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venerdì 15 maggio 2026

New Order - 1985-05-15 - Perth, AU (SBD/FLAC)




(Soundboard FLAC)

15 May 1985: Canterbury Court, Perth, Australia (OZ/NZ85 stash tape)
(unknown gig, probably 15 May 1985 Canterbury Court, Perth, Australia)

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

This is, possibly, the worst New Order gig ever.

Fucked up guitar lines? Check.
Misread setlist? Check.
Entire-song key transpositions on one instrument only? Check.
Fucked up bass lines? Check.

The entire gig is just a sloppy, poorly-performed mess. It's perhaps living proof that, in the day, a New Order gig was either going to be one of the best ever gigs you ever saw, or the worst. Which is why - while not an everyday listen for me - I love this tape.

To add insult to injury, we don't actually know what this gig is! The stash box o' tapes labeled this as "OZ/NZ85" both on the manifest, and the tape itself. For a long time New Order gig sleuths believed it was actually from the Fox Theater, Atlanta GA 11 Aug 1985, but further close analysis has caused a significant rethink of this. What little of the audience you can make out doesn't sound American, or even American South. The punter yelling for the Joy Division song "Transmission" doesn't prounounce the "Trans" bit like an American (think "Treans" but little emphasis on the "e"); rather, it sounds English or Antipodean ("Trahns"). Same with the punter yelling for "In A Lonely Place".

Here's the analysis from a detective, posted in our humble site host's writeup of this, which he has defaulted to listing under the 11 Aug 85 entry:

"I've been doing some more detective work...... I remembered seeing a poster on eBay last year for Perth Canterbury Court 15/5/85, but hadn't realised that this was an unknown gig until looking at your gigography. I know we hadn't got a recording, or so we thought....

I've done a lot of listening to the horror show that we had previously tentatively identified as Atlanta Fox Theater 11/8/85, but I am now starting to come over heavily to the idea that this is indeed the Perth 15/5/85 show.

- The CD I got had OZ/NZ85 written on it - this is how it was labelled when it went to David Sultan in the first place as part of that box.
- The performance is very much one of a band who haven't been rehearsing, rather than one mid-tour, as would have been the case for Atlanta.
- The setlist fits in better with what they were doing in Hong Kong/Japan/ Australia than it does the US - many overlaps with the New Orleans 12/8/85 show but hardly any with the Melbourne 17/5/85 show, which fits in with their rotation policy.
- "As It Is When It Was" is better formed than the Japanese versions, but not as advanced as the US versions, and the lyrics are the same as Brisbane five days later.
- The voice that calls out for "In A Lonely Place" when Bernard picks up his melodica before "Hurt" is not an American one....sounds more Antipodean to me.

Still in stitches over some of the performances that night - "Subculture" on the wrong bass string, shoddy "Sunrise" guitar work, an apocalyptic "Chosen Time", Bernard's failure to read the setlist, Gillian striking again on "STYT"..... quite possibly the worst ever performance I would think!"

So, I'm going with the newthink and calling it Perth 15 May 1985. What pins it for me is that what Barney was meaning to introduce as "a very new song" - "As It Is When It Was" - was indeed a very new song for May 1985, having just entered the setlists earlier in the month in Japan. By the time of the American tour in late summer 1985, it had been played a fair bit and would no longer have been a "very new song".

My favorite part of this gig is the entirety of "Death Rattle". Gillian performs the whole song in the wrong key, causing Barney to give up all pretense of performance and just have fun with it.

I really like the "Sunrise" intro, for whatever reason. "Temptation" has a somewhat unique opening that I also dig quite a bit; it's a shame that we only get about 5+ minutes of the song until it's faded out due to it being on the tape flip spot.

A technical note: Until about one minute into "Age Of Consent" the levels are in spots overloaded, causing significant distortion at times in the first three (and a half) songs. I think it's the tape and not the transfer; the overall level of the transfer didn't change throughout but the worst distortion magically clears up when presumably Oz finally pulled back on the levels mid-song (there are still lesser distorted bits throughout however).

01 Sunrise
02 Sooner Than You Think
03 Subculture
04 Age Of Consent
05 A Bullet In My Ear (As It Is When It Was)
06 Cramp
07 586
08 Death Rattle
09 Temptation
10 The Perfect Kiss
11 Confusion

martedì 5 maggio 2026

New Order - 2005-05-05 - New York City, NY (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

Hammerstein Ballroom
DVD menu incl.
format 16:9

01 - Love Vigilantes
02 - Crystal
03 - Regret
04 - Hey Now What You Doing?
05 - Krafty
06 - Transmission
07 - True Faith
08 - Run Wild
09 - Jetstream
10 - Waiting For The Siren's Call
11 - Bizarre Love Triangle
12 - Love Will Tear Us Apart
13 - Temptation
14 - She's Lost Control
15 - Atmosphere
16 - Blue Monday

total time: 1h 28min.







 

sabato 2 maggio 2026

New Order - 2012-05-02 - London, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Brixton Academy

Source 1:
Icom IC-R5 > Edirol R-09HR (44.1MHz 24 bit) Left Channel

Source 2:
AT838 > SP-SPSB-10 > Edirol R-09 (44.1kHz 16 bit) Right Channel

Sources 1 and 2 converted to two channel mono and SOurce 2 converted to fake stereo using mda_stereo. Mixed and mastered in Adobe Audition CS5, Har Bal 2.3 and Izotope Ozone 5.0

01 - Elegia
02 - Crystal
03 - Regret
04 - Ceremony
05 - Age of Consent
06 - Love Vigilantes
07 - Round and Round
08 - Krafty
09 - Bizarre Love Triangle
10 - True Faith
11 - 586
12 - The Perfect Kiss
13 - Blue Monday
14 - Temptation
15 - Transmission
16 - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Info
A few drop outs in first two tracks.

venerdì 1 maggio 2026

New Order - 1985-05-01 - Tokyo, JP (FM/FLAC)




(FM broadcast FLAC)

New Order 
Kosei Nekin Kaiken Hall 
Tokyo, Japan 
1985-05-01 

Lineage: 
CD-R (unknown gen) - EAC (secure mode) - wav - Cool Edit Pro (completely redone track separation & fixed internal cut in the intro to 'Thieves Like Us') - Flac Frontend (level 8) - FLAC 

Taped by: ? 

Transfered by: GaoBest /lammah 

01. Intro 
02. In A Lonely Place 
03. Subculture 
04. This Time Of Night 
05. Denial 
06. Your Silent Face 
07. Leave Me Alone 
08. The Village 
09. 586 
10. Thieves Like Us 
11. Face Up 
12. Age Of Consent 
13. Perfect Kiss 
14. (announcer) 
15. Ceremony

Notes: 
This is the first of two consecutive nights that NO played at the Kosei Nenkin Hall Tokyo. The second night was filmed and released in part on the Factory/Ikon video, Pumped Full of Drugs, the soundtrack of which is currently being torrented elsewhere on STG. A complete soundboard recording also circulates, and will be torrented later this week. The first night was broadcast on Japanese radio, and this is a complete off-air recording of that. It starts with a Japanese announcer, who spoils the intro to 'In A Lonely Place' and makes an unwelcome reappearance before and during Ceremony; the latter track is, furthermore, faded out, probably because the radio show was running out of time. Apart from that, this is a great recording. As was the band's wont at the time, the setlist of the two nights were radically different, with only 5 tracks common to both shows. 'This Time Of Night' has a really nice bass prelude; the rest you should hear for yourself (or else, go read Sam's notes at http://www.new-order.net/no/gigs/nogigs.html#NO-850501 - not directly accessible from the NO Gigography). 

mercoledì 29 aprile 2026

New Order - 2012-04-29 - Birmingham, UK (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Ballroom
Dale End

Taper
auto_pilot

Church Audio CA-14 cardioids > SP-SPSB-11 (no bass roll-off) > Edirol R-09HR > wav (24bit/44.1k)

AUD master wav > Audacity (limiting on applause, normalize, export as 16bit/44.1k) > CDWave (tracking) > TLH (FLAC, checksum)

01. Elegia
02. Crystal
03. Regret
04. Ceremony
05. Age Of Consent
06. Love Vigilantes
07. Round & Round
08. Krafty
09. Bizarre Love Triangle
10. True Faith
11. 586
12. The Perfect Kiss
13. Blue Monday
14. Temptation

Encore:
15. Love Will Tear Us Apart

Set length [85:13]

Notes:
Recorded approx 30ft back from the stage a few feet stage right of centre. Venue sold out and heaving.
The crowd around me were mostly pretty quiet during songs (thank you). One guy to my left who was particularly proud of his ability to whistle really loudly between songs. Birmingham had been under a blanket of heavy rain for much of the day, hence Bernard's comments before Ceremony.

venerdì 24 aprile 2026

New Order - 1983-04-24 - Kilkenny, Ireland (FM/FLAC)


(FM broadcast FLAC)

Rosehill Hotel

01 We All Stand
02 Leave Me Alone
03 Denial
04 The Village
05 Temptation
06 Confusion
07 Age Of Consent
08 Blue Monday (short version)
09 Everything's Gone Green
10 Ceremony

Notes by the uploader
This is the FM broadcast of the show which did not include In A Lonely Place. I am not sure what station performed the broadcast. A little bit hissy but otherwise good quality. The show contains some of the best New Order banter going around as Barney really hams it up.

New Order - 1983-04-24 - Kilkenny, Ireland (FM/FLAC)




(FM broadcast FLAC)

ROSE HILL HOTEL

Source - Radio Broadcast
(late 80s BBC rebroadcast due to the jingle that cuts briefly into Blue Monday)

transferred by: lammah

Lineage:
Cass > WAV > CD-R > FLAC

01 - We All Stand (4:58)
02 - Leave Me Alone (4:07)
03 - Denial (4:40)
04 - The Village (4:34)
05 - Temptation (8:30)
06 - Confusion (5:59)
07 - In A Lonely Place (4:35)
08 - Age Of Consent (6:22)
09 - Blue Monday (Totp Edit Version) (4:05)
10 - Everything'S Gone Green (4:39)
11 - Ceremony (5:19)

Bonus:
Kilkenny radio interview (20:45)
Total for gig: (57:46)
Total for disc: (78:31)

Notes:
See http://www.new-order.net/no/gigs/nog...html#NO-830418 for more particulars about the performance/sources.

"Straight from Top Of The Pops, we have New Order! On my left, I have Peter Hook. On my right, I have Gillian Gilbert. Behind me, I have Ian Curtis."

Listen at about 0:19 of Blue Monday for the BBC 'bong'. This was punched into the broadcast by a hapless engineer who missed their cue. Don't settle for imitation rebroadcasts encoded via inferior lossy algorithms!

Don't buy what Bernard's saying about his "Ceremony guitar" being a 1959 Les Paul. He's talking shite, as usual. You'll get to hear a special bonus as I've included the Kilkenny radio interview taped afterwards, and hear Stephen fend off the interviewer's usual barrage, a prototype of what was to come with the Other Two drawing the short straws and doing the press rounds.

giovedì 16 aprile 2026

New Order - 2017-04-16 - Coachella Festival, Indio, CA (ts pro-shot)

(ts pro-shot)

New Order 
Coachella Festival 
Empire Polo Grounds Indio California USA 
April 16, 2017 

Lineage: YouTube Webcast (1080p) -> downloaded .ts segments (batch script) -> TSSplitter (join) -> FFmpeg (edit) -> Uncompressed.ts 

Video: H264 / 1920x1080 / 5000 Kbps / 30 Fps 
Audio: AAC 2.0 / 128 Kbps / 48.0 KHz / Stereo 

01. Singularity 
02. Regret 
03. Your Silent Face 
04. Tutti Frutti 
05. Bizarre Love Triangle 
06. Waiting for the Sirens' Call 
07. Plastic 
08. The Perfect Kiss 
09. True Faith 
10. Blue Monday 
11. Temptation

Encore: 
12. Decades (Joy Division cover) 
13. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division cover)

Length: 01:30:50 

martedì 14 aprile 2026

New Order - 1983-04-14 - Glasgow, UK (FM/FLAC)

(FM broadcast FLAC)

Lineage 
FM Broadcast - transferred using a Yamaha cassette deck to PC via an M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496 card at 48khz 24bit - Audacity - silence trimmed and sound normalised and sliced

01 Blue Monday
02 Hurt
03 Truth
04 ICB
05 Senses

lunedì 13 aprile 2026

New Order - 2013-04-13 - Indio, CA (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Weekend 1)

SOURCE (AUD #1):
SP-CMC-8 (w/Mods) > SP-SPSB-11 (95Hz Roll Off) > SONY PCM-M10 > Sandisk SD Card (16gb - Class 10)

TRANSFER:
.WAV > Adobe Audition 5.5 (normalize/amplify) > CD Wave (Track Splits) > Trader's Little Helper > Flac (Level 8)


01. The Ecstasy of Gold Intro
02. Elegia
03. Crystal
04. Regret
05. Ceremony
06. Isolation (Joy Division cover)
07. Bizarre Love Triangle
08. True Faith
09. 5 8 6
10. The Perfect Kiss
11. Blue Monday
12. Temptation
13. Encore Break
14. Atmosphere (Joy Division cover)
15. Transmission (Joy Division cover)
16. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division cover)


NOTES:
This was my second time seeing New Order (first time was back at Coachella in 2005), and easily surpasses the previous outing. I was cautious about Goldenvoice sticking them in a tent rather than one of the two outdoor stages to close the night, but in retrospect, GV knew what they were doing and made the right choice. Easily the best set of the night, and in my mind, the REAL headliners for Saturday. They played a full set of all their hits (minus a couple I wanted to hear like Age of Constent and Your Silent Face) and even had time for a full encore. In the end, a complete 80 minute set to close Coachella on Saturday, just completey awesome!

sabato 11 aprile 2026

New Order - 2013-04-11 - Las Vegas, NV (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Boulevard Pool 

SOURCE: 
x2 Countryman B3 Omnidirectional (4.7k SPL mod) > SP-SPSB-8 > Sony M10 (24/96) > slight EQ in Audition 1.5 + downsample 16/44 > CD Wave > TLH flac8 

01 Elegia 
02 Crystal 
03 Regret 
04 Ceremony 
05 Age of Consent 
06 Isolation (Joy Division) 
07 Love Vigilantes 
08 Your Silent Face 
09 World (Price Of Love) 
10 Krafty 
11 Bizarre Love Triangle 
12 True Faith 
13 5 8 6 
14 The Perfect Kiss 
15 Blue Monday 
16 Temptation 

Encore: 
17 Atmosphere (Joy Division) 
18 Transmission (Joy Division) 
19 Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)

venerdì 27 marzo 2026

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

mercoledì 25 marzo 2026

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.

giovedì 12 marzo 2026

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/

sabato 7 febbraio 2026

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!

mercoledì 17 dicembre 2025

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! 

sabato 13 dicembre 2025

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 

giovedì 11 dicembre 2025

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

lunedì 8 dicembre 2025

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.

domenica 7 dicembre 2025

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.