News 25 Jun 2026

Joy Division / Eternal (Live)

14CD + 2 x DVD box set

By Paul Sinclair

A new Joy Division box set, Eternal (Live), brings together 16 live performances across 14 CDs.

“Years in the making”, the audio in this set is sourced from audience recorded cassettes, soundboard tapes and broadcast recordings, all mastered at Abbey Road Studios.

The content includes two previously unreleased shows Hope & Anchor and Acklam Hall and three previously unheard recordings, The Factory, Lyceum, Moonlight Club (2 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 on stage. This was two weeks before Ian Curtis died.

The box also includes two DVDs giving fans 16 discs. They feature two hours and 30 mins of live shows including the previously unseen Plan K, Brussels concert and two concerts and soundcheck from the Apollo Theatre, Manchester that have only been partially released on VHS (in 1982) and a brand new edit of Joy Division – A Malcolm Whitehead Film.

Eternal (Live) comes as a 12-inch large format lift-off lid box set. There’s not luxury book mind you, just a “16-page booklet” with notes by Simon Armitage and photos by Anton Corbijn, Kevin Cummins and others.

It’s probably a case of buyer beware with this box set, since according to the label “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”. But they go on to say that they “have every confidence that Joy Division fans will revel in these official bootlegs, and be overjoyed by the higher quality recordings, especially with those that are previously unheard”.

Eternal (Live) will be released on 25 September 2026, via Warner Records.

Joy Division

Eternal (Live)

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Tracklisting

- CD1: Hope And Anchor, London **Previously unreleased**
  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.
  1. 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
- CD 2: 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**
  1. Disorder
  2. She’s Lost Control
  3. Shadowplay
  4. Wilderness
  5. Insight
  6. Candidate
  7. Digital
  Recording date: 17th May, 1979.
  
  Audio source: An audience recording by Jonathan Crabb
- CD 3: 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.
- CD 4: 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.
- CD 5: 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.
- CD 6: 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.
- CD 7: 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.
- CD 8: 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.
- CD 9: 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.
- CD 10: The Lyceum, London
  1. Incubation*
  2. Wilderness*
  3. Twenty Four Hours*
  4. The Eternal*
  5. Heart And Soul*
  6. Love Will Tear Us Apart*
  7. Isolation*
  8. Komakino *
  9. She’s Lost Control*
  10. These Days
  11. Atrocity Exhibition
  12. Heart And Soul
  Soundcheck
  1. Incubation (Soundcheck)
  2. Komakino (Soundcheck
  3. Isolation (Instrumental (Soundcheck)
  4. Isolation (Soundcheck)
  *Previously unheard recording
  
  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).
- CD 11: The Moonlight Club, London
  2 April 1980
  1. Sound Of Music
  2. Wilderness*
  3. Colony*
  4. Love Will Tear Us Apart*
  5. A Means To An End*
  6. Transmission*
  7. Dead Souls*
  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
  1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
  2. Glass
  3. Digital
  4. Heart And Soul
  5. Isolation
  6. Disorder
  7. Atrocity Exhibition
  8. Atmosphere
  Recording date: 3rd April, 1980
  
  Audio source: Audience recording by Andy Hooper.
- CD 12: 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.
- CD 13: 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.
- CD 14: 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).
- DVD 1
  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
  1. Love Will Tear Us Apart [Original 1979 Audio Version]
  2. Wilderness [Original 1979 Audio Version]
  3. Disorder [Original 1979 Audio Version]
  4. Colony [Original 1979 Audio Version]
  5. Insight [Original 1979 Audio Version]
  6. Twenty Four Hours [Original 1979 Audio Version]
  7. New Dawn Fades [Original 1979 Audio Version]
  8. Transmission [Original 1979 Audio Version]
  9. Shadowplay [Original 1979 Audio Version]
  10. She’s Lost Control [Original 1979 Audio Version]
  11. Atrocity Exhibition [Original 1979 Audio Version]
  12. Interzone [Original 1979 Audio Version]
  13. Wilderness [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
  14. Disorder [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
  15. Colony [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
  16. Insight [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
  17. Twenty Four Hours [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
  18. New Dawn Fades [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
  19. Transmission [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
  20. Shadowplay [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
  21. She’s Lost Control[2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
  22. Atrocity Exhibition [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
  23. Interzone [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version]
- DVD 2:
  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
  1. Sound Of Music
  2. Shadowplay
  3. Colony
  4. Day Of The Lords
  5. Twenty Four Hours
  6. Disorder
  7. Walked In Line
  8. Remember Nothing
  9. Transmission

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Eternal (live) Joy Division / 14CD + 2DVD box

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.

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**

Recording date: 17th May, 1979.

Audio source: An audience recording by Jonathan Crabb

Recording date: 13th July, 1979

Audio source: A previously unheard sound desk recording.

Recording date: 2nd August, 1979

Audio source: Sound desk recording.

Recording date: 8th September, 1979

Audio source: An audience recording by Duncan Haysom.

Recording date: 18th December, 1979

Audio source: Radio broadcast recording, France Inter.

Recording date: 11th January, 1980

Audio source: Radio broadcast recording, VARA.

Recording date: 18th January, 1980

Audio source: An audience recording.

Recording date: 28th February, 1980

Audio source: Sound desk recording.

Soundcheck

*Previously unheard recording

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).

2 April 1980

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

Recording date: 3rd April, 1980

Audio source: Audience recording by Andy Hooper.

Recording date: 5th April, 1980

Audio source: An audience recording by Tim Bayes.

Recording date: 19th April, 1980

Audio source: An audience recording by Tim Bayes.

Recording date: 2nd May, 1980

Audio source: Sound desk recording. Track 1, first minute taken from audience recording (recordist unknown).

Plan K, Brussels

Recording date: 16th October, 1979

Apollo Theatre, Manchester

Recording date: 27th October, 1979

+ Apollo Theatre, Manchester

Recording date: 28th October, 1979

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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.

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