Joy Division
Live at University of London Union, London (February 8, 1980)
This post also contains also any flavor text (as in vocals in between songs) in addition to all the lyrics. The flavor text will appear in italics.
Track-List:
1. Dead Souls
2. Glass
3. A Means to an End
4. Twenty-Four Hours
5. Passover
6. Insight
7. Colony
8. These Days
9. Love Will Tear Us Apart
10. Isolation
-Encore Break-
11. The Eternal
12. Digital
I originally intended on having every gig transcript I post on my blog on the day of the month it originally happened, starting with the January 1980 dates. Sadly, that didn't happen as planned, and I don't really intend on doing it. This one gig, though, will be the special exception. 33 years ago today, the ULU Joy Division gig happened. And it must've been glorious.
11. The Eternal
12. Digital
I originally intended on having every gig transcript I post on my blog on the day of the month it originally happened, starting with the January 1980 dates. Sadly, that didn't happen as planned, and I don't really intend on doing it. This one gig, though, will be the special exception. 33 years ago today, the ULU Joy Division gig happened. And it must've been glorious.
The concert was recorded by Duncan Haysom, whom you can clearly hear cheering after each song. There are multiple recordings, but the most common and famous one is Duncan's. It's the one that was used for the 2007 remaster of Closer and was also re-remastered in November 2012 by Analog Loyalist for his blog. I used the 2012 remaster to decode the gig.
Duncan remembers: "At the start of the gig Ian was about to intro the band when Steve cut in and started the drumming on Dead Souls so Ian just started dancing. The second chorus is sung by Hooky because the lead to Ian's microphone fell out...It fell out twice; I can't remember if Hooky picked up the vocals on the other time. Ian just dropped the mic to the floor and walked away when it happened on the chorus...There may be some more photos of this gig.”
Peter Hook had to sing the second chorus and the “Calling me...” chorus by himself. Ian came back for the final chorus. It seems Peter Hook only sang the first three lines of each chorus (except the “Calling me...” one).
The gig overall is excellent. Not sure if it's one of their best, though. The quality and clarity of the sound is heavily improved by Analog's remasters, but multiple equipment problems during the gig itself continually plague the sound, all throughout. Stephen's drums really sound screwed up; only the cymbals sound normal. Ian's vocals are also screwed up, as Duncan states...
However, this is the quintessential Closer gig. SIX songs from the album were played at this gig (including rarities like "The Eternal"), which is more than any other known gig. Only "Atrocity Exhibition", "Heart and Soul", and "Decades" were left out. The gig also has the LWTUA single - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and "These Days", which kinda went alongside the Closer album, just as the Transmission single went with Unknown Pleasures. Couple that with the older songs "Digital", "Glass", "Insight", and "Dead Souls", and you have a pretty well rounded gig that can be taken as a visible evolution of the band's career.
Side Note: Still, I wish they would've used the Lyceum Ballroom (February 29, 1980) gig for the 2007 Closer remaster instead. Why? Well, FIVE songs from the Closer album were played at that gig (including "The Eternal" and "Heart and Soul"), the LWTUA single, the synth rendition of "She's Lost Control" (implemented in late February 1980), and most importantly the very rare appearances of "Incubation" and "Komakino", which were Closer outtakes. Also a five-song long soundcheck, which has extra versions of "Incubation" and "Komakino" as well.
This is gig has the absolute BEST version of "Passover" I've ever heard. One of my favorite live JD songs, for sure!
As far as we know, this gig debuts "Isolation". The somewhat different lyrics makes it show.
Ian played his coffin guitar on “The Eternal” (according to Analog Loyalist); sounds during that song are akin to that of “Love Will Tear Us Apart”. I'm pretty sure Ian didn't normally play guitar on “The Eternal”, but this being an early version, they were probably still figuring things out. It also doesn't sound like Bernard plays both keyboards simultaneously at any point in the song (Bernard had two keyboards; one he used for the normal synth drones and the second for the chirping bird sound effects), unlike at the Lyceum Ballroom gig.
Audience member: Yee-hah!
Audience member: Warsaw!
Dead Souls
Someone take these dreams away
That point me to another day
A jewel of personalities
Break all true realities
And keep calling me
They keep calling me
Keep on calling me
They keep calling me
Where figures from the past stand tall
And mocking voices ring the halls
Imperialistic house of prayer
Conquistadors who took their share
They keep calling me
They keep calling me
Keep on calling me
Calling me...
Calling me...
Calling me...
Calling me...
They keep calling me
Keep on calling me
They keep calling me
They keep calling me
Glass
*Drums start up
Audience member: HOOKY! Warsaw!
Audience member: Yay!
Audience member: Hooky!
Hearts fail, young hearts fail
Any time, wearing down
On the run, on the ground
Take it quick, take it neat
Take it quick, take it neat
Take it quick, take it neat, take it quick, take it neat, take it quick...
Take it neat
Hearts fail, young hearts fail
Any time, wearing down
Overheat, overtired
Put your hands where they're safe
Keep your hands where they're safe
Do it again
Do it again and again and again
Do it again and again and again
Do it again and again and again
Do it again and again and again
Any time, pressurized
Turn around and do it again
Any time, pressurized
Turn around and do it again
Turn around and do it again
Turn around and do it again
Do it again
Do it again and again and again
Do it again and again and again
Do it again and again and again
Do it again and again and again
Do it again and again and again
Audience member: Hooky!
A Means to an End
A legacy, so far removed
One day will be improved
Eternal rights, we left behind
We were the better kind
Two the same, set free too
I put my trust in you
I put my trust in you
I put my trust in you!
I put my trust in you!
Fought all good, stood side by side
Our friendship never died
...With points to prove
Our vision touched the sky
Captives souls, depart too soon
I put my trust in you
I put my trust in you
I put my trust in you
I put my trust in you!
I put my trust in you!
A house somewhere, on foreign soil
Where aging lovers call
Had to see your final needs
Where dogs and vultures eat
Come to this, I turn to go
I put my trust in you
I put my trust in you
I put my trust in you!
I put my trust in you!
In you, in you, in you
Put my trust in you, in you
Twenty-Four Hours
So this is permanence, love's shattered pride
What once was innocence, turned on its side
A cloud hangs over me, marks every move
Deep in the memory, what once was love
Oh, how I realized how I wanted time
Put into perspective, all I had to find
Just for one moment, thought I had my way
Looked beyond the day in hand, I watched it slide away
Excessive flash-points, beyond all reach
Solitary demands for, all I'd like to keep
Let's take a ride out, see what we can find
Valueless collection of hopes and past desires
Oh, how I realized how I needed time
Put into perspective, all I had to find
Just for one moment, thought I had my way
Looked beyond the day in hand, I watched it slide away
Now that I've realized, how it's all gone wrong
Gotta find some therapy; this treatment takes too long
Deep in the heart of, sympathy held sway
Gotta find my destiny before it gets too late
Audience member: Warsaw!
Passover
This is the crisis I knew had to come
Destroying the balance I kept
Moving, unsettling, and turning around
Wondering what will come next
Is this a role that you wanted to live?
I was foolish to ask for so much
Without the protection and infancy's guard
It all falls apart at first touch
Watching the reel as it comes to a close
Brutally taking its time
People who change for no reason at all
It's happening all of the time
Can I go on with this chain of events,
Disturbing and purging my mind?
Back out of my duties when all's said and done
I know that I'll lose every time
Moving along in our God-given ways
Safety is sat by the fire
Sanctuary from these feverish smiles
Left with a mark on the door
Is this the gift that I wanted to give?
Forgive and forget's what they teach
Or pass through the deserts and wastelands once more
And watch as they drop on the beach
This is the crisis I knew had to come
Destroying the balance I'd kept
Turning around to the next set of lives
Wondering what will come next...
Audience member: Warsaw! Warsaw! Warsaw! Warsaw!
Audience member: Love will tear us apart!
Insight
Guess your dreams always end
They don’t rise up, just descend
I don’t care anymore
Lost the will to want more
Not afraid, not at all
I watch them all as they fall
But I remember, when we were young
Those with habits that waste
Sense of style and good taste
Making sure you were right
Hey, don’t you know you were right?
Not afraid anymore
I keep my eyes on the door
But I remember…
Tears and sadness for you
More upheaval for you
Reflects a moment in time
Special moment in time
Yeah, we wasted our time
We didn't really have time
But we remember, when we were young
All God’s angels beware
All you judges beware
You sons of chance, take good care
For all the people not there
Not afraid anymore
I'm not afraid anymore
Oh, I’m not afraid anymore
Oh, I’m not afraid anymore
Audience member: Warsaw! Warsaw!
Audience member: Love will tear us apart!
Audience members: Yay! Wooh!
Audience member: Disorder!
Colony
A cry for help, a hint of anesthesia
The sound from broken homes, we used to always meet here
I watch all Hell break loose, confined and don't repair
Is this what life's about? Is this the dream we share?
Can you help me, can you spare some time?
No apologies, 'cause all these thoughts were mine
Hope to find some friends that I can lead astray
Betray father's sleep, witness dormant grave
I can't see why all these confrontations
I can't see why all these dislocations
No family life just made me feel uneasy
Stood alone, here in this colony
In this colony
In this colony
In this colony
In this colony
Dear God in his wisdom took you by the hand
Dear God in his wisdom made you understand
Dear God in his wisdom took you by the hand
Dear God in his wisdom made you understand
Dear God in his wisdom took you by the hand
Dear God in his wisdom made you understand
Dear God in his wisdom took you by the hand
Dear God in his wisdom made you understand
In this colony
In this colony
In this colony
In this colony
Audience member: Warsaw! Warsaw!
Audience member: Lost control!
These Days
Morning seems strange, almost out of place
Searched hard for you and your special ways
In these days, these days
Spent all my time, learned a killer's art
Took threats and abuse, till I learned my part
Can you stay, for these days?
These days
These days
Used outward deceptions to get away
Broken hot romance to make it pay
These days, these days
These days
These days
Drag through it all, it's the modern age
Take care of it all, now these debts are paid
Can you stay, for these days?
Audience member: Warsaw! Warsaw!
Audience member: Lost control! She's lost control!
Audience member: Disorder!
Audience member: Piano's coming to drag him, now.
Audience member (in response to the above statement): What?
Audience member: Oh my God...oh my.
Love Will Tear Us Apart
When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high, but emotions won’t grow
And we’re changing our ways, taking different roads
Then, love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Why is the bedroom so cold? Turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed? Our respect runs so dry
Yet there’s still this appeal that we’ve kept through our lives
But love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Do you cry out in your sleep? All my failings exposed
There’s a taste in my mouth as desperation takes hold
Yet it’s something so good, just can’t function no more
But love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Audience member: Lost control!
Audience member: Transmission! (cut off on Duncan's tape)
Isolation
Fear, everyday, every evening
Calls her aloud from above
Case is secluded for reasons
Painstaking devotion and love
Surrendered to self preservation
Those who just care for themselves
A blindness that touches perfection
But hurts just like anything else
Isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation
Mother, I tried; please believe me
Doing the best that I can
Ashamed of the things I’ve been put through
Ashamed of the person I am
Isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation
Those who could see all the beauty
Of things I could never describe
This is my one consolation
This is my one lucky prize
Isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation
Ian: K you.
-Encore Break-
*Audience screaming and calling for an encore
Duncan: More! More!
*Whistles
Duncan: Oh, you bastard.
Audience member: I know they're gonna come back.
*Cheering escalates (probably signaling the band coming back)
Audience member: Lost control!
Duncan(?): 'Bout fucking time.
Audience member: She's lost control!
Audience member: Transmission!
*Miscellaneous requests
Audience member: Exercise One!
Audience member: WARSAW! WARSAW! WARSAW!
*Audience quiets as Peter plays first note of bass for “The Eternal”
Audience member: She's lost control! (sounds like 'Minister Trout!')
The Eternal
Audience member: As I said, their electric guitar...
*A bit more chatter
Procession moves on, the shouting is over
Praise to the glory, of loved ones now gone
Talking, they shout, as they sit ‘round their tables
Scattering flowers, washed down by the rain
Played by the gate, at the foot of the garden
Watching them pass, like clouds in the sky
Try to cry out, in the heat of the moment
Stood by a fury that burns from inside
Cry like a child, though these years make me older
With children, my time is so wastefully spent
A burden to keep, though their inner communion
Accept like a curse an unlucky deal
Stood by the gate, at the foot of the garden
My view stretches out from the fence to the wall
No words could describe, no actions determine
Just watching the trees and the leaves as they fall
Audience member: Lost control!
Digital
Feel it closing in…
Feel it closing in…
The fear of whom I call
Hearing someone call
Feel it closing in
Feel it closing in
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Feel it closing in
Patterns start to form
Feeling cold then warm
Patterns on the wall
Feel it closing in
Feel it closing in
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Day in, day out
Still, I look around
To see just what happened
Stood by the door alone
And now it’s fade away
I see you fade away
Don’t ever fade away
I need you here today
Don’t ever fade away
Don’t ever fade away
Fade away, fade away, fade away
Fade away, fade away, fade away, fade away
Fade away, fade away, fade away, fade away
Ian: Thank you, goodnight.
*Audience calls for more
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