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Date
  Wednesday 1983-07-20 5:33:00 PM
City
  Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Venue
  The Hacienda
Attendance
  N/A, Capacity: N/A
 
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Wednesday 1983-07-20 5:33:00 PM, Manchester, England, United Kingdom







OrderSongNotes
1Blue Monday 
2Age of Consent 
3Lonesome Tonight 
4Your Silent Face 
5Leave Me Alone 
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7Denial 
8Confusion 
9Temptation 
10Thieves Like Us 
11In A Lonely Place 
12Everything's Gone Green 








From NewOrderOnline.com (Tim)

Hopes were high on Whitworth Street West ahead of the latest homecoming, with the band's popularity at an all-time high on the back of the relative success of Blue Monday. It wasn't that much of a surprise then to hear this one first up, the best way to get the pack Hacienda moving. Blasting the hugely-popular album opener Age of Consent at us straight afterwards was another good move, and though Barney was concerned about the congestion at the front, the pace was unrelenting. Lonesome Tonight never sounded bigger or boomier - it didn't seem so slow down the front smile The highlight was this strange US dance track that had begun to get some radio play. Confusion sounded absolutely massive, and while it began to lose its popularity in my eyes a couple of years later, it blew the roof off on the night. New Order fans have always had a keen ear for new material, so the fifteen-minute version of Thieves Like Us that closed the set was just beautiful - I fell in love with this track on first hearing.

We knew it had been a good night, but nobody was really expecting a two-song encore. Magic smile






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