New Order at Brixton Academy

From the NME website, as I'm too lazy to write anything myself!

"New Order performed a collection of classic anthems and legendary Joy Division songs last night (November 10) for the first of two special shows in London and Manchester. The legendary four-piece treated fans to a 90-minute set at Brixton Academy packed with hits from their back catalogue including Ceremony, Bizarre Love Triangle, Temptation, True Faith, Regret and Blue Monday, a song which the band were forced to cut from their Glastonbury set this year. They also threw in Joy Division favourites Transmission, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Shadowplay and Warsaw. During the encore, singer Bernard Sumner even pulled their video producer Michael Shamberg up on stage for a special dedication. The New Order frontman said: "We would like to dedicate this next track to Michael Shamberg. Give him a cheer, he hasn't been very well lately," before Sumner launched into the Joy Division track Shadowplay. He also took a swipe at Green Day after performing early hit Warsaw when he said: "That was one of our first singles and that is what shit Green Day try and play". They closed the set with She's Lost Control."

That New Order setlist in full:

• Ceremony
• Love Vigilantes
• Crystal
• Regret
• Krafty
• Turn
• Transmission
• Your Silent Face
• Waiting For The Sirens Call
• True Faith
• Bizarre Love Triangle
• Love Will Tear Us Apart
• Temptation
• Blue Monday
• Shadowplay
• Warsaw
• She's Lost Control

Seeing New Order live after so many years was an undoubted highlight of a wholly entertaining day - for an 'electronic' band their sound was a lot beefier than I'd expected. During the afternoon I hung out in my favourite bar in Chinatown with James, Mike and Stevie B where we took full advantage of their 2 for 1 offer on cocktails and talked a lot of nonsense about films. The journey home with Stevie B was enlivened by a couple of kids who'd got on the wrong train and a drunk lady who was bothering the bloke opposite (while we pretended to be asleep) and then passed out on the seat next to me - and refused to budge once we reached Brighton. After finding the biggest puddle of mud in Victoria Gardens which absolutely caked my shoes and jeans as we walked home, we then got accosted on Edward Street by another wino desperate for a smoke, who then got all stroppy when we walked off instead of staying to listen to her no doubt fascinating story about her dropping her bottle of wine... aaaah, the delights of excessive drinking!