Wednesday, 23 March 1983

The support for the night were I beleive at that point a four peice James who were still on Factory at this early stage of their lives. Around this tour Hooky was sporting his semi-acoustic hollow bass and the song that left the biggest impression on me was Age of Consent, First time I heard it and straight away you knew it was a classic. Those fun loving scousers were getting a bit mouthy and one of the Band referred to their famous scouse wit, probably Bernard! Next time I saw them I was living in Scotland and saw them at the Barra's now there is a Story and there is a Venue!!!

Procession was in this set list too. I can't remember where about - but it was in there.

The gig was hampered by lots of technical problems with Barney apologising all the time. The crowd became restless and started shouting for Joy Division songs like Colony and Love Will Tear Us Apart. Barney soon became pissed off with this and said 'If you shout for it we won't play it'.

Apart from that it was a good gig with the highlight being In A Lonely Place with Hooky playing Steve's symbols.

Gillian made lots of mistakes on keyboards and actually had coloured tape on the keys so she knew which ones to play!

Quality gig though!

Dave - Liverpool