I am greatly indebted to Mark Buckwalter, David Cooper, Simon Dell, Michael Mitchell, and James Nice for providing me the material for which to compile this listing. And of course, to Section 25 themselves! More information regarding their performances, compiled by both Vin and Larry Cassidy (RIP), can be found on their past site, as captured by archive.org
Many of the earliest gigs are covered on the Section 25 concerts page.
1978-06-01 City Football Club - Lancaster (DEBUT GIG) (support slot to China Street)
Early tracks would have included 'Metro Punk', 'Whichtig',
'Easy Jar', 'Behind Every Dream', 'Car Crash Wreck',
'Fast Parts', 'Blinkered Paradise', 'Movie Star',
'Never Lose Your Nerve', and 'Wide Awake In Anarchy',
much of this described as "undistinguished thrash".
-- Section 25 biography
1978-Jun/Jul Imperial Ballroom - Blackpool
1978-Summer Old Library - Poulton le Fylde (w/ The Passage)
They returned to this venue later on that year, or is this the same
as the Dec '78 gig below?
1978-08-08 Bispham Community Centre - Blackpool (w/ Zyklon B and Chains)
Poster
1978-10-06 Baths - Lytham
Flyer
1978-10-18 Community Centre - Bispham
Flyer
1978-12-28 Old Library - Poulton le Fylde
Never Mind The Sex Pistols Here's The Bollocks
Flyer, which shows the Feb 1979 different date.
1979-02-09 Old Library - Poulton le Fylde (w/ Zyklon B)
1979-03-22 Eric's - Liverpool (w/ Pink Military Stand Alone and A.D.T)
Poster
1979-04-12 The Factory (Russell Club) - Manchester (w/ Zyklon B and Final Solution)
Knew Noise
Just To See Your Face (early version of Dirty Disco)
Girls Don't Count
Poster
1979-07-?? Co-Op Social Club - Blackpool
1979-07-?? Mardi Gras - Blackpool
Just To See Your Face (early version of Dirty Disco)
1979-07-27 Imperial Hotel - Blackpool (w/ Joy Division, OMD, Glass Torpedos, Final Solution, & Zyklon B)
Belsen Was A Gas(!)
1979-08-11 Eric's - Liverpool (w/ Joy Division) (matinee & evening gigs)
1979-12-31 Woolworth's, Oldham Street - Manchester (w/ Joy Division)
Factory NYE party
1979 Demos
unknown / Girls Don’t Count / unknown / Girls Don’t Count (2) unknown / unknown / Up To You / unknown
1980-01-18 Effenaar - Eindhoven, Netherlands (w/ Joy Division and Minny Pops)
1980-02-07 The Factory II (New Osborne Club) - Manchester (w/ Joy Division and Kevin Hewick, the latter added at the last minute)
1980-02-20 Town Hall, High Wycombe (w/ Joy Division, ACR, & Killing Joke)
After Image
Knew Noise
unknown
Regions (early version)
'My Mother Ate My Soul'
Girls Don't Count
1980-02-21 Rock Garden - London (w/ ACR)
1980-02-28 Warehouse - Preston (w/ Joy Division)
As documented by 'Torn Apart' (p. 197)
1980-02-29 The Lyceum - London (w/ Joy Division, ACR, & Killing Joke)
Mirror
1980-03-12 Billy's Club - London (w/ ACR)
1980-03-14 Electric Ballroom - London (w/ Toyah Wilcox and The Vipers)
1980-03-20 Electric Ballroom - London (w/ Classix Nouveau, Bauhaus, and Plain Characters)
Knew Noise
After Image
unknown
unknown
unknown
Dirty Disco
Girls Don't Count
1980-03-30 The Marquee Club - London (w/ The Passions and Mandy H)
Flyer #1
1980-04-02 The Moonlight Club - London (w/ Joy Division, Crawling Chaos, and the Royal Family and the Poor)
1980-04-08 Derby Hall - Bury (w/ Joy Division, the infamous 'riot' gig.
Minny Pops also played.)
Knew Noise
After Image
Number One
'My Mother Ate My Soul'
Jam / Girls Don't Count
As documented through the Bury setlist photo.
1980-04-18 The Russell Club - Manchester (w/ Durutti Column, ACR, Blurt and John Dowie)
1980-04-19 Ajanta Cinema - Derby (w/ Joy Division and XL5)
1980-04-25 Scala Cinema - London (w/ACR, Durutti Column, Blurt,
and Kevin Hewick)
Unknown #1 ('keeps chanting something about bourgeois' and some other stuff)
Knew Noise
Friendly Fires (Cambodia)
Unknown #2 ("Out Of Reach")
Unknown #3 ("Something's Got To Give")
Cry
Dirty Disco
After Image
Joy Division were to play but cancelled due to Ian Curtis' ill health.
1980-04-26 Plan K - Brussels (w/ACR)
Poster
1980-04-27 Bataclan - Paris (w/A Boy Alone, ACR, and Durutti Column) - CANCELLED
1980-05-14 The Beach Club (Oozits') - Manchester (w/ The Roaring 80's and Surprises On 16mm)
See Flyer.
1980-05-15 Ad Lib Club - Nottingham (w/ Radio Five and the Distributors)
1980-06-15 Lyceum - London (w/ Toyah Wilcox, ACR, Young Marble Giants, and Au Pairs)
Knew Noise
Untitled (Human Puppets)
Charnel Ground
Dirty Disco
Untitled
"From first edition of 'New Horizons' LTM cassette (the first LTM release)...
Not sure if this is the full set or not." -- M. Mitchell
1980-06-20 ICA - London (w/ ACR, The Durutti Column, and Blurt)
Knew Noise
After Image
Number One
Friendly Fires (Cambodia)
Girls Don't Count
Untitled (Human Puppets)
Charnel Ground
Haunted
Dirty Disco
A video of this ICA performance appears on 'So Far'.
1980-07-17 Fan Club - Leeds
Inside Out
Charnel Ground
Friendly Fires
Babies in the Bardo
Haunted
New Horizon
unknown
Dirty Disco
Girls Don't Count/Larry Cassidy end-of-tape announcement
1980-08-?? Stanley Park - Blackpool (w/ Tunnelvision, Eric Random, and A Certain Ratio)
A picture+article from Y Zine
Another shot from this show appears on the poster included with Always Now.
1980-08-09 Tatton Community Center - Chorley (w/ PRS)
1980-08-12 The No. 1 Club, The Pied Bull - London (w/ Blurt)
Haunted
Charnel Ground
Friendly Fires (Cambodia)
New Horizon
Human Puppets
Girls Don't Count
unknown
After Image
Photo set by Tony Barber.
Haunted
Charnel Ground
unknown
Friendly Fires (Cambodia)
New Horizon
Human Puppets
Dirty Disco
Haunted
Charnel Ground
Friendly Fires (Cambodia)
New Horizon
Human Puppets
Girls Don't Count
Dirty Disco
Knew Noise
At the start of "Girls Don't Count", LC comments, "All this bullshit
about Northern gloom, I hate it! Yeah."
Flyer
1980-09-22 Jr's Place Bar - Blackpool (w/Crispy Ambulance and Tunnelvision)
1980-10-22 Rock Garden - London (w/ The Dancing Did)
Girls Don't Count
Charnel Ground
Loose Talk
Human Puppets
The surviving recording only has four tracks, and a cut in 'Charnel Ground'.
At the start of 'Human Puppets', Larry screeches out "Good Evening", after his
initial greeting goes unacknowledged.
Flyer #1
Knew Noise
Human Puppets
Friendly Fires (Cambodia)
Girls Don't Count
Dirty Disco
Charnel Ground
New Horizon
Haunted
"Also from the 'New Horizons' cassette (2nd edition)...
The first three tracks are not on the LTM cass release" -- M. Mitchell
You're On Your Own
Friendly Fires (Cambodia)
The SXXV website gives 1980-06-27 but this is the more likely date.
You’re On Your Own appears on Illuminus Illumina.
1980-11-02 Melkweg - Amsterdam, Netherlands (w/ DC and ACR)
Inside Out
Charnel Ground
Friendly Fires (Cambodia)
Babies In The Bardo
Haunted
New Horizon
You're On Your Own
Dirty Disco
Girls Don't Count
1980-11-04 SO36 Club - Berlin, Germany (w/ Creation Rebel, DC, and ACR)
Flyer
1980-11-14 Nite Club - Edinburgh (w/ ACR)
1981-01-08 Fan Club - Leeds (w/ Crispy Ambulance)
unknown
Make up Your Mind
Cambodia (Friendly Fires)
New Horizon
One True Path
Girls Don't Count
1981-01-09 Royal Iris Ferry, River Mersey - Liverpool
unknown
Inside Out
unknown
Dirty Disco
unknown
unknown
Friendly Fires
New Horizons
Also listed as 1981-09-01 (month/day flip).
A photo of the Royal Iris presently.
1981-01-13 Peel Session
One True Path
Babies In The Bardo
Hit
aired on 1981-01-20...incorrectly noted as recorded 1981-02-04
and aired 1981-02-09 in some places
1981-01-14 Plato's Ballroom (Mr. Pickwicks) - Liverpool (w/ Send No Flowers, New Order, Badge Baderoo and the Badgerettes, and Box Man)
1981-01-17 The Porterhouse - Retford (w/ Durutti Column)
Help Out
Cry
Regions
Loose Talk (Costs Lives)
New Horizon
Haunted
Babies In The Bardo
One True Path
Friendly Fires
Loose Talk (Costs Lives)
unknown
Be Brave
unknown
One True Path
Dirty Disco
Ticket (note the interesting spelling of the opening act)
1981-02-09 Heaven Ultradisco - London (w/ New Order and Stockholm Monsters)
unknown
Charnel Ground
Friendly Fires (Cambodia)
Girls Don't Count
New Horizons
Haunted
Babies In The Bardo
One True Path
Dirty Disco
Also listed as 1981-09-02 (another transposition)
1981-03-21 Boys Club - Bedford (w/ New Order and I.C.1)
Inside Out
Friendly Fires
Babies In The Bardo
Wretch
New Horizon
Haunted
Soundcheck
untitled jam
Wretch
Recorded by the legendary Duncan, his recording also includes a soundcheck.
Poster
Mark Bursa: "The first soundcheck track is a typical SXXV jam - they played
this (or something like it) quite a lot but it's not really a song. The second
soundcheck track is an unfinished version of Wretch, from the 2nd album. Not a
lot of Key of Dreams stuff got played live - only really Wretch and Regions.”
1981-03-22 Jenkinson's Bar - Brighton (w/ New Order)
Unknown #1
Inside Out
Friendly Fires
Dirty Disco
One True Path
Haunted
Soundcheck
unknown
Be Brave
Loose Talk (Costs Lives)
unknown
After Image
Recorded by the legendary Duncan, his recording also includes a soundcheck.
1981-03-23 Rock Garden - London
Inside Out
unknown
New Horizon
Friendly Fires
unknown
Haunted
One True Path
1981-04-18 Rock City - Nottingham (w/ New Order and A Certain Ratio)
Inside Out
Charnel Ground
Friendly Fires
One Step
Dirty Disco
Babies In The Bardo
Haunted
Poster
1981-05-07 Leadmill - Sheffield
Inside Out
Friendly Fires > improvisation
Babies In The Bardo
One True Path
improvisation
Haunted
Inside Out
Friendly Fires
Babies In The Bardo
Haunted
improvisation
unknown
New Horizon
Some sources list Section 25 as having played at Futurama Three. They are
believed to be erroneous.
1981-09-23 Sheffield Polytechnic (w/ New Order and Stockholm Monsters)
1981-12-16 Boulevard Theatre - London (w/ Crispy Ambulance and Anthony More and The Inevitable)
Babies In The Bardo
Trident
unknown
Sakura
Inside Out
The Beast
1981-12-19 The Basement Bar, Clarendon Hotel - London (w/ Swallow Tongue)
The Beast
Dirty Disco
Trident
unknown
Babies In The Bardo
Sakura
Inside Out
unknown
The first unknown track features lyrics like 'one step for you, one step for me' and 'one mistake, that's all it takes'. Some sources list this as 1982-01-12.
1982-01-13 Zeche - Bochum, Germany (w/ Crispy Ambulance)
SXXV and Crispy Ambulance jam together on five songs,
Girls Don't Count, Haunted, The Beast, and God's Playground.
Haunted is available on 'Live In America And Europe 1982 CD
1982-01-14 Arts and Buffets (Plan K) - Brussels, Belgium (w/ Crispy Ambulance)
1982-01-16 Doornroosje - Nijmegen, Netherlands (w/ Crispy Ambulance)
Inside Out
Trident
Sakura
Babies In The Bardo
Dirty Disco
You Leave Me No Choice
1982-01-17 Vera - Groningen, Netherlands (w/ Crispy Ambulance)
Babies In The Bardo
Sakura
Inside Out
Trident
Dirty Disco
One True Path
You Leave Me No Choice
Poster (Ebay auction)
Poster (higher resolution, courtesy of Tony Ashworth) (link dead)
1982-01-30 Tatton Community Center - Chorley (w/ Escape and support/video show/disco)
Poster
Dirty Disco
Sakura
One True Path
Dirty Disco, Sakura, and One True Path from 'Live In America
and Europe 1982' CD
1982-02-?? ? - Philiadelpha, PA
1982-02-19 Mudd Club - New York City, NY (w/ Sonic Youth)
See listing on Sonic Youth’s site.
1982-02-21 Danceteria - New York City, NY
Trident
One True Path
Inside Out
Sakura
Babies In The Bardo
Dirty Disco
The Beast
You Leave Me No Choice
Buckwalter and others gives 1982-02-21, so the LTM booklet for 'Live In America' is likely wrong.
1982-02-?? Peppermint Lounge - New York City, NY (w/ Ike Yard)
1982-05-06 New Cross Venue ('The Venue') - London (w/ Crispy Ambulance and Swallow Tongue)
Opening
Trident
There Was A Time
Sakura
Floating
The Billiard Fan
The Beast
Opening released on 'Illuminus Illumina CD.
Floating on 'Live In America and Europe 1982' CD
1982-05-07 666 Club - Manchester
1982-05-22 The Porterhouse - Retford (w/ Crispy Ambulance)
unknown (described by M. Mitchell as being "very very similar to "Opening"
There Was A Time but much more percussive and intense!")
Trident
Floating
Inside Out
Babies in the Bardo
The Beast
1982-06-07 Barracuda Club - London (w/ Lack of Knowledge)
Lack of Knowledge was one of Tony Barber’s (Buzzcocks) old bands.
1982-08-30 The Venue - Blackpool (w/ New Order and Kevin Hewick)
Beating Heart
New Horizon
Hold Me
Sakura
The Beast
(thanks to markbursa for IDing these)
1982-09-02 Palm Cove - Bradford
Days Pass By
Firefly (possibly a jam as equipment breaks down)
Loving No One
Sakura
Date also given as 1982-07-02
1982-?? Rock City - Nottingham
Inside Out
Info from 'LIAAE '82' CD
1982-11-26 The Warehouse - Liverpool
Beating Heart
'Lee's Song'
Sakura
Trident
Warhead
Dirty Disco
God's Playground (?)
1982-12-10 University Union - London (w/ Eyeless In Gaza)
There Was A Time
Sakura
Hold Me
Warhead
Beating Heart
God's Playground
unknown (or continuation of last track?)
(thanks to markbursa for the tracklisting)
1982-12 various Italian dates
1983-02-03 The Hacienda - Manchester (w/ Swallow Tongue and Kevin Hewick)
Beating Heart
Loving No-One
Days Pass By
Warhead (included in FACT 71)
Trident
Firefly
Sakura
...and others...tracklist is from 'Deus Ex Machina' listing, with
Loving No-One, Days Pass By, and Firefly available on that release.
Flyer #1 (alternative site) (24 Jan through 10 Mar)
Flyer #2 (28 Jan through 10 Mar)
Flyer #3 (3 Feb through 10 Mar)
Flyer #4 (21 Jan through 23 Feb)
1983 Demos
Looking From A Hilltop / Reflection / Prepare To Live
Program For Light / Desert
Beneath The Blade
Unknown #1
Unknown #2
Unknown #3
Unknown #4
Back To Wonder (1)
Back To Wonder (2)
Beating Heart
Warhead (1)
Warhead (2)
1983-12-23 Gaiety Bar - Blackpool (w/ ACR)
Beating Heart
The Process
Looking From A Hilltop
Prepare To Live
Program For Light
Desert
Reflection
Beneath The Blade
Inspiration
Poster
1983-12-29 The Hacienda - Manchester (w/ Stockholm Monsters, The Durutti Column, and The Royal Family And The Poor)
Flyer #1 (21 Dec through 29 Dec) (alternate site)
Flyer #2 (29 Dec)
1984 Demos
Boogie Beat
Guitar Waltz
Untitled
Impossible Mission
Car Crash (Mix One)
Car Crash (Mix Two)
Jenny’s Tune
1984-05-10 Kid Jensen Sessions
Looking From A Hilltop
Reflection
Warhead
1984-08-01 Dance Factory - Bolton
1984-08-15 Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London (w/ Stockholm Monsters)
The Process
Looking From A Hilltop
Prepare To Live
Reflection
Program For Light
Desert
Beneath The Blade
Inspiration
Boogie Beat
...'Beneath The Blade' and 'Inspiration' appear on the 'So Far' DVD...
'Boogie Beat' on the audience recording is cut. Broadcast 1984-08-15.
1984-08-10 Hacienda - Manchester
1984-08-29 Gaiety Bar - Blackpool
The Process
Looking From A Hilltop
Prepare To Live
Reflection
Program For Light
Desert
Beneath The Blade
Inspiration
...Beneath The Blade segues into the final track
1984-08-30 Blackburn Club - Blackburn
1984-09-05 The Hacienda - Manchester (w/ Marc Riley and the Creepers)
Program For Light
...tracklist from 'So Far' DVD...
Ad (29 Aug through 7 Sep)
1984-09-20 Warehouse - Leeds
1984-10-06 Jackson Lane Community Centre, Highgate - London (w/ heads on sticks and The Royal Family And The Poor)
1984-11-15 100 Club, London (w/ Stockholm Monsters and X Y Love)
The Process
Reflection
Prepare To Live
Program For Light
Desert
Beneath The Blade
Dirty Disco
Boogie Beat (Bad News Week)
Warhead
1984-11-23 North East Polytechnic - London (w/ X Y Love)
The Process
Beating Heart
Reflection
Prepare To Live
Looking From A Hilltop
Beneath The Blade
Inspiration
Program For Light
Desert
Boogie Beat (Bad News Week)
1984-12-07 Imola - Bologna, Italy
...also listed as being from 1983…
1984-12-29 Horseshoe Bar, Blackpool (w/ Vee VV, Switzerland, One Way System, The Membranes, and Big Flame)
1985-01-17 Danceteria - New York City, NY
Reflection
Prepare To Live
Looking From A Hilltop
Beneath The Blade
Inspiration
Program For Light
Desert
Boogie Beat (Bad News Week)
Looking From A Hilltop (restructure)
---
Dirty Disco II
I have this also listed as 1985-01-18
1985-01-19 Danceteria - New York City, NY
Program For Light
Prepare To Live
Reflection
Looking From A Hilltop
Beneath The Blade
Inspiration
Dirty Disco II
Boogie Beat (Bad News Week)
1985-01-21 Peabody's Down Under - Cleveland, OH (w/ Home and Garden)
1985-01-25 Metro - Chicago, IL (w/ Cause For Passion)
Hilltop Megamix
Dirty Disco II
1985-01-26 Asylum - Detroit
1985-01-27 First Avenue - Minneapolis
The Process
Looking From A Hilltop
Prepare To Live
Crazy Wisdom
Beneath The Blade
Inspiration
Reflection
Program For Light
Dirty Disco II
Boogie Beat (Bad News Week)
This performance has surfaced on 'So Far' DVD.
1985-01-29 Casa De La Raza - Santa Barbara, CA
The Process
Looking From A Hilltop
Crazy Wisdom
Beneath The Blade
Inspiration
Reflection
Prepare To Live
Program For Light
1985-01-31 Club Lingerie - Hollywood, CA (w/ Abecedarians)
The Process
Carbon [radical rework of Looking From A Hilltop]
Prepare To Live
Crazy Wisdom
Program For Light
Desert
Reflection
Dirty Disco II
Boogie Beat (Bad News Week)
...'Crazy Wisdom', 'Desert', and 'Boogie Beat' were released on
LTM's "From The Hip - In The Flesh (Live In America 1985)"
1985-02-01 688 Club - Atlanta, GA
The Process
Looking From a Hilltop
Prepare to Live
Beneath the Blade
Inspiration
Program for Light
Desert
Reflection
Boogie Beat (Bad News Week)
1985-02-02 Cotillion Ballroom - Baton Rouge, LA (w/ Lung Overcoat and Bridge Troll)
The Process
Looking From A Hilltop
Prepare To Live
Beneath The Blade
Inspiration
Reflection
Program For Light
Dirty Disco II
Five of these tracks (The Process, Looking..., Beneath The Blade,
Inspiration, and Program For Light) appear on 'Deus Ex Machina',
with those and 'Prepare To Live', 'Reflection', and 'Dirty Disco II
also surfacing (newly remastered) on LTM's "From The Hip - In The Flesh"
collection.
1985-02-03 Back Door, San Diego State University, CA (w/ Abecedarians)
The Process
Looking From A Hilltop
Prepare To Live
Reflection
Beneath The Blade
Inspiration
Crazy Wisdom
Program For Light
Dirty Disco II
Boogie Beat (Bad News Week)
"Boogie Beat, titled 'Ten', appears as a hidden track on the 1999
TeenBeat sampler CD. This song and 'Reflection' (sic) from the same
gig appear on a Teenbeat sampler tape from 1985. (also from Frank B's
SXXV discography)". These are not even complete songs on the
compilations, as they fade out for some reason!" -- M. Mitchell
Some sources list 1985-02-08.
1985-02-09 The Ritz - New York City, NY (w/ Quando Quango)
Slinky
Guitar Waltz
Crazy Wisdom
Sweet Forgiveness
The Model (Kraftwerk cover)
Program For Light
Desert
First and fourth tracks released on 'Deus Ex Machina'...
1985-11-03 Clarendon Ballroom - London (w/ Stockholm Monsters and Happy Mondays, who did not play)
Slinky
The Process
Reflection
Guitar Waltz
Crazy Wisdom
Program For Light
The Model (Kraftwerk cover)
Sweet Forgiveness
Setlist is from 'Love & Hate' sleevenotes.
1986-09-28 The Tache - Blackpool (w/ John Cooper Clarke)
(FINAL GIG...not quite!)
Dirty Disco
Gymnopedies
Friendly Fires
Sprinkling Petals Into Hell
2006-05-19 Over The Edge - Poulton le Fylde (w/ Kevin Hewick)
Knew Noise
Up To You
Wretch
New Horizon
The Light Pours Out Of Me [Magazine]
Friendly Fires
Inside Out
After Image
Cretin Hop [Ramones]
--
Shadowplay [Joy Division]
--
Dirty Disco
See here for info! Their first concert in nearly 20 years.
Thanks go to indiearchivist for providing the setlist, which
he's not 100% sure of, but it was partly based on the written setlist.
He adds, "The venue was called Over The Edge because it was a function
room/bar situated above a nightclub called The Edge.
Support was Kevin Hewick (solo w/ acoustic guitar). I haven't got
details of his full set, but the last song was, no surprise, "Haystack".
The S25 trio itself was augmented by a bass player who looked like a
death/dark/doom metal type of person, but despite this he turned out
to be very good! Larry didn't pull his bass out until mid-set (for
"Friendly Fires", I think), and at this point the bearded bass man
stepped in on keyboards. Vin remained behind the drums for the whole
set."
The Cerysmatic Factory account...
And from the horse's mouth, see the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org)
for their account.
2006-06-03 No. 1 Club - Blackpool (w/Swallow, the kids favourites Outl4w and Fes Parker (featuring Speedy Dave)
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for an account.
(Ed. note: I suspect the setlist there is really from the following gig, there's a default template that lists 14 tracks due to auto-filling)
2006-06-24 Le Botanique - Brussels (w/De Volanges)
Knew Noise/Up To You (mess)
Up To You
Be Brave
Wretch
New Horizon
The Light Pours Out Of Me [Magazine]
After Image
Part Primitive
Inside Out
Friendly Fires
Looking From A Hilltop
--
Shadowplay [Joy Division]
Dirty Disco / Je Veux Ton Amour
--
No Love Lost [Joy Division]
The Cerysmatic Factory account...
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for their account.
2006-06-25 Le Batofar On the Warf - Paris (w/Frustration)
Up To You
Knew Noise
Be Brave
New Horizon
Part Primitive
After Image
Inside Out
Friendly Fires
Looking From A Hilltop
Shadowplay [Joy Division]
Dirty Disco
The Cerysmatic Factory account...
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for their account.
2006-07-07 The Attik - Leicester (w/Kevin Hewick)
2006-07-27 Temple Bar - Dublin (w/Luggage and Twinkranes)
Up To You
Knew Noise
Wretch
Be Brave
The Light Pours Out Of Me [Magazine]
New Horizon
Hit
Shadowplay [Joy Division]
Part Primitive
Inside Out
Friendly Fires
Looking From A Hilltop
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for an account.
2006-08-11 King's Arms - Salford (w/Kevin Hewick and Fes Parker, featuring Speedy Dave)
Knew Noise
Up to You
Be Brave
Wretch
Part Primitive
New Horizon
The Light Pours Out Of Me [Magazine]
Inside Out
After Image
Hit
Friendly Fires
Inside Out
Looking From A Hilltop
Dirty Disco
No Love Lost [Joy Division]
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for an account.
2006-08-27 Stanley Park - Blackpool (Summer Daze III)
Wretch
The Light Pours Out Of Me [Magazine]
Gene
Dirty Disco
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for an account.
2006-10-16 Empress Ballroom - Blackpool (opening for New Order, first time in 20 years!)
Up to You
Friendly Fires
Be Brave
Wretch
New Horizon
Gene
Part Primitive
Looking From A Hilltop
The Cerysmatic Factory account...
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for their account.
2006-11-11 The Underworld - Camden (w/Kevin Hewick)
Up To You
Wretch
Be Brave
Hit
Gene
After Image
The Light Pours Out Of Me [Magazine]
New Horizon
Part Primitive
Looking From A Hilltop
No Love Lost
Dirty Disco
Shadowplay [Joy Division]
The Cerysmatic Factory account...
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for their account.
2006-12-07 Club Iroko - Salerno, Italy (w/Noise Room)
Wretch
Up To You
Hit
Be Brave
Gene
After Image
New Horizon
Part Primitive
Friendly Fires
Shadowplay [Joy Division]
Looking From A Hilltop
Dirty Disco
Haunted
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for an account.
2006-12-22 Beat Club - Blackpool (Xmas Party) (w/Audio Mainline and DJ Stuart Diggle)
Wretch
Up To You
Part Primitiv (Can't Let Go)
Be Brave
The Light Pours Out Of Me [Magazine]
Hit
Looking From A Hilltop
Gene
After Image
Shadowplay [Joy Division]
Dirty Disco
The Cerysmatic Factory account...
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for their account.
2007-01-12 The Underworld Club (Planet Music) - Athens, Greece (w/Absent Without Leave and Tilbury On Cloves)
Up To You
Wretch
Hit
Be Brave
New Horizons
Part Primitive (Can't Let Go)
The Light Pours Out Of Me [Magazine]
Gene
Looking From A Hilltop
After Image
Friendly Fires
Shadowplay [Joy Division]
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for an account.
2007-06-03 - The Echo - Los Angeles CA
Was cancelled. See here for the original listing. A handful of dates in the US.
2007-06-22 'Blasted II' - The Number One Club - Blackpool
2007-06-30 Circolo degli Artisti, Via Casilini Vechia 42 - Rome (w/Echoes Of Silence)
Wretch
Can't Let Go
Nick
Up To You
Be Brave
Gene
Haunted
Shadowplay [Joy Division]
She's So Pretty
Hit
Ludus Cantus
Roma
No Love Lost [Joy Division]
Dirty Disco
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for an account,
including mp3s and YouTube clips!
2007-11-23 The Maze - Nottingham
Intro
Up To You
Ludus Cantus
Poppy Fields
Can't Let Go
After Image
Shadowplay
Gene
Be Brave
Looking From A Hilltop
Dirty Disco
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for an account,
including mp3s.
2007-12-14 Cologne, Germany
2007-12-15 Plan K - Brussels, Belgium (w/Kevin Hewick, The Names, and Crispy Ambulance)
Ludus Cantus
Up To You
Gene
Be Brave
Wretch
Friendly Fires
Poppy Fields
Can't Let Go
New Horizon
No Love Lost [Joy Division]
After Image
Looking From A Hilltop
Dirty Disco
Temptation [New Order, with Hooky on bass!]
See the www.section25.co.uk site (via archive.org) for an account,
including mp3s and YouTube clips.
2008-05-30 North Bar - Blackburn (w/Kevin Hewick)
Up To You
Wretch
Can't Let Go
Be Brave
Gene
Friendly Fires
Poppy Fields
Afterimage
Ludus Cantus
Shadowplay
Looking From A Hilltop
2008-06-20 Beat Club - Blackpool (w/Tunnelvision and DJ set from Martin Moscrop)
Can't Let Go
Up To You
Poppy Fields
Wretch
Gene
Friendly Fires
Roma
Be Brave
Afterimage
Shadowplay
Flyer
2008-07-04 Beatherder Festival - Sawley, England
2008-11-06 Elysée Montmartre - Paris, France (w/Kevin Hewick and Peter Hook [on bass])
Up To You
Wretch
Charnel Ground
Can't Let Go
After image
No Love Lost
Warsaw (false start)
Warsaw
Interzone
She's Lost Control
Shadowplay
Dreams Never End
Ceremony
Temptation
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Gene
Doubts Even Here
Tarquin has photos here.
Flyer
2008-11-07 Ancienne Belgique - Brussels, Belgium (w/Kevin Hewick and Peter Hook [DJ set afterparty and on bass])
New Horizon
Wretch
Can't Let Go
Friendly Fires
Gene
After Image
Up To You
Charnel Ground
Dirty Disco
No Love Lost
She's Lost Control
Temptation
Ceremony
Dreams Never End (breakdown)
Dreams Never End
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Shadowplay
Interzone
Warsaw
Poppy Fields
Doubts Even Here
Tarquin has photos here.
2008-11-08 Cultuurpodium Groene Engel - Os, Netherlands (w/Kevin Hewick and Peter Hook [on bass])
New Horizon
Wretch
Up To You
Gene
Friendly Fires
Charnel Ground
After Image
Can't Let Go
Dirty Disco
No Love Lost
Ultraviolence
She's Lost Control
Temptation
Ceremony
Dreams Never End
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Shadowplay
Interzone
Warsaw
Poppy Fields
Doubts Even Here
Tarquin has photos here and here.
Flyer
2008-11-09 Kulturfabrick Krefeld e. V - Krefeld, Germany (w/Kevin Hewick and Peter Hook [on bass])
Tarquin has photos here and here.
Flyer
2008-12-19 Beat Club - Blackpool
New Horizon
Wretch
Up To You
Charnel Ground
Looking From A Hilltop
After Image
No Love Lost
She's Lost Control
Temptation
Ceremony
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Shadowplay
Ultraviolence
Interzone
Warsaw
Poppy Fields
2008-12-20 West Coast Rock Cafe - Blackpool
2009-09-23 Back Door Music Project - Broadwater Centre Rochdale (w/Peter Hook)
Up To You
Wretch
Can't Let Go
Friendly Fires
After Image
Dirty Disco
Poppy Fields
Ultraviolence
She's Lost Control
Love Will Tear Us Apart
No Love Lost
Digital
Shadowplay
Interzone
Warsaw
Dreams Never End
2009-10-09 Mezzanine - San Francisco CA
Gene
Friendly Fires
Wretch
Can't Let You Go
Dirty Disco
Looking From A Hilltop
After Image
Shadowplay
Poppy Fields
First US performance in almost 25 years!
Almost complete video, from thehappyone/joydivision95.
2009-10-11 Part Time Punks Festival - The Echo - Los Angeles CA
Gene
Friendly Fires
Wretch
Charnel Ground
Warsaw
Looking From A Hilltop
Poppy Fields
Dirty Disco
2009-10-24 Musicdrome - Milan, Italy (w/ S.C.U.M and Frustration)
Can't Let Go
Haunted
Up To You
Poppy Fields
Charnel Ground
One Way Or Another
Friendly Fires
Singularity
Dirty Disco
Wretch
2009-11-21 Fes Fest - West Coast Rock Cafe - Blackpool (w/Ramleh and The Ceramic Hobs)
2009-12-12 Plan K - Brussels, Belgium (w/ACR, Biting Tongues, The Wake, and The Names (with strings)
Larry Cassidy passed away in March 2010. The band bravely decide to carry on.
2010-09-16 The Musician - Leicester
The Process
Beating Heart
Desert
Uberhymn
Garageland
Dirty Disco
Girls Don't Count
New Horizon (A New Start)
Wretch
Looking From A Hilltop
Attachment
2010-10-22 The North Bar - Blackburn
2010-11-20 FAC 251 The Factory - Manchester
The Process
Beating Heart
New Horizon (A New Start)
(new song: Falling Away)
Garageland
Dirty Disco
Uberhymn
Desert
Remembrance
Girls Don't Count
Wretch
Looking From A Hilltop
2010-12-05 Rhiz Modern - Vienna
Pop Idol (intro)
The Process
Beating Heart
New Horizon
Garageland I
Garageland II
Dirty Disco
Uberhymm
Desert
Remembrance
Girls Don't Count
Wretch
Looking From A Hilltop
Picture of setlist
2010-12-11 The Beat Club - Blackpool
Desert
2011-07-15 Riversway Festival 2011 - Preston (w/ Withered Hand, Kid Canaveral, and Membranes)
2011-10-08 FAC 251 The Factory - Manchester
The Process
Beating Heart
Remembrance (Slow version)
Inner Drive
New Horizon
Wretch
Girls Don't Count
Garageland
Colour Movement Sex & Violence
Dirty Disco
Looking From a Hilltop
Live review by Paul Pledger
2011-11-19 Secret Project Robot - Brooklyn NY (w/Stereograph)
Date from Cerysmatic Factory
2011-11-20 T.T. the Bear's Place - Cambridge MA (w/ Stereograph and The Milling Gowns, and part of “Heroes” dance night)
2011-12-17 Muziekcantrum Trix - Antwerp Belgium
Beating Heart
Colour Movement Sex & Violence
Wretch
Girls Don’t Count
Reflection
Videos filmed by Polewka.
2012-01-28 Gullivers Bar - Manchester
intro
Beating Heart
Garageland
Desert
Wretch
Dirty Disco
Videos filmed by Polewka.
2012-02-03 Mechanics Institute - Manchester
Colour Movement Sex & Violence
2012-05-29 Leadmill - Sheffield
Colour Movement Sex & Violence
2012-06-01 O2 Academy - Islington
The Process
Pitch Black Box
Inner Drive
Looking From A Hilltop
My Outrage
Colour, Movement, Sex and Violence
2012-07-01 DV8Fest - York
Wretch
video filmed by Lorena Malone.
2012-10-12 Eric's - Liverpool (w/ Kevin Hewick, opening for Xodus)
Beating Heart
Pitch Black Box
The Process
My Outrage
Inner Drive
Pitch Black Box
Wretch
Early Exit
Dirty Disco
Looking From A Hilltop
Above linked videos filmed by Polewka, including warmup footage.
Alternative captures of The Process and Inner Drive by youdest23, as well as Pitch Black Box through My Outrage by phantasmag0ria.
2012-11-24 The Continental - Preston
Above linked video filmed by Polewka.
The Process
Beating Heart
Garageland
You Leave Me No Choice
Colour Movement Sex & Violence
My Outrage
Memento
Inner Drive
Wretch
All Night Party
Looking From A Hilltop
Dirty Disco
Beating Heart
Colour Movement Sex & Violence
The Process
Memento
Remembrance
Desert
My Outrage
Above linked video filmed by Polewka.
2016-04-30 The Islington - London
Beating Heart
Colour Movement Sex & Violence
The Process
Memento
Remembrance
Desert
New Horizon
My Outrage
Garageland
Wretch
Looking From A Hilltop
Dirty Disco
2018-04-02 Glasgow
Friendly Fires
Laid Back Life
The Greatest Thing
Wretch
All I Ask
Don’t Get
Charnel Ground
This Is The Love
Floating Sun
The Process
Looking From A Hilltop
Dirty Disco
Setlist courtesy of Simon Dell.
2018-05-12 The Borderline - London (w/ The Railway Children)
Still a work in progress.
If something is missing, please reference setlist.fm as an additional source of information.
In addition, there are several sessions of demos, from 1979, 1981
(SSRU+Key Of Dreams), 1983, 1984 (Rough mixes/studio rehearsals),
and 2001, which were on the official Section 25 website (in MP3 form)
but were later removed.
According to Nick Blakey, Tony Ashworth had told him that "I don't
have anything on the Passage. S25 supported them once at Chorley Library
in about 1979/80...a good gig poorly attended."
Nick: "If this gig took place in '80 it would have been early 1980 before
Dick Witts broke his arm in a car crash. However, something makes me think
this is from 1979. This is no doubt the Chorley "old library" on Avondale
Road, and not the new one which opened in 1986.
According to Simon Dell, "I have a press item about Fun City zine promoting
gigs at Oozit's on Weds in summer 1981. Dates and bands for July 1st, 8th and
15th are given, followed by "Foreign Press and Section 25 will be playing in
August" - no further info at present."
