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1998
Newsroom 1998
 December
31, 1998 |
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Reports from Mark Reed:
From John Peel Session (Dec 30th): Five
tracks played (these apparently recorded 26th Nov 98) Isolation, Touched By The Hand of
God, True Faith, Paradise and Atmosphere top backing vocals from Primal Scream as well
especially on Paradise . the Reading broadcast started with Regret, Heart and Soul...
The Other Two album released February 11th.
Electronic album released late March.
Monaco - still recording material
New Order - The "Recycle"
box set may feature a live CD from Reading 98 - they still haven't decided on a
track listing..
Also This months Select magazine features
an interview with Johnny Marr about the new
Electronic album. Briefly: the album is finished, produced by Electronic and Arthur Baker,
and features a four piece line up (as per 1996 TV appearances) of Johnny, Barney, Jed
Lynch from Black Grape on drums, and Jimmy Goodwin from Doves (AKA Sub Sub) on Bass.
Tracks are: Twisted Tenderness, Make It Happen, Haze, Prodigal
Son, Flicker, Late At Night, King For A Day, Can't Find My Way Home, Breakdown, Vivid.
Some tracks feature Fridge, a Manchester "trip-hop artist" according to
Johnny, and backing vocals from Astrid Williamson.
Cover art is a picture of Rasputin, famous Russian politician and womanizer. Interesting
Fact: when he was murdered he was thrown into the Moscow river laden down with bricks but
swam back up to the top before he was beaten unconscious and left for dead.
Johnny describes the songs as guitar based and rockier than the last album.
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December
30, 1998 |
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Concert Review
by Mark Reed: Manchester's 8,000 capacity Evening News
Arena on December 29
New order set list: Intro, Regret,
Touched, Isolation, Ceremony, Guilty Partner, Atmosphere, Heart and Soul, Paradise,
Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith 98, Temptation, Love Will Tear us Apart, Fine Time, Blue
Monday.
This is what we missed... Barney is as pissed as a fart. He stumbles on stage "It's
New Years Eve" he says with a straight face, and his performance doesn't get much
better. Inside the converted Hockey Arena - jammed to the rafters for new order and
two-thirds full for Underworld, it's the friendliest crowd I've ever seen. All gurning
barney alike and disco gurls out to celebrate the fact it's a fucking freezing Tuesday
night. Regret powers its way into your heart, Touched bounces like a bouncing bomb, and
the rest of the set is a wonderful blur. Isolation is as godlike as any other performance
this year, and Ceremony reminds me exactly why your life can be changed by a mere pop
group. When 8000 people erupt "oh I'll break them all no mercy shown, heaven knows
it's got to be this time!"
"We've never played this before it's called Guilty Partner" Barney drunkenly
slurs. And new order play it beautifully. For about ten seconds. Barney fluffs his vocal
intro, Stephen misses a beat and before the first verse is over the song has ground to a
halt. Sharp glances are exchanged, Gillian giggles behind her guitar, and Barney tactfully
announces "It's all part of our charm." Three minutes and no major mistakes
later New order breathe a silent sigh of relief.
Atmosphere is as beautiful as sunset. Heart and Soul is powered by Morris' wonderful
gurning drum style and Barney half-heartedly playing guitar. Make no mistake, Mr. Sumner
is as pissed as a fart. It's great.
Paradise steamrollers through the crowd, as does the ever immaculate, sleek 12" mix
of Bizarre Love Triangle, aided by Barney's drunken dancing - arms out, lips gurning, in
the manner you'd imagine a teddy bear would dance at a children's party.
True Faith 98 is the song of the night, apart from Barney missing the odd line even with
his autocue. It's amazing.
"We figure you need a break. We're off for some refreshments. Class A's of course.
Or a sandwich." Temptation is too short..
One Sandwich later and Barney and the boys are back. "This is our new Jazz
direction" he playfully teases as Love Will Tear Us Apart begins. And then Fine Time,
immaculately rejigged by Stephen Morris, turns the entire Hockey Arena into the 1988
Hacienda for ooh 4 minutes. It's fucking great. Finally, Blue Monday weaves into view.
It's brilliant and crap at the same time. Barney keeps asking "How Does It
Feel?" long before the vocals are meant to start, Hooky pounds the shit out of his
synth pad before snagging his bass string against it, snapping it and ends up playing the
sticks over his now useless bass. Throwing curt glances at a shitfaced oblivious Barney
and a knowing look at Gillian, he bears the song out by dancing at the side of the stage
with the Baby Hooky's who have been jigging throughout the set whilst dad was at work.
About halfway through a brand new second bass line also overtakes the song that makes it
sound twice as large. It sounds great and crap at once. Third best gig of the year, behind
the Apollo and Reading.
Watch New Years Eve's sold out show. It will be phenomenal. There's nowhere else I'd
rather be.
Shirts: NewOrdermanchester29.12.98 (designed by peter Saville) 14quid.
New Order recycle logo (standard and skinny fits, black and white) 14quid.
Joy Division forever 14 quid.
Temptation event record bags, hats and shirts 12-20 quid.
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December
16, 1998 |
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ELECTRONIC new single called
"Vivid" is now expected to be released on March 8th,
1999.
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December
15, 1998 |
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Reports from Antoine and Happy Jack According to London Records, the new Other Two single
is now to be called "You Can Fly" (The Vocalist is Melanie Wiliams, best known
for singing with Sub Sub on the single "Ain't No Love, Ain't No Use"), expected
to be released on January 11th, 1999. Their new
album, as yet untitled, is to be released on London Records, on Jan 29th.
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December
13, 1998 |
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Reports from NME:
NEW ORDER have recorded a new session for a John
Peel OBE Show Christmas special which will be broadcast on December 30 between 10pm and midnight GMT. They will play
a selection of songs from their career as JOY DIVISION and New Order. The
songs are 'Atmosphere', 'True Faith', 'Isolation' and 'Touched By
The Hand Of God'. Peel will also be talking to them in an exclusive interview.
Also Bobby Gillespie (Primal scream)
guests on backing vocals on two of the tracks.
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December 9,
1998 |
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Reports from ALLSTAR:
Having tested the waters with a couple of shows over the past few months, and with a big
New Year's Eve concert on the horizon, New Order
will indeed enter a recording studio for the first time in six years next summer. They are
currently in the writing stages and have no new shows planned for 1999, according to a
source close to the band. New Order's last album, Republic, surfaced in 1993...
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December 8,
1998 |
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Reports from Antoine and Happy Jack The John Peel program on December 30th
will contain the rest of the Reading gig that wasn't broadcast on Monday along with a new
session and (reportedly) New Order co-hosting the show.
Next month's Uncut magazine contains a
huge story on New Order.
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November
26, 1998 |
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BBC Radio 1 will be broadcasting the New Order
set from Reading 98 between 8:00PM and 12:00AM, Monday 30th November 1998 on Steve Lamacq's show.
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November
19, 1998 |
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The Other Two new single called
"Weird Drum Woman" is now expected to be released on January
11th, 1999.
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November
18, 1998 |
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Reports from NME:
A spokesman for JOHNNY MARR told NME that
the new album from Electronic was almost finished and could be released "Early Next
Year". He said that the follow-up to 1996's 'Raise The Pressure' was "sounding
great" but no titles could be revealed as yet. He added that it was possible that
live dates would be organized around its release.
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November
17, 1998 |
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If you'd like to win 10 New Order CD
- www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/reception/newordercomp.html
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- Also Take a look at
The
Website Interview with New Order and Electronics' front man Bernard Sumner.
- www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/reception/neworder.html
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November 3,
1998 |
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Reports from Ally Monaco should appear on ITV (UK channel 3) on Nov 7th,
playing "You Should Be Dancin". Also a compilation called Streetwise
has been released in UK which contain a unique remix of 'Buzz Gum' by Kahuna
FC.
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October 31,
1998 |
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To get the latest info related to New Order shows called Temptation
in December.
Please check the official webpage at
www.mf-temptation.co.uk.
For the Alexandra Palace: www.alexandrapalace.com
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October 28,
1998 |
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Reports from the USA:
NEW ORDER is expected to tour Summer
1999 in the USA (though this is not
confirmed yet).
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October 23,
1998 |
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EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Reading 98
MONACO and NEW ORDER
From my friend, photographer, Fabrice Chassery. Please do not take or use those photos without authorization. They
are copyrighted. Just for your own
pleasure. Thanks.
- click photo for the link
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- Monaco Photos
 New Order Photos
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October 22,
1998 |
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Reports from Ally
Monaco will play a gig on Monday 26th October at the
"Ministry Of Sound" dance club in London. The show is not open to public, a
Polydor party. Seems to celebrate the release of Bee Gees tribute album the same day.
On October 12, a new member of the Hook family was born a
baby girl named Jess after Heather(12) and Jack(8) (from his
first marriage with Iris Bates). Peter Hook is married with Rebecca Jones since May 12,
1997.
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October 16,
1998 |
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Report from Rocktropolis: Electronic, the uber- rocktronic duo consisting of Bernard Sumner of New Order and
ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, are currently mastering their third album, tentatively
titled Twisted Tenderness, in the U.K.
While the album will be released sometime early next year on Parlophone Records in
England, the band has parted ways with their American label, Warner Bros. Records, at their
own request.
According to a source close to the band, they are currently shopping around for a new
deal in the U.S. However, Ignition Management, the band's U.K. management company, will
only say that no announcements will be made regarding the band's U.S. status for several
months. A source at Warner Bros. did confirm that the label will not be putting out the
record, but had no further comment on the events surrounding the band's departure.
Meanwhile, Sumner is very enthusiastic about the songs on the band's third album,
especially its tentative title track. "We wrote 'Twisted Tenderness' on guitar,"
recalls Sumner. "We got it programmed and we started playing it on the synthesizer,
and it turned into a dance tune and sounded fucking great." Electronic had originally
planned on après-Christmas release for Twisted Tenderness, but the New Order reunion
obviously has taken a large chunk of Sumner's time away from the album in the past nine
months.
As for touring, which the band has done very little of in the past, don't count on it.
With a New Order tour still likely next year and Electronics' American status in limbo, it
doesn't look good. Sumner would like to, but the band has only played sporadic gigs in
Europe and England in the past --and besides, according to Sumner, getting Marr out of the
studio is a process in itself. "Johnny's always pretty vague about playing
live," says Sumner. "He's always writing songs, and I just think he likes being
in the studio. I'm a bit sick of it now."
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© Kevin Raub, N2K Inc
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October 14,
1998 |
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Monaco's cover of "You Should Be Dancing" is
featured on a Bee Gees tribute album, 'Gotta Get A Message To You', release finally by
Polydor October 26. 13 track includes cover versions also by The Orb, Lightning Seeds, 911, Ultra Nate,
Space, Louise, Cleopatra & more.
It's a song they rerecorded three times. "The first version was a bit frightening to
tell the truth," Peter Lorraine (artist development manager at Polydor) said.
"Hooky was singing on it. In the end they enlisted the help of a session singer.
Hooky really liked the song. It's great, it starts off with a disco type thing and all the
time you're just waiting for that New Order bass sound to come in."
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October 12,
1998 |
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This Live Ad was taken from the NME. Enjoy The Show.
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October 1,
1998 |
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AFTER several successful comeback gigs, indie-dance icons New Order are headlining two
shows called Temptation in December.
At Manchester's 8,000 capacity Evening News Arena on
December 29,they'll be joined by live acts Laurent Garnier and the Lionrock SoundSystem,
and DJs Justin Robertson, Luke Slater, Andrew Weatherall and James Holroyd.
At London's 12,500-capacity Alexandra Palace on New Year's
Eve, their guests are Underworld and Audioweb, plus Sasha, Judge Jules and Pete Tongin the
Radio One Essential Mix room, and Monkey Mafia, The Chemical Brothers (DJing), Richard
Fearless, Bronx Dogs and the Scratch Pervertsin the Heavenly Jukebox room. Both events run
from 9pm to 6am, with tickets priced at £30 for the Manchester show and £39 for the
London show.
Contact 0161-832-1111/0181-963-0940 for further details.
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September
19, 1998 |
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Reports from Antoine and Happy Jack New Order and James will play gig in Manchester (Sep 21) for the handover of the
Commonwealth Games from Kuala Lumpur to Manchester. New Order have also recorded a new
version of Temptation for this ceremony also.
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September
8, 1998 |
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Reports from NME:
NEW ORDER are to headline a New Year's Eve show at London's Alexandra Palace, have also
lined up an all-nighter at Manchester G-Mex for December 29.The gigs come in the wake of
the band's successful Reading Festival reunion. Both shows will run from 9pm to 6am and
support acts are currently being confirmed. New Order are also promising a new album next
year to coincide with a string of US dates. Bassist Peter Hook told Radio 1 in the UK: "We're doing a new album in the new
year. We're getting on very well. It's the first time in years that we've actually enjoyed
each other's company, and I'm very pleased about it indeed. I'm looking forward to it and
it's not been very often I've been able to say that!" Singer Bernard Sumner, however,
was more cautious: "We're kind of taking it one day at a time. If you think too far
into the future, you get stressed out. The project at the moment is these gigs. We'll see
how they go and then think about writing together in the future."
The first new release from the band will be their long-awaited box set, featuring a
number of previously unreleased tracks. Called 'Recycle', it is set for release in
January. Electronics' third LP, 'Twisted Tenderness', will also surface in January, and
Hook is finishing off Monaco's second album. "I think the important thing with New
Order this time is that we actually work together," Hook said. "Whereas with
'Republic' (New Order's 1993 album), we were working apart."
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