Forty years ago this month, April 1984, New Order released their single Thieves Like Us B/W Lonesome Tonight.
This live cut of Lonesome Tonight, recorded in 1983, is vastly superior to the studio version, predominantly due to Hooky's monster bassline and Stephen Morris’ propulsive drumming pushed to the fore.
This video is a new edit and restoration of footage from the 20 July Hacienda show, sourced from the 1984 Channel 4 mini documentary Play at Home and excerpts from footage of the entire Hacienda show.
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Play at Home was a series of nine, one hour shows, wherein bands were given total control over the program's content with no input from the production company or Channel 4. Some of the other bands featured were Special AKA, The Bunnymen, The Banshees, XTC.
New Order Play at Home featured three live performances filmed at the Hacienda. The film also features ironic interviews with the members of New Order, Factory Records boss Tony Wilson, and other Factory and Manchester luminaries Martin Hannett, Rob Gretton, Alan Erasmus, Peter Saville and Pete Shelley, and others.
From a Dangerous Minds feature about New Order Play at Home:
The star of the proceedings is really Tony Wilson, which makes this movie an interesting companion piece to 24 Hour Party People, which also centered on Wilson [as embodied by Steve Coogan]. Wilson spends much of the documentary in a bathtub [naked], and one of the first things that happens is that Gillian Gilbert jumps into the bathtub [clothed] and starts to interview him.
One of the most memorable moments is a bird’s-eye shot of the two of them in the tub, Wilson’s hands placed strategically over his privates, as he attempts to answer Gilbert’s question, which happens to be “Are you a capitalist?” That question, and the related question of Wilson’s financial relationship to the band, provides the seething subtext of hostility that percolates throughout the movie.
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I saw many New Order shows in the 80’s. Sometimes they were godlike and sometimes they were godawful. Sometimes when the band played an old favorite of mine, I thought they were unable to satisfactorily reproduce the studio version. On the other hand, sometimes when a new song was finally released, it failed to live up to the promise of the live versions I had heard. Case in point of the latter is Lonesome Tonight.
New Order only released one “new” record in 1984; the single Thieves Like Us B/W Lonesome Tonight. I loved Thieves Like Us, but initially I overlooked Lonesome Tonight, because of it's seemingly weak production. Then a few months later Channel 4 broadcasted the New Order Play at Home episode and to my astonishment a live version of Lonesome Tonight absolutely kicked ass!
Eight or nine years ago, when I started the Nachos Videos KZitem channel, one of the first “restorations” I tried was Lonesome Tonight from the Play at Home episode. I didn’t have good sources and the performance as shown on Play at Home was not complete, omitting the last minute or so. In 2020, New Order released the Power, Corruption & Lies [Definitive Edition] box set. The set features the Play at Home episode and video of the entire Hacienda 20 July 1983 show. Here I have merged the two sources to create a complete version of the Lonesome Tonight performance. You will notice that the latter one minute or so is in inferior quality with noticeable audio dropouts.
Thanks for watching, I hope you dig it!
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Credits
Video and Audio Source:
New Order | Lonesome Tonight | Live at The Hacienda | 20 July 1983
From “New Order Play at Home” | Channel 4 | RPM Media | Broadcast 19th October 1984
From “The Hacienda, Manchester, 1983” | Power, Corruption & Lies [Definitive Edition] | 2023
Sound | Adrian Richmond | RAK Mobile | Production | New Order
Musicians:
Bernard Sumner | Vocals, guitar
Peter Hook | Bass
Stephen Morris | Drums
Gillian Gilbert | Keyboards
© Universal Music Publishing Group
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