Joy Division Discography Part 3

-Joy Division Recording Sessions-

Created by Ger Potze - January 1998
last modified: August 26, 2002
Compiled from various sources.

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This is a chronological list of all recording sessions done by Joy Division.
With a few exceptions all these recordings are included on the "Heart And Soul" boxed set,
and those indicated with an * do appear there for the first time on an official release, but have been available on bootleg releases. Those indicated with an ** didn't appear on any release ever before (known to me).

The mentioned exceptions are marked with an excluded tag, and will direct you to another page, providing a list with those tracks not included on the "Heart And Soul" boxed set, and the most important releases where to find them otherwise.

Any live recordings ever released officially in any way before or after the release of the "Heart And Soul" boxed set have also been included on this list of recording sessions.

  • Warsaw Demo session (Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham, July 18, 1977)

    1. Inside The Line excluded
    2. Gutz excluded
    3. At A Later Date excluded
    4. The Kill excluded
    5. You're No Good For Me excluded

  • Live at the Electric Circus, Manchester (October 2, 1977)

    1. At A Later Date excluded

  • An Ideal For Living session (Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham, December 1977)

    1. Warsaw
    2. No Love Lost
    3. Leaders Of Men
    4. Failures

  • RCA unreleased album session (Arrow Studios, Manchester, May 3-4, 1978)

    1. The Drawback (a.k.a. All Of This For You) *
    2. Leaders Of Men excluded
    3. They Walked In Line excluded
    4. Failures excluded
    5. Novelty excluded
    6. No Love Lost excluded
    7. Transmission excluded
    8. Living In The Ice Age excluded
    9. Interzone *
    10. Warsaw excluded
    11. Shadowplay *

  • Radio Manchester (Manchester, July 25, 1978)

    Note: Not really a recording session, only an interview with the band. Although the 'sessionography' in the booklet with the "Heart And Soul" boxed set lists four songs along this interview as well, these songs are most probably just the studio versions as released on the "An Ideal For Living" EP from June 1978. Since no tape from this broadcast has surfaced so far, further details are not known.

  • Granada TV appearance (Granada Studio 2, Manchester, September 20, 1978)

    1. Shadowplay (live) excluded

    Note: Broadcast on "Granada Reports", with negative offcuts from a World in Motion about the CIA chromakeyed behind the band. No further details known to me.

  • A Factory Sample session (Cargo Studios, Rochdale, October 11, 1978)

    1. Digital
    2. Glass

  • The 1st John Peel session (BBC Studios, Maida Vale, London, January 31, 1979)

    1. Exercise One
    2. Insight excluded
    3. She's Lost Control excluded
    4. Transmission excluded

  • Genetic Records Demo session (Eden Studios, London, March 4, 1979)

    1. Insight **
    2. Glass **
    3. Ice Age **
    4. Transmission **
    5. Digital excluded

  • Live at the Bowdon Vale Youth Club (March 14, 1979)

    1. She's Lost Control excluded
    2. Shadowplay excluded
    3. Leaders of Men excluded

  • Unknown Pleasures session (Strawberry Studios, Stockport, April 1979)

    1. Disorder
    2. Day Of The Lords
    3. Candidate
    4. Insight
    5. New Dawn Fades
    6. She's Lost Control
    7. Shadowplay
    8. Wilderness
    9. Interzone
    10. I Remember Nothing
    11. Auto-Suggestion
    12. From Safety To Where ...?
    13. Exercise One
    14. The Only Mistake
    15. They Walked In Line
    16. The Kill

    Note: Tracks 1-10 actually appeared on the "Unknown Pleasures" album, while tracks 11-12 ended up on the "Earcom 2" compilation 12", and tracks 13-16 were taken from obscurity on the "Still" double album.

  • Piccadilly Radio session (Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham, June 4, 1979)

    1. These Days *
    2. Candidate *
    3. The Only Mistake *
    4. Chance (Atmosphere) *
    5. Atrocity Exhibition excluded

  • Live at The Factory 1, Hulme, Manchester (July 13, 1979)

    1. Dead Souls *
    2. The Only Mistake *
    3. Insight *
    4. Candidate *
    5. Wilderness *
    6. She's Lost Control *
    7. Disorder *
    8. Interzone *
    9. Atrocity Exhibition *
    10. Novelty *
    11. Transmission excluded

  • The "1st Transmission" session (Central Sound Studios, Manchester, mid July 1979)

    1. Transmission excluded
    2. Novelty excluded
    3. Dead Souls *
    4. Something Must Break *

  • Granada TV appearance (broadcast July 20, 1979)

    1. She's Lost Control (live) excluded

    Note: Broadcast on "What's On". No further details known to me.

  • The "2nd Transmission" session (Strawberry Studios, Stockport, late July 1979)

    1. Transmission
    2. Novelty
    3. Something Must Break

  • Live at the Prince of Wales Conference Centre, YMCA, London (August 2, 1979)

    1. Auto-Suggestion *

  • "Rock On", BBC Radio 1 (September 1979)

    Note: Not really a recording session, only interviews between BBC Radio One DJ Richard Skinner, Ian Curtis, Stephen Morris, and producer Martin Hannett. Although the 'sessionography' in the booklet with the "Heart And Soul" boxed set lists two songs along these interviews as well, these songs are just the studio versions as released on the "Unknown Pleasures" album from June 1979.

  • "Something Else" TV, BBC Studios (September 15, 1979)

    1. Transmission excluded
    2. She's Lost Control excluded

  • Licht Und Blindheit session (Cargo Studios, Rochdale, October-November 1979)

    1. Dead Souls
    2. Atmosphere
    3. Ice Age

  • Live at The Apollo, Manchester (October 27, 1979)

    1. Dead Souls excluded
    2. Wilderness excluded
    3. Love Will Tear Us Apart excluded
    4. Shadowplay excluded
    5. She's Lost Control excluded

  • Live at The Apollo, Manchester (October 28, 1979)

    1. Sound Of Music excluded
    2. Day Of The Lords excluded
    3. Walked In Line excluded
    4. I Remember Nothing excluded
    5. Transmission excluded

  • Live at the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth (November 2, 1979)

    1. I Remember Nothing *
    2. Colony *
    3. These Days *

  • The 2nd John Peel session (BBC Studios, Maida Vale, London, November 26, 1979)

    1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
    2. Twenty Four Hours excluded
    3. Colony
    4. Sound Of Music excluded

  • Live at Les Bains Douches, Paris, France (December 18, 1979)

    1. Disorder excluded
    2. Love Will Tear Us Apart excluded
    3. Insight excluded
    4. Shadowplay excluded
    5. Transmission excluded
    6. Day Of The Lords excluded
    7. 24 Hours excluded
    8. These Days excluded
    9. A Means To An End excluded

  • The "1st Love Will Tear Us Apart" session (Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham, January 8, 1980)

    1. Sound Of Music
    2. These Days
    3. Love Will Tear Us Apart excluded

    Note: The date given for this recording session is uncertain to me. Record Collector No. 221 (January 1998) is the only source giving this exact date, while most other sources say the session took place in March 1980, as the 2nd "Love Will Tear Us Apart" session and the "Closer" session did.

  • Live at Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland (January 11, 1980)

    1. Passover excluded
    2. New Dawn Fades excluded
    3. Atrocity Exhibition excluded

  • Live at De Effenaar, Eindhoven, Holland (January 18, 1980)

    1. Digital excluded
    2. New Dawn Fades excluded
    3. Colony excluded
    4. Dead Souls excluded
    5. Autosuggestion excluded
    6. Atmosphere excluded

  • Live at the Warehouse, Preston (February 28, 1980)

    1. Incubation excluded
    2. Wilderness excluded
    3. Twenty Four Hours excluded
    4. The Eternal excluded
    5. Heart and Soul excluded
    6. Shadowplay excluded
    7. Transmission excluded
    8. Disorder excluded
    9. Warsaw excluded
    10. Colony excluded
    11. Interzone excluded
    12. She's Lost Control excluded

  • Live at The Lyceum, London (February 29, 1980)

    1. Incubation *
    2. The Eternal *
    3. Heart And Soul *
    4. Isolation *
    5. She's Lost Control *

  • The "2nd Love Will Tear Us Apart" session (Strawberry Studios, Stockport, early March 1980)

    1. Love Will Tear Us Apart (vocals mixed at Brittania Row Studios)
    2. She's Lost Control

  • Closer session (Brittania Row Studios, London, March 18-30, 1980)

    1. Atrocity Exhibition
    2. Isolation
    3. Passover
    4. Colony
    5. A Means To An End
    6. Heart And Soul
    7. Twenty Four Hours
    8. The Eternal
    9. Decades
    10. Komakino
    11. Incubation
    12. As You Said (a.k.a. And Then Again)

    Note: Tracks 1-9 actually appeared on the "Closer" album, while tracks 10-12 ended up on the free flexi 7" "Komakino".

  • Live at The Moonlight Club, London (April 2, 1980)

    1. Sister Ray excluded

  • "American tour rehearsal" session (T.J. Davidson's Rehearsal Studios,
    Knott Mill, Manchester, April 1980)

    1. Ceremony **
    2. In A Lonely Place (detail) **

    Note: On the "Heart And Soul" boxed set the Graveyard Studios, Prestwich were given as recording studios, without a date.

  • Live at the High Hall, Birmingham University (May 2, 1980)

    1. Ceremony excluded
    2. Shadowplay excluded
    3. A Means To An End excluded
    4. Passover excluded
    5. New Dawn Fades excluded
    6. Twenty Four Hours excluded
    7. Transmission excluded
    8. Disorder excluded
    9. Isolation excluded
    10. Decades excluded
    11. Digital excluded

    If you have any additional information or corrections, please send me a message.

    Created: January 17-18, 1998
    Last updated: August 26, 2002 by Ger Potze.

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