Joy Division
All God's Angels Beware
Here's another liberated bootleg from Japan. If ever there was one Joy Division I wish I could have attended, it might well be their phenomenal performance at the first Futurama Sci-Fi Festival, held over 2 days in September 1979. This is partly due to the fact that the surviving 'Duncan' recording, while still listenable (certainly in this low-generation copy), is not impeccable due to the poor acoustics of the venue (the recording has a rather hollow/cavernous echo). Anyway, this is as good as it gets, so enjoy. It's certainly a vast improvement over the original vinyl bootleg (which had fades between the tracks). Dead Souls also is cut on the first half of the track
This concert took place exactly one week before the band's unforgettable performance on BBC 2's "Something Else"... Everybody who was ever fortunate enough to see that, knows that this was a band firing on all cylinders at that particular point in time.
As a bonus you get one of several circulating recordings of the concert performed 6 weeks earlier at the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool, around the time Unknown Pleasures was released to an unsuspecting world. Obviously, the band chose to play only three tracks from that LP, along with two brand-new tracks bookending the gig, the forthcoming single and two further gems from their already impressive back-log.
* Imperial Hotel, Blackpool, July 27, 1979
1. Dead Souls (final minute only)
2. Glass
3. Disorder
4. Auto-Suggestion
5. Transmission
6. She's Lost Control
7. Shadowplay
8. Atrocity Exhibition
* Futurama Sci-Fi Festival, Leeds, September 8, 1979
9. I Remember Nothing
10. Wilderness
11. Transmission
12. Colony
13. Disorder
14. Insight
15. Shadowplay
16. She's Lost Control
17. Atrocity Exhibition
18. (encore) Dead Souls
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