Songs performed:
01: Dead Souls
02: Glass
03: A Means To An End
04: Twenty Four Hours
05: Passover
06: Insight
07: Colony
08: These Days
09: Love Will Tear Us Apart
10: Isolation
11: The Eternal
12: Digital.
Appx. duration: 50 mins. Sound quality: 8+/9
The full concert appears on the 2007 rerelease of the Closer CD
All 12 songs appeared on the following bootleg:
They Keep Calling Me LP/CD
Song no. 11 appeared on the following bootleg:
Death LP
Song no. 05 appeared on the following bootleg:
Le Terme *Part II* LP
Notes: Joy Division headlined, supporting acts were
Section 25, A Certain Ratio and Killing Joke.
The place was absolutely jammed due to the high popularity of all the bands, and Paul Morley wrote [NME, 16 Feb
1980]: "The full new introduction of synthesizers has not damaged the coherence and balance of the music in
any way, it simply increases the amount of mood, atmosphere, ephemeral terror Joy Division are capable of."
Jon Salisbury was there - here is how he remembers the gig:
"Bunked school (20 days from my 17th birthday) and got given 5 tickets instead of 4 - flogging the extra one
for a fiver. Serious dosh back then.
The gig was packed. Morley was there in his trademark overcoat. He stood next to us.
I remember Dead Souls kicking off with that rumble of drums, trouble with the equipment, the synths caught me by
surprise, Curtis bathed in white light, the beauty and the violence of the greatest group on the planet, not knowing
what to make of what (I later discovered) was The Eternal, Digital staccatoing the proceedings to an end.
And, then, silence". |
Thanks to Neil Woodvine for the poster scan
ULU photographed in 2002
(C) Copyright Joy Division
- The Eternal web site
(Michel Enkiri) and reproduced here with permission
Thanks to Mark for the ticket scan
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