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Looked a pretty good setlist.
I've never personally seen them perform 1963 or Age of Consent, so there's a part of me that's kicking myself for not going.
As I've probably said before, if they'd thrown in a couple of real 'deep cuts' or tracks not played for years (EGG, Thieves Like Us) I'd have been really miffed.
I'll go and see them next year when, hopefully, the planet has returned back to somewhere near normality.
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I had the exact same thought. Apart from maybe the last sentence. I miss the days when bands made their money from selling albums, and the whole world didn't spend their "music money" on seeing artists live. The venues were more intimate, the gigs were cheaper, and a new act wouldn't suddenly go massive (thanks to internet/social media hype). You tend to get bands on their first or second album playing large venues these days when they should still be playing clubs, and universities *. I was reasonably happy to go to Wembley back in 2006 (though I preferred Brixton Academy '05) but I didn't even want to see NO at the 20k capacity O2. Bigger isn't necessarily better - unless you're the one reaping the profits.
* Fontaines DC (2 studio albums) played Ally Pally (10k capacity) on 27th October. Khruangbin have sold out the venue for their gig there next April...
All fair points and I too enjoyed Brixton Academy ‘05 much more than Wembley Arena ’06. Brixton ‘05 was simply a mad, crazy , bonkers brilliant night and also helped by the fact I like Brixton Academy a lot, I’ve always had a great time at gigs there over the years. Wembley Arena on the other hand I’ve never taken to. I didn’t really enjoy NO there at their 1987 gig and only a little better at the ‘06 one.Just don’t like the place
I take it no-one has found a capture of the livestream vid of this yet? I've looked on Soulseek a few times under a variety of search terms such as New Order O2/ New Order O2 London 06.11.21/ New Order livestream O2 but i haven't found a single sniff apart from an mp3 audience audio recording which isn't really what i'm after.I'm only after a video capture of the livestream.I know, i know i should have stumped up the £16 to watch live in the first place on the night....
perspexorange wrote: Looked a pretty good setlist.
I've never personally seen them perform 1963 or Age of Consent, so there's a part of me that's kicking myself for not going.
As I've probably said before, if they'd thrown in a couple of real 'deep cuts' or tracks not played for years (EGG, Thieves Like Us) I'd have been really miffed.
I'll go and see them next year when, hopefully, the planet has returned back to somewhere near normality.
Had the same issue whe I missed them in Turin 2005 cos (a) Hooky was still there and (b) they brought back everything's Cum Cream. Never mind. My fault for being such a lazy cunt. You won't believe this but even though I was converted in 1989 I've NEVER seen em live. Just Electronic once and The Light seven times. I went to Reading in 1993 but my spex broke and I thought listening without seeing would be even worse than fuck all. New Order are the opposite of the Spice Girls. You wanna listen and not look.
