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Thanks to John W for the poster scan
Neil Woodvine tells us: "Due to an error all the posters had the wrong date - 22nd May and, invariably, the
first '2' was inked out to show the correct date"
This was Joy Division's final performance.
There are three different recordings of this concert: a soundboard recording and two audience tapes.
See below
Songs performed:
01. Ceremony
02. Shadowplay
03. A Means To An End
04. Passover
05. New Dawn Fades
06. Twenty Four Hours
07. Transmission
08. Disorder
09. Isolation
10. Decades *
11. Digital.
Joy Division used this concert to debut one of their new songs "Ceremony".
During Decades Ian stumbled, and had to be helped off stage while the rest of the band played on. He recovered
enough to return for an encore: "Digital".
There are three different recordings of this concert: a soundboard recording and two audience tapes.
The official soundboard recording was released on the Still double LP which included all eleven
songs despite Twenty Four Hours not being credited on the sleeve. The original boxed tape issue from circa 1986
also includes Twenty Four Hours, but later CD issues and reissues don’t. The beginning of Ceremony is cut on this
recording due to an error.
Sound quality: 9/9
The first audience tape includes the complete concert and this two song soundcheck:
01. Ceremony
02. Decades.
Appx. duration: 45 mins (concert) + 10 minutes (soundcheck).
Sound quality 7-8/9 (concert) 6-7/9 (soundcheck). The soundcheck was recorded from the other side of a door so
it sounds more distant and muffled.
The second audience tape surfaced in 2009, thanks to Andrew Lagowski, This recording is missing 24 Hours,
Transmission and Disorder. In addition Ceremony is missing some of the intro and Decades is incomplete.
The sound quality of this tape is poor – 3/9
Bootlegs:
This concert hasn't appeared on any bootlegs as it was released officially on the Still album. However the following
bootleg included Ceremony and Decades from the soundcheck - taken from the first audience tape:
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Setlist thanks to Schizo-Archives.com
and O Eterno
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David Pryke was there:
I went as an 18 year old student from the near by Aston University. Joy Division were known as the coolest band
on the circuit but I was only familiar (so I thought) with the single Transmission.
A few memories - they were very very late! We hung around for a long time listening to ACR sound check. A mixed
audience of students, punks and rockers (think they call the latter metalers nowadays).
Remember ACR doing a cracking set (I think at the time I enjoyed this more, but it paled rather following the news
later in the month). Someone had recorded me a few avant guard numbers the summer before but had not put down the
play list. I'd sussed out Crass, Tubeway Army, Magazine and the Shadows! But he'd said there were a couple of special
tracks at the end that I hadn't a clue who performed them. I was pretty impressed and played them to mates at the
time who were equally impressed.
It wasn't until I heard the first few chords of Shadowplay at High Hall that I realised who the mystery group were.
The other track also played on the night and one of my faves was New Dawn Fades - Moby played this at a recent
gig at Brixton Academy as homage to Ian Curtis - I was the only member of the (generally young) audience who appreciated
it.
The other memory is slam dancing during the faster numbers. Not very cool!
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