11th August 1979: Eric's, Liverpool (two
performances)
With Swell Maps. Admission £1.10 for members,
guests paid a bit more.
Joy Division played two shows this Saturday, a 5PM
matinee for those under 18 (a tradition at Eric's)
and an 8:30 evening performance
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All concert photos on this
page are from the evening performance. (C) Gis
Southworth and used here with permission. |
Matinee Performance:
Songs performed
01. Transmission
02. Untitled (Gimme Your Heart/
Gimme Some Lovin'?)
03. Disorder
04. New Dawn Fades
05. Glass
06. Shadowplay
07. Colony
08. Interzone
09. Ice Age (cuts).
Appx. duration: 30 mins. Sound quality: 7/9
The full concert appeared on the following bootlegs:
Live
at Erics And Nashville Ballroom 1979
A New
Dawn Fades
One or more songs appeared on the following
bootlegs:
Live Malvern/Eric's LP
Isolation LP
Aus Grauer Städte Mauern LP
Heartbeat/Here Are The Young Men
LP
Out Of The room LP
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Evening Performance:
Songs performed
01. Insight
02. Autosuggestion
03. Digital
04. She's Lost Control
05. Day Of The Lords
06. Wilderness
07. Atrocity Exhibition
08. Transmission
09. New Dawn Fades (instrumental)
10. Interzone
11. Dead Souls
The set list was published by iancurtis.org who
appear to own either the master tape or the only
copy of the master. No other copies of this have
ever surfaced.
"Interzone" features Hooky only, as Ian had a
seizure and had to leave the stage for a couple of
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Andrew Twambley was there:
Between 1976 and 1979 I spent my formative years
living in student houses ans attending Liverpool
Poly studying law I lived with a guy called Nick
Pinto whom I am friends with to this day. Nick kept
a detailed diary of his life including every gig we
went to......the majority of which were at Eric's
Club on Matthew Street....the home of punk, and much
more.
We had seen JD at Eric's earlier in the year but the
gig on 11 August was one I specifically recall.the
club was full of trendy punks and students who
generally jumped up and down. Ehen JD came on the
atmosphere changed. It wasnt the music as such but
the charisma of the band especially Curtis and
Hooky. People kind of stopped jumping about
aimlessly and listened and watched .it was the
feeling, the experience I remember...afterwards I
recall saying to Nick, wtf was that??...it was
fantastic. We have been devotees ever since
We saw them again at liverpool Uni later in the
year, with The Buzzcocks, I think....but nothing
will be like The Eric's gig that summer
My girls go to school I'm Macclesfield and I find
myself drawn to Ian's old house ....is at wrong? |
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