i'm wearing a 'new order concert north american tour 1989' tshirt today. the design always struck me as kind of obnoxious - the word 'concert' is in dayglo orange, pink and green on a black background. rest of the wording is much smaller and in white.
walking my kid to the sitter's, i realized that i saw that concert when i was 17. i'm now 34. ("and it still fits you!" said the sitter.)
there were a bunch of great shows that summer - mostly in 3-band lineups. i remember seeing sugarcubes/PiL/new order, and another one that summer was mojo nixon/pogues/violent femmes. the following summer i saw depeche mode in the same big outdoor venue. (ps. john, if you're reading, who opened?)
i still like to get out to shows, but i like smaller venues. yep, 34-yr-old hipster.
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I still have that same New Order t-shirt, which you bought me while at that concert because I could not go (because I was busy traipsing around Europe). I probably wear it more often than any of my other old concert T's -- it's held up better, probably because it a) is black and b) doesn't have a lot of ink on it. Anywho, I agree... it's always seemed to me to be an obnoxious shirt.
Meanwhile, last night I was talking to someone who had been looking for a copy of Malcolm McLaren's "Fans". I said I had it on vinyl, and it suprised me that it was so hard to find. And then I realized that when I bought this old album, I was in college. I thought if it as old music I had dredged up in a record store, but really it was only about 6-8 years old then. Now it's 22 years old.
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...and you called me! from a payphone! i remember.
good g-d, tones, half our lives ago.
Didn't Nitzer Ebb open up for DM around that time?
hmmm, some digging around says that it was indeed NE. don't remember it at all.
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