© Marc Tilli
© Marc Tilli
New Order appear on BBC2 Arts programme Riverside to perform ‘Chosen Time’, ‘Temptation’, ‘Procession’, ‘Hurt’ (instrumental), ‘Senses’, ‘Denial’ and ‘In a Lonely Place’. Only the first two are broadcast.
‘January 4th is Barney’s birthday. My wife always says to me, “It’s sad how you remember that. You’re obsessed.” Anyway, we turned up to the Riverside and were amazed to find that Jimmy Pursey from Sham 69 was dancing in a ballet there.’
5–10 January 1982
The band record ‘Temptation’ and ‘Hurt’/’Cramp’ – the first track to feature a sequencer.
‘In Advision was a video edit suite. Me and Dave Pils were always rooting around and managed to power up the edit suite. Lo and behold we got the whole bloody lot up and running. Luckily for us they were editing a Playboy video, so me and Dave sat there watching all these girls come on and introduce themselves and then strip off – it was very soft porn, don’t worry. Then this one girl comes on and says, “Hi, I’m Chenille from Essex.” I could see Dave stiffen (body language, I mean), staring intently. I said, “You OK, Dave?” He had gone white. “Dave?” He turned to me and said, “Fucking hell, that’s my girlfriend!” and ran out. We didn’t see him for ages. Turns out they’d just met, had a couple of dates, and she’d never mentioned being an, “ahem”, glamour model. How weird is that?’
‘I’ve heard that you’re supposed to be able to listen to the seven-inch and twelve-inch versions of “Temptation” together, put them together to make one big song, but that’s a myth.’
22 January 1982
New Order play the North London Polytechnic, supported by Stockholm Monsters.
23 January 1982
New Order play the Imperial Cinema, Birmingham, supported by Stockholm Monsters.
‘Our first meeting with Les Johnson, who would go on to promote many of our gigs and later manage the Wonder Stuff. A truly nice bloke.’
26 February 1982
New Order play Trinity Hall, Bristol, supported by the Wake (which at this point includes Bobby Gillespie on bass).
‘Trinity Hall was in a pretty wild part of Bristol, with a large Rasta community. There was always a very “special” atmosphere at these shows.’
3 March 1982
New Order play the Blue Note, Derby, supported by Stockholm Monsters. At this gig the band first meet Paul Mason, the manager of the Blue Note, who would later manage the Haçienda.
‘Rhodesie, the Monsters’ guitarist, was nuts. He had a Ferrari in the front room of his house. He’d nicked it and didn’t know what to do with it, so he knocked down the wall of his council house, pushed the Ferrari in, bricked it back up and then him and his missus used to sit in it and eat their tea watching the telly through the windscreen.’
New Order play Sir Francis Xavier Hall, Dublin. This is followed by a terrible radio interview with Dave Fanning.
‘When we got there, Dave was very, very serious and we reacted accordingly, becoming a tad annoying to say the least, bloody-minded, giving him the sullen one-word-answer treatment and generally taking the piss and acting up, our punk credentials right to the fore.’
9 March 1982
New Order play Tiffany’s, Leeds, supported by the Thunder Boys.
10 March 1982
New Order play Tower Cinema, Hull, supported by the Things.
11 March 1982
New Order play Soul Kitchen at the Mayfair Suite, Newcastle, supported by the Wake.
16 March 1982
Martin Hannett issues a High Court writ against FCL. It gets its own catalogue number: FAC61.
8 April 1982
New Order play Glazenzaal, Rotterdam, Netherlands, supported by Stockholm Monsters.
‘. . . and I almost died!’
New Order play Meervaart, Amsterdam, Netherlands, supported by Stockholm Monsters.
10 April 1982
New Order play Stokvishal, Arnhem, Netherlands, supported by Stockholm Monsters.
11 April 1982
New Order play Muziekcentrum, Utrecht, Netherlands, supported by Stockholm Monsters.
12 April 1982
New Order play Staargebouw, Maastricht, Netherlands, supported by Stockholm Monsters.
14 April 1982
New Order play Lido, Leuven, Belgium, supported by Stockholm Monsters.
15 April 1982
New Order play L’ Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium, supported by Stockholm Monsters.
17 April 1982
New Order play Le Palace, Paris, supported by Stockholm Monsters.
‘For some strange reason New Order never had a good gig in Paris, right up until 2000. Tonight was no different. Parisians in general can be a very tough audience and on this occasion were far from impressed. There was virtually a dead silence between songs and as one particular song died, a voice in the audience cried out, “Ay!” We all looked round and the guy carried on, saying, “Ze zound, she is a sheet!” We were speechless.’
19 April 1982
New Order: ‘Temptation’
(FAC 63)
Seven-inch track list
|
‘Temptation’ |
5.14 |
|
‘Hurt’/’Cramp’ |
4.42 |
Run-out groove one: Try listening to the Twelve-inch . . .
Run-out groove two: . . . now listen to the Seven-inch
Twelve-inch track list
|
‘Temptation’ |
7.26 |
|
‘Hurt’/’Cramp’ |
8.13 |
Run-out groove one: What do you think?
Run-out groove two: Thought so . . .
Recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, Manchester.
Mixed at Advision Studios, London.
Engineered by Pete Woolliscroft.
Produced by New Order.
Designed by Peter Saville.
Entered UK chart on 22 May 1982, remaining in the charts for 7 weeks, its peak position was number 29.
The first New Order recording made without Martin Hannett. About fifty seconds into the twelve-inch version you can hear someone screaming.
21 May 1982
The Haçienda opens.
24 May 1982
New Order play Pennies, Norwich, supported by 52nd Street and the Flamingos.
‘A very small gig, which we will have done just for fun. Interestingly, we played “The Passenger” by Iggy Pop as an instrumental. That was 52nd Street’s first support gig. Barney would go on to produce them, with his co-producer Donald Johnson from A Certain Ratio. Lovely guy, Donald, very broad shoulders.’
25 May 1982
New Order play Kilburn National Ballroom, supported by 52nd Street and Send No Flowers.
1 June 1982
A second John Peel session is broadcast, recorded not at Maida Vale but at Revolution Studios in Cheadle, Manchester.
John Peel track list:
|
‘Turn the Heater On’ |
5.00 |
|
‘We All Stand’ |
5.15 |
|
‘Too Late’ |
3.35 |
|
‘5.8.6.’ |
6.05 |
‘ “Turn the Heater On” was Ian Curtis’s favourite reggae song, where he got the idea for using a melodica. If you listen to “Too Late”, Barney’s only playing guitar at the end, after he’s stopped singing. That became the whole template for the band.’
New Order play Provinssirock Festival, Seinajoki, Finland.
16 June 1982
New Order play Tenax, Florence, Italy.
‘The wonderful Italian tour, never to be repeated.’
17 June 1982
New Order play Piper, Rome, Italy.
18 June 1982
New Order play Tur Sports Centre, Taranto, Italy.
21 June 1982
New Order play Palasport, Bologna, Italy.
22 June 1982
New Order play Rolling Stone, Milan, Italy.
‘This gig was famously captured for a bootleg album. The Sparks cover was done for fun, the pulses being very much like “Temptation”, and hurriedly programmed by a mischievous Barney, obviously enjoying himself. Wonderful to hear Ozzy going mad, “dubbing” it up heavily with a Roland “555” Space Echo we used. Rob loved it when he did that. Sounds like I got pissed off after ten minutes by launching into “Ceremony” then leaving.’
26 June 1982
New Order play the Haçienda, supported by Swamp Children.
18 August 1982
Joy Division: ‘Here Are the Young Men’
(FACT 37)
A Factory records video.
30 August 1982
New Order play the Venue, Blackpool, a gig promoted by label mates Section 25, supported by them and Kevin Hewick.
11 September 1982
New Order play Futurama Four; Queensferry Leisure Centre, Deeside.
19 September 1982
New Order play Sporting Arena, Athens, a three-day festival including the Birthday Party and the Fall.
‘An apple a day does not keep the doctor away.’
October and November 1982
New Order are at Britannia Row recording Power, Corruption & Lies and ‘Blue Monday’.
15 November 1982
Mixing of ‘Murder’ and ‘Leave Me Alone’.
16 November 1982
Mixing of ‘Only the Lonely’ (working title for ‘Ecstasy’) and ‘We All Stand’.
Mixing of ‘We All Stand’ (continued), ‘The Village’ and ‘KWI’ (working title for ‘Your Silent Face’).
18 November 1982
Mixing of ‘Age of Consent’ and ‘5.8.6.’.
November 1982
New Order EP
(Factus 8)
Twelve-inch track list:
|
‘Temptation’ |
8.47 |
|
‘Hurt’/’Cramp’ |
8.03 |
|
‘Everything’s Gone Green’ |
5.30 |
|
‘Procession’ |
4.27 |
|
‘Mesh’ |
3.02 |
Run-out groove one: A brave New World . . .
Run-out groove two: . . . a brave New Order!
Designed by Peter Saville
Painting by M. J. Ladly (Martha Ladly of Martha and the Muffins, and Peter Saville’s girlfriend at the time).
‘A compilation of early New Order singles especially for the American market.
‘We did not know anything about this. I think Tony Wilson collated it in an arrangement with Rough Trade America, a sort of New Order sampler.’
25 November 1982
New Order play Palais Theatre, Melbourne, Australia.
New Order play the Seaview Ballroom, Melbourne, Australia.
29 November 1982
New Order play Capitol Theatre, Sydney.
‘There is some debate as to whether this gig happened. But I seem to remember us agreeing to do an encore with John Cooper Clarke playing ‘Lady Godiva’s Operation’ by the Velvet Underground, badly as I recall. Not that John would have noticed.’
3–4 December 1982
New Order play Mainstreet, Auckland, New Zealand.
‘Back then New Zealand looked like a small town, full of old English cars, Morris Oxfords and 1000s. It actually looked like Altrincham. It was a really strange place.
‘If you want to hear how difficult it was to get our equipment to work then listen to the tape of this gig. Our rendition of “K.W.I” is actually painful. The drum machine starts wrong, the synth is out of tune, out of time, and the acoustic players don’t do much better. It just sums up aurally what we were trying to achieve and how easily it could go wrong. It would drive us all insane nearly every night. But it took balls . . . I thank you all.’
4 December 1982
Feature Mist
Track list:
‘Prime 5.8.6. (pt I)’
‘Prime 5.8.6. (pt 2)’
Between 1982 and 1986 Jon Wozencroft’s audio-visual outfit Touch released a series of ‘cassette magazines’, the first of which, Feature Mist, included original music from New Order, Simple Minds, Tuxedomoon, Soliman Gamil, the Death and Beauty Foundation, Flesh, Eric Random and Shostakovitch, alongside excerpts from an interview with Robert Wyatt and other works from Vladimir Mayakovsky and Hans Eisler.
6 December 1982
New Order play Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
8 December 1982
New Order play Hillsborough Hotel, Christchurch, New Zealand.
10 December 1982
New Order play Selinas Hotel, Sydney, Australia.
11 December 1982
New Order play Manly Vale Hotel, Sydney, Australia.
14 December 1982
New Order play Old Melbourne Hotel, Perth, Australia.
24 December 1982
New Order: ‘Merry Xmas from the Haçienda’
(FAC 51B Flexidisc)
Seven-inch track list:
|
‘Rocking Carol’ (We Will Rock You) |
3.33 |
|
‘Ode to Joy’ |
3.55 |
These two songs were part of the Granada Reports TV programme (background music only) broadcast on 23 December 1981. Released in a limited edition of 4,400.
