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release date: Aug. 1983
format: vhs
[ vhs rate: 4 / 5]
Set list: 02:56 "Chosen Time" - 07:01 "Dreams Never End" - 10:23 "Everything's Gone Green" - 15:35 "Truth" - 20:12 "Senses" - 24:46 "Procession" - 28:46 "Ceremony" - 33:32 "Denial" - 38:32 "Temptation"
First official video featuring New Order. It was recorded from a live concert held in New York at Taras Shevchenko (The Ukranian National Home), Nov. 18, 1981 and was released Aug. 1983. I used to own this great live recording on VHS. It's the band's first tour in the US. Joy Division was scheduled to tour in the summer of 1980 - a tour that was cancelled because of lead vocalist Ian Curtis' suicide. The band continued as New Order with Gillian Gilbert on keyboard and guitar, and guitarist Bernard Sumner took the part as vocalist. This concert shows his unfamiliar part as vocalist. Later on he proved to do much better, but despite his poor singing qualities at this stage, it works, and perhaps mostly because of Stephen Morris' excellent job playing drums, and at times like a drum machine. Fantastic performance.
