28th September 1979: The Factory I (Russell
Club), Manchester
With Teardrop Explodes and Foreign Press
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In 2009 a tape surfaced
featuring an incomplete mixing desk recording of
the first few songs from the concert:
01 - Atmosphere (fades in)
02 - Wilderness
03 - Shadowplay
04 - Insight
05 - Colony
06 - Twenty Four Hours (fades, incomplete)
Appx. duration: 20 mins. Sound quality: 8+
All songs appeared on the following bootlegs:
1979
LP
We
Were Strangers LP
Paris
- Live Transmission
Songs 1 to 5 appeared on the following bootlegs:
I'm Not Afraid Anymore CD
Warsaw
- Middlesbrough 14th September 1977 / Joy
Division - Manchester 28th September 1979 LP
According to Paul Barrowford's
review Atmosphere was the first song on the
night. He also states that the following were
performed:
Interzone
She's Lost Control
Transmission (Encore)
Atrocity Exhibition (Encore)
... and he says the entire concert was 45 minutes
long, plus the chaotic encore, which suggests we
still don't know the entire set list for the
night.
In addition the 2009 tape included a non-mixing
desk recording of part of the soundcheck:
01 - Twenty Four Hours
Appx. duration: 2 mins. Sound quality: 8 |
Thanks to Simon
Park for the poster scan
800 people squeezed into the Russel Club to
watch Joy Division's final gig at the venue
before it shut down, for the first time
anyway.
Ian had an epileptic seizure just before they
went on stage but he carried on and gave an
excellent performance despite being badly
shaken by the experience.
There was some violence - caused by a group of
resident Skinheads who often caused trouble at
concerts especially the bigger ones where
there were lots of strangers. Peter Hook left
the stage during the encore to sort them out
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It appears from
this flyer that Joy Division were originally
set to play the day after - Saturday 29th
Thanks to Daz for
the scan - he has a number of replica flyers
for sale
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John
Nic was there:
"I remember Pete Hook Jumping off the stage
wielding his bass like a giant Sledge Hammer,
as far as I could tell he didn't actually make
contact with anyone, but his bass did hit the
floor snapping the neck of the Rickenbacker in
two, not surprisingly it was never seen again.
So any pictures of Hooky with a Rickenbacker
Bass would pre-date this concert."
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This
is what Paul Barrowford wrote in a fanzine(?)
review at the time: "The lights were dim -
Joy Division take to the stage and open with a new
song called Atmosphere. The piece is slow,
gothic, and features Ian Curtis on guitar. Four or
five other songs are played the best being Colony,
old favourites like Interzone, Wilderness
and especially She's Lost Control get the
audience bopping frantically. 45 minutes later and
asuperb, controlled set is finished. The band
return for Transmission, a false start,
try again. At this point an incident occurs which
spoils the whole evening.
Someone must have been having a go at bass player
Peter Hook as half thru Transmission he
starts attacking this unknown person with his
bass. The incident continues with Hook chasing the
person thru the audience and ends in a scuffle
near the cloakroom. hook returns to the stage and
disappears into the dressing room. The band (minus
Hook) continue with Step Inside [ie Atrocity
Exhibition] and finish.
Attempts to find Paul, who owns the
copyright on this article have so far been
unsuccessful. Let us know if
you can help |
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