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For your interest I might just mention that I've always seen this gig
referred to as the Ajanta Theatre, but back then we all knew it as the
Ajanta Cinema. The name is an Indian name because it used to show Indian
films, because Derby had (and has) quite a large Indian and Pakistani
community. The cinema itself was just outside the town centre and at
that time pretty much stood on its own, as I remember. That remoteness -
and the fact that it was a bit run down and seedy, made it ideal for
holding punk gigs. I saw quite a few bands there
between1978-80, including ATV, Stiff Little Fingers, The Lurkers,
Manicured Noise, The Pop Group, The Slits, The Mekons. I'd say Joy
Division were the biggest name band that played there (especially as it
was so late in their history).
~Steven Pares
Set List: 01. Dead Souls 02. Wilderness 03. Digital 04. Insight 05. Passover 06. Heart And Soul 07. Isolation 08. These Days 09. Transmission 10. She's Lost Control 11. Colony 12. Girls Don't Count/jam with SECTION 25
Back From The Dead..
Originally posted September 21, 2010 and September 8, 2012
Joy Division - Live Paradiso
Amsterdam, NL.
January 11, 1980 Excellent Soundboard @ FLAC
Sourced from the original mastertape reel
Probably the best known and best sounding Joy Division bootleg...
Just in case you don't already have this...
First set: 01 Passover
02 Wilderness
03 Digital
04 Day Of The Lords
05 Insight
06 New Dawn Fades
07 Disorder
08 Transmission
Second set: 09 Love Will Tear Us Apart
10 These Days
11 A Means To An End
12 Twenty Four Hours
13 Shadowplay
14 She's Lost Control
15 Atrocity Exhibition
Joy Division - Live Les Bains Douches December 18, 1979 Paris, France
Soundboard Recording -Out of Print @192
pass = fbsvw
Les Bains Douches, has a clear recording and is evenly mixed (the first nine tracks are taken from a recording for a radio broadcast of the December '79 gig--tracks 10-16 are taken from two shows in Amsterdam from January '80, and sound a bit less clear). The band sounds more together and the songs are aggressive, better suited to a live setting.
These songs are nothing if not tough. Everything is sped up. It's loose and raw. There is a primal passion in the music that matches the intensity of Ian Curtis' singing. On "Disorder," when he cries, "I got the spirit, lose the feeling, let it out somehow," it is not sterile and haunted like it is on Unknown Pleasures but has the kick of man who is exorcising something un-namable. On "Insight," after Curtis barks "I'm not afraid anymore," and that cheesy laser beam keyboard part kicks in, it's not really cheesy. The rapid synth pings are coupled with a prominent, dissonant base riff which creates an off-balance, atonal kind of noise, which is equally appropriate and disorienting. "Shadowplay" explodes with a huge burst of guitar distortion, and Bernard Sumner's guitar licks are racked with tension. He likewise generates a terrible amount of noise on "Day of the Lords."
Tracks List: 1. Disorder 2. Love Will Tear Us Apart 3. Insight 4. Shadowplay 5. Transmission 6. Day of the Lords 7. Twenty Four Hours 8. These Days 9. Means to an End 10. Passover 11. New Dawn Fades 12. Atrocity Exhibition 13. Digital 14. Dead Souls 15. Autosuggestion 16. Atmosphere
Curtis's last live performance was on 2 May 1980 at Birmingham University, a show that included Joy Division's first and only performance of the song "Ceremony", later recorded by New Order and released as their first single. The last song Curtis performed on stage was "Digital". The recording of this performance can be found on the compilation album Still.
Detailed in Debbie Curtis's "Touching from a Distance", Curtis was staying at his parents' house at this time and attempted to talk his wife into staying with him on 17 May 1980, to no avail. Debbie left him in her house overnight while she left to do some errands. Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle claimed in a 2006 interview that Curtis would sometimes phone him during the night and sing the Throbbing Gristle song "Weeping" — a song about suicide — to him.
In the early hours of 18 May 1980, Curtis hanged himself in the kitchen of his house in Macclesfield.He had just viewed Werner Herzog's film Stroszek and listened to Iggy Pop's The Idiot. At the time of his death, his health was failing as a result of his epilepsy and attempting to balance his musical ambitions with his marriage, which was foundering in the aftermath of his affair with journalist Annik Honoré. His wife found his body the next morning.
Tony Wilson who had signed the band later said, "I'd been warned on a train to London two weeks earlier by Annik [Honoré]. I asked her, 'What do you think of the new album.' She goes, 'I'm terrified.' I said, 'What are you terrified of?' She replies, 'Don't you understand? He means it.' And I go, 'No, he doesn't mean it — it's art.' And guess what? He fucking meant it."
Curtis's memorial stone, which is inscribed with "Ian Curtis 18 - 5 - 80" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart", was stolen in July 2008 from the grounds of Macclesfield Cemetery. The missing memorial stone was later replaced by a new one.
Joy Division - Preston UK Recorded at The Warehouse Feberuary 28, 1980 AKA Shadow Play Liberated Bootleg @192
The date of recording on cover is incorrect.
Recorded less than three months before vocalist Ian Curtis committed suicide, Preston 28 February 1980 captures Joy Division's creative gloom in all its glory. Although this live gig features the band's club hits "Transmission" and "She's Lost Control" (but not "Love Will Tear Us Apart" ), it's not your typical concert album. The sound quality is less than pristine, the band's performance is far from perfect, and the gear onstage keeps malfunctioning. Yet Preston 28 February 1980 is truer and has more impact than most live releases, exposing Joy Division's morose melodies, scrambled guitars, brooding beats, and futuristic keyboard squabbles in the group's rawest, most vulnerable form. Joy Division were never about perfection. They flaunted their flaws, reveled in their (and everyone else's) meaninglessness, and sought solace in the idea that control is merely a myth. On February 28, 1980, these foibles become a fascinating mission statement. --Jon Wiederhorn
Track List: 1-Incubation 2-Wilderness 3-Twenty Four Hours 4-The Eternal 5-Heart & Soul 6-Shadowplay 7-Transmission 8-Disorder 9-Warsaw 10-Colony 11-Interzone 12-She's Lost Control
Joy Division - Bowdon Vale March 14, 1979
Original Soundboard @128
With the recent passing of Tony Wilson, the upcoming Joy Division movie, Control and subsequent planned heap of reissues, here's probably the only JD soundboard not to be officially issued, in it's full glory (well, except for the incomplete No Love Lost).
Track List: 01 - Exercise One 02 - She's Lost Control 03 - Shadowplay 04 - Leaders Of Men 05 - Insight 06 - Disorder 07 - Glass 08 - Digital 09 - Ice Age 10 - Warsaw 11 - Transmission 12 - I Remember Nothing 13 - No Love Lost (incomplete)
Joy Division - Live Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979 Paris, France
Soundboard Recording-Out of Print @192
pw - fbsvw
Les Bains Douches, has a clear recording and is evenly mixed (the first nine tracks are taken from a recording for a radio broadcast of the December '79 gig--tracks 10-16 are taken from two shows in Amsterdam from January '80, and sound a bit less clear). The band sounds more together and the songs are aggressive, better suited to a live setting.
These songs are nothing if not tough. Everything is sped up. It's loose and raw. There is a primal passion in the music that matches the intensity of Ian Curtis' singing. On "Disorder," when he cries, "I got the spirit, lose the feeling, let it out somehow," it is not sterile and haunted like it is on Unknown Pleasures but has the kick of man who is exorcising something un-namable. On "Insight," after Curtis barks "I'm not afraid anymore," and that cheesy laser beam keyboard part kicks in, it's not really cheesy. The rapid synth pings are coupled with a prominent, dissonant base riff which creates an off-balance, atonal kind of noise, which is equally appropriate and disorienting. "Shadowplay" explodes with a huge burst of guitar distortion, and Bernard Sumner's guitar licks are racked with tension. He likewise generates a terrible amount of noise on "Day of the Lords."
Tracks List: 1. Disorder 2. Love Will Tear Us Apart 3. Insight 4. Shadowplay 5. Transmission 6. Day of the Lords 7. Twenty Four Hours 8. These Days 9. Means to an End 10. Passover 11. New Dawn Fades 12. Atrocity Exhibition 13. Digital 14. Dead Souls 15. Autosuggestion 16. Atmosphere
Curtis's last live performance was on 2 May 1980 at Birmingham University, a show that included Joy Division's first and only performance of the song "Ceremony", later recorded by New Order and released as their first single. The last song Curtis performed on stage was "Digital". The recording of this performance can be found on the compilation album Still.
Detailed in Debbie Curtis's "Touching from a Distance", Curtis was staying at his parents' house at this time and attempted to talk his wife into staying with him on 17 May 1980, to no avail. Debbie left him in her house overnight while she left to do some errands. Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle claimed in a 2006 interview that Curtis would sometimes phone him during the night and sing the Throbbing Gristle song "Weeping" — a song about suicide — to him.
In the early hours of 18 May 1980, Curtis hanged himself in the kitchen of his house in Macclesfield.He had just viewed Werner Herzog's film Stroszek and listened to Iggy Pop's The Idiot. At the time of his death, his health was failing as a result of his epilepsy and attempting to balance his musical ambitions with his marriage, which was foundering in the aftermath of his affair with journalist Annik Honoré. His wife found his body the next morning.
Tony Wilson who had signed the band later said, "I'd been warned on a train to London two weeks earlier by Annik [Honoré]. I asked her, 'What do you think of the new album.' She goes, 'I'm terrified.' I said, 'What are you terrified of?' She replies, 'Don't you understand? He means it.' And I go, 'No, he doesn't mean it — it's art.' And guess what? He fucking meant it."
Curtis's memorial stone, which is inscribed with "Ian Curtis 18 - 5 - 80" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart", was stolen in July 2008 from the grounds of Macclesfield Cemetery. The missing memorial stone was later replaced by a new one.
