4th October 1979: City Hall, Newcastle On tour with Buzzcocks   Thanks to Mike for the scan. Newcastle Evening Chronicle Songs performed: 01. Disorder 02. Shadowplay 03. Colony 04. Day Of The Lords 05. Glass 06. Transmission 07. She's Lost Control 08. Atrocity Exhibition. Appx. duration: 35 mins. Sound quality: 7-/9 This tape has poor sound quality. Peter Smith remembers the gig: "I had seen Joy Division once before at an early gig in Newcastle Guildhall in 1977, when they were known as Warsaw. Their music had developed a lot from the basic punk thrash that I saw at the Guildhall and had become a dark, gothic, rhythmic, noise. The musicality of the songs impressed me and set them apart from their punk and new wave contemporaries. But most of all, I was transfixed by Ian Curtis, his blank expression, glaring eyes and crazy, manic epileptic dancing. It was clear that there was something awkward, different yet brilliant about the guy, which came through in his dark lyrics which painted dark images of alienation, his monotonic, snarling vocals and his manic, crazed dancing. The performance was intense, scary, compelling, and unnerving" Buzzcocks / Joy Division Autumn Tour 1979 Gig Schedule Image from Peter hook's 2019 Omega Auctions auction