Calling all Blue Monday owners!
Posted by: Kevin-W on 14 January 2005
Someone has started up a project called THE BLUE MONDAY OWNERS CLUB.
Here it is
The idea is, if you have an ORIGINAL 12" pressing of FAC 73, you take a photo of it (and yourself) and send it in. the artists is planning a book too.
How cool is that? As soon as I get home I'm getting the digicam out and making a contribution!
Kevin
Here it is
The idea is, if you have an ORIGINAL 12" pressing of FAC 73, you take a photo of it (and yourself) and send it in. the artists is planning a book too.
How cool is that? As soon as I get home I'm getting the digicam out and making a contribution!
Kevin
Posted on: 21 January 2005 by Paul Gravett
Blue Monday Reminiscences
Good thread, Kevin. As a big JD/NO fan I bought it as soon as it came out in 1983.
Does anyone remember seeing them do it on Top of the Pops? This was a unique performance because they were the only band allowed to actually sing live until TOTP banned miming ten or so years ago.
I recorded it and still have the video somewhere. I also have tapes of other early NO tv appearances including one of them doing Temptation in 1982 on a short-lived show whose name I can't remember.
I can still recall vividly seeing JD for the first time on tv doing She's Lost Control and Transmission on a show called Something Else in 1979. That was before I had a VCR but a special one-off programme called Something Else - Just the Music was shown on Jan 1st 1982 and included She's Lost Control. I taped that too and still have it.
Paul
Good thread, Kevin. As a big JD/NO fan I bought it as soon as it came out in 1983.
Does anyone remember seeing them do it on Top of the Pops? This was a unique performance because they were the only band allowed to actually sing live until TOTP banned miming ten or so years ago.
I recorded it and still have the video somewhere. I also have tapes of other early NO tv appearances including one of them doing Temptation in 1982 on a short-lived show whose name I can't remember.
I can still recall vividly seeing JD for the first time on tv doing She's Lost Control and Transmission on a show called Something Else in 1979. That was before I had a VCR but a special one-off programme called Something Else - Just the Music was shown on Jan 1st 1982 and included She's Lost Control. I taped that too and still have it.
Paul
Posted on: 22 January 2005 by Kevin-W
quote:
Originally posted by Paul Gravett:
_Blue Monday Reminiscences_
Good thread, Kevin. As a big JD/NO fan I bought it as soon as it came out in 1983.
Does anyone remember seeing them do it on Top of the Pops? This was a unique performance because they were the only band allowed to actually sing live until TOTP banned miming ten or so years ago.
I recorded it and still have the video somewhere. I also have tapes of other early NO tv appearances including one of them doing Temptation in 1982 on a short-lived show whose name I can't remember.
I can still recall vividly seeing JD for the first time on tv doing She's Lost Control and Transmission on a show called Something Else in 1979. That was before I had a VCR but a special one-off programme called Something Else - Just the Music was shown on Jan 1st 1982 and included She's Lost Control. I taped that too and still have it.
Paul
Paul
I do remember them doing it on ToTP - hilarious! I think the record went down the next week (throughout most of the 1980s, New Order's ToTP appearances, as well as those on ITV's short-lived rival The Roxy, inevitably resulted on a chart drop the following week! It happened the following year (1984) when they did Thieves Like Us on ToTP.
The 1982 show you mention was called Riverside and was recorded, naturally enough, at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. BBC2 broadcast Temptation, Chosen Time and an interview with Hooky and Rob Gretton.
The Order also played Blue Monday live on a Channel 4 programme called Switch, which lasted for just one series, in the Summer of 1983.
I too remember Something Else, and the episode you mention. The Jam were also on, and JD completely demolished them: they (JD) were new, thrilling, they mattered; Weller's mob, by contrast, were grey dull peddlers of retro clichés. I remember being at school at the ttime, and I was the only person in my year championing Joy Division. Everyone else was either listening to pomp-rock or to second-rate new wave bands like The Jam and 999.
Kevin
Posted on: 23 January 2005 by Jono 13
Aah "Riverside" who else remembers the first show with Bauhaus performing Bela Logosie(?) though swirling laser smoke effects. Pete Murphy getting out of the coffin to start singing was a superb moment, along with some mad bloke in a red frock!
The other show that NO performed on at the time was "The Tube" on a Friday evening on Channel 4.
Jono
The other show that NO performed on at the time was "The Tube" on a Friday evening on Channel 4.
Jono
Posted on: 25 January 2005 by J.N.
Come on you Naim guys - where are ya?
John.
John.
Posted on: 28 January 2005 by Paul Gravett
"I too remember Something Else, and the episode you mention. The Jam were also on, and JD completely demolished them: they (JD) were new, thrilling, they mattered; Weller's mob, by contrast, were grey dull peddlers of retro clichés."
I have to disagree with you about the Jam, Kevin. They were a great pop group in the Beatles, Kinks, who tradition. Yes, they weren't terribly original, but what they did, they did well. Granted 999 were a bit second-rate, though even they had a few good songs like 'Homicide'.
That's not to say, of course, that I'd put The Jam on a par with Joy Division...
Oh, I've just remembered another early New Order tv appearance. In August 1984 they did a session for the BBC that was broadcast on one of those long shows that were around at the time. I can remember them doing 'In a Lonely Place' and, I think, 'Blue Monday'. I did tape it.
It's a shame that there isn't a DVD with all these appearances on it.
Paul
I have to disagree with you about the Jam, Kevin. They were a great pop group in the Beatles, Kinks, who tradition. Yes, they weren't terribly original, but what they did, they did well. Granted 999 were a bit second-rate, though even they had a few good songs like 'Homicide'.
That's not to say, of course, that I'd put The Jam on a par with Joy Division...
Oh, I've just remembered another early New Order tv appearance. In August 1984 they did a session for the BBC that was broadcast on one of those long shows that were around at the time. I can remember them doing 'In a Lonely Place' and, I think, 'Blue Monday'. I did tape it.
It's a shame that there isn't a DVD with all these appearances on it.
Paul
Posted on: 29 January 2005 by Kevin-W
quote:
Originally posted by Paul Gravett:
"I too remember Something Else, and the episode you mention. The Jam were also on, and JD completely demolished them: they (JD) were new, thrilling, they mattered; Weller's mob, by contrast, were grey dull peddlers of retro clichés."
I have to disagree with you about the Jam, Kevin. They were a great pop group in the Beatles, Kinks, who tradition. Yes, they weren't terribly original, but what they did, they did well. Granted 999 were a bit second-rate, though even they had a few good songs like 'Homicide'.
That's not to say, of course, that I'd put The Jam on a par with Joy Division...
Oh, I've just remembered another early New Order tv appearance. In August 1984 they did a session for the BBC that was broadcast on one of those long shows that were around at the time. I can remember them doing 'In a Lonely Place' and, I think, 'Blue Monday'. I did tape it.
It's a shame that there isn't a DVD with all these appearances on it.
Paul
Paul, the programme was called "Rock Around The Clock". NO had a live-in-the-studio half-hour spot, playing Age Of Consent, Sooner Than You Think, Blue Monday, In A Lonely Place and one other which I can't recall (and I don't have the tape to hand).
Interestingly, NO were due to play The Perfect Kiss and some other new numbers, but their lorry broke down on the motorway, and they had to leave a lot of their new synths behind. TPK, which is of course one of their greatest songs, had in fact debuted that May, at a Festival Hall miners' benefit, when it was quite different and had the title I've Got A Cock Like The M1.
There are several bootleg DVDs available with a lot of this stuff on, but it's a shame there isn't an official release.
Do you rmember tthat fantastic Channel 4 doc New Order Play At Home? It was supposed to be about NO, but they barely featured (although Gillian was seen interviewing Wilson in the bath) - mostly it was about Wilson, the Hac and ob Gretton zooming around on a motorbike. Hilarious!
Kevin