The Human League - Vienna - 1980 - mp3

Another year, another album being played, now Travelogue. Great sound, more like a studio album.

Link: here

The Human League - Milan - 28 May 1979 - mp3

The Human League rolled into town recently, and watched one of the songs from Dare, my first album, on You Tube. Sounded terribly dated.
This is a much earlier Human League, back in 1978. Sound quality rough, but cool songs mostly from Reproduction.

Link: here
(28mb)

New Order - Heaven - 27 Aug 1984 - flac

This is the first of the concerts the visitor Steve is feeding us with - New Order at Heaven in 1984.

Everything's Gone Green
Temptation
Ceremony
Sooner Than You Think
Your Silent Face
Thieves Like Us
Confusion
Blue Monday
Age of Consent
Sunrise
The Perfect Kiss

Link: here

New Order - Bedford - 21 Mar 1981 - flac

Top concert from New Order's golden age. Sound excellent.

Truly a must!

Soundcheck:
Tiny Tim
Little Dead
Truth

Concert:
Little Dead
In a Lonely Place
Dreams Never End
Procession
Truth
ICB
Senses
Ceremony

Link: here
(320mb)

New Order - Portsmouth - 26 Aug 1984 - flac

01 Confusion
02 Ceremony
03 Obsession (Face Up)
04 Leave Me Alone
05 Hurt
06 The Village
07 Dreams Never End
08 Age of Consent
09 Blue Monday
10 The Perfect Kiss
11 Temptation




Link: here
(480mb)

News...

Dear visitors

A couple of Joy Division concerts from the Electric Ballroom have been removed by blogger.com owing to an apparent copyright claim.

Just to repeat - it is not the intention of this blogger to offer any material with copyright issues, no albums or released concerts are hosted, and the odd links to such sites posted by visitors have always been deleted as soon as their appearance was noticed. A person undeniably close to the group with expert knowledge of what is copyrighted and not, has been through the material: two recordings from the Lyceum and Ajanta were felt to be potential releases and removed accordingly.

The Rapidshare account is up and running: to my surprise they are now offering referral credits again (visitors who then buy a RS account of whatever sort), meaning the account should be in place definitely for the rest of this year.
That should be enough time to upload the remaining concerts I have.....and there are soon to be many more.

A visitor to the blog, Steve, has offered to provide his digitalised collection of New Order concerts and a number of scanned tickets and articles for the common good.

I will start uploading them in the next few days, in "as is" condition - let's see what goodies are unearthed.....

p.s. Should any of the RS links, downloads, not be functioning, please leave a message.

Have a nice day

New Order - Birmingham - 23 Jan 1982 - flac

An early concert by the Order, described as "a mixture of tight and shite" by the recorder...who to be fair also termed them the "Godlike Geniuses"...


Temptation
Denial
Chosen Time
ICB
Senses
Dreams Never End
In A Lonely Place
Ceremony


Link: here
(240mb)

New Order - Valencia - 6 Jul 1984 - flac

1. The Him
2. The Village
3. Dreams Never End
4. Everything's Gangreen
5. Temptation
6. ICB
7. Thieves Like Us
8. Ultraviolence
9. Denial
10. Your Silent Face
11. pre-encore
12. The Kiss of Death

Link: here
(450mb)

In a Lonely Place

Hmm...great days for Joy Division fans...

Firstly, the much-reported Record Day 12" appears online here, with Ceremony again, but full version of In a Lonely Place. Never-before heard full-length Curtis vocals, sublime in the extreme. "Un performance shamanique et tétanisante"...

Then the already known New Order version of In a Lonely Place, with Hannett at the controls, for me an absolute pop single masterpiece and a worthy successor to Autosuggestion and Atmosphere...

Then this arrives, more JD rough versions of In a Lonely Place.

Too good to be true?

Not yet: the latter post refers scathingly to someone who has leaked even more versions of In a Lonely Place to You Tube.

Great days for Joy Division fans.....

Old arguments return: on the one hand the right of artists to their music; on the other, the wish of their fans to get to hear it. For two days I spend odd free moments listening to these wonderful songs.

Even better days for Joy Division fans...

"A-t-on jamais entendu un groupe meilleur que Joy Division?" - ask the friends at this cool blog.

Listening to Martin Hannett's amazing production of In a Lonely Place, followed then by the full JD version, with Curtis's fragile vocals, it's awfully hard to say no.

As I am writing this, Peter Hook is presumably playing Closer in Manchester. Maybe raising it from its 30-year slumber, maybe butchering it, who knows?

"Life is for living", as he once said.

And, maybe, "music is for listening"?

New Order - Hamburg - 12 Apr 1984 - mp3

Reposting as requested...

Link: here

Joy Division - Record Shop Day

A must for all JD and NO fans:
http://neworder-recycle.blogspot.com/2011/05/recycle-record-store-day-ceremony-30th.html

New Order - Santa Monica - 22 Aug 1985 - flac

Partial recording with the following songs:


01 - The Perfect Kiss [10:04]
02 - Temptation [7:39]
03 - Dreams Never End [3:27]
04 - Thieves Like Us [6:34]
05 - Leave Me Alone [4:28]
06 - Love Vigilantes [5:09]
07 - Subculture [4:58]

Link: here
(260mb)

New Order - Fullerton CA - 23 Jun 1983 - flac

Up and running again.....here is a great concert from 1983.


01 - Blue Monday (8:23)
02 - Leave Me Alone (4:17)
03 - The Village (4:24)
04 - Cries And Whispers (3:23)
05 - ICB (4:32)
06 - In A Lonely Place (4:41)
07 - Ultraviolence (4:37)
08 - Procession (4:09)
09 - Denial (3:54)
10 - Ceremony (4:23)

Link: here
(320mb)