2nd November 1979: Winter Gardens, Bournemouth 
On tour with the Buzzcocks

Thanks to Neil
for the scan.
Songs performed:
01. I Remember Nothing
02. Love Will Tear Us Apart
03. Interzone
04. Colony
05. Insight
06. These Days
07. Digital
08. Transmission
09. Atrocity Exhibition.
Appx. duration: 40 mins. Sound quality: 8+/9
This concert appeared on the following bootlegs:
Winter Gardens 2CD
Dante's Inferno LP
Bournemouth LP
(this issue does not feature all nine tracks)
Let The Movie Begin CD (one track)
The Marble Index CD (one track) |

Thanks to Neil Woodvine
for the scan.
Grymm was at the concert: "I went to the Bournemouth Winter Gardens (and the High Wycombe) Gig.
My memories of the Bournemouth gig are not happy ones,it all started well with Ian proforming well and doing his
usual 'plugged into the mains' dance but as the show progressed Ians singing became increasingly incoherent, with
periods that he was staring glazed and very pale into middle distance.
Then towards the end during another frenzied dance he keeled over backwards into the drum kit and was carried off.........end
of show!."

Thanks to Neil
for the scan.
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Ian Curtis had indeed been taken ill and approximately 90 minutes after the end of their performance
an ambulance arrived for him. Mark Woodley has transcribed the following from an unofficial tape of the Buzzcocks
performance:
The Buzzcocks finish their final encore with the trashing of guitars, etc, the waves of howling feedback are
suddenly killed as a very worried Pete Shelley returns to the mic ...
"Right, hang on, an important announcement, right, whatever you do don't block the entrance 'cos the singer
of Joy Division’s just come down seriously ill and an ambulance is coming round for him, right, so if you block
the entrance outside everybodys gonna be (he breaks off to shout at a heckler). Right, I'm telling you don't block
the entrance going backstage 'cos an ambulance is coming for him. Right, thank you." |