[ Steve sings Ceremony at this gig!  Do you have a complet set list? ]

[ Steve sings Ceremony again at this concert. ]

[ Steve sings part of Ceremony at this gig! ]

[ Gillian Gilbert's first gig with the band ]

[ "Expectation was high for the old jd fans who really wanted the band to
succeed.  I can't remember much about the tracks played on the night, as
ever the gig was over before we knew it.  However I remember coming away
knowing I'd seen something special.  20 years on the new material is just
as fresh."  Thanks to Neill Cordon for the memory!  ]

Soundcheck (15 minutes): The Him, Senses, Truth

Soundcheck (15 minutes):  Senses, Truth

Soundcheck (25 minutes):  Love Will Tear Us Apart, Walked In Line,
Glass, No Love Lost, Digital, Decades, Atmosphere, Ceremony, Truth

[ Photos ] [ Date may have been 24 FEB 81. ]

Soundcheck (15 minutes):  Doubts Even Here, Denial, Truth

Soundcheck (10 minutes):  The Him, Denial

Soundcheck (10 minutes):  ICB, Senses

Soundcheck (10 minutes):  Doubts Even Here, Chosen Time, Truth (drums)

Soundcheck:  Denial (aka "Little Dead"), The Him

Soundcheck:   Everything's Gone Green, Isolation, In A Lonely Place,
ICB, Chosen Time, Truth

Soundcheck:   Truth, Chosen Time

Soundcheck:   Candidate (bassline), Procession, In A Lonely Place

Soundcheck (15 minutes):   Love Will Tear Us Apart (instrumental), Chosen Time, The Him

Soundcheck (10 minutes):   Denial, Senses, Ceremony

** Mystery Solved ** An Anonymous Insider explains everything with this:
"The mystery venue was not in Wales. It was Bodiam Castle in Kent. The weather was
not good that day, very rainy, and by the time we got there the road crew had set up
the stage - imagine a square and the stage would have been across one corner, but
their opinion was that due to the general wetness and the rain driving into the
equipment it would not be safe to play. Accordingly, after much discussion, the
gig was cancelled, ticket holders were given a ticket for free entry into Heaven a
day or 2 later, and we made our way back to London and went our separate ways." ]

Soundcheck (10 minutes):   Chosen Time, Temptation, Denial

[ "On this date, Rolling Stone writer and music critic Greil Marcus was in
attendance at the I-Beam Club, and wrote about the gig, which you can read
about in Marcus' book "Ranters, Ravers and Crowd Pleasers" which was
published in 1993."  The above was brought to you by Eric I. Wang. ]

Soundcheck (10 minutes):  Temptation (instrumental), Hurt (instrumental)

Soundcheck (20 minutes):   Temptation, Leave Me Alone,
Everything's Gone Green. Hurt and basslines from Transmission,
From Safety To Where, and LWTUA also played. As well as an untitled song
which may have been the predecessor of 'The Village'.

Soundcheck (10 minutes):  Leave Me Alone, Ultraviolence

Soundcheck (20 minutes):  The Passenger (instrumental), Hurt (instrumental), 586

Soundcheck (10 minutes):  Hurt (instrumental), Temptation

[ Apparently this venue has since been converted into yuppie flats. ]

Tim McGee states that "I can vaguely remember an encore at the Capitol,
perhaps with JCC, but I'm sure I would remember if it was an obscure
Velvets tune. Sounds apocryphal to me. but then they'd probably do anything
if the mood took them.

The Manly Vale is closed I think. It was a huge suburban beer barn, with a
good room for music. I saw countless bands there including Echo & Bunnymen
in November 1981 (again I think I was there with Pel Mel supporting), also
The Cure in 1981. It was a giant room, very high, but with good sound. I
remember a cracking Blue Monday that night."

Soundcheck:  Your Silent Face, 586, Blue Monday, Truth

Soundcheck (40 minutes):  Your Silent Face (instrumental), Blue Monday, ICB, Hurt
(w/ LWTUA bass +brief instrumentals of Transmission/Heart & Soul/The Eternal)

Soundcheck (17 minutes):  Ultraviolence, 586, Procession, Your Silent Face

Soundcheck:  Temptation

Soundcheck (5 minutes):  ICB, Temptation

Soundcheck (10 minutes):  ICB

Soundcheck (10 minutes):  586, Everything's Gone Green

Soundcheck (10 minutes):  586, Everything's Gone Green

[ Leave Me Alone is listed on the 'Live In Glasgow' DVD. ]

[ "Only some of us at Atlanta's 688 club knew the significance of the evening.
It was New Order's first US gig... after Ian Curtis' suicide had halted Joy
Division's scheduled US tour. Nonetheless, some bastard yelled "Where's
Ian?" as the drumulators and other synths kicked in. (Hooky replied with a
"F*** off!" that was met with cheers. "Confusion" was new to everyone at the
time. The volume seemed to double in the middle of "In a Lonely Place" and
the band had enough sound gear for a space twice as big as the cramped 688.
The X and the trip kicked in just in time. It was epic... and unforgettable.
I have a bootleg cassette of the gig... somewhere."
Mega-thanks to Mark Bedford for recalling the famous 688 gig for us! Even if he
wasn't aware of New Order's 1980 and 1981 Stateside visits ]

Soundcheck (30 minutes) includes parts of: Denial, In A Lonely Place,
Thieves Like Us, Procession, Wilderness, Decades, Blue Monday,
Temptation, Age Of Consent, Cries & Whispers

[ Venue also known as the 'Billy Barty Roller Rink'.  Billy Barty is (was)
a midget entertainer of great renown. ]

Soundcheck (at least 90 minutes):  Leave Me Alone, 586, Lonesome Tonight,
Thieves Like Us (instrumental), Confusion, Age Of Consent

Soundcheck (30 minutes):  Blue Monday, 586, Leave Me Alone

Soundcheck (90 minutes):   Your Silent Face, Face Up, Blue Monday,
Everything's Gone Green, Temptation, 586

Soundcheck (5 minutes):   Confusion

[ Listing courtesy of TJ. Bernard introduces 'Ultraviolence' with
"this one is called...I'm a c*nt". ]

Blue Monday, Age Of Consent, Lonesome Tonight, Your Silent Face,
Dreams Never End, Face Up, Thieves Like Us, Sister Ray (jam), Confusion, 586, 
Temptation

Soundcheck (90 minutes):  Your Silent Face (inst), The Perfect Kiss (inst),
Love Will Tear Us Apart (bass), Hurt, The Perfect Kiss

[ May have been New Order's first appearance on a bill with Keith Allen ]

[  Martin Doubtfire remembers this, "Sadly, and i think it might have been
Thieves like us on top of the pops or something, but Barnard wore a leather
motorbike jacket, and at the gig after this, The Royal Festival Hall, so
did 3/4 of the audience !!!" ]

[ Jon ten Have had this to say about this concert, "It appeared to be a gig
in remembrance of IC who died four years earlier. The band was very hostile
towards the audience and reminded them of the Rotterdam gig some years
before when a big fight broke out after they had only played 20 minutes.
The encore included Decades and Love will ..., it was made clear to the
audience that it wasn't for them but for a friend who died some years ago." ]

Soundcheck (20 minutes):  Sooner Than You Think (instrumental), Age Of Consent,
Everything's Gone Green

[Expanded tracklisting courtesy of MDMArchive]

[ The dating coincides with a CV tour listing, this identification is tentative. ]

Soundcheck (15 minutes):  no setlist  

Soundcheck (10 minutes):  Your Silent Face (instrumental)

Soundcheck (10 minutes):  Sooner Than You Think, Sunrise

Soundcheck (25 minutes):   Sooner Than You Think, Leave Me Alone, The Village,
Sooner Than You Think

[ "New Order didn't do an encore although the crowd were screaming.  The lights
came on and the roadies were packing away the gear.  Someone must have said
something out of line because one roadie jumps down from the stage chasing a
guy in the audience arms and fists all over the place quickly followed by another
roadie to make sure of it.  Barney was blonde that night and the computers were
playing for about five minutes before the band came on.  The stage was an
explosion of sound, with no New Order!" Mucho thanks to Winston Winand!]

Soundcheck (10 minutes):  Thieves Like Us, Love Will Tear Us Apart (partial),
Confusion (partial), Ultraviolence (cut)

[ "First try of 'Perfect Kiss' definitely aborted 'cos of equipment problems...
Gillian's synth was playing up and a roadie came on to try and sort it out.
They then played 'Ceremony' to fill in the time till he got the synth working."
Thanks to Philip Collins for the details! ]

[ David Ewing remembers Bernard's Ethiopian prostitute joke
as... "More men than HOT DINNERS- not Guiness" ]

Soundcheck (45 minutes):   Confusion (instrumental), The Perfect Kiss (instrumental),
This Time Of Night (instrumental), Subculture, Elegia

Soundcheck (45 minutes):   The Perfect Kiss, Hurt, and more...

[listing courtesy of MDMArchive]

[ CR Lawson had this to say about the concert, "I'd seen them the previous
August in both London and Portsmouth (when i was back on holiday)
but this concert beat both of them by far. i recall having a beer with
Hooky afterwards and they were on such good form." ]

[ Barney Introduces 'Thieves Like Us' as 'Twats Like Us'. ]

[ "The Powerhouse was a great gig.  It is a standing room venue and
 was totally sold-out.  The atmosphere was electric and audience
expectation was palpable as they walked on stage.  The start was
fantastic as Barney picked up his axe (err, melodica) and launched
into "Your Silent Face" backed by a tremendous wall-of-sequencer
sound.  They then quickly moved into Sub-culture; with Hooky
unleashed the crowd went gaga and stayed that way for the rest
of the gig.

My indelible moment is just before The Drums start in Sunrise.
My brother is slightly ahead of me in the crowd and he has jumped
so far into the air in anticipation of this moment that the whole top
half of his body is visible above the rest of the crowd :-)

Barney quote before final encore (paraphrased) "Does anybody
know what today is?  Come on, some one shout it out" (note: it may or
may not be significant that it was past midnight at this point).
They played "Love Will Tear Us Apart", and the audience
goes even more gaga (if that were possible)."

Douglas Miller is indeed 'the man'!  Thanks for the detailed account. ]

Soundcheck:  This Time Of Night, Elegia, Subculture, The Perfect Kiss,
Love Vigilantes...

[ Matthew Jones attended this concert and recalled these fun comments,
"...they were really grumpy.  Barney was abusing the audience and
generally making himself unpopular.  When they did the encore Hooky
came on stage alone and said "...They don't give a fuck about New Zealand,
I do, my mother was born here..." and ripped into 'Age Of Consent'."   ]

[ An article mentions Bernard's comment that the Sounds reviewer
(who gave a really bad review) was "completely out of her box
drunk, blacked out" when they were playing.  In all fairness they
came on about 2 1/2 hours late and everyone was out of the box
by the time the went on and they where not that hot. First tune
was excellent though.  Thanks to Justin Keeble for this info. ]