Joy Division concert

20th February 1980: Town Hall, High Wycombe

Supported by Killing Joke, A Certain Ratio, and Section 25.


* Songs performed:
01. The Sound Of Music
02. A Means To An End
03. Colony
04. Twenty Four Hours
05. Isolation
06. Love Will Tear Us Apart
07. Disorder
08. Atrocity Exhibition.
Appx. duration: 35 mins. Sound quality: 9-/9

The soundcheck was also recorded: see below:


The full concert and soundcheck appear on the 2007 re-release of Still

Both appeared on the following bootleg:

Live at Town Hall, High Wycombe 20th February 1980 LP



The concert appeared on the following bootlegs:

The Sound Of Music 2LP

Hand Of Doom LP

You're No Good For Me LP

Disorder LP

Live Transmission...Dance To The Radio LP


A Journey That Leads To The Sun 2CD

Colony Of Dead Souls CD

Love Fear Isolation CD (not track 8)

Dance To The Radio LP


* The soundcheck was also recorded:

01. Isolation
02. The Eternal
03. Ice Age
04. Disorder
05. The Sound Of Music
06. A Means To An End.
Appx. duration: 20 mins. Sound quality: 9-/9


All six soundcheck songs appeared on the following bootlegs:

The Sound Of Music 2LP

A Journey That Leads To The Sun 2CD

Colony Of Dead Souls CD

Dance To The Radio LP


Five of these songs appeared on the following bootleg:

Out Of Balance Out Of Tune 7"EP

Hand Of Doom LP

Song 05 from this soundcheck appeared on the following booteg:

A Retrospective - Part II LP

The eternal appeared on this bootleg

Love Fear Isolation CD


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Thanks to Paul Lewis wycombegigs.co.uk for the ticket scan



Thanks to
Tim for the advert scan


The Town Hall photographed in 2002

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