
5th April 1980: Malvern Winter Gardens  
Songs performed:
01. Disorder
02. Wilderness
03. Twenty Four Hours
04. Heart And Soul
05. Atmosphere
06. Love Will Tear Us Apart
07. Isolation
08. Interzone
09. She's Lost Control
10. Girls Don't Count/jam with SECTION 25.
Appx. duration: 40 mins. Sound quality: 8/9
There a second recording of this concert. Poorer
sound quality (7-) probably with Disorder missing.
It doesn't have the loud yell from an audience
member at the start of 24 Hours. It seems to be
relatively uncommon and, at March 2009, none of the
CD or LP bootlegs have used it.
This concert was released on the following bootlegs:
Winter Gardens double CD
Live Malvern/Eric's LP
Isolation LP
Aus Grauer Städte
Mauern LP
Twenty
Four Hours LP
Live
at Malvern Winter Gardens, April 5th 1980 LP
My
Heart And Soul - Live April 1980 LP
One track appears on:
Out Of The room LP
Joy Division finished a glowing set at Malvern with
an encore jam with support group Section 25. It was
based on the Section 25 single "Girls Don't Count"
(FAC 18) which had been produced by Rob Gretton and
Ian Curtis.
Phil was there:
"I met the band backstage. They were all very polite
and friendly, apart from Hooky, who was being an
arse. The rest of the band were sat talking, along
with members of the support act, Section 25 and a
couple of people I didn't recognise. Ian was sat on
his own. He seemed in good spirits, though looked
tired and had a painful-looking shaving rash under
his chin. He talked enthusiastically about the "new
songs" and actually thanked me (but I don't know
what for!) He spoke in a soft, high-pitched voice,
which surprised me. Fond memories indeed!"
Timm2574 (Ebay) was there:
"It felt like we were in the middle of nowhere
(sorry, Malvern) and the sound wasn't great in their
cavernous hall. The audience was a bit sparse, too,
which didn't help. The support band, Section 25,
joined Joy Division for an encore of 'Sister Ray',
but Ian Curtis soon wandered off, leaving the rest
of them to it".
[Note: The encore was Girls Don't Count not
Sister Ray} |
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Thanks to Neil Woodvine for the scan

Thanks to Steve Benham for the scan

Winter Gardens
photographed in 2002
(C) Copyright Joy Division - The
Eternal
web site
(Michel Enkiri) and reproduced here with
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In November 2013 a set list
literally written on the back of a fag packet
rurned up on Ebay and was bought by Ben Walker for
£2,050.00.
Here's the story of the set list from the Ebay
listing: "I was a resident roadie at Malvern Winter
Gardens in 1979-81. They had a great series of
punk/new wave/heavy metal/whatever gigs over that
time, mainly promoted by Cherry Red who picked some
great new acts to come to a small town. For doing
the necessary of putting the PA together and loading
it back into the truck after, you would get in for
free and get paid a tenner which was great for a
student and major street cred!
I did the roady bit for Joy Division on 1980 and as
part of pulling down the PA, I pocketed the set list
that was taped to the front monitors. I used to
collect the tickets for the Malvern gigs but as I’d
got in for nothing I didn’t have a ticket for that
night. Would have been a nice matching pair ... I
wrote on it in pencil at the time "Joy Division 12
March- April 1980". It is actually 5 April 1980, but
I was 19 at the time and not too precise. I have
thought about rubbing off my pencil writing but I
will leave it to the winning bidder to decide about
that". |
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Thanks
to Ben Walker for the photos |
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