r/neworder

I’m not trying to take the piss, plenty of people here know that I truly love Joy Division and New Order. But sometimes, I just imagine Ian Curtis dancing to "Fine Time" at a 1989-style warehouse party. We all know he loved Kraftwerk and loved to dance, and his former bandmates have said the band’s sound would have evolved into New Order even if Ian had stayed. With his legendary dance moves and his well-above-average height, Ian would’ve been a total sensation at any electronic music party. In that sense, he’d probably be a bit like a mix of Leeroy from The Prodigy and Bez from Happy Mondays. I hope his soul is doing well and dancing happily, bro.

Monday, May 19, 1980, the day after lan Curtis died, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris met.
Not to cry. To dissolve the Joy Division. Out of respect.
Because of conviction. Because continuing that name without him was something neither of the three of us were able to do.
And on that very Monday - the saddest day of their lives
- New Order was born.
Three years later, on March 7, 1983, Blue Monday was released. A song that started as a base to entertain audiences who requested encores at concerts — something they could play without needing so much musicians on stage. What came out of those sessions in Manchester was something else entirely.
Peter Hook's bass line comes from a Clint Eastwood movie - Death came with a price of Ennio Morricone, three notes Hook had in his head without knowing where they came from. The synth riff is Kraftwerk reinterpreted.
Beat coming from Donna Summer. And it all together sounds like something the world hadn't heard before.
The record was sold at a loss. Factory Records was losing money with every copy because the packaging - designed to look like a disk - was so expensive to produce that it never made it to cover the costs. It became the best-selling 12-inch single in history anyway.
On August 25, 1984, on that BBC simulcast, New Order played Blue Monday live - with In a Lonely Place on the setlist, a song originally written by lan Curtis. The shadow of Joy Division still there, present, transformed into something new.

(Taken from an instagram post)

In space no one...

... can hear you scream!

Text on run-out groove :)

On 3 May 1993, London Records released New Order's sixth album, Republic. Recorded and mixed in Real World Studios, Box, Bath, and RAK, London. It was written and produced by New Order and Stephen Hague. Art direction by Peter Saville, designed by Pentagram. The artwork told the story - decadence and the destruction. Entered UK chart on 15 May 1993, remaining in the charts for 13 weeks, peak position was number 1.

25 August 1989 New Order play Reading Festival. It will take 4 years for New Order to play live together

February 1990 saw New Order record "World in Motion" at Real World

June same year, the Hacienda account show profit for the first time, £160,663 to be exact

Martin Hannett died on 18 April 1991. He never saw the end he had prophesied - the demise of Factory Records.

The Hacienda kept bleeding money, and so did Factory. The only hope was a new New Order album, as the band members and Rob were still guaranteeing the loans. Could the pressure build any more? There was a remaining dim light - traces of the band called New Order, now left in the ashes of its parts.

In August, Steve, Gillian, and Hooky started rehearsing at the "Farm", Steve’s and Gillian’s place. Barney was off having fun with Electronic, so the plan was that the three of them would rehearse and wait for him to do the vocals. By Hooky’s words (tell us more about that period as seen from Steve’s eyes, you who read his book), the three of them got along well and did some great work.

From March to November 1992, the band recorded the album at Real World. Factory Records went bankrupt on 20 November, and there it was - the end. Yet New Order and Joy Division were saved from London Records’ cannibalism, so they were signed on 23 December 1992.

Two studios: one with Stephen Hague and another with Barney. A lot of engineers and technicians, and so little of the band. Barney took 50% of the share; Rob had 20%, after which came Stephen Hague. Or was it? Only time would tell, yet years later, from that lonely time Barney spent in hospital and his wish of “I want to work with other people” came the final results. No New Order, Factory gone, they were on their own, doing side projects. The Other Two went on, Revenge and Monaco too, Electronic as well. The New Order dream shattered into pieces, and the band’s demise could begin in a proper manner.

https://www.nb.no/search?q=%22new%20order%22&mediatype=bilder
28 images, tagged as Public Domain.

Edit: The images are at the National Library, the concert was at Kjeller'n at Chateau Neuf.

New Order has been "my" band since I first heard them. I started avidly collecting CDs in the early '90s.

I wasn't the type of collector who needed every pressing; it was really about chasing versions and remixes that I didn't already have, so most (not all) of these have something different about them.

Republic had a limited edition version exclusive to the United States called “The Limited Run..” and I’ve noticed two versions exist, one with silver writing and one with blue. My own copy is the silver one pictured here and I was wondering if anyone here knows why there were two versions? Is one rarer than the other? Thanks!

clone theory because hookys sound is MEGA!!