Joy Division concert

2nd April 1980: The Moonlight Club, West Hampstead, London Two different tapes of this concert exist Two different tapes of this concert exist

With Section 25, Crawling Chaos and John Dowie

Joy Division played unannounced at each of the three Moonlight gigs in addition to the other bands and artists that were scheduled to play

There are two different recordings of this concert - a complete audience tape and a soundboard tape. The audience tape features all the tracks below. The only track from the soundboard tape that made it into the wild is Sister Ray - which is featured on Still and wrongly credited to the Moonlight Club gig on May 3rd 1980

Songs performed:
01. The Sound Of Music
02. Wilderness
03. Colony
04. Love Will Tear Us Apart
05. A Means To An End
06. Transmission
07. Dead Souls
08. Sister Ray
Appx. duration: 40 mins. Sound quality: 8/9


This concert appeared in full on the following bootlegs:

Moonlight Club CD

At The Moonlight Club LP

Factory By The Moonlight 2LP

The Moonlight Club Complete Recordings 2LP

1980 4 X CD box set

Two tracks appeared on the following bootlegs:

I'm Not Afraid Anymore CD

I'm Not Afraid Anymore LP

Sister Ray appeared on the Passover bootleg 7"



This was the first gig of 4 in 3 days!!
Section 25 played support, but Joy Division didn't
feel the inspiration and played a poor set.

NME 29/03/80

NME 29/03/80
Thanks to Phil for
these NME scans

   

The moonlight Club photographed in 2008. (C) Copyright Jon Salisbury and reproduced here with permission
The black door was the entrance