Peter Hook - Los Angeles - 14 Sep 2011 - mp3

Just in case there are people out there who prefer Rapidshare...Peter Hook doing Closer in its entirety. Rather enjoyable at times...

Link: here (150mb @ 320kb)
Flac: here

New Order - Wellington NZ - 8 Dec 1982 - flac

Your Silent Face
Temptation
Dreams Never End
The Him
Leave Me Alone
In a Lonely Place
Hurt
Denial
Age of Consent
Blue Monday
586

Link: here (450mb)

New Order - London - 4 Oct 1986 - flac

I have managed to retrieve the New Order and Joy Division stuff lined up to be posted from the dodgy hard disc.
Sadly, most of my music from Yugoslavia was still waiting to be transferred when the disc breathed its last...
Oh well, that will be something to do in the long autumn and winter evenings, find all of it again out there in cyberspace...

Link: here (395mb)

Message

Dear visitors

I hope you have all had a wonderful summer and saw at least some good weather.

Or, if you live south of the equator, I hope the winter has not been too cold...and that spring will be soon arriving.

Regrettably, the hard disc with all my music on it is in its death throes. I am presently transferring the data - at incredibly slow speed - to alternative storage media.

I hope to be able to post some more music some time into next week...

Many thanks to all who mailed or posted information about the 1977 concert from Middlesbrough. "Here today - gone tomorrow", as they say. Sadly, I belong to those who missed the boat, so to speak, so I cannot help.

How ironic though, that for a man from Factory Records, the best label we ever had, Peter Hook's interests are now handled by a record company exec.

"Carrot and Stick", goes the saying - the threatened "further action" in the case of the Jane's Addiction Blog being the latter. But as for the former, the "carrot"? A date perhaps when these concerts, including the Ajanta and Lyceum concerts, the rare She's Lost Control video, might be released? "At some point in the future", was all I got. But one should be grateful for that.

Such are the music industry power games: big labels, with bigshot lawyers to keep the fans in their place. Such a far cry from Factory Records.

"Life is for living", as a certain Peter Hook once said, a wise statement and valuable innoculation against the unhealthy "Ian worshipping" from so many sources (he "died for us", as a foolish journalist is said to have once written).

Maybe "music is for listening to"? If a band, maybe Coldplay or similar, could make a studio album available as a "pay us what you think it's worth" download, why not then a 30-year-old concert?