New Order play Galway, Ireland.
‘On this tour the promoter decided we needed security and provided us with this tall thin dude who was like Jason Bourne. It was a bad time again in Ireland and there had been some threats against English groups. He even had a gun, which we badgered him to show us, but he wouldn’t; ironic, because we’d soon be seeing so many in Manchester that we would be heartily sick of them.’
23 January 1986
New Order play Connolly Hall, Cork, Ireland.
‘Here I had the dubious honour of being spat at by an old lady because I was English. I was really shocked. Our security guy told us, “For fook’s sake keep yeer traps shooot!” ’
24 January 1986
New Order play Sir Francis Xavier Hall, Dublin.
25 January 1986
New Order play Sir Francis Xavier Hall, Dublin.
27 January 1986
New Order play Queen’s University, Belfast.
February 1986
Pretty in Pink by John Hughes released.
Featuring, by New Order:
‘Elegia’
‘Thieves Like Us’
‘Shellshock’ |
6.04 |
The first two tracks were not included in the movie soundtrack.
8 February 1986
New Order play the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. This benefit for Derek Hatton’s Liverpool City Council was billed as ‘With Love from Manchester’.
‘We’d played with the Fall before on the closing night of the Electric Circus, so Mark E. Smith was an old adversary, but we’d never played with the Smiths, who were very big by then, so there was a lot of competitive pressure. Rob and Tony liked Derek Hatton because he was all about shaking up the establishment, and was becoming a very strong character in Liverpool politics. Tony used to work in Liverpool, so I suppose he had a political interest, even though everyone hated him there. He was always getting his Ford Escort Mexico stolen and dumped there. Famously on one day it was stolen twice, and the second time left on bricks with no wheels. ‘Fucking Scousers got my car . . . again!’ he’d say sadly.
‘Rob liked Hatton because he liked rebels, and he said to us we should just do it for the rider, so we put in for a rider that came to £65 and the Smiths did it for a rider plus expenses which came to about £600, and we were going, ‘Fucking tight bastards,’ until we found out that Mark E. Smith had charged them a grand to do the gig, plus rider, plus expenses. Good old Mark. I’ve still got the poster.’
27 February 1986
New Order play Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, supported by Life.
28 February 1986
New Order play St George’s Hall, Bradford.
1 March 1986
New Order play Spectrum Arena, Warrington.
New Order: ‘Shellshock’
(FAC 143)
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‘Shellshock’ |
4.19 |
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‘Thieves Like Us’ (instrumental edit) |
3.55 |
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‘Shellshock’ |
9.40 |
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‘Shellcock’ |
7.31 |
Run-out groove one: So Hip it Hurts!
Run-out groove two: Watch Out for the Dwarf!
Recorded in Yellow Two Studios, Stockport.
Mixed at the Village Recorder, Santa Monica, Los Angeles.
Engineered by Julia Nagle and John Robie.
Produced by New Order and John Robie.
Designed by Peter Saville Associates.
Photograph by Geoff Power.
Entered UK chart on 29 March 1986, remaining in the charts for 5 weeks, its peak position was number 28.
27 March 1986
New Order play the Apollo Theatre, Oxford.
28 March 1986
New Order play Brighton Centre, Brighton.
29 March 1986
New Order play Poole Arts Centre, Poole.
After sessions at Jam Studios in London, New Order go into Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin to record Brotherhood, finishing up at Amazon Studios in Liverpool.
14 June 1986
New Order play City Hall, Sheffield.
21 June 1986
New Order play Loughborough University, Loughborough.
29 June 1986
New Order play Greetings 4, Valdarno, San Giovanni, Italy.
19 July 1986
Festival of the Tenth Summer, Manchester Exhibition Centre (G-Mex), Manchester.
(FAC 151)
Featuring: A Certain Ratio, New Order, the Fall, Cabaret Voltaire, Pete Shelley, the Worst, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, the Smiths, OMD, the Virgin Prunes, Sandie Shaw, Howard Devoto, Happy Mondays, Durutti Column, James.
Special guests: John Cale, John Cooper Clarke, Steve Diggle, Margi Clarke, Steve Naïve.
Comperes: Bill Grundy, Paul Morley.
DJ: Jerry Dammers.
The Festival of the Tenth Summer, held to celebrate ten years since the Sex Pistols played at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall, included a concert and a book by Paul Morley and Jon Savage. Promotional materials, including a set of postcards designed by by Peter Saville Associates around the theme of the numbers zero to nine, and an exhibiton at the City Art Gallery included various number-related artworks, while posters advertising the event also incorporated the motif.
‘The Festival of the Tenth Summer was set up to mark a decade since punk changed all our lives, forever. It was a proper Manchester occasion and a great gig. Rob was there, so he must have been feeling a hell of a lot better and on the road to recovery. I have lots of fond memories of that gig. Got a really bizarre VHS video shot by IKON with a still camera from out front. There’s a bizarre moment with legendary Manchester city councillor Pat Carney and a little Peruvian woman doing an appeal for her lost son with the crowd all shouting at her. I went to Pete Saville’s exhibition earlier in the day and the exhibits were wonderful. Peter arrived fashionably late, when everyone was already there, and started going mad about one number, ‘7’ I think, which was made of small stones arranged to look like a number 7. Turned out Oliver Wilson, aged four, had been doing his own design work and no one noticed, thinking it was Pete’s. I remember Terry Mason bagged the number ‘8’, which was huge and made out of aluminium, for his house in Swinton saying, ‘It was perfect for hiding the bins behind.’
August 1986
Pumped Full of Drugs video (IKON 17 /FACT 177) released. Video recorded at the Shinjuku Koseinenkin Kaikin Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 2 May 1985.
Track list:
‘Confusion’
‘Love Vigilantes’
‘We All Stand’
‘As It Is When It Was’
‘Sub-culture’
‘Face Up’
‘Sunrise’
‘This Time of Night’
‘Blue Monday’
Director shoot: Anthony Wilson
Director edit: Hidetake Ogo
Technical director: Naru Yanagihara
Typography: Chris Mathan for Peter Saville Associates
Photography: Trevor Key
16 August 1986
New Order play Valby, Copenhagen, Denmark.
7 September 1986
Death of Ruth Polsky, New York.
10 September 1986
New Order play Mayfair, Newcastle.
11 September 1986
New Order play Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh.
12 September 1986
New Order play Barrowlands, Glasgow.
13 September 1986
New Order play Caird Hall, Dundee.
‘One of our roadies (who shall remain nameless) got hand relief off a lovely young girl in a club after the gig. Then she spent the whole night chasing him round screaming at him because her watch had come off during the deed and she couldn’t find it. She was demanding he pay for a new one. Twinny was very embarrassed.’
New Order: ‘State of the Nation’
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‘State of the Nation’ |
3.28 |
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‘Shame of the Nation’ |
3.33 |
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‘State of the Nation’ |
6.32 |
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‘Shame of the Nation’ |
7.54 |
Run-out groove one: Hail Mary!
Run-out groove two: Lucky Johnny!
‘State of the Nation’
Written and produced by New Order.
Recorded April 1985 in Tokyo, Japan.
Engineered by Michael Johnson.
‘Shame of the Nation’
Written and produced by New Order and John Robie.
Recorded October 1985 to April 1986 in Manchester, New York and LA.
Designed by Peter Saville Associates.
Photography by Trevor Key.
Entered UK chart on 27 September 1986, remaining in the charts for 3 weeks, its peak position was number 30.
22 September 1986
New Order: ‘Peel Sessions 1982’ EP released.
First transmission: 1 June 1982.
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‘Turn the Heater On’ |
5.00 |
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‘We All Stand’ |
5.15 |
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3.35 |
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‘5.8.6.’ |
6.05 |
Recorded at Revolution Studios, Cheadle Hulme, Manchester.
Engineered by Andy MacPherson.
Produced by New Order.
Designed by Wyke Studios.
‘Turn the Heater On’ written by Keith Hudson.
Entered UK chart on 27 September 1986, remaining in the charts for 1 week, its peak position was number 54.
‘When I listened to this for the re-releases of Low-Life and Brotherhood in 2014 I cannot for the life of me think why we never recorded “Too Late” properly. Barney must have hated it. As I mentioned previously, “Turn the Heater On” was Ian Curtis’s favourite reggae track. We did it to celebrate his life.’
29 September 1986
New Order: Brotherhood
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‘Paradise’ |
3.48 |
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‘Weirdo’ |
3.51 |
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‘As It Is When It Was’ |
3.43 |
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‘Broken Promise’ |
3.44 |
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‘Way of Life’ |
4.03 |
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‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ |
4.20 |
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‘All Day Long’ |
5.09 |
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‘Angel Dust’ |
3.40 |
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‘Every Little Counts’ |
4.25 |
Run-out groove one: See An Old Soldier Right
Run-out groove two: More Juice Please
Recorded at Jam Studios, London, and Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
Mixed at Amazon Studios Liverpool.
Engineered by Michael Johnson.
Produced by New Order.
Designed by Peter Saville Associates.
Photographed by Trevor Key.
Entered UK chart on 11 October 1986, remaining in the charts for 5 weeks, its peak position was number 9.
September 1996
Joy Division: ‘First Peel Session’ EP released.
Recorded: 31 January 1979
First transmission: 14 February 1979
October 1986
Something Wild by Jonathan Demme released, soundtrack includes ‘Temptation’ by New Order.
2 October 1986
New Order play Tower Ballroom, Birmingham.
3 October 1986
New Order play Winter Gardens, Malvern, supported by Happy Mondays.
4 October 1986
New Order play Town & Country Club, London.
6 October 1986
New Order play Royal Albert Hall, London.
New Order play the Haçienda, Manchester.
29 October 1986
New Order play the Mesa Amphitheatre, Phoenix, Arizona.
31 October 1986
New Order play San Diego State University Open Air Theatre, San Diego, California.
1 November 1986
New Order play Irvine Meadows, Irvine, California.
4 November 1986
New Order play Cow Palace, Hollywood, California.
‘Frank grabbed me after this gig and said, “There’s a party in Bel Air, stick with me.” Sure enough, after the show we ended up in a car with some very, very attractive people and a very familiar male driver, who I thought I knew, on our way to the elite Bel Air, California. We arrived at this beautiful mansion only to be dumped while the kids went out hunting for beer. Frank and I sat on the upstairs landing outside the toilet doing “bumps” of coke, waiting for our hosts, where, bizarrely, we were joined by Marc Quinn, an old friend from Groucho’s. Marc is now famous for making a bust of his own head, out of his own blood, then freezing it. He was as puzzled as we were. As we chatted our eyes alighted on a melted statuette, all blackened and burned. Marc as a sculptor was most intrigued, but one thing we all agreed on was that it was a weird ornament to have at the top of your stairs. Our host returned looking as familiar as ever and we couldn’t resist getting the history of the statuette.
‘ “It’s my dad’s,” he says. “The house burned down in 1983 and that was the only thing saved.”
‘Oh, we thought, none the wiser as to the importance, and we must have looked very puzzled as he elaborated: “Gene Kelly’s my father. It’s his honorary Oscar.”
‘ “Singin’ in the Rain”,’ the three of us chorused.
‘Turned out we were in Gene Kelly’s house in Bel Air with his son, Timothy, entertaining us, on 725 North Rodeo Drive.
‘Blimey! Not bad for a tosser from flabbergasted.’
5 November 1986
New Order play Palladium, Hollywood, California.
5 November 1986
New Order: ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’
(FAC 163)
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‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ (edit) |
3.40 |
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‘Bizarre Dub Triangle’ (edit) |
3.23 |
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‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ (full) |
6.39 |
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‘Bizarre Dub Triangle’ (full) |
7.06 |
Run-out groove one: MPO.
Run-out groove two: MPO2.
Recorded in Jam Studios, London, and Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
Engineered by Mike Johnson.
Written and produced by New Order.
Remixed by Shep Pettibone for Mastermix Productions.
Remix engineered by Steve Peck.
Edit by Shep Pettibone and the Latin Rascals.
Designed by Peter Saville Associates.
Entered UK chart on 15 November 1986, remaining in the charts for 2 weeks, its peak position was number 56.
‘The first remix to feature no bass guitar; thanks, Shep.’
7 November 1986
New Order play Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, California.
8 November 1986
New Order play Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley, California.
‘I had arranged for Tasha from San Diego to join me here. I had never flown anyone in before and it was so easy. Unfortunately, just before she arrived I discovered I had caught an STD. I was devastated but thought that I would come clean, so to speak. When she arrived I fessed up and she simply said, “You probably got it from me. Let’s go to the hospital.” Which we duly did, and were examined, had blood tests, and were given prescriptions, then the drugs, and then the one thing I had completely forgotten about, the bill. Three hundred and fifty dollars . . . each. Shit. I broke out in a cold sweat. I did not have the money in cash and if I used my credit card the missus would see it.
‘ “Pay at the cash desk at the entrance to the hospital,” the nurse said.
‘As we walked down the corridor I came clean again – about my lack of money this time.
‘She laughed and said, “You didn’t give them our names, yeah? This way then.” And she kicked the fire escape doors open and we escaped into the gardens, legging it back to the hotel. Now that’s what I call a health service.
‘After the gig Johnny Marr turned up at the hotel with his wife Angie; everyone was pretty clattered, but in a room later, with him and a few of the crew, he asked me if I fancied doing a record with him. I was really flattered. Johnny is a great guitarist, not as good as Barney in my opinion, but a great guitarist nonetheless. He said very seriously, “The best guitarist in Manchester should do a record with the best bass player in Manchester.”
‘I didn’t forget about it, but in the cold light of day was a little embarrassed. My heart lay in New Order and I was happy, even with all the little foibles, so I never followed it up with Johnny. Later, when Barney went off to form Electronic with him, I mentioned it to a journalist and was accused of lying – as though I’d made it up to be spiteful, just to rain on their parade. Me and Johnny have never spoken since, but hand on heart, it happened.’
10 November 1986
New Order play the Coliseum, Utah State Fairgrounds, Salt Lake City, Utah.
11 November 1986
New Order play CU Events Center, Boulder, Colorado, supported by Love Tractor.
14 November 1986
New Order play Maceba Theatre, Houston, Texas.
‘Me and Frank decided to drive for a change, so we hired a big old Lincoln Continental for old times’ sake. These cars had fantastic sound systems, and after a long enjoyable drive we arrived in Houston just as the sun was setting and the city lights started to flicker on. Frank said, “I have the perfect tape for this!” and put on Tangerine Dream. It was a gorgeous memory of a gorgeous man. The pair of us sat there grinning from ear to ear, high-fiving, so happy with our lot. Frank went on to manage many great groups but died in 2007, aged fifty-five. Sorely missed.’
15 November 1986
New Order play Bronco Bowl, Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas.
New Order play City Coliseum, Austin, Texas.
20 November 1986
New Order play Oriental Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
21 November 1986
New Order play Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois.
22 November 1986
New Order play Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan.
24 November 1986
New Order play Congress Centre, Ottawa, Canada.
26–27 November 1986
New Order play Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada.
30 November 1986
New Order play McMaster University (Ivor Wynne Centre), Hamilton, Canada.
1 December 1986
New Order play unknown venue, Buffalo, NY.
2 December 1986
New Order play Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
New Order play Irvine Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
5 December 1986
New Order play 1018 Club, New York.
‘Benefit gig for Ruth Polsky. God rest her soul.’
6 December 1986
New Order play the Orpheum, Boston, Massachusetts.
7 December 1986
New Order play Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts.
8 December 1986
New Order play Constitution Hall, Washington DC.
9 December 1986
New Order play Felt Forum, New York.
12 December 1986
New Order play Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia.
13 December 1986
New Order play Tampa Bay Theatre, Tampa Bay, Florida.
‘A few complaints at this concert. One minute Steve was playing the drums and then he wasn’t but the drums carried on. People spotted it and complained at the box office. Americans were still getting used to the concept of pre-recorded parts being played by performing groups. A disclaimer would be put on the tickets for the next tour.’
15 December 1986
New Order play Knight Center, Miami, Florida.