On September 25, Warner Music will release Eternal (Live), the first ever official collection of Joy Division live recordings, spanning 14 CDs and two DVDs.
The set brings together audio from 16 live performances, meticulously sourced from audience-recorded cassettes, soundboard tapes and broadcast recordings, all mastered at Abbey Road.
Listen to a December 1979 version of “Transmission” from Les Bains Douches, Paris, below.
Eternal (Live) documents some of the most significant live performances of Joy Division’s career, including two previously unreleased shows – Hope & Anchor and Acklam Hall – and three previously unheard recordings – The Factory, Lyceum and Moonlight Club (2nd April). It also features the band’s final live performance, at High Hall, Birmingham in 1980, where they played “Ceremony” for the first and last time onstage.
The set also includes two DVDs featuring over two-and-a-half hours of live shows, including the previously unseen Plan K, Brussels concert plus two concerts and a soundcheck from the Apollo Theatre, Manchester that have only been partially released on VHS (in 1982), as well as a brand new edit of Joy Division – A Malcolm Whitehead Film.
Eternal (Live) is housed in a 12″ x 12″ lift-off-lid box with artwork by Warren Jackson, Peter Saville, Howard Wakefield and Brett Wickens. The cover photography is Sirius Through A Defocused Telescope, 2023 by Wolfgang Tillmans. The accompanying 16-page booklet includes personal notes by Simon Armitage and photography by Anton Corbijn and Kevin Cummins.
Pre-order Eternal (Live) here and check out the full tracklisting below:
CD1: Hope And Anchor, London (previously unreleased)
1 Exercise One
2 She’s Lost Control
3 Shadowplay
4 Leaders Of Men
5 Insight
6 The Only Mistake
7 Disorder
8 Glass
9 Digital
10 Warsaw
11 Transmission
12 I Remember Nothing
13 Interzone
14 Ice Age
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, Altrincham
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, the rest of the show is a matrix of the sound desk recording and an audience recording by Malcolm Whitehead.
Acklam Hall, London (previously unreleased)
14 Disorder
15 She’s Lost Control
16 Shadowplay
17 Wilderness
18 Insight
19 Candidate
20 Digital
Recording date: 17th May, 1979
Audio source: An audience recording by Jonathan Crabb
CD3: The Factory, Manchester (previously unheard recording)
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
1 Dead Souls
2 Disorder
3 Wilderness
4 Autosuggestion
5 Transmission
6 Day Of The Lords
7 She’s Lost Control
8 Shadowplay
9 Atrocity Exhibition
10 Insight
Recording date: 2nd August, 1979
Audio source: Sound desk recording.
CD5: Futurama One Festival, Leeds
1 I Remember Nothing
2 Wilderness
3 Transmission
4 Colony
5 Disorder
6 Insight
7 Shadowplay
8 She’s Lost Control
9 Atrocity Exhibition
10 Dead Souls
Recording date: 8th September, 1979
Audio source: An audience recording by Duncan Haysom.
CD6: Les Bains Douches, Paris
1 Passover
2 Wilderness
3 Disorder
4 Love Will Tear Us Apart
5 Insight
6 Shadowplay
7 Transmission
8 Day Of The Lords
9 Twenty Four Hours
10 Colony
11 These Days
12 A Means To An End
13 She’s Lost Control
14 Atrocity Exhibition
15 Interzone
16 Warsaw
Recording date: 18th December, 1979
Audio source: Radio broadcast recording, France Inter.
CD7: Paradiso, Amsterdam
1 Passover
2 Wilderness
3 Digital
4 Day Of The Lords
5 Insight
6 New Dawn Fades
7 Disorder
8 Transmission
9 Love Will Tear Us Apart
10 These Days
11 A Means To An End
12 Twenty Four Hours
13 Shadowplay
14 She’s Lost Control
15 Atrocity Exhibition
16 Atmosphere
17 Interzone
Recording date: 11th January, 1980
Audio source: Radio broadcast recording, VARA.
CD8: Effenaar, Eindhoven
1 Love Will Tear Us Apart
2 Digital
3 New Dawn Fades
4 Colony
5 These Days
6 Ice Age
7 Dead Souls
8 Disorder
9 Day Of The Lords
10 Autosuggestion
11 Shadowplay
12 She’s Lost Control
13 Transmission
14 Interzone
15 Atmosphere
16 Warsaw
Recording date: 18th January, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording.
CD9: The Warehouse, Preston
1 Incubation
2 Wilderness
3 Twenty Four Hours
4 The Eternal
5 Heart And Soul
6 Shadowplay
7 Transmission
8 Disorder
9 Warsaw
10 Colony
11 Interzone
12 She’s Lost Control
Recording date: 28th February, 1980
Audio source: Sound desk recording.
CD10: The Lyceum, London
1 Incubation (Previously unheard recording)
2 Wilderness (Previously unheard recording
3 Twenty Four Hours (Previously unheard recording)
4 The Eternal (Previously unheard recording)
5 Heart And Soul (Previously unheard recording)
6 Love Will Tear Us Apart (Previously unheard recording)
7 Isolation (Previously unheard recording)
8 Komakino (Previously unheard recording)
9 She’s Lost Control (Previously unheard recording)
10 These Days
11 Atrocity Exhibition
12 Heart And Soul Soundcheck
13 Incubation Soundcheck
14 Komakino Soundcheck
15 Isolation (Instrumental) Soundcheck
16 Isolation Soundcheck
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: The Moonlight Club, London
2nd April, 1980
1 Sound Of Music
2 Wilderness (Previously unheard)
3 Colony (Previously unheard)
4 Love Will Tear Us Apart (Previously unheard)
5 A Means To An End (Previously unheard)
6 Transmission (Previously unheard)
7 Dead Souls (Previously unheard)
8 Sister Ray
Recording date: 2nd April, 1980
Audio source: Track 1 audience recording by Andy Hooper, tracks 2-8 (mostly) unheard desk recording (except Sister Ray, which was on Still).
3rd April, 1980
9 Love Will Tear Us Apart
10 Glass
11 Digital
12 Heart And Soul
13 Isolation
14 Disorder
15 Atrocity Exhibition
16 Atmosphere
Recording date: 3rd April, 1980
Audio source: Audience recording by Andy Hooper.
CD12: Winter Gardens, Malvern
1 Disorder
2 Wilderness
3 Twenty Four Hours
4 Heart And Soul
5 Atmosphere
6 Love Will Tear Us Apart
7 Isolation
8 Interzone
9 She’s Lost Control
10 Girls Don’t Count (with Section 25)
Recording date: 5th April, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording by Tim Bayes.
CD13: Ajanta Theatre, Derby
1 Dead Souls
2 Wilderness
3 Digital
4 Insight
5 Passover
6 Heart And Soul
7 Isolation
8 These Days
9 Transmission
10 She’s Lost Control
11 Colony
12 Girls Don’t Count (with Section 25)
Recording date: 19th April, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording by Tim Bayes.
CD14: High Hall, Birmingham
1 Ceremony
2 Shadowplay
3 A Means To An End
4 Passover
5 New Dawn Fades
6 Twenty Four Hours
7 Transmission
8 Disorder
9 Isolation
10 Decades
11 Digital
Recording date: 2nd May, 1980
Audio source: Sound desk recording. Track 1, first minute taken from audience recording (recordist unknown).
DVD1
1 Joy Division – A Malcolm Whitehead Film (2026 edit)
2 She’s Lost Control – Bowdon Vale Youth Club, Altrincham, Recording date: 14th March, 1979
3 Shadowplay – Bowdon Vale Youth Club, Altrincham, Recording date: 14th March, 1979
4 Leaders Of Men – Bowdon Vale Youth Club, Altrincham, Recording date: 14th March, 1979
5 Transmission – Something Else, BBC TV, Recording date: 15th September, 1979
6 She’s Lost Control – Something Else, BBC TV, Recording date: 15th September, 1979
Plan K, Brussels
Recording date: 16th October, 1979
7 Love Will Tear Us Apart [Original 1979 Audio Version]
8 Wilderness [Original 1979 Audio Version]
9 Disorder [Original 1979 Audio Version]
10 Colony [Original 1979 Audio Version]
11 Insight [Original 1979 Audio Version]
12 Twenty Four Hours [Original 1979 Audio Version]
13 New Dawn Fades [Original 1979 Audio Version]
14 Transmission [Original 1979 Audio Version]
15 Shadowplay [Original 1979 Audio Version]
16 She’s Lost Control [Original 1979 Audio Version]
17 Atrocity Exhibition [Original 1979 Audio Version]
18 Interzone [Original 1979 Audio Version]
19 Wilderness [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
20 Disorder [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
21 Colony [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
22 Insight [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
23 Twenty Four Hours [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
24 New Dawn Fades [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
25 Transmission [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
26 Shadowplay [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
27 She’s Lost Control [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
28 Atrocity Exhibition [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
29 Interzone [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
DVD2
Apollo Theatre, Manchester
Recording date: 27th October, 1979
1 Dead Souls
2 Wilderness
3 Colony
4 Autosuggestion
5 Love Will Tear Us Apart
6 Shadowplay
7 She’s Lost Control
8 Transmission
Apollo Theatre, Manchester
Recording date: 28th October, 1979
9 Sound Of Music
10 Shadowplay
11 Colony
12 Day Of The Lords
13 Twenty Four Hours
14 Disorder
15 Walked In Line
16 I Remember Nothing
17 Transmission
+ Soundcheck, Apollo Theatre, Manchester, October 1979