NOMC15
NEW ORDER

3LP £25.00 Exc VAT: £20.83
  • SKU: STUMM420
  • UPC: 5414940005653
  • Release Date: 01 December 2017

Description

Label Review. 

2017 live album.  Recorded November 2015 at Brixton Academy. Also available on CD.

Our Overview. 

November 2015 saw the legendary New Order return to play two nights at a sold out Brixton Academy in support of the new album ‘Music Complete’. The Guardian said, “[New Order] shimmer through an untouchable back catalogue of electro alchemy… just when it was needed, they have delivered us a profoundly life-affirming evening”. The second of the two shows was captured by Live Here Now and is released as ‘NOMC15’ (New Order Music Complete 15).

New Order are one of the few bands who sprung out of the late 1970s punk movement who are still recording and performing nearly 40 years later. Rising from the ashes of Joy Division after the sucide of lead singer Ian Curtis, the remaining members Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris renamed themselves New Order and continued where they left off with an increasing reliance on synthesizers which led them to recruit Gillian Gilbert to handle keyboard duties. By 1983 they released what remains the biggest selling 12” single of all time: ‘Blue Monday’. Due to the production costs of the die-cut sleeve, made to look like a computer floppy disc, the group claimed they lost money on every copy sold!

Although the band’s record sales were not massive, their credibility rating was sky high with fans and the music press and even their 1990 collaboration with the England Football World Cup Squad failed to cause the band any problems, reaching No.1 in the UK charts.

The groups work rate slowed up after this and their 1993 album ‘Republic’, their first for London Records after the demise of Factory, the label that looked after them from the start (or was it the other way round!) would be their last for eight years. That album ‘Get Ready’ would be the last with Gilbert who retired to look after her children (she was married to Morris) and was replaced with Phil Cunningham. His first record with the group would be 2005’s ‘Waiting For The Siren’s Call’ which in turn would be the last with founding member Peter Hook who left the band acrimoniously in 2007. The band re-grouped with Gilbert (minus Hook) for their 2015 comeback album ‘Music Complete’.

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