Absolute top gig this one. Unusually for me I had gone for seats so was up in the balcony.
Support were the Horrors, a band I like enough to go and see on their own. But the sound wasn't great for them. I think I would have preferred to see them as a headline act. Am not the biggest of Goth fans, but they are good.
The gig was just after the "senseless" massacre in Paris, so Bernard Sumner dedicated it to those killed and we had the tricolor at the beginning. Of course, it wasn't senseless actually. It made a lot osf sense if you are a perverted ruthless mob of greedy sadistic killers. Why are people so scared of calling a spade a spade and desperate to try to attribute some higher motive. Some people like killing others. Massacres have been with us for ages. These people just need exterminating like the sewer rats they are. Simples.
A band of New Order's considerable vintage have no right to be doing some of their best work now. But latest album Music Complete is terrific. An updated modern sounding dance album, but classic News too. Elly Jackson of La Roux came in to add something to Bernard's less than brilliant vocals. So this gig happily moved over a 35 year spell of work from the sombre tones of Ceremony which opened to the newer dance stuff. Great light show too. Always been a band for whom the artwork was an important part of the experience, from album covers to live displays
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