Tuesday, 26 May 2009

New Order - Haçienda - 26 Jun 1982 - 192kb














A month or so after opening, the Haçienda is paid a visit by its chief sponsor, New Order. Decent recording; the Order already sound a fair way away from where they were just the year before.

Link: here

Monday, 25 May 2009

New Order - Manchester - 26 Oct 1981 - 128kb

1: Cramp (aka Hurt) (instrumental version)
2: In A Lonely Place
3: Dreams Never End
4: Truth
5: Procession
6: Senses
7: Death Rattle (aka Chosen Time)
8: Little Dead (aka Denial)
9: Everything's Gone Green (Or Going Green)
(Seems the final song is a dud)

Link: here

Joy Division - Ajanta - 19 Apr 1980 - flac



















Flac (lossless) version of the "good" recording. Heart and Soul, not really a personal favourite, just sounds sooooo good;)

Parts: one, two

Friday, 22 May 2009

New Order - Hamburg - 16 May 1981 - vbr

Just-discovered 1981 concert. Great sound, great set list!

Link: here

New Order - Bruxelles - 15 April 1982 - 255kb

For the guest who wanted to have some later New Order concerts, here is one from 1982. But for this blogger, April 1982 is already getting towards the end of "Early New Order"...

Still, with the Order playing The Him, one can hardly say no. And Ultraviolence, not heard since 1984, sounds actually really rather cool...

Link: here

Joy Division - Rainbow London - 10 Nov 1979 - flac

Rather poor quality concert recording.

Link: here

Thursday, 14 May 2009

Joy Division - Rainbow London - 9 Nov 1979 - flac

First of two nights. Second concert to follow...


I was at the Rainbow for both nights and I recollect thinking at the time that if they had not been on a stage performing in front of an audience (largely indifferent - many coming in late for Buzzcocks) they would have to have been performing somewhere just for themselves. Transmission left the biggest impression. I'd never seen anything as intense before or since despite the audience growing during the performance and being largely uninterested. They could and should have been the biggest band on the planet. Now a legend... 


Link: here

New Order - Stockholm - 19 May 1981 - 192kb

Concert from New Order's Scandinavia tour in 1981.
Aah...that intro to The Him.....

Link: here

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

Joy Division - Complete Concerts - 128kb













Three Albumwrap concerts (in other words, not split into songs). Collectors only...

Link: here

New Order - Bristol - 27 Mar 1981 - 192kb


Average concert, still barely a year since the end of Joy Division, but already a fair way down their chosen path.

Link: here

Monday, 4 May 2009

Screen on the Green - 29 Aug 1976 - 256kb

Legendary concert with The Buzzcocks, The Clash, and The Sex Pistols!!

Part: one, two

New Order - Reading - 8 May 1981- 192kb

Pretty reasonable sound. Nice concert, can't do much wrong starting with "The Him"...

Link: here

Blogger's "Musical C.V."















1.  1968 - Life's a Present!
2.  1977 - No Looking Back
3.  1979 - Britain lernt Deutsch?
4.  1980 - The End of Pop
5.  1983 - Manchester Revival?
6.  1992 - Goodbye England!
7.  1994 - The "Strangled Cat"
8.  1996 - Rock Reborn?
9.  2003 - Chechen Republic of Music
10.2006 - Tatar Sauce?
11.2008 - The Dinosaurs Return...

Link: here
Pass: renko

Siouxsie - London - 26 Mar 1977 - 128kb

Early concert from Siouxsie and the Banshees at the Roxy Theatre, London.

Crappy recording, but what would you expect in 1977 from an unknown group?

Still, for a gem like Love in a Void we accept any quality...

Link: here

p.s. Actually I was thinking of adding a gig by The Cure. They did a fairly neat concert in Metz back in 1981, although Robert Smith tries to spoil it with his rather self-pitying song intros.

But somehow, I could not bring myself to do it. It just felt like "polluting" the other music here.

Perhaps because "Smiffy", who is said to have been "greatly influenced" by a certain I. Curtis (maybe it is not really kosher to be influenced by ones rivals?), went on to, shall we say, "lesser things"?

Somehow, I just can't imagine Joy Division's lead singer ever having come up with something as purile as "Happy the Man"?!?

Or perhaps because he got married all in black, tails and all...except for laceless white baseball boots? Kind of undeniably nerdy...

Ah well, who are we to criticise?

Siouxsie and the Banshees were a group I liked at a distance in the 1980's, and like in the same limited manner today. "Rien ne change"... the limitation on the like is the same; no more, no less...

JD were a group I adored back then, and rediscovered in 2006 with the advent of digitalisation and bootleg availability via file sharing. Their music seems remarkably unchanged, just as powerful (live) and wondrous (studio), even if Mr. Curtis's conduct looks rather less "cool", or even honourable, with hindsight (abandoning a baby without guaranteeing its financial survival would be damning in many cultures on our planet).

But The Cure have continued, yet their early music just seems compromised. I mean, who could possibly have come up with something like "Happy the Man"?

OK, as I have probably rubbed any Cure fans up the wrong way, here's the concert...kind of rather wonderful really -  if only it hadn't been for "Happy the Man"...

Kraftwerk - Manchester - 2004 - 320kb

Long concert given by the godfathers of electronic pop at the old Central station in Manchester, restored and converted into the Gmex exhibition centre.
The sound is simply extraordinary - how technology has moved on!!

Link: here

Sunday, 3 May 2009

Continuation...?

Dear visitors
As you may have noticed, the stock of Joy Division bootlegs and non-copyright video is almost exhausted. What remain are numerous New Order bootlegs from 1981 and later. However, this blogger's interest in New Order wanes with each new song they wrote...
If you wish, I would comtinue uploading other interesting material from the period until the R*pidshare account limit is reached (said to be 500Gb).

Liebe Besucher,
wie Ihr wohl bemerkt haben müsst, ist das "Sortiment" von Joy Division Konzerten und Videos beinahe aufgebraucht. Was noch bleibt, sind jede Menge Konzerte von New Order aus 1981 und später. Für die Zeit danach, also insbesondere ab "Blue Monday", schwindet allerdings das Interesse dieses Bloggers.
Wenn Ihr wollt, so würde ich noch einige Bootlegs von anderen Gruppen aus jener Zeit hochladen. Bis die vermutete Grenze bei R*pidshare-Konten von 500Gb erreicht ist.

Дорогие посетители, 
как Вы наверное уже воспринимали, остальных "свежих" концертов группы Джоя Дивизайон у меня практически нет. То, что остается, это еще несколько концертов группы Нью Ордер из 1981 и позже. На время после этого, итак, особенно с песни "Blue Monday", исчезает интерес этого блоггера. 
Если есть интерес, то я загружал бы еще несколько концертов и клипов от других групп того времени. До тех пор, пока предположенная граница счета R*pidshare не достигнута 500Gb.

Friday, 1 May 2009

New Order - Walthamstow - 25 Sep 1981 - 320kb














Original audience master, really great sound quality!
Ahh... those drums during In a Lonely Place!!

01-Chosen Time
02-In A Lonely Place
03-Dreams Never End
04-Senses
05-Truth
06-Procession
07-Denial
08-Everything's Gone Green

Link: here

Joy Division - Jon Savage Tape - 2009 - 192kb


Apparently just-discovered tape from Jon Savage, including a 1977 rehearsal song by Joy Division.

1. Inside the Line (1977)
2. In a Lonely Place (1980)
3. Homage (1980)
4. Procession (1980)



Conclusion: Steven Morris is an even worse singer than Peter Hook.

Link: here