Cuttings

Melody Maker - ORDER ORDER! NEW ORDER Barrowland, Glasgow HALF this audience looks like it got lost on the way to some other, unspecified event. There are punks, bikers, grimy 15 -year~old intellectuals, split-ends-ridden hippies and a million metres of grey overcoat. There's an aroma of sweat and cheap hair gel, a sense of enormous, overbearing passivity . And then, finally, New Order come on. Fifty minutes later, they go off, having hammered out an overfast, sickeningly brutalised version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart", dedicated to the memory of the woman who ran New York's Danceteria, tragically killed last week. "This song's for a friend of ours, who unfortunately couldn't be with us tonight ... because she's dead . . . " Yeah, very moving, lads. Very subtle. Very cool, New Order want to to be a machine, turning out tunes 'n' rhythms in the classic Kraftwerkian industrial mould. But where Kraftwerk at their best managed to i...