Now posting in alt.binaries.music.shn...

24 years after the fact...

Joy Division live at the Bowden Vale Youth Club in Altrincham. Ripped from the LP, Death. If you haven't got this, don't miss it!

2nd instalment in the series...

For tonight I've chosen a dub of the n-th generation tape copy I have of the soundboard recording from April 3rd, 1980, at the Moonlight Club in West Hampstead (London). This, to me, is by far the best of the three available Moonlight Club performances. You get both songs off the Factory Sample EP back to back, three songs from the freshly-recorded 'Closer' LP (great rendition of 'Atrocity Exhibition', with the only known live performance of the 'extra verse') and Atmosphere as an encore (without any whooping or whistling...). Check it out!

and where can we found theses gems ?

Well, as indicated in the header, I'm posting the files to alt.binaries.music.shn. This is one of countless newsgroups from which you can download binary files (there is also an entire hierarchy of alt.binaries.music.mp3 newsgroups, for instance).

The best program for checking out, and downloading, the contents of such binary newsgroups is XNews, which is freeware and can be downloaded from http://xnews.newsguy.com.

You can have access to the binary newsgroups via your internet provider, or through a specialized newsserver. If your internet provider carries binary newsgroups, the odds are that retention of the binary files is limited to 1 to 2 days, at the most, and with a low degree of completion (that is, the number of binary files that makes it completely to the server). Specialized newsservers (such as Giganews or Easynews) offer longer retention (varying between 7 and 16 days, depending on the daily volume of postings) and up to 95% completion - but you have to pay for them. There are also a number of free news servers (can easily be found via Google or similar robots), but my experience is that they offer very slow download speeds, which isn't very handy when it comes to shn-files.

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next up: Joy Division live at the Effenaar (18/01/80), from 'Form and Substance: The Bright Side'

Simply the most exciting JD concert recording, bar none. If you only ever heard the tracks on 'Les Bains Douches', don't miss it!