Hello everyone;

i'm going to interview New Order in 3 days about the new live album. If someone wants to ask them something, feel free to tell and i'll do the middleman.

cheers

Do they have to be questions about the forthcoming Live album? I'll start with a couple of questions on that, and then...all sorts of random fan questions.

1) Which neglected live track did NO most enjoy including in the MIF gigs?
2) Was there ever a thought to play the MIF gigs at any other UK locations besides Manchester? A couple of nights at London's Roundhouse might have been good, for example.
3) Having used a synth orchestra for MIF, do NO feel that going back to using pre-programmed Apple Macs at "normal" gigs is kinda cheating?
4) Is there a temptation to concentrate on the live aspect of NO rather than make another studio album, conisdering many people don't buy music any more?
5) When playing True Faith live have you considered going back to the 1987 way of playing it? It sounded great on TOTPS2 recently!
6) What's their favourite cover version of a NO or JD song?
7) Where did the song title for Temptation come from?
8) What were the best drugs NO ever took?
9) When was the last time Bernard called someone a cunt because he wasn't happy with the lighting or other aspects of the stage show? [A former forumite did a Youtube compilation of Bernard saying: "stop shining the light in my eyes you cunt" at various gigs. *EDIT* HERE IT IS! ]
10) When was the last time NO heard someone else's music and thought: "they've nicked that from us"?
11) The Chemical Brothers are about to release a box set of their Surrender album, including a 21 minute version of Out of Control. Wouldn't it be great if we could also hear all the chopped up or discarded guitar parts that Bernard has mentioned in old interviews? They aren't including Bernards original "tapes" for OOC in the box set. Is there any way NO fans might be able to hear Bernard's version?
12) Whose idea was it to incorporate elements of Das Rheingold in All Day Long?
13) Some NO fans think the K Klass remix of Ruined In A Day is better than the original. Do NO like any remixes of their stuff better than the original?
14) Arthur Baker produced the single version of TBTHOG. It sounds like he sampled the percussion from his own remix of Fleetwood Mac's Big Love. Can you confirm?
15 When was the last time you saw a pig in a zoo? (re: Every Little Counts)

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Those are some great questions!

9) When was the last time Bernard called someone a cunt because he wasn't happy with the lighting or other aspects of the stage show? [A former forumite did a Youtube compilation of Bernard saying: "stop shining the light in my eyes you cunt" at various gigs. Can't find it now. Can anyone else?]


That was n the pumped full of drugs video in japan

Oh and put me down as somebody else who’d bloody love the band to restore ‘True Faith’ back to its original format.
That was the ‘mutts nuts’ live.

Similar cheeky question as The Shadow. I'm seeing New Order live in my hometown of Portsmouth in August at Victorious Festival. I wasn’t able to see them the last and only time they played Portsmouth, as it was 35 years ago and I was only 9. 'Shellshock' is my favourite New Order song: as it's been so long since you played Portsmouth and you created a cracking new live arrangement of it for 'So It Goes', can you give it a special outing for me at Victorious please?

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My questions:

1. Who invented the ashtray of doom?
2. Who won the most ashtray of doom games?
3. What gig is each members favourite or sticks in the memory for a specific reason?
4. Does footage of the whole gig exist of Hacienda 85?
5. When will the other box sets start to be released?
6. Why don’t they drop the Joy Division number’s as Barney can’t do them justice?


Please thank Barney for including WFTSC in the set, it is perfect for a piss break

Nope, you're correct. Saville didn't like the remix, so he put the bare minimum of effort (even for him) into it.

Does Gillian have any plans to pen an autobiography (would be interesting to hear her side of events surrounding new order)?

Hello everyone, sorry for the long delay. Things have been difficult over here. please find below answers of your questions i was able to ask. As we are quite generalist music magazine, i had to mix with less ‘fan” questions. Hope you will learn some stuff.
cheers




Which neglected live track did NO most enjoy including in the MIF gigs?
None in fact. The original idea was to order new remixes they would play on stage, but they did not have enough time. So they carefully chose the tracks before rehearsals based on two conditions. they could be transcripted on partitions for the players and the tracks must have enough chords and layers to be played on synth. The 2 exceptions to these rules are Ultraviolence and Disorder, with are only played by the band on stage. there was one track he did not name that worked not. The whole idea was to strip the tracks to their molecular structure and then have them played by keyboardists.

Was there ever a thought to play the MIF gigs at any other UK locations besides Manchester? A couple of nights at London's Roundhouse might have been good, for example.
They did Vienna and Turino, because it was festivals which can afford all the costs. The scenery the transport, the 18 people on stage, that costs too much for a “simple” venue. They were talking once to play at Alexandra Palace in London, but it was way too expensive. To cover all the costs, the tickets would have been incredibly expensive. But Bernard really wants to do it again, he just doesn't know where.

Having used a synth orchestra for MIF, do NO feel that going back to using pre-programmed Apple Macs at "normal" gigs is kinda cheating?
Ils a big no, even if they are thrilled by the experience and the energy of the 12 keyboard players. Coming back to cold machines is too nightmarish for them. Steve has kept all the synths and gears from the first days of JD (and they sampled the original synths for MIF shows), but they are not reliable enough now to go on tour with.

Is there a temptation to concentrate on the live aspect of NO rather than make another studio album, conisdering many people don't buy music any more?
It think its a question of time consuming. Bernard would like to record new music, but now, they are booked until october 2020 and it doesn't know where to find the time to do it. Remember he's 63. Bernard told me he would love to record songs one by one, and then play it live, do a second one, and so on… and at the end, collect them into an album. But he was not sure anyone would by an album like this, made of songs tested live for months. He was also thinking of releasing singles, the way Touched by the hand of god or Temptation were released, between 2 albums.

The Chemical Brothers are about to release a box set of their Surrender album, including a 21 minute version of Out of Control. Wouldn't it be great if we could also hear all the chopped up or discarded guitar parts that Bernard has mentioned in old interviews? They aren't including Bernards original "tapes" for OOC in the box set. Is there any way NO fans might be able to hear Bernard's version?
He said he will call Tom Rowlands (with a big smile), but told me you would be disappointed as its not that good. He was quite surprised there would be a 21 minutes version of Out Of Control on the new edition of Surrender.

Some NO fans think the K Klass remix of Ruined In A Day is better than the original. Do NO like any remixes of their stuff better than the original?
For him, it was not a question of better, but a question of new perspective and point of view. He liked the of WFTSC and loved the Hardfloor remix of Blue Monday. Usually, management deals with remixing ans they approve (or not) the final results.

Is there any chance we might get ‘round 2’, with other old classics getting revisited at a later date? Maybe other ‘lost but brilliant’ tracks like Everything’s Green, Hurt or Chosen Time.
that's a no. they think they took the tracks that matched with the synth orchestra.

Have they read each other books?
He just began Steve's book at the time of our meeting (he must have finish it now).

Which song did they think went the best at MiF.
Ultraviolence, Decades, Shellshock and Subculture. For the last one, he thought it was better than the original. In his mind, the MIF shows were the way to improve the back-catalogue, which he finds to be elemental. He changed a few lyrics and they took the chance to correct a few weaknesses of the tracks they played. He wrote new stuff for Vanishing Point and Subculture, as he found them unfinished.

When will the other box sets start to be released?
He did not know, and he doesn't care. He wasn't involved in Movement box set at all. HE found it was a beautiful one but never played his copy.

Does Gillian have any plans to pen an autobiography (would be interesting to hear her side of events surrounding new order)?
She wrote me a simple “yes”

I echo what PO has said, thanks a lot for printing this and answering our questions. If you do see Bernard again make sure he knows one song / single at a time will be great for us NO fans just give us some new music. Wasn’t singularity and plastic sung live at least a year before any other new music?

I feel if they want to keep touring they will have to give us an occasional new track. Maybe it was ‘music complete’ after all. Although the MiF live album feels like a new album to me, never get bored of listening to it.

Thanks bc2323 for asking NO the Q's and posting us the answers here.

I'm not really surprised they're not planning to record new stuff anytime soon.Watching them at Bluedot in July i got the gut feeling and vibe that doing live shows is all they're interested in now, that's all they want to do for the foreseeable future.They're perfectly happy doing live shows around the world, soaking up the adulation of new and old fans alike.C'est la vie.

They're booked up with live shows til October 2020? At present the live dates announced only go as far as late March 2020, the Japan shows.So they've got more 2020 dates booked but not announced.Like Debaser says in his comment above, they don't have to do book live dates all the time.But that's what they want and are happy doing and it's their choice.I feel their credibility will drop though if they just tour for years and years without actually releasing any new stuff.

Monkhouse reveals himself to actually be Morley lurking on NOOL under a pseudonym... Suspected it for years. Been meaning to ask you about those ZTT sleeve ramblings...

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