Cuttings

NME NEW ORDER/STOCKHOLM MONSTERS Queen’s University, Belfast SEEING as how Joy Division and New Order have become indirectly responsible for the massive, shuffling grey parade of overcoated young men ruining considerable proportions of the UK's record output since the late Seventies, the disinterested listener only familiar with a low-level of New Order product could be forgiven for fearing, live, the chronic level of stadium self send-up that usually comes to afflict the seminal. Take support slotters Stockholm Monsters; Fred-Perried. clean-cut lads each straining in turn to be their favourite New Order member with a sound approach of mike clenching and guitar abrasion techniques slave-laboured through their mentors‘ mastadon bass and behemoth drum mix. (Simulating throughout, of course, the requisite hopelessness, despair and general malaise.) It often seems that, with this prevalent level of mucking about by all these New Order reserves - the B-Team boys - the orig...