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New Order #14 1986 03 28 Brighton Centre

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A cold and windy Good Friday saw us head to Brighton to see New Order supported by The 15th (who I have no memory of). Alan Wise introduced the band as " four young people from Liverpool who write their own stuff - Joy Division! " This was pretty much a show of two halves. Again opening with State of The Nation (replete again with lots of whoops), then Love Vigilantes was followed by the underwhelming trio of Sub-culture (Hooky commenting on someone's disgusting shoes), Shellshock and Confusion .  Things then changed, starting with a rare outing for Let's Go . For this show, 5 8 6 was the song to gain additional cowbell accompaniment. Things went wrong with the sequencer at the start of Temptation , but this allowed some improvisation with Hooky starting the song, then Stephen joining in before Bernard, resulting in a very good version. Age of Consent and Sunrise were both good versions, before finishing with The Perfect Kiss , featuring the lyric " My frie

New Order #13 1986 03 01 Spectrum Arena Warrington

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We left Bradford and spent some time in Liverpool before making our way to Birchwood for the Spectrum Arena. Continuing on an earlier theme, it appears this has also now disappeared . This time we did arrive in time to see Life , whose set included " Tell Me ", " Better " and " Optimism ". New Order were far superior to the previous night, even though they kicked off with State of the Nation again. Then it was The Village , featuring some really nice guitar work. Broken Promise included some bizarre lyrics, and was followed by As It Is When It Was . Lyrics were a little erratic on Your Silent Face , and Confusion had an awful lot of whoops. Age of Consent also had some good guitar additions, and the start of Temptation in particular was great. Sunrise preceded Blue Monday that also included some lovely extra guitar and added cowbell at the close. Finally, Shellshock (its live debut) was introduced as being an instrumental version, but then in