muzycy:
Bernard Albrecht (wła¶c. Bernard Sumner) – gitara, instrumenty klawiszowe
Ian Curtis – ¶piew, gitara
Peter Hook – gitara basowa
Stephen Morris – perkusja
Terry Mason – perkusja
Tony Tabac – perkusja
Steve Brotherdale – perkusja
theartsdesk.com
Edinburgh’s Rezillos were booked to play Middlesbrough’s Rock Garden on Wednesday 14 September 1977. “I Can’t Stand my Baby,” their debut single, had been issued in July and they were on the road subsequent to its release, positive music press reviews and regular spins from John Peel. Their humour-laced, Day-Glo art-punk was making waves.
Lice? were soon forgotten but Warsaw changed their name to Joy Division at the end of the year and played their first show under the new name in late January 1978. What followed is a matter of post-punk history. Without the presence of a tape recorder, the Middlesbrough outing would have become a neglected early Joy Division footnote. However, it was recorded from the audience by future Fast Records boss Bob Last, then managing The Rezillos. He gave the cassette to Warsaw’s bassist Peter Hook and, as is often the way with such things, what would otherwise have been lost after the blink of an eye eventually surfaced (it was first on record on 2011). Now, it is committed to vinyl as side one of the Warsaw Middlesbrough 14th September 1977 / Joy Division Manchester 28th September 1979 LP.
Before the Middlesbrough show was heard, the set-in-stone aural evidence for the Warsaw-era Joy Division was limited to the Ideal For Living EP, recorded in December 1977, the 2 October 1977 live recording of “At a Later Date” issued on the Short Circuit album and demos made with Steve Brotherdale on 18 July 1977 (most of which first appeared on vinyl in 1981). There are also a couple of tapes recorded at rehearsals. The Middlesbrough recording plugs a gap.
In Middlesbrough, the bill was filled out by local band Lice? – their name taken from a cautionary poster about pubic lice – and Macclesfield/Salford outfit Warsaw, who’d had a line-up change the previous month when their drummer Steve Brotherdale left. His replacement was Stephen Morris. ....... more