NEW ORDER 'Age Of Consent' ( BBC Radio 1 studios, 1984.)

[@Anthony-nd7ld]

The drummer is on fire

[@ghost-youth1037]

Morris is my favorite drummer ever. Brilliant dude.

[@stupidlogic2987]

On fire or coke?

[@Anthony-nd7ld]

@@stupidlogic2987 haha both I guess

[@ThommyofThenn]

​@@stupidlogic2987i used to play drums a lot. I wouldn't want to play on coke. I like being sober and focused so i can play my best. With coke you're feeling too great to care about making mistakes. But everyone's playing style is different

[@janicepenavelilla6223]

💯%

[@BrianAchterberg928]

Bernie: “We might need a drum machine for this song.” Stephen: “Oh yeah, hold my beer.” Stephen is what drum machines wish they could be.

[@ralfhenke8148]

Stephen Morris may well be the most underrated drummer in the known universe. His performance on this on for example is just epic... and as much as he's consistently on point, Bernard and Gilian fuck this one up big time. 😂

[@dovadwilty]

Some bands make it look so easy, but new order makes it look so hard

[@agnieszkamarchocka8130]

Hahaha

[@practicallyunconscious8043]

😂😅 and the song is basically 2 chords.

[@evelskunny]

Sounds a lot like love will tear us apart,the drums and keys lol there copying themselves lol

[@BarbieChaite]

"some bands make it look so easy, but new order makes it look so hard" hahahahahah yeah

[@chickenbiscuitbabyyewww9580]

Best comment ever haha

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

Bernard has the quietly seething energy of me going to work on a rainy day at 6am with a slight headache and stepping into a puddle up to my socks😆

[@EddieTemple]

Apparently they had come up from south west England (a proper trek in those days) to central London that morning and arrived stressed out with moments to spare before they went live on national radio (Radio 1). By all accounts Bernard was a little, er, tense - as evidenced here. I wouldn't want to have been that orange foam mic cover that day.

[@darrendickson1553]

Well said sir

[@alaskaguyd963]

It comes out in his playing and signing. This is the version that I heard first. So now when I hear the album version I feel like it's missing something.

[@bertalanvarga8765]

Despite Barney's mistakes and the bad sound quality, there's some kinda enchantment in this performance.

[@intergalaktikexplorer5682]

that s really what i think when i liste for the first time..

[@AlienPimp1]

Ok, it’s me, and I gotta set things straight here. Some of ya sayin’ the drummer’s got some weird technique? Bloody hell! The drummer’s a proper genius, bangin’ away faster than a woodpecker on a redwine rush. Fcking awesome, I’m tellin’ ya. And that lad in the white boxers, smashing the mic cover. fcking brilliant, that guy ! Voice smooth as butter, warm as a cuppa, and on the synth? Mate’s a bloody wizard. He’s squeezin’ 16 polyphonic outta a monophonic toy piano, makin’ the maddest strings and leads. Show a bit more respect for these geniuses, yeah? Right, that’s me done.

[@Sporkonafork1]

This was an EXTREMELY English comment... wow haha.

[@nikospangiotis]

Been listening to JD/NO since the 80s. They are awesome even when they sound shite. No band could ever pull this off so well... they look like they were hijacked on their way to the beach and forced to play this. Their legend continues to grow in 2024...

[@bazalini]

💯

[@Robocrap]

Yeah Bernard was really horrible at singing. But somehow he made it great anyway.

[@DeluxeStudioVisual]

Hooky’s bass sounds like it was running through a frying machine recorded with a talkie walkie mic, mental !

[@jonnyalec5646]

It’s fucking awesome LOL

[@mitchellhughes5180]

He always looks like he just learned how to play guitar.

[@Jeremiah17v9]

Lol. Am not sure he ever got around to mastering it. 😅

[@stevetaylor317]

He was/is actually a great guitarist - check out his playing in Joy Division. Very different sound and technique. Like Stephen the drummer, they totally changed their playing style after Ian's death.

[@okkcomputer]

to this day

[@Donyourmom]

This actually isn’t true. Those who say that Bernard Sumner couldn’t play are just retarded. Look at almost any JD/NO song, and he very clearly understands musical concepts.

[@miahconnell23]

You’re 100% correct {even though I love Bernard’s contributions & the fact that he exists}

[@filozofiaporazki6469]

so many things happenning in this video, i love it

[@louise_rose]

I remember seeing another upload of this where there were more obvious shots of Gillian raising her eyebrow/staring as Bernard messes things up or (as here around 3:30) deliberately slurs the lyrics. This session was done under a great deal of stress, hardware flaws and at very short notice etc.

[@pappyprimetime7510]

He sang much better after gingerly eliminating the pop filter of his mic

[@tjtheedge29]

💯 now he's got a RAW sound

[@joosborne1380]

In his book Fast Forward, Stephen described the session as both fantastic and hideous, and gloriously chaotic. Bernard was incandescent. The planned session had to abandoned due to technical problems, so Hooky and Stephen hastily put a set list together none of which Bernard felt like playing.

[@fatheremmet2003]

I remember listening to this live. Barney was so pissed off with the neverending problems they had with the sound. You can see how angry he was on this.

[@CK2008able]

Apart from Hooky they were all blindingly hungover as well haha

[@davethinkingsystems]

One of the best tracks recorded. The fact is is absolutely fuming really makes it for some reason.

[@WellingtonSilvaFilho123]

In Brazilian Portuguese we have an expression: "Na força do ódio" (meaning something like "with anger as a driving force"), and I think it describes perfectly this performance

[@mateus_3k2]

exatamente KKKKKKKKKKKKKK mas ainda assim, amo new order, o bernard sumner nunca foi dos melhores em quesito de técnica, mas mesmo assim fazia ótimas canções

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

In English we often ask people who seem annoyed “who pissed in your cornflakes?” I really want to know who pissed in Bernard’s breakfast cereal before this performance😆

[@MarcioSilva-ssiillvvaa]

@@bigbowlowrong4694 I read in Hook's memoirs that they were late cos of traffic or something because they had been enjoying a great holiday or something. Hookie was pro-active and was there before the rest of the band. That's why Sumner is wearing shorts. Something like that.

[@kevinmcardle4087]

Stephen Morris is my hero.

[@DeluxeStudioVisual]

New order’s holy trinity : a human drum machine, a lead bassist and a very limited emotional singer

[@fadedge]

... And beauty in shadow on keys

[@darrantodd2746]

Works

[@nategardner4120]

Gillian had such a huge effect on the music/sound. Don't discount her.

[@min-yishen9324]

@@nategardner4120 I heard Gillian is the only one who knows how to program the sequencer. Tech Lead

[@christopherwest4580]

Gillian Gilbert is the unsung member of new order

[@iwvks]

bernard is absolutely fuming

[@nickhulston5842]

So is Stephen by the look of it

[@chrissyd8053]

Read in Steve Morris"s autobiography that they were going to do Blue Monday and perfect kiss together, but the technology let them down. They travelled from Devon on a bank holiday and got stuck in traffic most of the day. Arrived a few minutes before the session, and Bernard was not a happy man.

[@paultomic8113]

Hooky tells the same story in his book. They were not happy bunnies at that session.

[@paulmca9731]

@@paultomic8113 And Hooky also says that he got there on time but the others left it late to leave and copped the traffic !

[@julianurquico5918]

Gillian looks like she's going to iron their clothes Bernard looks like he played tennis Stephen and Peter are the unstoppable and consistent ones here

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

The usual, then.

[@gklansky31]

What makes it seem like shes about to iron their clothes other than that shes a woman?

[@Frip36]

@@gklansky31 It's not that she's a woman. It's the way she looks up from her iron when she realizes Bernard is slurring and rushing the lyrics on purpose. 3:31

[@beingggggg]

​@@gklansky31 because she play iron table not a keyboard

[@giovanni.buscemi]

The Gillian joke killed me! She really does look like she's gonna iron their clothes! 😭 As chaotic as this performance was, it still came out brilliant and beautiful. That's what makes music, emotion, drive, incoordination. New order even at the heat of the moment always pulls it off!

[@theboi5411]

This is when Bernard Sumner became Bernard Sumner. The clothing, the energy, the passion. It was him, he was fully into New Order, he was the front man and he had clearly embraced it here. So cool to see!

[@stevieG.]

39 years later and that just blew me away - I always felt this was the very best New Order song after Blue Monday which was sadly so overplayed back in the day, but probably because it was so groundbreaking and amazing at the time?

[@spaceorbison]

4:34 Hook is looking over like god damn bro

[@miahconnell23]

I got to see New Order headline a show that had the Sugarcubes open and Public Image Ltd. in between. It was 1989, I was in early high school. A friend got us EXCELLENT seats. Dinar Örn wore a latex bathing cap. John Lydon opened his set with “Warrior.”

[@lildookie8783]

One thing I like about New Order is that they always seem kind of irritable and annoyed. 😂

[@RichardCalladine-u1o]

Barney...a legend in his own head...NO died when HOOKY left...some people just find it hard to admit...the difference between NO and JD?...The genius of Ian Curtis and the fact JD never did a mediocre song whereas NO'S Shellshock Touched by the hand of god.True Faith .were mediocre songs....

[@nikons]

The comments here are all gold. Great vid!

[@joejones8009]

I fucking miss drummers like this. Fucking made reality of what 16-beat +, could do live today!!

[@lohvamoh3134]

one of the best songs ever

[@bizzyrizzy4025]

Stephen Morris is an absolute machine

[@NathanWind99]

Anger is an energy

[@Frip36]

sex is violence

[@RV-ri8jk]

Angst.

[@Sdragnasty]

Let the road

[@Frip36]

The heart is a pump.

[@jimwolfrum4286]

I could be wrong...

[@ulrichkristensen4087]

Thursday i will go see them again, cant wait 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@lorarena]

my favorite New Order performance I always need to revisit

[@julieboyce4614]

It's a excellent song ❤brilliant

[@herethereandalmosteverywhe5313]

they just woke up and decided to play before breakfast. Classic!!!!!

[@thefeelcompany]

I love all forms of New Order even when they were shite. Made them human. Still does. Even shite they could express everything you felt BUT with them.

[@69Tonyro]

The genius of New Order is their imperfections overlayed on the pristine synth wave and beats. The miscues in Bernie’s vocals and guitar notes are the signatures.

[@DD-ev2dt]

Hard to believe that this New Order BBC session went out live on both TV and radio as part of a BBC 2 music Marathon circa summer 1984 I remember watching and video taping parts of it .... Full promo video clips were shown including full length Meat loaf vids people must remember MTV was in its infancy and sattalite tv was not yet available so this Marathon was something to behold ... NO "Age of consent" classic 😎👍.

[@louise_rose]

Satellite TV had already arrived, I remember watching both MTV, Sky Channnel and CNN from Sweden in 1983-84 (my home quarter was among the earliest test districts in the country for cable and regular satellite TV). We were also able to see West German TV, even a Soviet satellite channel! 🙂 Also, satellite marathon live broadcasts had been around since the 1970s - Rockpalast's all-night gigs from Germany for example. Or the Olympics. I really doubt that this half messed-up performance was broadcast live on TV. I think it's a BBC radio performance that was filmed just for documentation purposes.

[@simpsonoutdoors9291]

It’s a great story behind this performance in the Substance book. Gotta love band dynamics…

[@banfieldfutmesa6967]

A melhor banda do meu mundo!!!!

[@CUSTARDMIKE]

Greatest song ever recorded,Bernard had the major hump which he seemed to most times I saw NO 83-86

[@superorangeish]

LOL..hardly

[@CUSTARDMIKE]

@@superorangeish lol ok lol . Weapon

[@michaelmccann4560]

I remember watching this the night it was broadcast.🎸🎹

[@synysterjazmyngates]

hooky in the tank top makin me feel things

[@DD-ev2dt]

New Order session went out from Broadcasting house BBC London as part of BBC 2 Rock around the clock ...25th August 1984 ... New Order session "Sooner than you think" "Age of consent" "Blue Monday" "In a lonely place" "Temptation" went out as a simulcast between BBC radio 1 and BBC 2 TV etc 😎👍 ....

[@aaarrrggghhhh]

I remember watching this live on TV.

[@RV-ri8jk]

Wish I would have caught it back then. Would have changed my taste in music forever.

[@jeffblack5024]

Yes, it was a hot summer day (hence the clothing) and I gather they'd had to drive to London from about Cornwall, got stuck in traffic and were late and pissed off. But if you want cold professionalism. then New Order are not your band. Their aggression makes this.

[@louise_rose]

Oh, I'd thought this was a BBC Radio One performance (like, John Peel sessions) and had only been filmed for documentation purposes. Looks odd to be broadcasting something like this on tv.

[@nathanjamesbaker]

@@louise_rose I think you are right. Usually when people claim in the KZbin comments to have "been there," they are bs-ing in a weird, sociopathic attempt to get likes.

[@KevinMcArdle-l6e]

Stephen Morris is unreal...

[@jimbaker2877]

I think this is my all time favorite video.

[@ferenchorvath5478]

A classic even to this day 10/2/22

[@mitchellhughes5180]

Or 10/4/22

[@darrendickson1553]

And 23rd October 2022

[@mazrio128]

also 4/07/23

[@darrendickson1553]

And 1/5/23 😘

[@jp-dh3cg]

18/07/23 and still rocks!

[@kirstm.2215]

Stephen morris 😍

[@greg0uk]

Bernard was hungover and running late

[@jove3403]

they say people who make metronomes use a stephen morris to see if it clicks on time

[@hey38028]

percussion perfection

[@Max-fb5bm]

The moment where bernie takes out the foam out the mic 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MATTEDENS]

Came here just for the different keyboard track. My favorite version…

[@hyena131]

Bernard enjoying his rent boy look here...

[@MrMansun95]

Barney hung over and pissed off haha Hooky talks about it in his book !

[@michaelwilson2340]

What's with Barney's outfit? He looks like he should be a roadie for WHAM!

[@intergalaktikexplorer5682]

when you and your friends have a band, but take different drugs.

[@scottoswald2588]

0:35 rips the mic gear off to get the sound he wants!

[@mikesmith9368]

I've seen hundreds of live bands, maybe in the thousands. I've seen them play bars, theatres, and drive ins. I've seen it all. But, this video with this band, during that time, is a MASTERPIECE of music. I would rank it in the top 3 all time best video's or musical moments in the history of music. It's not just the sounds, the voice, nor nothing specific. It's everything. Every piece, every note, everything was so perfect, that even Perfect is not a good word to describe it. That moment will live in infamy. By the way, I saw New Order in Dallas, Texas, and they sucked so bad, they got Booo'd off the stage and left within 3 songs. Think about that for a moment.

[@mikesmith9368]

Yes, they were angry and frustrated and maybe more bands need that to get to the next level.

[@LunazulBaraka]

😱😱😱

[@LunazulBaraka]

I loved them in Seattle

[@LunazulBaraka]

Why do you think that happened?

[@germanpule3721]

Saw them at the Hollywood Bowl and honestly enjoyed Pet shop boys performance more. New Order needs to stop altering their songs, and need to turn the fucking bass up!

[@feinstein1]

Bernard becomes the sexually frustrated narrator of the song. Serendipity.

[@cavy1987]

Fabulous!!!

[@L555HEP]

1984 was roasting. Hence the shorts

[@TheColeman83]

Yep I remember it well. I missed this though. Too busy throwing bricks at the police. Miners Strike

[@spaceorbison]

Whatever you call them you can't call them unoriginal or fakes

[@Sublime_37]

I low key kinda want to know who or what Bernard was singing about. Bc, the 1980s had everything that we need back. 💯

[@Math77_]

Never saw a live song without an error of barny

[@LaughingboyMox]

Read Stephen morris book volune 2 fast forward. Apparently they had spent hours programming all the drum machines and sequencers. Had a ridiculous drive up from st.Austell. and the floppy discs failed. Everything thry programmed didn’t work. You can dee their frustrations and Barney yelling faster to stephen. All the little looks of insecurity and panic

[@gaz4840]

I read his first book, didnt know he had a second one out, just bought it.. He is so funny

[@pauldablue]

- I know it's gonna be from VHS but somebody please put this whole thing up in 1080, my tape is worn out.

[@michaell747]

how do their records sound good but this performance is so atrocious i love it

[@louise_rose]

They had some kind of trouble with the wiring at the Beeb's studio, or something missing around their equipment here - the session was set up very fast. practically from one day to the next, and the logistics were kinda haphazard - that's the reason for the element of stress in this one. I don't recall all the specific details but there was some element of f''k-up around the hardware at this session. And they knew they wouldn't get to do any overdubs, these radio performances are meant to be "authentic live in the studio".

[@superorangeish]

You can fix mistakes in the recording process

[@chrisbenson3374]

You’ve absolutely never set foot in a studio

[@jamesnewman48]

I wouldn't want the concert to sound like the record. saw them in 1983 and it was a disaster. but id rather see that then listen to Coldplay prestine boredom.

[@syrinx9196]

Considering how poorly he did Love Vigilantes and this one in studio, it's no surprise that he's worse live.

[@navarredr]

Stephen Morris is a human drum machine.

[@0_________________]

nice short 😆

[@factoryfactory7142]

Alan partridge shorts!

[@diamondsea5300]

Alien on drums 👾👽

[@douglashall2030]

I'm still traumatised by Barney's short shorts

[@alephnull7410]

The recording of them setting up the equipment had more bass

[@simone-zt6jj]

Even Messi has a nightmare every now and then

[@AW-kr9fl]

3:22 quintessential Barney

[@2bin]

RIP mic cover...literally.

[@jdunk6058]

Those shortpants vibes...

[@knifeswitch5973]

If you wore shorts that tight, life would suck for you too.

[@bobdobbs420]

oi m8 does the drummer have a loicense to play this fast?

[@JoaoPaulo-mn3kc]

😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@rogercageot-prod]

Here is the re-born changing New Order which escapes from the Joy Division era and gently slides towards the dancefloors... It's something unachieved, the drums are just a metronome, hypnotic... The bass is a wall... The voice is dramatic, and the guitar uncertain... The keyboards, well, I prefer without. A totally imperfect song, full of errors, but which has its own charm.

[@prokesuk]

The only way this high school level performance could have been improved is if the keyboard stand had collapsed.

[@michaelroche5744]

My life

[@malcolmcog]

love from me to Sharston

[@Lifeisshortby]

What a time to be alive, now everything has turned to shit.

[@artmonk8576]

Morris at the end of that was off!

[@sjobersx4]

Barney is pissed!

[@jimconstas1416]

anger the truest emotion

[@h.carterballii27]

sick

[@Edward1312]

Sumner sounds out of tune at the start because he is playing the wrong notes not because he was actually out of tune!

[@McDoinky]

@@Ilovepotatoes22 He’s a bad lyricist/singer and uncharismatic frontman. I’m surprised he got to where he is

[@jonathanlarkin7176]

@@Ilovepotatoes22 they're a punk rock band...

[@jonathanlarkin7176]

@@McDoinky they're a punk rock band

[@McDoinky]

@@jonathanlarkin7176 They’re punk rock like Ariana Grande is thrash metal

[@alex-qn5xp]

@@jonathanlarkin7176 How???

[@SomeBizarretaSomeBizzareLabel0]

[@tttappin]

The winner of the high school band war is..... just kidding

[@FortniteFranchiseOfficial]

so angry……..

[@jamescalalo]

looks like they are about to sleep 😄

[@markricker44]

There may or may not have been significant quantities of cocaine involved in the making of this video.

[@Meni69]

GTA Online Kult FM 99.1

[@spaceengineer1452]

The tantrum video.