JOY DIVISION – Colony – Closer, LP – Factory – 1980ĬABARET VOLTAIRE – Gut Level (Paradiso, Amsterdam, 9.12.83) – ? – 1983Īs with many a band’s visit to Amsterdam in the 80s, this gig was recorded and broadcast by the excellent VPRO Radio, and totally nails the sound of live CV for me. You certainly can’t go wrong with their first two albums. Much older and musically far more proficient than their contemporaries during the punk era – drummer, Jet Black was knocking 40(!) when this album came out – but they still managed to cut a mean streak. THE STRANGLERS – Sometimes – Stranglers IV (Rattus Norvegicus), LP – United Artists – 1977 The rehearsals and pre-show chat that brought that about would be an interesting listen. And although Dreams Never End was one of the band’s most performed songs in their first decade of operation, after 1987 those in the UK would be waiting two decades before, seemingly out of nowhere, it cropped up again, in the setlist at a Manchester, Ritz gig. One of Hooky’s two moments in the NO vocal front line and a live regular back in the early days, when their set – below 40 minutes on many an occasion, including Bedford – comprised of most of the ten or so only songs they had. NEW ORDER – Dreams Never End – Movement, LP – Factory – 1981 (Intro) THE FLAMINGOS – Stars (Edit) – Unreleased demo – 1983 Episode #1 for info. He was just closer to the edge of somewhere more desperate. Stylistically, competition (on maybe a different plain) from the wordsmiths at the end of the show but it has to go to Mr Curtis. PLAYLIST 61 Uploaded Playlist 61 is only 64% vinyl friendly! Very poor indeed.Īny track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak’/edit/chop/etc.
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