New Order [1985.05.15] OZ/NZ85 Stash Tape [SBD]

 

 

New Order - OZ/NZ85 Stash Tape
Canterbury Court Function Centre, Perth, Australia
Wednesday May 15th, 1985

Soundboard Recording
Source: Hooky's rubbish bin (the "Stash" tapes)
Encoded: FLAC Format & MP3@320 Kbps

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/new-order/1985/canterbury-court-function-centre-perth-australia-4bdeff1e.html

Track List: (Artwork Included)
01 Sunrise
02 Sooner Than You Think
03 Subculture
04 Age Of Consent
05 A Bullet In My Ear (As It Is When It Was)
06 Cramp
07 586
08 Death Rattle
09 Temptation
10 The Perfect Kiss
11 Confusion

This is, possibly, the worst New Order gig ever.
Fucked up guitar lines? -Check.
Misread setlist? -Check.
Entire-song key transpositions on one instrument only? -Check.
Fucked up bass lines? -Check.

The entire gig is just a sloppy, poorly-performed mess. It's perhaps living proof that, in the day, a New Order gig was either going to be one of the best ever gigs you ever saw, or the worst. Which is why - while not an everyday listen for me - I love this tape.

To add insult to injury, we don't actually know what this gig is! The stash box o' tapes labeled this as "OZ/NZ85" both on the manifest, and the tape itself. For a long time New Order gig sleuths believed it was actually from the Fox Theater, Atlanta GA 11 Aug 1985, but further close analysis has caused a significant rethink of this. What little of the audience you can make out doesn't sound American, or even American South. The punter yelling for the Joy Division song "Transmission" doesn't pronounce the "Trans" bit like an American (think "Treans" but little emphasis on the "e"); rather, it sounds English or Antipodean ("Trahns"). Same with the punter yelling for "In A Lonely Place". (...More)