Joy Division - Eternal - CD Box-Set - 3 Copies Avl
Pulling together myriad audio sources from audience recordings to sound desk tapes to international radio broadcasts, the set features 16 full audio concert recordings across 14 CDs, plus ca. 2 hours 20 mins of live video on a DVD, recorded between March 1979 through May 1980, just two weeks before Ian Curtis' tragic death.
Please note: audio quality across these sources varies widely. Most of the audience recordings sound exactly like what they are - recorded by a fan in the crowd - and multiple concerts have been widely bootlegged. That said, these official bootlegs are surprisingly higher quality, and several are previously unheard!
Following on from previous New Order Definitive Edition releases, Eternal is presented in a 12" rigid box, with the 15 discs presented in digipaks, with an additional softback 12" book featuring new liner notes by UK poet laureate and Joy Division fan, Simon Armitage, as well as photography by band photographers, Anton Corbijn and Kevin Cummins.
Released 25th September 2026
Track List:
CD1: Hope And Anchor
Recording date: 1st March, 1979
Audio source: Mixing an audience recording by Jonathan Crabb, with a second audience recording (taper unknown). Both recordings previously unheard.
CD2: Bowdon Vale Youth Club + Acklam Hall
Bowdon Vale Youth Club
1. Exercise One
2. She's Lost Control
3. Shadowplay
4. Leaders Of Men
5. Insight
6. Disorder
7. Glass
8. Digital
9. Ice Age
10. Warsaw
11. Transmission
12. I Remember Nothing
13. No Love Lost
Recording date: 14th March, 1979
Audio source: "Exercise One" from a sound desk recording, with the rest of the show from an audience recording by Malcolm Whitehead.
Acklam Hall, London
1. Disorder
2. She's Lost Control
3. Shadowplay
4. Wilderness
5. Insight
6. Candidate
7. Digital
Recording date: 15th May, 1979
Audio source: An audience recording by Jonathan Crabb
CD3: The Factory, Manchester
1. Dead Souls
2. The Only Mistake
3. Insight
4. Candidate
5. Wilderness
6. She's Lost Control
7. Shadowplay
8. Disorder
9. Interzone
10. Atrocity Exhibition
11. Novelty
12. Transmission
Recording date: 13th July, 1979
Audio source: A previously unheard sound desk recording.
CD4: YMCA, London
CD5: Futurama, Leeds
Recording date: 8th September, 1979
Audio source: An audience recording by Duncan Haysom.
CD6: Les Bains Douches, Paris
Recording date: 18th December, 1979
Audio source: Radio broadcast recording, France Inter.
CD7: Paradiso, Amsterdam
Recording date: 11th January, 1980
Audio source: Radio broadcast recording, VARA.
CD8: Effenaar, Eindhoven
Recording date: 18th January, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording.
CD9: The Warehouse, Preston
Recording date: 28th February, 1980
Audio source: Sound desk recording.
CD10: Lyceum, London
Recording date: 29th February, 1980
Audio source: Sound desk recording (tracks 1-10), matrix sound desk / audience recording by Duncan Haysom (track 11), audience recording (tracks 12-16).
CD11: Moonlight Club
2nd April, 1980
3rd April, 1980
Recording date: 2nd & 3rd April, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording by Andy Hooper.
CD12: Winter Gardens, Malvern
Recording date: 5th April, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording by Tim Bayes.
CD13: Ajanta Theatre, Derby
Recording date: 19th April, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording by Tim Bayes.
CD14: High Hall, Birmingham
Recording date: 2nd May, 1980
Audio source: Sound desk recording.
VIDEO (DVD)
Bowdon Vale Youth Club (14/03/79)
1. She's Lost Control
2. Shadowplay
3. Leaders Of Men
Apollo, Manchester (27/10/79)
1. Wilderness
2. Colony
3. Autosuggestion
4. Love Will Tear Us Apart
5. Shadowplay
6. She's Lost Control
7. Transmission
Apollo, Manchester (28/10/79)
1. Sound Of Music
2. Shadowplay
3. Colony
4. Day Of The Lords
5. Twenty Four Hours
6. Disorder
7. Walked In Line
8. I Remember Nothing
9. Transmission
Bonus: Soundcheck from TBC performance
Plan K, Brussels (16/10/79)
1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. Wilderness
3. Disorder
4. Colony
5. Insight
6. Twenty Four Hours
7. New Dawn Fades
8. Transmission
9. Shadowplay
10. She's Lost Control
11. Atrocity Exhibition
12. Interzone
