Joy Division

26th October 1979: Electric Ballroom, London

On a break from the Buzzcocks tour. Supported by A Certain Ratio

Songs performed:
01. I Remember Nothing
02. Love Will Tear Us Apart
03. Wilderness
04. Colony
05. Insight
06. Day Of The Lords
07. Shadowplay
08. She's Lost Control
09. Transmission*
10. Disorder
11. Atrocity Exhibition
12. Interzone.



Appx. duration: 50 mins. Sound quality: 8/9
*Transmission has been spliced as the last few seconds of the song weren't taped due to problems during the recording.


This performance appeared on the following bootlegs:

Walk Away....In Silence LP

Glass Is LP

Winter Gardens 2CD

This is The Room CD and LP

The Sound And The Fury 2LP (does this one exist - email me if you have a copy)

This was the second time Joy Division stepped off the Buzzcocks tour to play a gig on their own.


Thanks to Philip for the scan



NME advert thanks to Steve Benham



Thanks to Pete


Thanks to David Baguley for the poster photo.
He bought it for 50p from Tony Wilson
who was manning the merch stand



Electric ballroom photographed in 2002
(C) Copyright
Joy Division - The Eternal web site
(Michel Enkiri) and reproduced here with permission
 


Buzzcocks / Joy Division Gig Schedule
Image from Peter hook's 2019 Omega Auctions auction


Re imagined poster by Swissted
Swissted
have designed a number of re imagined
classic concert posters including one for this gig