18th December 1979: Les Bains Douches, Paris 
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There appear to be two different recordings of this concert:
- a complete audience recording
- a soundboard (or professionally recorded) radio station recording
Songs performed:
01. Passover
02. Wilderness
03. Disorder
04. Love Will Tear Us Apart
05. Insight
06. Shadowplay
07. Transmission
08. Day Of The Lords
09. Twenty Four Hours
10. Colony
11. These Days
12. A Means To An End
13. She's Lost Control
14. Atrocity Exhibition
15. Interzone
16. Warsaw - brief internal cut (audience recording only)
Audience recording:
Features all the above tracks
Appx. duration: 65 mins. Sound quality: 8-/9
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Les Bains Douches photographed in 2002
(C) Copyright Joy Division
- The Eternal web site (Michel Enkiri) and reproduced here with permission
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Radio station Recording:
The Bernard Lenoir programme on France Inter radio has broadcast parts of this recording a number of times over
the years. According to Mark Johnson’s “An Ideal For Living” book the full recording was broadcast in 1982 on the
night New Order played La Palace in Paris. In any event, the fact that Inter Radio has a high quality version of
this recording as late as 2001 is good news as this could potentially provide an (even) better quality recording
than the Les Bains Douches CD.
As at 2007 we believe Bernard Lenoir played the following tracks on the dates below:
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Passover |
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1982
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2001
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| 2 |
Wilderness |
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1982
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| 3 |
Disorder |
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1982
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1994
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| 4 |
Love Will Tear Us Apart |
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1982
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1994
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| 5 |
Insight |
1979
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1982
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1994
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Shadowplay |
1979
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1982
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1994
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| 7 |
Transmission |
1979
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1982
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1994
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| 8 |
Day Of The Lords |
1979
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1982
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1994
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| 9 |
Twenty Four Hours |
1979
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1982
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1994
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| 10 |
Colony |
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1982
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(skipped on the 1994 broadcast) |
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These Days |
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1982
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1994
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| 12 |
A Means To An End |
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1982
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1994
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She's Lost Control |
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1982
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| 14 |
Atrocity Exhibition |
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1980s?
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1982
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(possibly a 1980s broadcast) |
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Interzone |
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1982
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Warsaw |
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1980s?
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1982
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1979 – original broadcast
Apparantly this five song broadcast was on the night of the concert – 18th December 1979.
Features commentary between tracks in French which roughly translates as:
[Shadowplay] ... “Joy Division live from Les Bains Douches with an old ghost of Jim Morrison who drags himself
around there”.
[Transmission] ... “Transmission by Joy Division the title of ther last single dance to the radio and if one day
you start dancing like the singer of Joy Division be careful not to be taken away by the two nurses from the psychiatric
hospital”.
[Day Of The Lords] ... “Joy Division Live From Bains Douches”
[24 Hours] ... “Joy Division”
Appx. duration: 20 mins. Sound quality: 8-/9
1982 - rebroadcast
According to Mark Johnson's "An Ideal For Living" book the full recording was broadcast on the same night
New Order played a gig at the Le Palace in Paris, France, the date was 17th April 1982. It's been suggested that
the reason no tape recording of this has been circulated, is because all the Joy Division fans were at the New
Order gig rather than sitting at home listening to their radios. No tape exists - unless the two "1980s- possible
rebroadcast" tracks are from this?
1980s - possible rebroadcast:
In 2004 a different recording of the last two songs (Atrocity Exhibition and Warsaw) was discovered on an old cassette
from the mid-1980s. Both songs appear to be either from an uncirculated, possibly longer/complete soundboard recording
or as we've assumed above a different, unknown FM broadcast probably in the 1980s. There is no internal cut in
Warsaw.
Appx. duration: 9 mins. Sound quality: 8+/9
1994 - rebroadcast:
Broadcast on Les Inrockuptibles", Radio France Inter 20th December, this was a sort of surprise Christmas
present to listeners around the 15th anniversary of the concert. Lenoir and his producer Michelle Soullier cued
the tape after the first batch of songs, and said something along the lines of 'let's listen to more of this show'
and so they skipped 'Colony' - however we do know it exists on their tape. Lenoir had stated that the tape used
for this rebroadcast was a backup / working copy as the original master tape was nowhere to be found.
Appx. duration: 35 mins. Sound quality: 9/9
2001 - rebroadcast:
'Passover' was broadcast for first time during a Joy Division / New Order special on 7th November - a few days
before the New Order gig at L'Olympia Paris
Appx. duration: ????????. Sound quality: ????????
The 1994 broadcast is available on the officially released:
Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979 CD, NMC, 2001
Fractured Box Set
ReFractured Box Set
All 16 songs appeared on the following bootlegs:
Performances01 2LP+7"EP
The full recording (all 16 songs) as well as the 1st FM
broadcast (5 songs) appeared on the following bootleg:
Live In Paris 2LP
The full recording (all 16 songs) as well as 3 songs from the
1st FM broadcast appeared on the following bootleg:
Paris 2LP (TMOQ)
10 songs from this gig appeared on the following bootleg:
Le Terme *Part III* LP
The 20 minute FM broadcast appeared on these bootlegs:
Atrocity Exhibition LP
Heartbeat/Here Are The Young Men CD
