Joy Division headlined,
supporting acts were Section 25, A Certain Ratio and
Killing Joke.
The place was absolutely jammed due to the high
popularity of all the bands, and Paul Morley wrote
[NME, 16 Feb 1980]: "The full new introduction of
synthesizers has not damaged the coherence and
balance of the music in any way, it simply increases
the amount of mood, atmosphere, ephemeral terror Joy
Division are capable of."
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Basone and published here with permission. Image
may not be printed, downloaded, or otherwise used
without copyright holder permission.
Songs performed:
01: Dead Souls
02: Glass
03: A Means To An End
04: Twenty Four Hours
05: Passover
06: Insight
07: Colony
08: These Days
09: Love Will Tear Us Apart
10: Isolation
11: The Eternal
12: Digital.
Appx. duration: 50 mins. Sound quality: 8+/9
The full concert appears on the 2007 rerelease of
the Closer CD
Tapes
There are three distinct audience recordings of this
concert in circulation:
The first and best finally appeared officially as CD2 of the two disc edition of Closer.
Sound quality 9/9
The second was taped by "Scruffy", and is very
bassy-muffled.. The last song Digital is cut on this
source.
Sound quality 7.5/9
The third is less common than the others. While it's
complete, it was taped with worse equipment and is
monaural
Sound quality 7/9
Bootlegs:
All 12 songs appeared on the following bootlegs:
They Keep Calling Me LP/CD
University
of London Union LP
Live
at University of London Union LP
Song no. 11 appeared on the following bootleg:
Death LP
Song no. 05 appeared on the following bootleg:
Le Terme *Part II* LP
Songs. 05 and 11 appeared on the following bootleg:
Closer Live
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Thanks to Neil
Woodvine for the poster scan
Jon Salisbury was there - here is
how he remembers the gig:
"Bunked school (20 days from my 17th birthday) and
got given 5 tickets instead of 4 - flogging the
extra one for a fiver. Serious dosh back then.
The gig was packed. Morley was there in his
trademark overcoat. He stood next to us.
I remember Dead Souls kicking off with that rumble
of drums, trouble with the equipment, the synths
caught me by surprise, Curtis bathed in white
light, the beauty and the violence of the greatest
group on the planet, not knowing what to make of
what (I later discovered) was The Eternal, Digital
staccatoing the proceedings to an end.
And, then, silence".
Thanks to Mark for the ticket scan
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