Great New Order live recording from 1982 available for a limited time here. This is prime early stuff! Less than 2 years after Ian Curtis' suicide. Utterly mysterious, fantastic & groovy. Recorded December 8, 1982 in Wellington, New Zealand, at Victoria University.
"When Ian Curtis died in 1980, so ended his group, Joy Division. But the remaining members decided to continue as New Order. If Joy Divison was a rock band, then New Order was an electro (or synth-pop as the term was later coined) band. After three singles - Ceremony, Procession and Everything's Gone Green - the group was ready with its debut album, Movement (November 1981), of which Uncut magazine says: "The difficult first album. You could almost smell the fear." Perhaps Bernard Sumner was rather candid when he says: "It was kind of nervous writing, really. I hate those songs. We recorded them, I played the album once, and I don't think I ever played it again. In fact, I don't own a copy."
Photograph courtesy of Eugene Merinov. Taken at the Ukrainian National Home, New York City, 1981.
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