Thursday, 23 May 1985

This was a big one - went with Shady Busch, Geoff and Mark - had tickets upstairs - best greatcoats out - Verlaines were on early playing tracks from Hallelujah All the way Home - one of the great early Flying Nun albums - then an interminable wait until NO decided to turn up - they were good though - I did hang around for the encore and unlike Matthew's tape the one I managed to pick up does have the full encore - there was nobody much left but given that this was one of my first concerts (Bowie serious moonlight kicked it off) I wasn't leaving til the absolute end - it was a lot of money to spend while you were still at school and I was going to make sure I got my moneys worth - certainly did and have made sure that I saw NO on the next couple of times they played Auckland - '87 and 2002 (a pretty long wait between drinks really!

I was at the 23/05/1985 gig and have long been a New Order fanatic with a rather extensive range of bootlegs. I have a tape of this gig but it does not include the encore past "Age of Consent" which is when this song was played. What really pissed me off is that up to that point in time New Order NEVER played encores. I knew this because of the number of bootlegs I had - even back then. When they finished their last song virtually everyone left the gig (as I did) thinking that that was it. Unfortunately for me they did play an encore of two songs I believe "Age of Consent" and this song "Love Juice". A mate of mine from school did hang around long enough to see them come back on and he said there was hardly anyone left. Bugger! I understand this song was only ever played once. Sorry, don't know anything else about that particular song.