I had mentioned the New Order stash tapes in the bootlegs of the year pdf document. Thanks to the cyclical nature of available downloads, a further four New Order titles were gratefully added to my collection, including the previously deleted 'Perth' tape - surprisingly hearing it again, it did not sound such a train-wreck performance as I had recalled.
Of the four, 'Live at Central London Polytechnic,' 6th December 1985, is undoubtedly the best. It consists of both the soundcheck - note those Joy Division classics - followed by the complete gig.
Earlier in the month I had acquired a few more BBC radio sessions. Of those, the band I am including here, Felt, surprisingly never recorded a session for the famous late BBC Radio DJ John Peel. He did play them albeit infrequently but the band strangely never captured his imagination. If you enjoy the crystaline guitar sound of 80's indie, then I guarantee these three BBC radio sessions will be on repeat play.
#103 FELT - BBC sessions (1984-86)
01. Dismantled King Is Off The Throne
02. Roman Litter
03. Vasco Da Gama
04. Crystal Ball
Janice Long BBC Radio One session #1 - 30th September 1984
05. Caspian Sea
06. The Day The Rain Came Down
07. I Didn't Mean To Hurt You
08. Ballad Of The Band
Janice Long BBC Radio One session #2 - 12th February 1986
09. When The Dawn Starts Creeping In
10. Rain Of Crystal Spires
11. All The People I Like Are Those That Are Dead
12. Sapphire Mansions
Andy Kershaw BBC Radio One session - 11th September 1986
No lineage was supplied but these are from the FM master recordings
LINK.
#104 NEW ORDER
Central London Polytechnic, London
December 6, 1985
soundcheck
01 Atmosphere (instrumental)
02 Atmosphere
03 She's Lost Control (breakdown)
04 She's Lost Control
05 As It Is When It Was (breakdown)
06 As It Is When It Was
07 Bizarre Love Triangle (breakdown)
08 Bizarre Love Triangle
09 Love Will Tear Us Apart (instrumental)
gig
10 Atmosphere
11 Dreams Never End
12 Procession
13 Sunrise
14 Lonesome Tonight
15 Weirdo
16 586
17 The Perfect Kiss
18 Face Up
19 Age Of Consent
The soundcheck tracks are from a different source than the gig tracks (EQ and tonal qualities differ)
This gig is ranked by many New Order fans to be in their top ten gigs of all time, and in fact many consider this to be by far the best of the 1985 soundboards.
There are three sources: This (the best), the second is heavily noise reduced and encoded and finally a portion of the show was made available in the mid-to-late 1980's on a vinyl LP titled "More Than Despair".
Lineage: SBD (ATR-STASH tape) > ??? > FLAC via Sam (lammah) > SoundForge (pitch correction, glitch removal, missing bits patching, levels, remove old SBEs) > > CD Wave (re-tracksplitting) > FLAC > you
