Joy Division 040280

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Line-Up:
Bernard Sumner
Peter Hook
Stephen Morris
Ian Curtis

Tracklist:
(Russel Club 13-7-79):
Shadowplay

Moonlight Club 2-4-80:
Sound of Music
Wilderness
Colony
Love Will Tear Us Apart
A Means To An End
Transmission
Dead Souls

Moonlight Club 3-4-80:
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Glass
Digital
Heart and Soul
Isolation
Disorder
Atrocity Exhibition
Atmosphere

Radio Blackburn 4-80:
Ian Curtis Interview

Birmingham University 2-5-80 (Soundcheck):
Ceremony
Decades

I have collected many JD live tapes over the years and thought it was time to see what I could sort out. Interstingly, one of the tapes was purchased at a JD gig. We went to see Iggy Pop at Manchester Apollo and then wandered up to the Osborne Club to see JD. I remember walking in the place and being blown away by ‘Atmosphere’. I think it was the first time they had played it and was the beginning of the experimentation with Synthesizers.
I have worked with JC and also obtained information from Joy Division central http://members.aol.com/lwtua/joydiv.htm during the compilation of this torrent. For want of something to call it I have named it after the Dave Haslam fanzine ‘Debris’.

Further notes from the compilation discussions are pasted below.
Shadowplay needed minor speed correction, whilst the 2 Moonlight gigs needed minor EQ, Light hiss reduction and normalisation. The interview and Soundcheck were just awful quality to begin with and would not benefit from any work so I have left them as is. There is a minor dropout at the start of Transmission and the stereo drops out on either channel during the intro to ‘Love will..’ on the 3/4/80 gig. The Birmingham soundcheck is truly awful and I have only included it for the version of ‘Decades’ which has a false start and then IC has another line of the verse to sing but the band have already gone into the first bar of the chorus.

These recordings may be available elsewhere, but I have not seen any torrented on EZT or latterly DIME. I know a CD exists of the 2 Moonlight gigs and JD central list it as being a limited edition of 150 copies. None of the tracks here have been released officially.

Some of our filtering dialogue is pasted below:

Of the official releases by JD, 'Warsaw', 'Unknown Pleasures', 'Closer', 'Substance' and 'Permanent' did not include any live material, only studio demos or final mixes.
There are the two official live releases 'Les Bains Douches' (Paris 1979-12-18, Amsterdam 1980-01-11 and Eindhoven 1980-01-18) and 'Preston 28 February 1980', and the live material on 'Still' from Birmingham 1980-05-02 (tracks 11 to 20) and London 1980-04-03 (track 10).

Firstly the Russell Club gig on 13/7/79. There are 10 tracks from this on the Heart & Soul Box Set. Also Transmission was released as a b-side to the Atmosphere single. Only ‘Shadowplay’has not been released.

Moonlight was 2nd, 3rd and 4th, with the last after an earlier gig at the Rainbow. IC really lost it on the 4th if you get to that part in the book. The version I have of the 3rd was stripped of 'Sister Ray' because it appears on 'Still'. There are no known recordings of JD doing 'Ceremony' until the final gig at Birmingham on 1980-05-02, and this is on 'Still'.
Apr 02, 1980 The Moonlight Club - London
The Sound of Music, Wilderness, Colony, Love Will Tear Us Apart, A Means To An End, Transmission, Dead Souls, Sister Ray
Apr 03, 1980 The Moonlight Club - London
Love Will Tear Us Apart, Glass, Digital, Heart & Soul, Isolation, Disorder, Atrocity Exhibition, Atmosphere.
Apr 04, 1980 The Moonlight Club - London
Transmission, A Means To An End, Twenty Four Hours, Day of the Lords, Insight, Interzone

Birmingham University Soundcheck 2/5/80: Ceremony, Decades (Can't find this on your list)
Ian Curtis Interview (Radio Blackburn (Lancashire?)) 4/80
High Wycombe Town Hall 20/2/80 Same Setlist as yours same gig but without the soundcheck.

All JD and NO BBC sessions are available officially, in various releases over the years. The Piccadilly stuff is on 'Heart and Soul' disc 3. The Birmingham stuff (assuming the 'Still' versions are in concert and your's are soundcheck are fair game. IC interview? Must be heart-warming?
Preston Warehouse 28/2/80
I only have Heart and Soul and Shadowplay. It's better quality than official release so must be from same source as yours.
The official release is off an audience recording I believe. It seems the band were in the habit of making both soundboard tapes and audience-type recordings. Not sure whether there was some dispute over ownership (hence the official sub-standard release) or whether the soundboard turned up afterwards. There was a box of tapes Hooky threw out that someone recovered before the bin-men got to them. Maybe these?

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