I feel so extraordinary somePoll's got a hold on me: NEW ORDER artist poll #37 (RESULTS thread)

what's the guy from Information Society up to

Pure energy.

I dunno, David Sommerville might be a better fit.

(Marr has an acceptable voice if you want to hear Smiths songs being sung over while Johnny Marr plays guitar. He is a very boring frontman though [also Bernard Butler replaced him as PSB utility guitarist on the new album, whose own voice is more on a The Other Two level])


I got the impression from Hook's memoir that everyone in the band was lazy except Peter Hook.

He very fairly also gives the impression that everyone in the band hates going to work with him because he’s such a massive prick.

About the only kind thing he says about Gillian was how well the three worked together recording Republic before Sumner and Stephen Hague purportedly ruined it.

The Hague.

i have probably seen New Order around 10 - 12 times and all with Peter Hook. like others have said they are an ok band live, but it's not like seeing Depeche Mode or the Cure where it's an event. anyways, my friends really want me to go so i'm probably going and looking forward to seeing Pet Shop Boys for the first time.

https://i.imgur.com/wXLnF7G.jpg

my first New Order show and look at this ticket on top. anyways this is just proving how old i am. lol. this must be the Low Life tour.

What they paid that night:

Nov 5, 1986 at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California

1. Elegia
2. Paradise
3. Subculture
4. Sunrise
5. Your Silent Face
6. Sooner Than You Think
7. Angel Dust
8. Broken Promise
9. 5 8 6
10. Age of Consent
11. Bizarre Love Triangle
12. The Perfect Kiss
13. Sister Ray (The Velvet Underground cover)

from what I've seen of the Brotherhood clips on YouTube from this era, Sumner acquits himself okay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANKjyeVfrKs

think I saw New Order in the 80s live more than any other band

thanks for posting the images Bee OK! I didn't vote in this but I like the results

I love the early New Order live recordings/clips, where Barney looked like he (and the rest of them) wanted to be anywhere else but there, like the 1983 TOTP performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTb2rZ0SBg4

Anyone else going to the Hollywood Bowl shows this year?

well, Sumner's had COVID twice, so maybe he has immunity.

They've postponed twice already, once in 2020 and once in 2021. Fingers crossed for this time.

I think they have always been a very uneven band live. The first time I saw them was in 1985. They were simply brilliant, one of the three best shows I've ever seen. This is almost a perfect setlist:

New Order, August 16, 1985, Rainbow Music Hall, Denver, CO

Sunrise
This Time of Night
Hurt
Thieves Like Us
5 8 6
Everything's Gone Green
The Village
Subculture
Denial
Confusion
The Perfect Kiss

Encore:
Ceremony
Blue Monday

Encore 2:
Temptation

Saw them again the following year, and they were shit. Completely phoning it in. I almost took it personally.

I had tickets for the original Hollywood Bowl dates in 2020, not sure if I'm going to still go. I feel like I have seen them enough times now.

I'm still planning to go. Also planning to see Peter Hook and the Light in June. Hoping I won't be too depressed by either event.

I saw them in 2019 they were great very professional.