Link: here
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Joy Division - Zoo Meets Factory - 27 Aug 1979 - 320kb
"Zoo met Factory half way (between Liverpool and Manchester) and very few came. Blame it on the site - hastily prepared fields a mile outside Leigh ... Inaccessibility and uncertain weather, plus inadequate promotion / media coverage, resulted in a turn-out (200) a tenth of the original estimate". (Jon Savage)
Monday, 27 April 2009
Friday, 24 April 2009
Surprise - Paradiso Amsterdam - 1980 - 128kb
Joy Division were not the only cutting-edge New Wave group to play the Paradiso in 1980. A rival group were also there, who survived a good many years afterwards.
Link: here
New Order - London - 7 May 1981 - 192kb
Another rough and real New Order bootleg.
Doubts Even Here opens the proceedings. Peter Hook demonstrates why he was right to stick to bass guitar. But well, people cannot be good at everything...
Sadly the last verse is missing. So we don't get to hear him singing, "Don't throw our joy away" - bleak even by Ian Curtis's standards...
Ah come on, why not write the lyrics out? That's the joy of the Internet: whatever you search for, you can find it:
"Then you revealed to me
All that I need to know now
(the close went down to times
Too, too much behind us)
Then please dont turn away,
Why cant I talk to you now?
(the number of forgotten years
Where my honor isnt deepest
Grows the deepest feeling and it
Grieved for safety and despair)
Theres nowhere left to go
Where is this taking her and how?
(the torish threats forevermore
Over our natural favor
And us and hes and Ill fall
Far in it, and it sees enough
In our failures and its not time.)
There's nothing more I want
To know beyond your trust now
(I missed his promised time again
For my friend)
Don't throw our joy away
Why must you just you leave now?
(has God forgotten to approach us?
Has he rememberd to not despise us? )
Memories are all that's left
I need you near to me now
(there, now, now, dont come to mind my deeds
And call out in defiance of times gone by)"
All that I need to know now
(the close went down to times
Too, too much behind us)
Then please dont turn away,
Why cant I talk to you now?
(the number of forgotten years
Where my honor isnt deepest
Grows the deepest feeling and it
Grieved for safety and despair)
Theres nowhere left to go
Where is this taking her and how?
(the torish threats forevermore
Over our natural favor
And us and hes and Ill fall
Far in it, and it sees enough
In our failures and its not time.)
There's nothing more I want
To know beyond your trust now
(I missed his promised time again
For my friend)
Don't throw our joy away
Why must you just you leave now?
(has God forgotten to approach us?
Has he rememberd to not despise us? )
Memories are all that's left
I need you near to me now
(there, now, now, dont come to mind my deeds
And call out in defiance of times gone by)"
Link: here
Statistics
The most popular concert measured by the number of downloads was the Electric Ballroom concert. Also very popular are the New Order concerts from 1980.
Many thanks for all your comments. I will continue to upload what I still have. Whether I will run out of concerts first or the R*pidshare account run out of space, we shall see...
Have a nice weekend!
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Joy Division - Interviews - vbr
Various interviews, including a long radio show with the late Tony Wilson and the pictured Lindsay Reade.Link: here
New Order - Sheffield - 23 Sep 1981 - flac
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
Joy Division Prince of Wales - 2 Aug 1979 - flac
---C O R R E C T E D!!---
Another version of this concert: lossless but hissy.
"If I had a flair for understatement, I could say that Joy Division were good too. The truth is they were phenomenal - the most physical hard rock group I've seen since Gang Of Four. This Manchester band have been allowed to grow at their own pace, uncramped by commercial pressures. The result is that they've created a totally distinctive, cohesive sound over the last two years...They have the spirit and the feeling." - (Adrian Thrills, NME review 11th August 1979).
Sunday, 19 April 2009
Friday, 17 April 2009
The Tube - Surprise - 1983 - 30mb
A little something from the 1980's Channel 4 pop programme, The Tube. At the time the coolest "yoof" programme on British TV's coolest channel. Enjoy!!Link: here
Thursday, 16 April 2009
New Order - Berlin - 27 May 1981 - 620mb
Video of most of this concert. Very little light. Pretty cool at times, a band finding their feet.The Sex Pistols - Lesser Free Trade Hall - 4 Jun 1976 - 256kb
"This story begins on July 20th 1976, when the Sex Pistols played at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, supported by local bands Slaughter and the Dogs and the Buzzcocks (making their debut). According to legend, this gig inspired Joy Division to buy guitars and form a band. Although the truth may be less dramatic, there is no doubt the event did stimulate the Manchester music scene in general and the future members of Joy Division in particular."
So this was the concert that started the Manchester revival! The apparently talentless Sex Pistols...well, the guitar riff in "No Lip" is seriously groovy!!
Link: here
Joy Division - Wilderness - 27 Oct 1979 - 37mb
Only found this by chance a year ago on You Tube.It was not included on the video HATYM.
The only way to watch this clip and the rest of the above-mentioned video is to turn off any and every source of light in the room, even the on-light on the TV/monitor, then the quality is quite acceptable.
Great sound, my favourite JD concert.
Link: here
Joy Division - Paris (Aud) - 18 Dec 1979 - 256kb
Most will know parts of this concert.
But while the CD version is not complete, this audience version is!
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
New Order - Berlin - 27 May 1981 - flac
SO36 club in Berlin.
Remastered recording sounds pretty damn good!
1. The Him
2. Ceremony
3. Dreams Never End
4. Truth
5. ICB
6. Senses
7. Procession
8. Denial
9. In a Lonely Place
10 Everything's Gone Green
Video here
Joy Division - Birmingham (Aud) - 2 May 1980 - 192kb
A music producer genius was busy recording this concert.
As was someone else in the audience....
One of the tracks played at the concert is not included on the CD version.
But on this recording it is in its rightful place.
"TRANS - MISSION!!!" - somebody yells out after 5 songs or so.
However the band don't follow with Transmission, but something much finer!
Sunday, 12 April 2009
Joy Division - Hemel Hempstead - 5 Nov 1979 - flac
Friday, 10 April 2009
Joy Division - HATYM audio bootleg - flac
Popular Joy Division bootleg. A number of songs were removed for legal reasons (the video LWTUA and four songs from the Paris concert subsequently officially released).The remaining songs are from the Manchester Apollo gigs, and a concert in Liverpool in August 1979. The Shadowplay TV performance from 1978 is also included.
Highly recommended!
Joy Division - Amsterdam - 11 Jan 1980 - flac
"When I arrived at the Paradiso, it appeared that most of the regular visitors had decided to stay at home. So the JOY DIVISION played for a handful of people only, two long sets, together around 70 minutes of excellent music.At that time only 1 album and 2 singles had been released, so they played a lot of new songs that went down well with the small audience.
The gig was (along with the PIL-gig in Bruxelles) the best I have ever seen. Fantastic bass playing by PETER HOOK and a spastic, strainied IAN CURTIS. For the occasion the Paradiso management had lowered the ceiling to make things more intimate. It was a good idea. Shame to all the people who stayed at home"
Parts: one, two, three
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
New Order - 1981 - Surprise - 260kb
Rather interesting song: partly crap, partly cut, partly wonderful. All in one song - what more could one want?If I remember correctly, during a radio interview John Peel said that NO were like the Fall, who sometimes could be "complete rubbish" but other times "left you thankful" to have been there.
But both those extremes in one song???
Link: here
New Order - Liverpool - 14 Jan 1981 - vbr
Another rough early concert from the Order. How wonderful The Him sounds!
Other songs bring back memories of the summer of 1984, listening to the 1981-82 mini LP. If only they had split up there and then and preserved their purity!
Link: here
Joy Division - Surprise - 1979 - 320kb
Cycling down the hill to work in Zurich this morning, this song came on the Walkman.
(The Walkman in question is a S*ny NWZ-A8l8 with no radio, a battery only rechargeable via the computer, and other disadvantages too, but with brilliant headphones - the only thing that really matters!).
Hearing the song, I imagine Peter Hook tapping in a picture hook with a sledgehammer, while Bernard Sumner, on his synth keyboard, sounds at the end as if he is cutting butter with an industrial blowtorch.
Curtis sounds nicely understated, but rather cool and mildly threatening on guitar, and for once sings just a couple of lines, that little reduced by the questionable quality of the original recording to inaudibility. But it is somehow pleasing for the others in the group to shine for once...as no doubt he would happily have wished for
May I cordially invite you to download the song to "Walkpersons" and blow your senses to hell and back? This song simply pisses all over the heaviest of heavy metal!
Link: here
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Joy Division - House of Dolls - flac
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
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