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2002
Newsroom 2002
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Info from Alex
Excellent
article in the national UK free paper Metro today (page 14) in which
Hooky talks about playing next summer, the Hacienda flats having a
plaque to Rob Gretton in the lobby, laying laminate flooring while
listening to Brotherhood (!), the box set, etc.
done by
www.metro.co.uk
Info from Alex
The latest issue of
'Jack' magazine (January 2003 -
out now in the UK) has
an interview with
New Order at the Macclesfield studio. The
interview has
been given its own Factory number -
Fac 413 and thus is a collectors issue.
The band members conduct the interview by going through various pieces of
NO and JD memorabilia and the stories linked to them e.g Barney's
melodica.
The interview and photos run to 8 pages , but this is only Part 1. Part
2
will be in next months edition
'Jack' is a newish magazine founded
by James Brown who used to edit
'Loaded' and it comes in an A3 format rather than A4 like standard
magazines. It cost 2.50. Their website is
www.jackthemag.com
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December
21,
2002 |
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100 RECORD CARDS: Peter Saville
21 December 2002 - 9 January 2003
Legendary graphic designer Saville
(Joy
Division, New Order sleeves...)brings in the New Year by
publishing one idea per day, for twenty days,
drawn from a selection of 100 of his concepts,
hand-written on record cards.
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December
20,
2002 |
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Rhino
Records will release the four-disc New
Order box set Retro on
January 7th, 2003
(US).
There
is going to be a
limited edition Retro Bonus CD that will come free with the
first 3000
boxsets in US at
selected independent retailers. Preorder the
boxset now, get 10% and get the limited bonus Disk. Hurry up only 3000
Bonus CD. This offer is only for US
customers, for all overseas fans who are still
interested, email me at
retro@worldinmotion.net I could have the box delivered to me and
forward to you!!!
Follow this link to order and/or to win a signed guitar
by New Order!!!
http://www.rhino.com/artists/neworder
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December
17,
2002 |
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EXCLUSIVE
NEW ORDER NEWS
T here
is going to be a
limited edition
International
Bonus
DVD that will come free
in US at participating music stores. Release date in the US is
February 2nd, 2003. Keep checking this
page for exclusive link to buy this limited edition.
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BONUS
DVD will include "True Faith" music video
(Directed by Philippe Decoufle), "Perfect Kiss"
music video (Directed by Jonathan Demme)
and "Blue Monday" live performance from live DVD "5/11."
INTERNATIONAL
CD
Ceremony 4'23
/ Blue Monday 7'24 ( Original 12 " mix )
/ Confusion 4.41
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Thieves like us 6'36
/ Perfect kiss 4.49
/ Shellshock 6'28
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Bizarre love triangle 6'42 ( Shep Pettibone 12 " mix )
/ True faith 5.49
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Touched by the hand of god 7'03 (original 12 " ) /
Round & Round 3.56 / Regret 4.08
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Crystal 6'50
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60Miles An Hour 4'34
/
Here to Stay (Radio Edit) 4.54
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December
16,
2002 |
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Info from Patrick
I
want to introduce you to band that some people have compared to
Joy Division & New
Order. They are called
SERIAL
P.O.P..
They are based in London, and signed to my indie
record label, Good Science Recordings.
The URL
is:
www.serialpop.com
‘Like New Order, Blur, Devo and Captain
Beefheart swapping ideas and insults over a
lethal cocktail of alcoholic beverages." – Radio One.
" If
Kraftwerk did guitars. At times veering
towards Leftfield, at times more Joy Division, this is
greyfiltered indie,
excellently played, but more bleak on the inside that you first expect."
- DrownedInSound.Com
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December
14,
2002 |
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Review from dotmusic.com
 New
Order chose a succinctly foretelling name in the aftermath of Ian
Curtis's suicide. It speaks of a group intent on putting their
glorious but infernally doomed past behind them. A group who would
engineer a pioneering musical vision and, interestingly, write the first
decent football song.
'Retro' - in theory - bids to reflect the
resurrection of a group of gloomy, post-punk torch-bearers, who became a
revolutionary pop group and ultimately infiltrated and shaped modern
music in a more consuming fashion than even Joy Division could
consider. However, these four CDs ask more questions than they answer.
Like, what is the point of a box set, could New Order really be
so contrary in compiling their imperious legacy and where the f*ck is
'Thieves Like Us'?
Both the 'Fan' and 'Pop' collections bring together
some of the finest British music of the last 20 years, as New Order
brought club culture smashing into the soul-infused, enthrallingly lucid
but 'traditional' sensibilities already honed by Sumner, Hook
and Morris. Here is a sound that began in the jagged but
propulsive shadow of what had passed before, and, impressively swiftly,
grew sleek electronic wings and an aloof, enigmatic sense of identity,
emotion and sophistication.
'Fan' is the most intriguing compilation. You get the opening
track from New Order's first album 'Movement' - the
Peter Hook intoned 'Dreams Never End' - alongside a
collection of dark, atmospheric beams of light, spanning primarily their
most compelling period - 'Movement', 'Power, Corruption and
Lies', 'Low-Life', 'Brotherhood' and 'Substance'.
Particular mention should be made to the eerie, Gothic downpour of 'Elegia',
the bass lizard sliding across 'Lonesome Tonight' and the almost
holy 'Your Silent Face', which is Kraftwerk rolling to
infinity alongside Sumner's maddening grasp of two-fingered
melancholia. These recordings capture New Order in transition, a
band unlike any before, whose avant sensibilities would soon become ever
more user-friendly.
'Pop', understandably, throws some sublime, everlasting New
Order chart action - 'Regret', 'True Faith',
'Crystal', 'Bizarre Love Triangle' - into an accessible, if
formulaic mix. It includes 'Ceremony', the first ever
release, sung in a low, sub-Curtis drone, with Sumner
filling in uncertain lyrical gaps left by his tragic brother, and
'Slow Jam' from 2001's comeback guitar tour-de-force 'Get Ready'.
Elsewhere, there are a couple of tracks from New Order's Valhalla
- the 'Blood On The Tracks' Ecstasy electro-pop of 'Technique'
- in the painfully obvious shape of 'Fine Time' and 'Round And
Round'. There is no 'Vanishing Point' or 'Run', let
alone 'Run 2', which was released in very small quantities.
Wherein lies the problem - if there could possibly be one - with
'Retro'.
A limited edition fifth CD contains a few nuggets - the colossal
18-minute version of 'Elegia' - and does redress the balance
somewhat. But you'd have to be a psychopath to listen to all 13 tracks
on 'Club', despite the - rather odd - presence of a shimmering
'Everything's Gone Green' and the towering 'Touched By The Had Of
God'. The 'Live' collection fares better, as it charts a
fast-evolving New Order emerging from the Joy Division
cocoon and into a truly spectacular and colourful beast, but this is
ultimately an opportunity blown, in fine, who gives a f*ck New Order
style.
There is not enough unreleased material for an obsessive fan and, for
the uninitiated, too much unenlightening bluff on 'Retro' for it
to serve its purpose. Which, presumably, was to chronicle one of the
most remarkable chapters in music history.
Ben Gilbert
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December
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Info from Allan
John Peel music guru and veteran DJ
has just released a compilation album based on the set that he performed
at the club "Fabric".
The album is called "Fabriclive07" , it contains 23 tracks , one of
which is Joy Division - love will tear us apart.
The
CD is released
on the "fabric" record label.
Other artists on the album are the fall and the
undertones.
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December
11,
2002 |
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EXCLUSIVE
NEW ORDER NEWS
T here
is going to be a
limited edition Retro Bonus CD that will come free with the
first 3000
boxsets in US at participating music stores.
Tracklisting is the same as the UK one. Release date in the US is
January 7th, 2003. Keep checking this
page for exclusive link to buy this limited edition.
RETRO BONUS CD
1.
Temptation 98
(408)
2.
Transmission (Live)
(359)
Recorded by Triple J at the Big Day Out, Gold Coast. Live
sound by Dian Barton. Recording date 20th January 2002
3.
Such a Good Thing
(405)
4.
Theme from Best & Marsh
(427)
5.
Lets G (Extract from Instrumental
used on Salvation motion picture sound track)
(201)
6.
True Faith (Pink Noise Morel Edit)
(429)
Additional Remix and Production by Richard Morel
7.
Run Wild (Steve Osborne Original Mix)
(411)
8.
The Perfect Kiss (Live take recorded at video shoot)
(955)
Recorded Live on Manor
Mobile at Cheetham Hill Manchester 27th March 1985
9.
Elegia (Full Version)
(1731)
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NEW ORDER 4CD Box
Set "RETRO"
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December
11,
2002 |
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This very interesting and well
done website is having also a
competition to possibly win
the new box-set, DVD...
http://www.rockfeedback.com
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December
11,
2002 |
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Info from Jase B.
There is going to be a
New
Order
hour long special on Power FM which is part of the Capital
radio network in the UK.
The show is called "incoming" and will be broadcast on
Sunday 15th December between 8pm -
10pm and will feature an exclusive interview with Peter Hook & Stephen
Morris talking to Emma Scott the show's DJ, as
well as tracks from the Retro boxset!
The station broadcasts to the south coast of England (Southampton,
Portsmouth etc..) on 103.2FM but can be heard on line at
www.powerfm.com
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December
10,
2002 |
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Many Contest are well
on the way to win some New Order goodies
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December
09,
2002 |
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NEW ORDER 4CD Box
Set "RETRO" RELEASED
today in UK DEC 9, 2002
through WEALondon. A Special Limited edition is available with a 5th CD
Tracklisting
Click Here
NEW ORDER
DVD "FINSBURY
PARK" RELEASED
today in UK DEC 9, 2002
Tracklisting
Click Here
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December
06,
2002 |
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To Celebrate the
opening of NEW ORDER website, WEA London Records is having a contest
www.neworderretro.com
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December
05,
2002 |
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From dotmusic.com
New Order have been at the forefront of pop music for 20 years, and
the close of 2002 signals a frantic period in their peerless career, with
the release of a box-set and live DVD.
'Retro' is a four-CD
compilation, spanning the band's entire career, which was spawned by the
death of Ian Curtis in 1980 and reached another high-water mark
with the release of last year's acclaimed comeback album 'Get Ready'.
The collection has been chosen by four 'taste-makers' - journalists
Miranda Sawyer and John McReady, Hacienda and M People
icon Mike Pickering and Primal Scream legend Bobby
Gillespie - and is split into four genres - 'Pop', 'Fan', 'Retro' and
'Live'.
Live document '511' meanwhile, is a broadcast of one of the
band's shows last summer in London's Finsbury Park, comprising five Joy
Division tracks and 11 New Order songs, hence the title. The
film also includes backstage footage and documentary footage.
dotmusic has two copies of 'Retro' and two copies of
'511' to giveaway, before next week's official release date.
To win, CLICK
HERE and tell us the name of New Order's first single,
following the death of Ian Curtis.
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December
03,
2002 |
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From Rhino / Warner
There is going to be a
limited edition Retro Bonus CD that
will come free with the
New Order "Retro" boxset
in the US at
participating stores. Release date is
January 7th, 2003.
Track listings will be confirmed very soon.
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December
02,
2002 |
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From Rhino / Warner
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More info on NEW ORDER
4cd box set "Retro" the
US street date will be moving to Jan. 7th,
2003.
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December
01,
2002 |
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objectmerch.com news...
Object, Official New
Order / Joy Division's North
American merchandise company,
has just released a new Joy Division
t-shirt based on the cover of the classic album "Closer". This crisp print
is the first official version of the design to be made available in the
U.S. in years.
Merchandise is now available online at
http://www.objectmerch.com.
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November
28,
2002 |
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From Andrew
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Vote for the Joy Division or New
order in top 100
artists poll of Virgin.
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November
26,
2002 |
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Confirmation from UK and US New Order
Management
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1.In the UK all the initial production run
of RETRO will contain the bonus
disc
for a limited period of time in all stores
that are stocking the box set.
2.At the moment the box set will be
released in the US
with the same bonus CD as the
UK. Please keep checking
this page for more details.
3.It seems unlikely that any other countries will release RETRO with the
bonus disc.
RETRO BONUS CD
1.
Temptation 98
(408)
(P)2002 London Records 90
Ltd
2.
Transmission (Live)
(359)
Recorded by Triple J at the Big Day Out, Gold Coast. Live
sound by Dian Barton.Recording date 20th January 2002
(P)2002 London Records 90
Ltd
3.
Such a Good Thing
(405)
(P)2002 London Records 90
Ltd
4.
Theme from Best & Marsh
(427)
(P)1989 Factory
Communications Ltd
5.
Lets G (Extract from Instrumental
used on Salvation motion picture sound track)
(201)
(P)1987
Factory Communications Ltd
6.
True Faith (Pink Noise Morel Edit)
(429)
Additional Remix and Production by Richard Morel
(P)2001 London Records 90
Ltd
7.
Run Wild (Steve Osborne Original Mix)
(411)
(P)2002 London Records 90
Ltd
8.
The Perfect Kiss (Live take recorded at video shoot)
(955)
Recorded Live on Manor
Mobile at Cheetham Hill Manchester 27th March 1985
(P)2002 London Records 90
Ltd
9.
Elegia (Full Version)
(1731)
(P)2002 London Records 90
Ltd
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NEW ORDER 4CD Box
Set "RETRO"
AUSTRALIA (http://www.hmv.com.au) will be release
December
9th, 2002
CANADA (http://www.hmv.ca) will be release
December
10th, 2002
FRANCE (http://www.fnac.fr) will be
release
December
10th, 2002
GERMANY (http://www.amazon.de)
will be release
December
9th, 2002
JAPAN (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp)
will be release
December
18th, 2002
UK (http://www.opalmusic.com) will be
release December
9th, 2002
US (http://www.amazon.com) will be
release December 17th, 2002
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November
25,
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From dotmusic.com
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Top 20 Dance Singles
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Week 48 - 24 November 2002 |
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LW |
WKS |
Title/Artist/Label |
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1wks |
OBSESSION |
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TIESTO & JUNKIE XL |
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NEBULA |
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1wks |
POOR LENO |
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ROYKSOPP |
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WALL OF SOUND |
| 3 |
3 |
2wks |
PIHA |
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IAN POOLEY & MAGIK J |
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HONCHOS MUSIC |
| 4 |
- |
1wks |
NEVER |
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TIEFSCHWARZ |
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CLASSIC |
| 5 |
- |
1wks |
BILLIE JEAN |
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SOUND BLUNTZ |
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INCENTIVE |
| 6 |
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1wks |
CONFUSION |
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ARTHUR BAKER VS NEW ORDER |
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WHACKED |
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November
22,
2002 |
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From The Guardian
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Check out
this
interview
with Barney, Hooky & Steve from today's Guardian
(UK
22/11/02.)
CLICK HERE
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November
21,
2002 |
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Confirmation from London (New Order Record Company)
London Records
confirm that
they will be giving away the
bonus disc for a limited period of time in all stores that are stocking
the box set - it is not exclusive for HMV at
all.
The Bonus Disc will be packing it in with the
booklet inside the box set - not separately.
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November
20,
2002 |
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Report from London Record Company
The limited
edition bonus CD's will be packed in to the box
set for the initial run
(first 3000
boxsets)
so will be stocked
in all stores in UK.
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November
19,
2002 |
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EXCLUSIVE
NEW ORDER NEWS
T here
is going to be a
limited edition Retro Bonus CD that will come free with the
first 3000
boxsets in UK. Here's the exclusive tracklisting below...
RETRO BONUS CD
1.
Temptation 98
(408)
(P)2002 London Records 90
Ltd
2.
Transmission (Live)
(359)
Recorded by Triple J at the Big Day Out, Gold Coast. Live
sound by Dian Barton.Recording date 20th January 2002
(P)2002 London Records 90
Ltd
3.
Such a Good Thing
(405)
(P)2002 London Records 90
Ltd
4.
Theme from Best & Marsh
(427)
(P)1989 Factory
Communications Ltd
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