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New Song of the Month - Crystal by CyberSecrecy

This song is a pre-mix of Crystal released before Get Ready, before they decided Crystal would be a New Order song. It features exclusive lyrics.

Petition to ask New Order to tour in South America

A group of south americans New Order fans started a petition to ask New Order to tour in South America. More informations can be found in the portuguese forum of NewOrderOnline and at the following URL: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/FACLA1/

Source: Petition Online

HMV UK already shipping Retro

Many members of this site received an email from HMV UK confirming the shipment of their copy of Retro. "We have shipped the following items in your order 6335037 on 2002-12-06: 1 CD NEW ORDER RETRO: BOX: 4CD GBP 23.82"

Source: HMV UK

NewOrderRetro.com goes live!

The official site for the New Order box set Retro is now opened. Visit http://www.NewOrderRetro.com Well done site for the box set, and one information finally revealed, Cries & Whispers was mislabled as Mesh on Substance, so this mystery is finally solved.

Source: New Order Retro

Canadian releases of Retro & 511 postponed

Warner Music Canada has postponed the release of the Retro box set in Canada to December 17th 2002, and the 511 DVD (Finsbury Park) to January 14th 2003. Warner Music Canada representatives confirmed the news, and don't think the release will contain the bonus CD.

Source: Ceremony Mailing List

Limited Edition of Retro available in the United States

A limited edition with a bonus disc will be available with the release of Retro by Rhino (A Warner Music Group company) in the USA. The release date is now January 7th 2003, and the tracklisting for this bonus disc is unknown for now.

Source: WorldInMotion.net

THE FINAL POLL: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE

219 people have voted and chosen the following five tracks as the best New Order songs ever: 1 - Temptation - 47 votes (21.46%) 2 - The Perfect Kiss - 25 votes (11.41%) 3 - True Faith - 23 votes (10.50%) 4 - Ceremony - 22 votes (10.04%) 5 - Bizarre Love Triangle - 18 votes (8.21%) So, it is now YOURS to decide: which song is the BEST New Order song of them all? Come in the DIGITAL REPUBLIC forum, vote and discuss!

NewOrderOnline is 2 years old!

Congratulations to all the visitors, the site opened officially on December 1st 2000, it now been two years and 1 140 000 visitors since then.

NewOrderRetro.com coming up!

A new official website, NewOrderRetro.com is coming up, according to the Network Solution website, the domain name is registered to Warner Music since November 14th. The site should open soon.

Source: WorldInMotion

Peter Saville exhibition and book in 2003!

The last issue (#64) of the Australian photographic magazine BLACK + WHITE contains an article on Peter Saville, New Order's sleeve designer. Featured pictures of Get Ready, Pulp's & Suede's cover, 3 pages of text, chatting about Fantin-Latour/PCL cover and others... But the best news is...there will be a book on this notorious appropriator, to be edited by Emily King called DESIGN BY SAVILLE ( Frieze ) and also there will be an exhibition in London's Design Museum, THE PETER SAVILLE SHOW, opening in May 2003.

Source: BLACK + WHITE

Vote for New Order in the Top 100 UK Artists

Virgin Radio is having an online vote to determine the Top 100 UK artists, you can vote for New Order by visiting http://www.virginradio.co.uk/thestation/top100/vote.html. It seems to be accessible to UK people only due to postcode restrictions.

Source: Virgin Radio

New Order live on boxing day

A New Order concert will be shown on December 26th in the night (00:40 to 01:40) on Channel 4 (UK). Happy Christmas gift. We don't know which concert it will be.

Each initial pressing of the UK edition of Retro will contain the bonus disc.

Every copy of the first UK run of Retro will include the bonus CD. That means that any shop selling the album should supply the bonus disc when you purchase Retro. It follows that any advance orders (both from the UK & import orders from overseas) would also include this CD.

5 11 DVD postponed in Canada to December 17th.

Some users from this site who has ordered the Finsbury Park DVD (5 11) from HMV.com received a notice today that it has been postponed to December 17th.

Source: HMV Canada

Razormaid's New Order In Hindsight 2 is now available

Razormaid Production just released New Order - In Hindsight 2 a remix compilation, and it's currently the Daily Special at the Razormaid site. The compilation is containing home maid remixes from Razormaid, a DJ Service Remix company. The tracks on this album are: Confusion / Everything's Gone Green / Your Silent Face / Round & Round / State of the Nation / Thieves Like Us / Vanishing Point / Spooky / Mr. Disco / Perfect Kiss / Ultraviolence

Source: Razormaid's Website

WHAT IS THE BEST NEW ORDER SONG EVER ?

This is the question we are asking our members in the Digital Republic forum in the Dry 201 Message Pub. Go ahead and pick one of the 20 choices offered to you. Next sunday, December 1st, we will reveal the TOP 5 choices from our members. Then, the following week, we will put up the ULTIMATE POLL -- The Battle Of The Five -- in order to decide which song is the best New Order song ever.

The Retro box set will have a 72 pages booklet

According to Ice Magazine, the upcoming box set Retro will feature a 72 pages booklet similar to the one release with Joy Division's Heart & Soul. Liner notes from all four members, rare pohotos and more will be available in there.

Source: WorldInMotion

Sign the online petition to get the 1998, 2001 & 2002 BBC Sessions released

NewOrderOnline has started a petition to ask Strange Fruit Records (affiliate of the BBC) to release the 1998 & 2001 BBC Sessions and the Transmission version played for John Peel in 2002. You can sign the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/FACP1/petition.html The petition will be submitted to Strange Fruit on December 25th, so we hope this will be a Christmas gift for everyone!

Source: Petition Online

'We've had it large'

A five-year split, a suicide, financial ruin, heavy cocaine abuse... New Order have survived the lot - and they're nowhere near quitting. Ted Kessler meets the Macclesfield three.

Source: The Guardian (U.K. newspaper)

5 11 DVD review by Noble PR

Warner Music Vision marks more than two decades of New Order with a stunning live performance DVD and VHS release - NewOrder 511 on 9th December. Continuously at the cutting edge in music video evolution, New Order is a different breed when performing live. Bernard Sumner's abstract lyrics, Peter Hook's soaring bass-as-lead-guitar and mournful catchy tunes mesmerised audiences on their first UK tour in eight years. NewOrder 511 is an open air spectacular and features 16 tracks, 5 Joy Division tracks and 11 from New Order's impressive repertoire, hence the title NewOrder 511.

Source: Noble PR

Limited Edition of Retro goes worldwide!

More information to come, but it seems that the limited edition of Retro will be available in other countries. This disc will be available only at HMV stores according to a source close to the band. The bonus disc that will be available withing the package, though it was not done to contain 5 discs, will be loaded of songs asked by the New Order fans themselves, and we should thank Jonathan Scott for his input with the band to make this item a reality, it's the requests from the fans at NewOrderOnline and other places that made this disk possible, and only Such A Good Thing was a mandatory pick from Bernard Sumner. To follow the discussion, visit our forum and this thread in particular.

ORIGINAL BONUS MATERIAL!

New Order are to give away a limited edition bonus CD with the first 3,000 copies of their forthcoming box set RETRO. The CD contains four tracks which do not feature on the four-CD, 56-track compilation, which is scheduled for release on December 9 in the UK. It also contains five tracks which appear on the box set in a different form. The tracklisting for the limited CD is: Temptation 98 Transmission (Live At the Big Day Out, 2002) Such A Good Thing Theme From Best & Marsh Let's Go (From 'Salvation' soundtrack) True Faith (Pink Noise Morel edit) Run Wild (Steve Osborne original mix) The Perfect Kiss (Live take from a video shoot) Elegia (Full version)

Source: New Musical Express

LIMITED EDITION RETRO BONUS CD WILL BE AVAILABLE

The 3000 first copies of the four CD boxset Retro, which will be released on December 9th in the United Kingdom, will feature a bonus limited edition CD which will contain rare tracks such as the full 17 minutes version of Elegia, Temptation 98 and the original mix of Run Wild, the World in Motion website reports. For the moment, this is only true for the U.K. release of the boxset. Click the picture for more.

Source: World in Motion website

Pink Kicks Off UK Mini Tour In Style!

Pink proved she could rock with the best of them at the opening gig of her UK mini-tour. Her feisty image and strong voice soared as the pink hair and girly appeal was ditched for a darker, grungier look. It was lapped up by a 3,000-strong crowd that included New Order’s Peter Hook and UK actress Tracy Shaw. Pink’s only other British dates will be the Birmingham Academy on Monday 11th and Brixton Academy on Tuesday.

Source: Pink UK

Another alternate cover for the Finsbury Park DVD

This cover is the one on Amazon's french site, and we now believe that there will be a different cover for each country where the DVD will be released. Click to see the picture.

Source: Amazon FR