Song · Live covers
Ceremony
One of the last songs Joy Division wrote, played once by Radiohead, in a webcast from their Oxford studio.
1980–81
joy division to new order
Joy Division wrote it, with words by their singer Ian Curtis, shortly before his death in May 1980, and had recorded it only in rough form. The three who were left learned it properly, renamed themselves New Order and put it out as their first single in 1981, so one of the last Joy Division songs is also the first New Order one.
9 nov 2007
thumbs down
Radiohead played it in Thumbs Down, a webcast from their Oxford studio on 9 November 2007, their first in five years and thrown together to celebrate finishing In Rainbows. It came between the first live “Reckoner” and “I Might Be Wrong”. Earlier in the same broadcast they played the Smiths' “The Headmaster Ritual”, which they have not played anywhere else either.
the video
Joy Division / New Order cover.· WiseRileywatch on youtube →
the record(1)
on stage(1)
Live history
| Times played | 1 show |
|---|---|
| Live debut | Friday 9 November 2007 · Oxford |
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sources2
- The site's own catalogue note, based on setlist.fm, Stereogum and Far Out.
- This site's show page for 9 November 2007 and its news story “Radiohead's Thumbs Down webcast puts Thom Yorke's head in a box”, for the webcast, its running order and why it was made.