A huge collection of live performances by Joy Division will be released later this year.
Eternal (Live), which comes out on Sept. 25, includes 16 performances across 14 CDs, sourced from audience-recorded cassettes, soundboard tapes, and broadcast recordings. The music was mastered at Abbey Road Studios.
The set will also include two DVDs featuring video recordings of the band onstage.
You can hear “Transmission” live from Les Bains Douches in Paris on Dec. 18, 1979, below.
Joy Division will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in November along with New Order, the band they became after singer Ian Curtis’ death in 1980.
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Bassist Peter Hook said he would never play with his old bandmates again, shutting down any speculation that the group would reunite at the Rock Hall induction ceremony on Nov. 14 in Los Angeles.
“I haven’t spoken to Bernard [Sumner, singer and guitarist] for … I didn’t even speak to him,” Hook told Rolling Stone in April, when 2026’s class was announced. “He spoke at me. That’ll be 15 years. Steve [Morris, drummer] and I spoke about four or five years ago, but that wasn’t a friendly moment. And I haven’t spoken to Gillian [Gilbert, keyboardist] in 15 years. So, it doesn’t look good.
“They’d have to reach out and try and form some kind of relationship. You can’t just go ‘truce for the night’ after what we’ve been through. If you knew what we’ve been through, you wouldn’t even suggest it. That’s the thing. Nobody knows what you went through.”
What is included in Joy Division’s ‘Eternal (Live)’ Set?
Eternal (Live) is being touted as Joy Division’s “first official collection of live concert recordings.”
The set features two previously unreleased shows and three previously unheard recordings. It also includes their final live performance at Birmingham’s High Hall in 1980. Singer Curtis died by suicide in May 1980, shortly before the band was to start its first U.S. tour.
Eternal (Live) also includes two DVDs featuring over two and a half hours of live performances, including previously unreleased concerts and soundcheck songs.
You can see the track listing for the collection below.
Joy Division, ‘Eternal (Live)’ Track Listing
CD1: Hope And Anchor, London **Previously unreleased**
1 Exercise One
2 She’s Lost Control
3 Shadowplay
4 Leaders Of Men
5 Insight
6 The Only Mistake
7 Disorder
8 Glass
9 Digital
10 Warsaw
11 Transmission
12 I Remember Nothing
13 Interzone
14 Ice Age
Recording date: 1st March, 1979
Audio source: Mixing an audience recording by Jonathan Crabb, with a second audience recording (taper unknown). Both recordings previously unheard.
CD2: Bowdon Vale Youth Club, Altrincham
1 Exercise One
2 She’s Lost Control
3 Shadowplay
4 Leaders Of Men
5 Insight
6 Disorder
7 Glass
8 Digital
9 Ice Age
10 Warsaw
11 Transmission
12 I Remember Nothing
13 No Love Lost
Recording date: 14th March, 1979
Audio source:”Exercise One” from a sound desk recording, the rest of the show is a matrix of the sound desk recording and an audience recording by Malcolm Whitehead.
Acklam Hall, London **Previously unreleased**
14 Disorder
15 She’s Lost Control
16 Shadowplay
17 Wilderness
18 Insight
19 Candidate
20 Digital
Recording date: 17th May, 1979
Audio source: An audience recording by Jonathan Crabb
CD3: The Factory, Manchester **Previously unheard recording**
1 Dead Souls
2 The Only Mistake
3 Insight
4 Candidate
5 Wilderness
6 She’s Lost Control
7 Shadowplay
8 Disorder
9 Interzone
10 Atrocity Exhibition
11 Novelty
12 Transmission
Recording date: 13th July, 1979
Audio source: A previously unheard sound desk recording.
CD4: YMCA, London
1 Dead Souls
2 Disorder
3 Wilderness
4 Autosuggestion
5 Transmission
6 Day Of The Lords
7 She’s Lost Control
8 Shadowplay
9 Atrocity Exhibition
10 Insight
Recording date: 2nd August, 1979
Audio source: Sound desk recording.
CD5: Futurama One Festival, Leeds
1 I Remember Nothing
2 Wilderness
3 Transmission
4 Colony
5 Disorder
6 Insight
7 Shadowplay
8 She's Lost Control
9 Atrocity Exhibition
10 Dead Souls
You can see the track listing for the collection below.
Joy Division’s ‘Eternal (Live)’ Track Listing Continued:
The remaining CDs include various performances recorded throughout their career:
– **CD6:** Les Bains Douches, Paris – Recording date: December 18th, 1979 – Audio source: Radio broadcast recording from France Inter.
– **CD7:** Paradiso, Amsterdam – Recording date: January 11th, 1980 – Audio source: Radio broadcast recording from VARA.
– **CD8:** Effenaar, Eindhoven – Recording date: January 18th, 1980 – Audio source: Audience recording.
– **CD9:** The Warehouse, Preston – Recording date: February 28th, 1980 – Audio source: Sound desk recording.
– **CD10:** The Lyceum, London – Recording date: February 29th, 1980 – Audio source: Sound desk recording with audience matrix.
– **CD11:** The Moonlight Club, London – Recording dates: April 2nd & April 3rd, 1980 – Audio sources include audience recordings by Andy Hooper.
– **CD12:** Winter Gardens, Malvern – Recording date: April 5th, 1980 – Audio source: Audience recording by Tim Bayes.
– **CD13:** Ajanta Theatre, Derby – Recording date: April 19th, 1980 – Audio source: Audience recording by Tim Bayes.
– **CD14:** High Hall, Birmingham – Recording date: May 2nd, 1980 – Audio source: Sound desk recording with audience matrix.
The set also includes two DVDs featuring over two and a half hours of live performances.
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