wife and her mates who she was gonna stop with in Melbourne, whilst I went to Adelaide with JG and Gordie. Turns out her mates had decided to fcuk off to Tasmania on that date instead.
I ended up stopping longer in Melbourne and we went to Penguin Island whilst New Order played Adelaide.
The penguins were fcuking ace though, glad I went. 
