Part 2 was quite good too. No real funny parts though.

Many thanks for the heads up on this Fotzepolitic.

I can't seem to get any of my various copy methods to work, so if someone is able to rip the bits of audio, can you PM me.

http://www.dvdae.com/

I used it a long time ago to make some CD with 316 and 511...

Edited by user 26 April 2019 11:52:21(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I need to download the radio file first, before i can do anything with it. Sadly, everything I've tried has failed.

Edited by user 27 April 2019 01:19:15(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I'm a little ashamed to admit that I've probably listened to Movement more times since the DE came out than I had in the previous 32 years. It's not a masterpiece like PC&L, but I have been harsh on it over the years.


I'm loving the demos disc, too. Procession [rehearsal] blew me away the first time I listened to it - reminded me of the first time I fell in love with the band.

Apologies if this has already been discussed, but I had no idea that Barney, Hooky, and Steve took turns singing Ceremony in its early incarnation until I saw the Hurrah's video on the DVD. Was this the only time they split a song like this? It was a marvel to witness!

OK - quick check of 'Ceremony' on the other 1980 gigs:

Blackpool, Hoboken & Boston feature all three of them splitting the lead vocals, with them singing the same bits as they do at Hurrah’s.

I’d presume that the three other pre Gillian gigs (Beach Club, Brady’s and Tier 3) would be the same too, but we don’t have bootlegs of these.
(I’ve heard reports that the Beach Club gig was all instrumentals, but that seems unlikely for 'Ceremony', as lyrics had been written (by Ian) at the time, albeit mostly indecipherable).

As regards the remaining (post Gillian) 1980 gigs (The Squat, Rotterdam and Rochdale), it sounds like Bernard had completely taken over lead vocals on ‘Ceremony’ (although The Squat bootleg is quite murky so can’t be sure). This would make sense, as Gillian would be picking up a lot of the guitar parts, leaving Sumner to focus on the vocals.

The only other track I can think of where vocals were shared live was ‘Cries And Whispers’, with Steve and Hooky singing lead on the track, at different bits.

Generally speaking, in the early days, Hooky sings the unfamiliar bit (i.e. the bit that makes up the majority of the Hurrah’s performance and doesn’t make it to the studio version), whilst Steve sings the more familiar ‘assassin clears his lens’ style lyrics.

This is the case at Scamp’s and during most of the US tour (well, according to the three surviving bootlegs).
However, at Hurrah’s on the tour, they dropped the Steve bit.
My only explanation for this is that they may have found it difficult to replicate following their equipment being stolen not long before this gig, especially in such a short space of time, with limited equipment. Maybe, later in the tour, they were more confident or better prepared to include it.
They also included this bit at The Squat gig in October 1980, after they return to the UK.

However, by the time they get to Rotterdam in the December, the track has changed a bit (to how it sounds on the Cargo demo), with the gruff, shouty Hooky bits being refined into something a bit more melodic. The whole song is sung by Bernard at this point. This is the way that the song remains until it is phased out of the setlist in early 1981.

As far as I know they never performed it like the studio version; ‘live’ it always contained that additional bit.

Talking of oddities, I just finished reading Steve’s book last night and was pleased to see that he makes reference (albeit small) to the very rare track ‘Hour’. As far as I know, that track was only ever played once, at the previous gig to the Hurrah’s one (at Maxwell’s, Hoboken). Steve speculates that it was sung by Hooky. I concur; it certainly sounds like Hooky on the bootleg.

I can kind of see why it was dropped, but it seems strange that they only played it once.
Maybe, with a bit of work, it might have been pretty good.

Edited by user 18 June 2019 13:00:40(UTC)  | Reason: Just to make it clearer that I was talking about 'Ceremony', not other songs...

That's all right, perspexorange -- you've provided such great info that all is forgiven and then some. ;)

I must say, when I come across diehard old fans like you, I'm just filled with so much jealousy for all the time you've had with the band. Of course I'm assuming a lot here, so please feel free to dispute anything I write, but from the few devoted NO fans I've come across, when you collect bootlegs to such degree, you've been a fan a very long time. Me, I didn't even get there until almost the end, Republic. I heard Technique for the first time in '91 and devoured everything I could...and felt so fortunate that they were still coming out with new material. When the Regret single was released in '93, I drove down to my college CD store and bought it as fast as I could. I ended up buying every single from Republic, even Spooky! I even bought Ruined in a Day, which wasn't even released in the US. I guess you can say I was trying to make up for lost time.

I'm looking forward to seeing Hooky play Technique and Republic in October. It's not remotely the same, of course, but it's better than nothing!

Yep, I first heard of Joy Division in Year 11 at school (NZ winter 1981) and then New Order a few weeks later. As I have already said, NZ had an All-Nighter syndicated radio show which specialized in global post-punk, so the first NO tracks I heard were Ceremony, Dreams Never End, ICB, Procession and (most importantly) EGG 7". These were initially only available via imports, but ECG and Movement were eventually released locally in inferior sleeves. New Order immediately appealed to me, although Joy Division were the ultimate band in my mind at the time, eventually in 1982 I got my act together and started importing the FAC 12" singles via Australia and Adrian's Mail Order in Wickford, Essex.

In those days you had to buy a Money Order for sterling and wait for months before they turned up. The way I listened after midnight enhanced the somewhat mysterious quality of EGG, still the most important song in their canon IMHO, as it marked the decisive break from the past. I was hooked and even the confusing lyrics of Temptation (what colour were the eyes, FFS???) didn't put me off.

Obviously there was no chance of seeing NO until, joy of joys, they toured in Dec 1982, Tue 6th and Thu 8th to be precise. First gig was pretty terrible (due to excessive marijuana consumption or jetlag, depending on who you believe - is there a bootleg of that???) but the second, the hastily re-scheduled gig after the Christchurch canceled show was pretty damned fine. I attended in my school uniform as my final school prize giving was earlier that evening and I had done well enough (English prize and proxime accessit, in case you are following this far) to blag 20 bucks off the Old Man which was enough to get me and my 2 no good mates in on the door. Heaps of fun watching Barney bantering with the thuggish bootboys and Hooky scowling the entire time. One of the first times they played Blue Monday, innit?

So when PCL & BM were was released locally in May 1983, it was totally wonderful, the sun came out and we were away.

To return to Sung's point, I was therefore raised in the tense, edgy days of 1981-2 as they transitioned and blossomed into the most wonderful and exquisite cutting-edge band of 1983-7, a million miles from Salford and Macclesfield. Tbh, I kind of think it all went a bit downhill from Brotherhood, with certain notable exceptions (TF, 1963 and Regret). So by the time you guys were getting up, I was already off to me bed.

Funny, eh?

I've always considered Technique to be their best, too -- perfect indeed, one of my "stuck on a desert island albums" hands down. I also think Get Ready gets panned way more than it should -- it's got such a different sound than anything else they've done. But that 81-82 EP is really something special, isn't it? EGG and Temptation are so damn good, though if I'm being honest, I prefer Temptation from Substance. The EP version has that raw energy, but the Substance version is too shiny to resist.

Going back to the subject at hand, I've really only enjoyed Dreams Never End off of Movement. I always found it strange that the rest of the album really isn't on the same trajectory, especially in light of the later two JD hits, Atmosphere and Love Will Tear Us Apart, that preceded it. Seems like they would've kept going in that direction, but then again, the death of Ian obviously threw the band into a major loop. Certainly PCL set NO into proper motion.

But you haven't been to a NO gig before. They're hammering it at the moment. Go while you still can. Otherwise you'll Regret it one day.

Yes MM, I only really enjoyed seeing NO the first two gigs in 1982, that was my transcendent experience, can hardly remember anything of Auckland 1985, apart from a man puffing on a briar pipe next to me with a beatific expression, falling over unconscious after one too many tokes. That was funny.

Didn't even go to Wellington 1987, no memory of them even touring.

Yep, perspex orange, I have never, ever, actually listened to Technique all the way through, and yet I still have the nerve call NO my favourite band. But the belief that everything they recorded was Holy Writ went sometime around Perfect Kiss. Started to pick and choose by then, for sure.

Having said that I am very keen to listen to the new Movement and the demos and watch the DVDs, but just can't afford it.


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That's a great price for a superb set!

Edited by user 12 January 2020 10:08:03(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Just got my copy today. Used, but in near mint condition for US$75.

Loving the book, and watching the DVD right now. Awesome to delve back into their past.
The sound is good quality also.

I already heard all the demos and other tracks before, so no surprises there.

Glad I waited it out. Don't know if I will for the PCL box, but that's still a ways off.

later
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