New Order - 1986-03-27 - Oxford, UK (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

New Order 
Apollo Theatre 
Oxford, UK 
March 27, 1986 

Source: Soundboard 
Lineage: SB -> cassette -> CDR -> EAC -> mkw audio compression toolkit -> SHN - > Flac 
Taped/Transferred by: Brian Whittaker (Revenge touring bassist) -> Stash 
Converted by: tom 

01. The Perfect Kiss 
02. Everything's Gone Green 
03. Broken Promise 
04. Lonesome Tonight 
05. Bizarre Love Triangle 
06. This Time of Night 
07. Shellshock 
08. Ceremony 
09. Face Up 
10. Sunrise 

Notes: 
This show is from the 'infamous' 2003 Stash box of tapes. 

The imperfect kiss. Tonight I should have stayed at home and played with my pleasure zone. I believe in the land of New Order, an ice dust island of volatile emotions entwined with electro-wash creepers and rhythmic sidewinding snakes of shake. For myself, I bring in the carrier bag of the mind expectations of the excellence this band are capable of and fears for the indulgences that sometimes crack their crystal citadel of noise into a million jagged edges. Tonight the latter prevailed, and unfortunately, it wasn't even funny. The sub-culture New Order have constructed for themselves - and it is just that, an aesthetic separateness - is now under serious threat precisely because of their dancefloor popularity. They attract a large number of stiffs for whom the band is a soundtrack to mewling and puking. I know that sounds like an elitist statement but it's something that the band are unable to cope with other than reverting to their infamous cynicism and spite games. "God, you're so f***ing boring, no wonder we haven't played in Cambridge for six years" - Bernard Albrecht. "We are New Order and we don't give a f***" Peter Hook, pummeling his bass like it was a heckler's face. Just two of the many comments from the stage. I've always viewed such typical wind-ups with the chuckle they deserve, only this evening the effect was to lay to rest in a coffin an audience that was for the most part dead already. 'Shellshock'? Sure, we were suffering from it, but so did New Order whose streamlined platinum fenders of melody became twisted and crushed under the jackhammer of their ire by the time the as yet unrecorded 'Broken Promises' was launched. A fan jumped onstage to grab Hook and was treated to a sullen stare. The audience stood around bewildered for 20 minutes. I don't know whether or not an encore materialised because I walked outside. "What's so good about New Order?" my partner asked. "They're like life itself: unpredictable and occasionally magnificent," I laughed. It's obvious. JACK BARRON

New Order - 1989-03-25 - Glasgow, UK (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

New Order

Glasgow SE+CC Hall 4 

25/03/89

Radio Clyde FM Broadcast

Lineage

Akai Tuner>Panasonic Hi-Fi Video Recorder>Video Tape>Denon Tape Recorder>Maxell Chrome Tape.

33 Years later>AIWA Cassette Deck>Maxell Chrome Tape>PC>Audacity>FLAC.

00 Intro

01 Mr. Disco

02 Ceremony

03 Dream Attack

04 Vanishing Point

05 Love Less

06 Run

07 1963

08 Round And Round

09 True Faith

10 Temptation

11 Bizarre Love Triangle

12 Touched By The Hand Of God

13 Fine Time

65m 26s

Excellent Stereo, i have another version of this, but it is of inferior audio quality.

New Order - 1983-03-12 - Tolworth, UK (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

01 - Blue Monday 
02 - In A Lonely Place 
03 - Chosen Time 
04 - Dreams Never End 
05 - We All Stand 
06 - Leave Me Alone 
07 - Age of Consent 
08 - Temptation 
09 - 586 
10 - Everything's Gone Green

This is a remaster of a New Order soundboard in Tolworth, UK. The remaster was made by Analog Loyalist, you can find his site about New Order with all his magnificient work here : http://archive.new-order.net/

New Order - 1980-1984 - Basement Tapes (STU/FLAC)

(Studio FLAC)

(Back to Zero Products BTZCD-019)
Liberated bootleg

01. Ceremony 4:31
02. Dreams Never End 3:32
03. Homage 4:06
04. Truth 5:13

* studio rehearsals from 1981-1984
05. dialogue (811009) 1:57
06. Hurt (811009) 1:09
07. Hurt (811009) 9:52
08. Hurt (811009) 6:37
09. Unknown song (811009) 5:12
10. Ultraviolence (very early version; 811009) 0:59
11. Ultraviolence (very early version; 811009) 1:39
12. Ecstacy (late '82) 0:40
13. Ecstacy (late '82) 11:58
14. Paradise (840902) 3:21
15. This Time Of Night (840902) 0:49
16. This Time Of Night (840902) 0:50
17. Love Vigilantes (840902) 1:30
18. Love Vigilantes (840902) 2:47
19. Unknown song 11:54

* the very first New Order demo, recorded at Cabaret Voltaire's Western Works Studios in Sheffield, July 1980

Please note that these files are actually an improvement over the contents of the bootleg CD: I've cleaned up the intro to 'Truth' (track 4), so that it runs entirely smooth now.

This Japanese bootleg CD was released late last year, making shameless use of recordings that had previously been seeded on this very site - not to mention the parasitic use of photos pilfered from Philip Carly's site for the artwork. Here's two fingers in your face, thieves!

New Order - 1985-12-17 - Leuven, BE (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

17 December 1985: Manhattan Club, Leuven "stash" tape 
New Order 
Manhattan Club 
Leuven, Belgium 
17 December 1985 

source: Hooky's rubbish bin (the "stash" tapes) 
lineage: Master soundboard recording cassette 
analogloyalist mastering August 2012 

01 Let's Go 
02 Age Of Consent 
03 Thieves Like Us 
04 The Perfect Kiss 
05 State Of The Nation 
06 Confusion 
07 As It Is When It Was 
08 The Village 
09 Subculture 
10 All Along The Watchtower (snippet) 
11 Atmosphere 
12 Temptation 
13 Blue Monday

The quick-and-dirty background: Whilst cleaning house, a set of master New Order soundboard tapes (various mid-80s live gigs, some rehearsals, and a DAT or two from the band's 1989 US tour) was found by Hooky under the floorboards at his studio Suite 16 in Rochdale, England. At some point, these tapes ended up in Hooky's trash as he thought they were shite, apparently. After a drunken night at Casa de Hooky, a musician friend of the bearded bass player, who was in his employ for a duration in the early 90s, rescued the tapes from the rubbish bin. Ultimately the tapes ended up being auctioned to a well-known New Order internet site proprietor in Florida, a fellow who is not commonly known for sharing the wealth. In the interim, ATR (sometimes called Stash) obtained digital transfers of these tapes before they were shipped off to the Sunshine State. ATR then shared them amongst the New Order cognoscenti, and then in 2004 we fed them to the world via Sharing The Groove. 

All these gigs had their various problems as-received from the source in between Hooky and us, the least of which were sector boundary errors (which means, if burned as-is to CD, there are audible "pops" in between tracks) and all off-pitch by varying degrees. Some were extremely muddy, and others were far too bright. None of them were just right, but my aim is to make them so. 

(The New Order "stash" gigs that were on Sharing The Groove, and various other torrent sites and blogs from 2004 onward, are all from those original 2004 releases and have not been formally mastered since, until now.) 

Here's another one. There are two common circulating variants of this - that from our 2004 "stash" tape seed (muddy), and that taken from a circulating video of the gig (not very good for general listening). The version here is mastered from the 2004 source, and shines. It's night and day in terms of clarity and listenability. One minor issue with the stash source is that it's missing the last ten seconds of "The Village", which is where a C90 cassette would split. The 2004 seed patched the last ten seconds with the audio from the video; I've not done so here as it's just too clashing and impure (I've faded out instead). 

"Let's Go" features a lovely bum note from Gillian when she falls on the keyboard at approx. 2:05. "Atmosphere" - while featuring wonky keyboards - sounds stellar. "Blue Monday" simply has to be heard to be believed, it's probably my favorite performance of this along with that from Orleans a few nights previous. Barney channels Jimi between "Subculture" and "Atmosphere", which I've tracked separately. Barney drops lyrics all night, most notably on "Blue Monday". All said, it's a lovely little gig that certainly I've neglected for far too long; now I don't have to! 

New Order - 1985-12-13 - Orleans, FR (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Live, Salle du Baron, Orleans, France

Source: ATR-STASH mixer 

Lineage: SBD (ATR-STASH box-o-tapes) --> ??? --> FLAC via Sam (lammah) --> SoundForge (DC offset, remove old SBEs and pitch correction) --> CD Wave (tracksplits) --> FLAC --> you 

01 - Elegia 
02 - The Perfect Kiss 
03 - Weirdo 
04 - Love Vigilantes 
05 - Hurt 
06 - Sooner Than You Think 
07 - ICB 
08 - This Time Of Night 
09 - In A Lonely Place, (cut, probably due to A/B flip on master) 
10 - She's Lost Control 
11 - Blue Monday 

Info: 
Another glorious SBD recording of mid-80s New Order, this time from Orleans, France. Lineage is the same stash-o-soundboards from (most likely) Hooky's Suite 16 recording studio, liberated by Brian Whittaker (Revenge touring bassist) via eBay, but previous to selling copied amongst the NO trading community in the UK. 

From a post by OldMonkey on STG: 
"A box of mixing desk tapes was found in a rehearsal studio used by Peter Hook. They were advertised on E-bay by Brian Whittaker, former Revenge live guitarist. David Sultan of the website "World in Motion" paid over £500 to win the auction. Before they were sent to David though, they were copied amongst the Manchester bootlegging fraternity, and are now widely available in the UK and wider. Coincidentally (or otherwise, and this is where it gets good), the majority of the shows in this box were the complete gigs from the tracks used on the live 
disc of Retro (plus quite a few other gigs). It appears as though Hooky meant for them to find their way to the bootleg hardcore......." 

This thing sounds just as phenomenal as all the other ATR/STASH soundboards posted recently. Features the next-to-last performance of "Hurt" and the last-ever "ICB". 

"ICB" would be a CRACKING take if not for Hooky's bass amp packing it in at 1:53, finally re-appearing at 2:42. Barney does some interesting lyric changes here as well. 

"She's Lost Control" is an absolute disaster though, while quite interesting (in a scene-of-the-accident kind of way) to listen to. No wonder they didn't play it after this gig until 2002. 
At 0:48 features Barney yelling "Jesus!" regarding some mistake - he should have waited, because a few seconds later Hooky makes a particularly gnarly screwup... This song is definitely not Hooky's finest 4 minutes of recorded history as most of the mistakes seem to be his. 

Classic Hooky-ism before "The Perfect Kiss": 
PH: "Love the sounds of your own voices don't you, you boring bastards." 

Classic intro to "This Time Of Night": 
BS: "Hi, everyone. Bonjour. A la nuit. This one is called, eh, "Dans cette time a la nuit". 
"Fromage a Potage. Fucky fucky. Fucky fucky." 

Classic lyric change in "TTON", at 1:13 (in this re-tracksplit version): 
BS (singing): "The bass sequencer I cannot hear / If you turn it up, my ears will feel much better, Eddie / "I can hear the bass sequencer / Turn it up, you..." while Hooky fills in the correct backing vox 

New Order - 1985-12-11 - Rennes, FR (SBD/FLAC)

(soundboard FLAC)

01 - Blue Monday

02 - 586

03 - The Village

04 - State of The Nation

05 - This Time of Night

06 - Everything's Gone Green

07 - Sub-culture

08 - Confusion

09 - Temptation

10 - The Perfect Kiss

11 - As It Is When It Was

Running time : 1h 04m

New Order - 1982-12-08 - Wellington, NZ (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

New Order 
Victoria University, 
Wellington, New Zealand 
December 8th, 1982 
2nd generation soundboard recording 

Lineage
Traded 2nd generation Maxell XLII (type II) cassette tape -> Aiwa ADF770 3-head dual capstan cassette deck -> Creative SB soundcard -> CoolEdit pro 2.1 -> WAV -> CD-R -> EAC -> WAV -> TLH -> FLAC 8 & .ffp 

01 - Your Silent Face 08:17 
02 - Temptation 07:22 
03 - Dreams Never End 03:22 
04 - The Him 04:57 
05 - Leave Me Alone 05:33 
06 - In A Lonely Place 05:35 
07 - Hurt 07:45 
08 - Denial 04:34 
09 - Age Of Consent 06:17 
10 - Blue Monday 09:30 
11 - 5-8-6 16:21 

Total length: 80 minutes approx.

A very good (close to excellent) quality soundboard recording, sourced from a 2nd generation cassette copy of a soundboard recording. The vocals are a bit lower in the mix than other New Order mixing desk recordings I have from around this period, and also the mix has what some might call a bass 'hump', but otherwise it sounds great to me. Note also that, because there was some noticeable hiss on the original tape (unless it was played back with the original Dolby C - which unfortunately would have made it sound unnaturally compressed in the case of this particular brand of cassette), the hiss has been substantially reduced by me using a gradated (i.e. variable) noise reduction in CoolEdit Pro before originally being transferred to CD-R by me many years ago. No other modifications (other than track splitting) were made to the original sound of the captured tape, either at the time, or later.

New Order - 1985-12-07 - Slough, UK (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

New Order 
1985/12-07 The Fulcrum, Slough, UK 

Source: ATR-STAsH mixer??? 
Lineage: SBD (ATR-STASH box-o-tapes?) --> ??? --> FLAC --> you 

01 State Of The Nation 
02 Blue Monday 
03 The Village 
04 This Time Of Night 
05 Subculture 
06 Thieves Like Us 
07 Confusion 
08 Weirdo 
09 Ceremony 
10 Temptation 
11 She's Lost Control 
12 The Perfect Kiss 

Notes: 
Another glorious SBD recording of mid-80s New Order, this time the night after the widely-circulated Central Poly gig. Lineage is I believe the same box-o-tapes the '84 Barcelona, '89 Irvine Meadows and '89 Cuyahoga Falls gigs came from, but Sam can confirm this. 

This thing really does sound terrific. Interestingly enough, the original tracklisting for the live disc on Retro was supposed to include this version of "This Time Of Night", as well as this version of "The Perfect Kiss", but for whatever reason they didn't use them on the final. This version of "She's Lost Control" is excellent, and it's obvious Barney's struggling with finding the right key to sing it in.

New Order - 2015-11-29 - Hong Kong, China (ts pro-shot)

(ts pro-shot)

Clockenflap Festival
Harbourflap Stage
West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
November 29, 2015

Lineage: Live Webcast -> FFmpeg (capture & edit) -> .ts (no transcoding)
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x720 2250 Kbps 29.97 fps
Audio: AAC 256 Kbps 48.0 KHz stereo

01 - Singularity

02 - Crystal

03 - Restless

04 - Your Silent Face

05 - Tutti Frutti

06 - Bizarre Love Triangle

07 - Waiting For The Sirens' Call

08 - Plastic

09 - The Perfect Kiss

10 - True Faith*

11 - Temptation*

Encore:
12 - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division cover)*
13 - Blue Monday*

(* = not included)

TRT = 01:01:29 

New Order - 2001-11-18 - Stockholm, SWE (FM/FLAC)

(FM broacast FLAC)

Cirkus 

Lineage: 

FM-Radio >> Sony Normal Position Audio cassette >> WavePad Music Editor >> Wavefile >>44.1 Khz/16 bit >> Songsplit >> FLAC Level 8 >> EAC / DB Poweramp >> 1 CD

01 60 Miles An Hour 

02 Your Silent Face 

03 Atmosphere 

04 Close Range 

05 Bizarre Love Triangle 

06 True Faith 

07 Temptation 

08 Love Will Tear Us Apart 

09 Blue Monday

New Order - 1986-11-04 - Hollywood, CA (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

New Order 
1986/11/04 
The Palace 
Hollywood, CA 

Soundboard - FM Rip 

01 - Shellshock 
02 - Everything's Gone Green 
03 - Ceremony 
04 - Every Little Counts 
05 - Leave Me alone 
06 - Thieves Like Us 
07 - Way Of Life 
08 - Face-Up 
09 - Temptation 
10 - Confusion 
11 - Blue Monday (Fade out)

New Order - 2012-10-21 - Chicago, IL (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Aragon Ballroom

Equipment: Sony TCD-D8 (44.1) + Sony ECM-717
Location: 8 Ft. in front of Right Stack.
Taper: RyanJ
Transfer: DAT Master > Tascam DA-20 (44.1kHZ) > Coax > CO2 Converter > Optical In > iMac > Adobe Audition (Normalize, track) > WAV > FLAC (44.1kHZ)

01. Pre-Show/Intro
02. Elegia
03. Crystal
04. Regret
05. Ceremony
06. Age of Consent
07. Love Vigilantes
08. Here to Stay
09. Your Silent Face
10. Close Range
11. Bizarre Love Triangle
12. 5 8 6
13. True Faith
14. Perfect Kiss
15. Blue Monday
16. Temptation - Encore
17. Heart and Soul
18. Atmosphere
19. Love Will Tear Us Apart

Notes:
This was a sold out show. I knew that the Aragon was absolutely horrible for acoustics, so I knew that stack taping was probably my best bet. So I got there early and stood directly in front of the right stacks. Tape came out pretty good, and I was really happy with the result. My DAT is dying… So there were 3 dropouts, during the recording for less that .5 of a second each time, so they were literally not noticeable during "Elegia" Barney was in a cheery mood, and the band sounded great. Really happy I went.

New Order - 2011-10-18 - Paris, FR (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Le Bataclan

Lineage:

Sony ECM-719 > Edirol R-09 > Sound Forge 8 > FLAC

00a. Video announcement

00b. Announcement

01. Elegia

02. Crystal

03. Regret

04. Ceremony

05. Age of consent

06. Love vigilantes

07. Krafty

08. 1963

09. Bizarre love triangle

10. True faith

11. 586

12. The perfect kiss

13. Temptation

Encore:

14. Blue Monday

15. Love will tear us apart

New Order - 2012-10-12 - Dallas, TX (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Palladium Ballroom
Digital Master 

SOURCE: 
Sonic Studios DSM6s > PA-6LC > iRiver H120 44.1khz WAV 

01 Elegia 
02 Crystal 
03 Ceremony 
04 Age of Consent 
05 Love Vigilantes 
06 Isolation (Joy Division cover) 
07 Here to Stay 
08 Your Silent Face 
09 Bizarre Love Triangle 
10 5 8 6 
11 True Faith 
12 The Perfect Kiss 
13 Blue Monday 
14 Temptation 

ENCORE: 
15 Atmosphere (Joy Division cover) 
16 Shadowplay (Joy Division cover) 
17 Transmission (Joy Division cover) 
18 Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division cover) 

NOTES: 
Completely sold out show. Turns out the Palladium Ballroom is more or less a large converted warehouse of sorts in an industrial section of town. Spacious and echoey so I positioned myself about 15ft in front of the mixing desk, center. Levels are pretty hot for the first couple of minutes as I was juggled two rigs for a future matrix project if I have time. For the encore Bernie dons a cowboy hat and shades because, well it's Texas. True, there's no Hooky on bass here but if you didn't know any better you couldn't tell from the recording. The new addition to the live show hits every note perfect. Great visuals and sound for a classic band that has aged 

New Order - 2015-10-09 - London, UK (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

New Order
BBC 6 Music Live
Maida Vale Studios
London , UK

Lineage
BBC Red Button DVB-S broadcast - Tevii S464 DVB-S2 PCi Card(DVBViewer) - Womble MPEG Video Wizard 5

Video
PAL MPEG2 16:9 720x576

Audio
MP2 48KHz 192 Kbps

No menu but chapters added for each song

01. Intro by Lauren Laverne
02. True Faith
03. Restless
04. Tutti Frutti
05. Interview
06. People on the High Line
07. Blue Monday
08. Temptation

Running Time - 45m

This is the highlights TV broadcast of New Order at Maida Vale studios, unfortunately the BBC did not broadcast the full show.

New Order - 2012-09-16 - Portmeirion Festival No.6 (FM/mp2)

(BBC digital broadcast mp2)

BBC 6 Music
Astra DVB MP2 @ 160kbps/48kHz
16 September 2012

Lineage:
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-4400-HD internal card > MPEG TS Video > Total Video Converter > MP2 160kbps/48kHz > MP3DirectCut edits


Bernard Sumner - vocals and guitar
Stephen Morris - drums
Gillian Gilbert - keyboards
Phil Cunningham - guitar
Tom Chapman - bass

01 - intro
02 - Crystal
03 - Regret
04 - Ceremony
05 - Age Of Consent
06 - Isolation
07 - Krafty
08 - Here To Stay
09 - Bizarre Love Triangle
10 - 586
11 - The Perfect Kiss
12 - True Faith
13 - Blue Monday
14 - Temptation
15 - encore break
16 - Transmission
17 - Love Will Tear Us Apart
18 - outro

Running Time - 94:28 minutes

This is a digital satellite radio broadcast, captured on an internal TV card. Hauppauge records DVB in MPEG TS video format. I have used TVC to extract the MP2 audio track, retaining the original audio broadcast codec. MP3 Direct Cut was used to edit the complete broadcast.

New Order - 1982-08-30 - Blackpool, UK (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

The Venue

lineage:

cass->CD->CD->EAC (secure)->WAV->Nero Wave Editor (balancing, dc offset, volume, edits)-> CD Wave (tracking)->FLAC

01 - Procession 4:29

02 - Ceremony 4:46

03 - 586 6:08

04 - Truth 4:02

05 - We All Stand 6:18

06 - Hurt 7:45

07 - Everything's Gone Green 4:29

08 - Age Of Consent 7:07

09 - Ultraviolence 7:11

Notes:

See http://www.new-order.net/no/gigs/nogigs82.html#NO-820830.html for more

This is a hitherto UNCIRCULATED soundboard recording of New Order's '82 Blackpool appearance. This is a MUST-HAVE for any fans of Joy Division/early New Order.

To quote Mark Johnson:

"Held on a windy, rain-swept evening near Blackpool's North Pier, this concert was promoted and supported by Section 25, with an appearance by Kevin Hewick. It was one of the group's rare nationally-advertised concerts and one Portuguese fan travelled all the way from Lisbon to see them. Though New Order's digital sequencer had failed the week before and could not be repaired in time for the concert, the band rented equipment for the event. "Age Of Consent", written that month, was debuted and the sell-out crowd of 1,000 gave New Order a tumultuous reception."

And indeed, this explains why the sequenced tracks sound so different, with "586" being especially amazing. *This* is simply the best version of that track ever, which shames all later versions, with the opening guitar and ending synth and bass work being stunning. And a version of "We All Stand" that's a keeper, though Hurt for some reason is a shambles, as the sequencer mysteriously speeds up a bit after 3:00 in.

The sound quality on this is as good if not better than you could hope for. I've done very little except balance/dc ffset/adjust volume and make a couple of edits to remove long stretches of silence from various places, etc.

New Order - 1993-08-29 - Reading, UK (BBC/FLAC)

(BBC CD FLAC)

NEW ORDER

READING FESTIVAL

ENGLAND

Sunday 29th August 1993

BBC CD

Quality: Perfect

Lineage: 

BBC Archives CD > iTunes (.WAV format) > SHN (Carbon Shorten) > TLH > WAV >Flac, level 8, align on sector boundaries

01. Ruined In A Day

02. Regret (Deleted,Officially Released On Retro)

03. Dream Attack

04. Round And Round

05. World

06. As It Is When It Was (Deleted,Officialy Released On Retro)

07. Everyone Everywhere

08. True Faith

09. Bizarre Love Triangle

10. Temptation

11. The Perfect Kiss

12. Fine Time

13. Blue Monday

At the time, this gig was regarded by many as New Order's swansong; the fact that a good proportion of the audience thought this might be the group's last-ever gig added a special frisson and atmosphere for those of us who were there. Basically it's the same set as the rest of the (fraught)'93 tour but with, I think, a bit of extra fire. The show was broadcast in part by the BBC and other networks round the world. However, this BBC CD, taken straight from a broadcast quality CD (complete with reference to a certain pop star currently undergoing a court case for offences relating to children faded out!) is the complete show with all the songs in the right order. "BLT" and "Dream Attack" are particularly rare, not appearing on the well-known "Electronic Ecstasy" boot,, and will probably not have been heard in this quality before. This is, as far as I know, the first time the complete show* has been distributed, and it's a cracker. Sound quality is superb. I've done absolutely nothing to the files at all, figuring that if it's good enough for Auntie, it don't need no fiddlin' about with. All in all, one of my favourite-ever NO gigs. (*the only bit that are missing are a few short bits of between-song "banter" )

New Order - 1993-08-29 - Reading, UK (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

NEW ORDER 

READING FESTIVAL 

ENGLAND 

Sunday 29th August 1993 

Source: BBC CD 

Lineage: 

BBC Archives CD > iTunes (.WAV format) > SHN (Carbon Shorten) > TLH > WAV >Flac, level 8, align on sector boundaries 

01. Ruined In A Day 

02. Regret (Deleted,Officially Released On Retro) 

03. Dream Attack 

04. Round And Round 

05. World 

06. As It Is When It Was (Deleted,Officialy Released On Retro) 

07. Everyone Everywhere 

08. True Faith 

09. Bizarre Love Triangle 

10. Temptation 

11. The Perfect Kiss 

12. Fine Time 

13. Blue Monday

notes 

At the time, this gig was regarded by many as New Order's swansong; the fact that a good proportion of the audience thought this might be the group's last-ever gig added a special frisson and atmosphere for those of us who were there. Basically it's the same set as the rest of the (fraught)'93 tour but with, I think, a bit of extra fire. The show was broadcast in part by the BBC and other networks round the world. However, this BBC CD, taken straight from a broadcast quality CD (complete with reference to a certain pop star currently undergoing a court case for offences relating to children faded out!) is the complete show with all the songs in the right order. "BLT" and "Dream Attack" are particularly rare, not appearing on the well-known "Electronic Ecstasy" boot,, and will probably not have been heard in this quality before. This is, as far as I know, the first time the complete show* has been distributed, and it's a cracker. Sound quality is superb. I've done absolutely nothing to the files at all, figuring that if it's good enough for Auntie, it don't need no fiddlin' about with. 

All in all, one of my favourite-ever NO gigs. (*the only bit that are missing are a few short bits of between-song "banter")