A list of various things people have noticed written on the speaker stacks
during New Order and related's concerts. If you have any additions or
corrections, please send to updates [AT] new-order [DOT] net.
David Hibell reports "they changed every day in the uk tour this year,
heaven & hell, salford rules apples pears etc - others will know more &
doubtless advise. He also reports what appeared during the Reading
Festival.
http://www.angelfire.com/band2/eterno/jane.jpg looks like it dates
from Technique, and reads "GUITAR NERO". My original guess of GUIN NESS
turned out to be incorrect, you can clearly see from
http://www.angelfire.com/band2/eterno/nero.jpg what it reads The girl
in the photo was named Jane and roadied for New Order during the Technique
tour, it seems, and was also spotted doing so during at least one Revenge
gig. [Note: for these, you'll need to copy/paste the links into a new
browser tab, as Lycos/Angelfire blocks direct access.]
- 871210 Wembley Arena
--- GUITAR NERO
- 881125 Maracanazinho - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
--- GUITAR NERO
- 890825 Reading Festival
--- SALFORD RULES
Mick Aneworderfan digs up a message from ceremony@frontios.niagara.edu.
- 930729 World Music Theatre - Chicago (area), Illinois
--- BASS HOWLOW CANUGO
- 930829 Reading Festival - Reading, England
--- BASS HOWLOW CANUGO
- 900423 Corn Exchange - Cambridge
--- FREE JEFF THE CHEF!
- 900904 Cologne (Revenge)
--- FREE JEFF THE CHEF!
- 910921 The Venue, London
--- FREE JEFF THE CHEF!
- 910024 LCOLP
--- FREE JEFF THE CHEF!
- 910804 Cities In The Park - Manchester
--- FREE JEFF THE CHEF!
- 970920 Astoria, London (Monaco)
--- FATTY
- 980716 Apollo Theatre - Manchester (and Commonwealth Games perf)
--- HELLO MUM
- 981127 TFI (Channel 4)
--- HELLO MUM!
- 981231 Alexandra Palace (Ally Pally) London
--- HELLO MEN
Al Jarvis says SALFORD RULES was featured on all the US dates. It also features on
the Cologne gig opening for Robbie Williams.
Also reported by Al Jarvis.
- 011007 Barrowlands, Glasgow
- 011008 Barrowlands, Glasgow
--- APPLY WITHIN
Don't know if these appeared in series on each date or all at once for
all three. Mark Dingham suggests these may have changed during
the performance, as he also recalls HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSICA but when
he looked again, it had changed to something else. David Hibell spotted
VINYL PSYCHOSIS during the 011011 gig; Al Jarvis (among others) the
rest.
- 011010 Brixton Academy, London
--- APPLES PEARS
- 011011 Brixton Academy, London
--- HEAVEN HELL
- 011011 Brixton Academy, London
--- VINYL PSYCHOSIS
- 011012 Brixton Academy, London
--- HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSICA
- 011019 Jools
--- SALFORD RULES
Mark Harding and Sabine's Lover confirmed these.
- 011111 Olympia, Paris
--- VIVA SALFORD
- 011112 Olympia, Paris
--- VIVA SALFORD
Roland Metzer reports this was "In remembrance of Germany's 1-5 loss
to England during the world cup qualifyer in Munich...". Mark Harding
reports this was written in German...
Thanks to the webcast...
- 011116 Palladium, Cologne
--- SALFORD RULES
Another one reported by Al Jarvis.
- 011118 Cirkus, Stockholm
--- LIVING LEGEND
2002 dates:
- 020120 Melbourne Showgrounds - Melbourne, Australia
--- SALFORD RULES
- 020130 Metro - Melbourne, Australia
--- ADDICTED TO BASS
- 020609 Finsbury Park, London
--- BYE BYE DEE DEE
- 020615 Hultsfred Festival - Hultsfred, Sweden
--- BYE BYE DEE DEE
- 020622 Hurricane Festival - Hamburg
--- PEACE LOVE
Lars Nellemann originally reported this as "R.I.P The O", but Al Jarvis
later sent in a correction, though he wasn't sure about the BYE BYE
part.
- 020629 Roskilde, Denmark
--- BYE BYE THE OX
- 050217 NME Awards, Hammersmith Palais Brixton
--- EUPHORIC RECALL
- 050429-050505 US dates (Oakland, Coachella, Chicago, NYC)
--- SALFORD'S BACK
- 050512 Jonathan Ross (UK 'Jetstream' promo appearances)
--- WIVING WEGENDS
- 050528 Super Bock Festival, Lisbon
--- VIVA LA ...
- 050603 Jools Holland
--- WATCH YER HANDBARA
- 050624 Hyde Park, London
--- HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAUREN 14
- 050625 Glastonbury Festival
--- SALFORD RULES
- 050610 Southside Festival, Germany
--- FASCIST(?) VERBOTEN
- 050630 Rock Werchter Festival, Belgium
--- SALFORD RULES
- 050709 T In The Park
--- LOVE TO LONDON
- 050722 Festival Des Vieilles Charrues Brittany France
--- LOVE TO LONDON
- 051012 John Peel Memorial - Queen Elizabeth Hall London
--- GOD HAS A DJ
- 051106 UK Music Hall Of Fame
--- BAAD PETER
- 051110 The Academy - Brixton
--- COCKNEY ...
- 051114 The Apollo - Manchester
--- RIP VALHALLA PHIL GRUBB
('CHUBB' had been written initially in error)
- 060603 Ejekt Festival - Athens, Greece
--- 0306??
- 060708 Summer Pops - Liverpool
--- SALFORD STAR [SYMBOL OF STAR OF DAVID]
- 060714 Vinas Viejas - Boardilla del Monte (Madrid) Spain (Summercase)
--- SALFORD STAR [SYMBOL OF STAR OF DAVID]
- 060715 Anilla Olimpica - Montjuic (Barcelona) Spain (Summercase)
--- SALFORD STAR [SYMBOL OF STAR OF DAVID]
- 060902 Electric Picnic - Stradbally Hall Estate
--- SALFORD STAR [SYMBOL OF STAR OF DAVID]
- 061011 Academy - Newcastle
--- I'M WITH STUPID??
- 061016 Empress Ballroom - Blackpool
--- CBGB GBNF
- 061018 Carling Academy - Glasgow
--- OOPYER KILT
- 061019 Carling Academy - Glasgow
--- OOPYER KILT
- 061027 Wembley Arena - London
--- LONDON'S BORIN'
- 061029 Civic Hall - Wolverhampton
--- WHO'S 'FRAID
- 061110 Ginasio Nilson Nelson - Brasilia
--- MR HORSE
- 061111 Mineirao Stadium - Belo Horizonte
--- ONCE UPON A TIME
- 061113 Via Funchal - Sao Paulo
--- TWO BOYS
- 061114 Via Funchal - Sao Paulo
--- STARTED A GROUP
- 061116 Vivo Rio - Rio de Janeiro
--- IT FELL APART
- 061118 Club Ciudad - Buenos Aires
--- THE END
According to 'One Brain' the full sentence on the speakers of the South American
tour read was "Mr. Horse, once upon a time two boys started a group. It fell apart.
The end." I've filled in the other dates besides 061114 and 061118 from this
information. This is very interesting, as it reveals the trouble started before
then final set of dates.
Al Jarvis adds:
"Hooky always used to have a Death's Head on his speakers in the good ol'
days.
Personal favourites were GUITAR NERO (yes, Nero, not Hero) and BASS HOW LOW
CAN U GO? (Jonathan Scott, did a High School in Glasgow REALLY get vandelised
with that graffiti?)"
Super User reports:
"Another old one was 'GAY SPUNK' which is from 1985 or so."
TJ reports that in fact this said 'GAY SPERM' and that this wasn't put on
there by Hooky, but was in fact the name of the company they had hired the
backline from.
