Just read this message on the Factory mailing list & got my interest. It's written in response to a question about what appears on the Western Works Demo and then moves onto a brief overview of NO before Gillian joined. Thought it might be worth sharing.
Credit to Mark Bursa.
The tracks were Dreams Never End, Ceremony, Truth and Homage. Hooky sings DNE (as ever); Barney sings Homage and Truth, All three sing parts of Ceremony (Barney the verse, Hooky the first Chorus, Steve the second chorus). 3-piece NO spread the vocals around a lot - live you also got Hooky singing Mesh, and Hooky & Steve singing Cries & Whispers (Hooky the verse, Steve the chorus). The 3-piece line-up only ever performed seven songs - the other being a drum machine version of In a lonely place (with Barney on vocals).
The 3-piece line-up only played 7 gigs:
29 JUL 80 Manchester Beach Club (supporting ACR & Action Holidays) 04 SEP 80 Liverpool Bradys (formerly Eric's - supporting Skafish) 05 SEP 80 Blackpool Scamps (supporting Tunnelvision & Section 25) 21 SEP 80 Maxwell's Hoboken, New Jersey 27 SEP 80 Hurrah's New York 28 SEP 80 Pier 3 New York 30 SEP 80 The Underground Boston
All the US gigs were with ACR
Note - the published gigography on the 'water rat' site is inaccurate re the 4/9/80 gig. And the band weren't billed as "the No-Names" at the Beach club. They weren't billed at all, and plated as a late replacement for The Names, who didn't turn up.
Mark
