Birthdays | Happy birthday to Peter Hook, born in Broughton, Salford on this day in 1956.

 NEW ORDER - TRUE FAITH

New Order live, Reading Festival 1998

True Faith

It’s HOOKY’s BIRTHDAY!

 Happy pancake day to Peter Hook, born as Peter Woodhead in Broughton, Salford on this day in 1956. He would like a place he could call his own. 🥞

NEW ORDER - REGRET!

Route

NEW ORDER - LIVE UK 2 NY 1993 - VOODOO WAGON

 NEW ORDER

TOLWORTH TO NEW YORK!

NEW ORDER - Live UK-NY 1993 - VOODOO WAGON

a.k.a. CONFUSED DREAMS

 

New Order – Live UK & NY

aka-Confused Dreams 
Soundboard @flac

Tolworth Recreation Centre SURBITON! - oh the glamour! It’s got a gym!

Tracks 1-10: Live at the Recreation Centre, Tolworth, Surbition England March 20, 1983. 
Tracks 11-14: Live at the Beacon Theatre, New York August 1, 1983.


 

1.Blue Monday    
2.In A Lonely Place    
3.Chosen Time    
4.Dreams Never End    
5.We All Stand    
6.Leave Me Alone    
7.Age Of Consent    
8.Temptation    
9.5.8.6.    
10.Everything's Gone Green    
11.Confusion    
12.Ceremony    
13.Your Silent Face    
14.Love Vigilantes

Astonishingly good quality and tracks like Blue Monday should ideally be played window shatteringly LOUD! [My neighbours love ME!]

The Boss over at Voodoo Wagon and FBS excels in the last 24 hours or so and I have been a bit late posting this (and more besides!) and this is one of the best recordings of New Order I have heard. There are loads of terrible recordings for some reason and for a band that pioneered the best of futuristic electro pop the crowds are curiously abusive at loads of gigs but this is exceptional!

Enjoy!

I am!

NEW ORDER- MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL 1993 - TEMPTATION 

Manchester North Of England - A Story Of Independent Music Greater Manchester 1977 - 1993 (7CD BOX) Various Artists

MANCHESTER - NORTH OF ENGLAND - URBANASPIRINES

Now my ancestral roots are in Manchester, despite my being born on Merseyside, my parents were both born in Manchester so it holds sway over me in a way that is peculiar to folk oop North!  I feel it whenever I go back there . . . . . . . 

Kostas says "Manchester's music scene produced successful bands in the 1960s including the Hollies, the Bee Gees and Herman's Hermits. After the punk rock era, Manchester produced popular bands including Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths and Simply Red. In the late 1980s, the ecstasy-fuelled dance club scene played a part in the rise of Madchester with bands like the Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets and Happy Mondays. In the 1990s, Manchester saw the rise of Britpop bands, notably Oasis. 

Taking the Industrial Revolution as its model, Factory Records played upon Manchester's traditions, invoking at once apparently incongruous images of the industrial north and the glamorous pop art world of Andy Warhol. While label mates A Certain Ratio and the Durutti Column each forged their own sound, it was Factory's Joy Division who were the most prominent."

New Order

Ian Curtis of Joy Division

James

Durutti Column

Oasis

Seven (7 ?!) discs of it!

The Boss is BACK!

FLOPPY BOOT STOMP/ VOODOO WAGON

THE BOSS RETURNS!

 So El Bossi di Tutti Di Cappi is back with us after a little sojourn away that he could really have done without (well maybe not - but all has gone well I hear - you heard it here first in fact!! Thanks Jobe!), but he has recovered and is back amongst us with his floppy boots stomping and careering around on his voodoo wagon!

Check this action!

Joy Division - Rehearsals 1977-80 - Floppy Boot Stomp

Joy Division rehearsals info here:

Joy Division - Nashville Ballroom, London 1979 - Floppy Boot Stomp

Ian Curtis 15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980

New Order - Reading 1998 - Voodoo Wagon

Now there's a gig I'd like to have gone to and despite going to the First Reading Festival (in the city) I missed this one. . . .

Noting the appearance of Keith Allen the actor who is currently just starring in a masterpiece from ITV TV Drama 'The Pembrokeshire Murders' based on a true story and a towering performance from him as per usual!

Happy Birthday to THEM!! 

Voodoo Wagon was started January 11, 2009!! 

Welcome back Boss and hope you are fully recovered! (Jobe on the naughty step of course . . . . I think he should stay there myself but hey . . . . . . .  He SO NAUGHTY!!! 😉

Joy Division - Music Documentary Film 2007

CONTROL - Official Trailer 

If you don't own and have never seen 'CONTROL' then you can leave now . . . . go buy it and I might let you off!

BLUE MONDAY

NEW ORDER

And the answer is of course I bought this when it came out and it stands perhaps as pone of my favourite 12" records of all time and among the other 12' ers from New Order (I have them all) I think is one of their best compositions that extended mixes were made for . . . . . . . 

On this day in music history: May 2, 1983 - “Power, Corruption & Lies”, the second studio album by New Order is released. Produced by New Order, it is recorded at Britannia Row Studios in Islington, London, UK in March 1982. Released as the follow up to New Order’s debut “Movement, their sophomore release marks a notable change in the bands instrumental make up, incorporating more synthesizers and drum programming, and moving away from their original guitar based sound. The album title is taken from graffiti spray painted on the outside of a Cologne, Germany art gallery. The cover artwork designed by graphic artist Peter Saville features a reproduction of the painting "A Basket Of Roses” by French artist Henri Fantin-Latour. Saville add a a color based code to the upper right hand corner the album cover, that when decoded spells out the album title and the bands name. This color coding is also used on the singles for “Blue Monday” and “Confusion”. The artwork for “Power” is also issued as a postage stamp by the Royal Mail Service in the UK in 2010. The US release of the album is amended to include the single “Blue Monday” (issued only as 12" in the UK at the time). In time, it is regarded an important and influential album in the post-punk, synth-pop genres. To commemorate its twenty fifth anniversary in 2008, “Power” is remastered and reissued as a two CD deluxe edition. The first disc contains the original eight song UK release. The second disc features eight bonus tracks, including the singles “Blue Monday”, “Thieves Like Us” and “Confusion”, dub mixes and instrumental versions. Long out of print on vinyl, the album is remastered and reissued in 2015. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl, it faithfully reproduces the original Factory Records LP packaging, also coming with an mp3 download card. The LP receives another pressing in 2017, limited to only 1,000 copies. Pressed on silver vinyl, the limited edition release is available exclusively at the Manchester Art Gallery, during a Joy Division/New Order exhibition running from June 30 - September 3, 2017. The limited pressing sells out, and has now become a coveted collector’s item among New Order fans. “Power, Corruption & Lies” peaks at number four on the UK album chart.

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I am definitely getting the feeling that I have been re-posting these and they are coming around again . . . but hey!?
Again bought this when it came out and only thought it was available as 12" which I still have somewhere in the vaults . . . . . . . it's great!

On this day in music history: May 2, 1983 - “Power, Corruption & Lies”, the second studio album by New Order is released. Produced by New Order, it is recorded at Britannia Row Studios in Islington, London, UK in March 1982. Released as the follow up to New Order’s debut “Movement, their sophomore release marks a notable change in the bands instrumental make up, incorporating more synthesizers and drum programming, and moving away from their original guitar based sound. The album title is taken from graffiti spray painted on the outside of a Cologne, Germany art gallery. The cover artwork designed by graphic artist Peter Saville features a reproduction of the painting "A Basket Of Roses” by French artist Henri Fantin-Latour. Saville add a a color based code to the upper right hand corner the album cover, that when decoded spells out the album title and the bands name. This color coding is also used on the singles for “Blue Monday” and “Confusion”. The artwork for “Power” is also issued as a postage stamp by the Royal Mail Service in the UK in 2010. The US release of the album is amended to include the single “Blue Monday” (issued only as 12" in the UK at the time). In time, it is regarded an important and influential album in the post-punk, synth-pop genres. To commemorate its twenty fifth anniversary in 2008, “Power” is remastered and reissued as a two CD deluxe edition. The first disc contains the original eight song UK release. The second disc features eight bonus tracks, including the singles “Blue Monday”, “Thieves Like Us” and “Confusion”, dub mixes and instrumental versions. Long out of print on vinyl, the album is remastered and reissued in 2015. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl, it faithfully reproduces the original Factory Records LP packaging, also coming with an mp3 download card. The LP receives another pressing in 2017, limited to only 1,000 copies. Pressed on silver vinyl, the limited edition release is available exclusively at the Manchester Art Gallery, during a Joy Division/New Order exhibition running from June 30 - September 3, 2017. The limited pressing sells out, and has now become a coveted collector’s item among New Order fans. “Power, Corruption & Lies” peaks at number four on the UK album chart.

thanks to the most excellent Jeff Harris' blog 'Behind The Grooves 

I think I bought all the 12" singles by New Order when the came out, certainly this one Blue Monday etc . . . . . . .

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NEW ORDER - BLUE MONDAY

Another in the series of singles (or albums) bought when they came out. This a 12" single which I still have and a prize possession it is too! Turn it up! Classic early Eighties at it's best

On this day in music history: May 2, 1983 - “Power, Corruption & Lies”, the second studio album by New Order is released. Produced by New Order, it is recorded at Britannia Row Studios in Islington, London, UK in March 1982. Released as the follow up to New Order’s debut “Movement, their sophomore release marks a notable change in the bands instrumental make up, incorporating more synthesizers and drum programming, and moving away from their original guitar based sound. The album title is taken from graffiti spray painted on the outside of a Cologne, Germany art gallery. The cover artwork designed by graphic artist Peter Saville features a reproduction of the painting "A Basket Of Roses” by French artist Henri Fantin-Latour. Saville add a a color based code to the upper right hand corner the album cover, that when decoded spells out the album title and the bands name. This color coding is also used on the singles for “Blue Monday” and “Confusion”. The artwork for “Power” is also issued as a postage stamp by the Royal Mail Service in the UK in 2010. The US release of the album is amended to include the single “Blue Monday” (issued only as 12" in the UK at the time). In time, it is regarded an important and influential album in the post-punk, synth-pop genres. “Power, Corruption & Lies” peaks at number four on the UK album chart.

another from Jeff Harris' wonderful music blog

'BLUE MONDAY'

Treat of the Week!

New Order classic played on old instruments of the 1930's!
 “Orkestra Obsolete,”

(via New Order’s “Blue Monday” Played with Obsolete 1930s Instruments) Released 33 years ago this week, New Order’s “Blue Monday” (hear the original EP version here) became, according to the BBC, “a crucial link between Seventies disco and the dance/house boom that took off at the end of the Eighties.” If you frequented a dance club during the 1980s, you almost certainly know the song.
 Created by the “Orkestra Obsolete,” this version tries to imagine what the song would have sounded like in 1933, using only instruments available at the time— for example, writes the BBC, the theremin, musical saw, harmonium and prepared piano. Quite a change from the Powertron Sequencer, Moog Source synthesizer, and Oberheim DMX drum machine used to record the song in the 80s. Enjoy this little thought experiment put in action.

SUPERB!

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NEW ORDER - GLASTONBURY 2016

Just fabulous! Missed this on the tellybox! But Big O have more than made up for this. Apart from the realisation that NEW ORDER like me are in their 60's this is just a glorious triumphant set from The Other Stage at Glasto

New Order NOW

Live at Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, The Other Stage, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK; June 25, 2016.