Joy Division - Eternal: Live (14CD + 2DVD Box Set)
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Joy Division Eternal: Live on 14CD + 2DVD Box Set: The Band's First-Ever Official Collection of Live Concert Recordings. Includes 16 Audio Concert Recordings, Mastered at Abbey Road Studios. Also Includes Over 2.5 Hours of Live Video.
Eternal: Live, Joy Division's first-ever official collection of live concert recordings, available on September 25, 2026. Years in the making, this landmark release from one of the most seminal bands of our time, brings together audio from 16 live performances across 14CDs, meticulously sourced from audience recorded cassettes, soundboard tapes and broadcast recordings, all mastered at Abbey Road Studios.
Eternal: Live documents some of Joy Division’s most significant live performances of their career, including two previously unreleased shows, Hope & Anchor and Acklam Hall, and three previously unheard recordings, The Factory, Lyceum, Moonlight Club (April 2, 1980). 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.
There are two DVDs featuring over 2hrs 30mins 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.
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. Eternal: Live is completed by a 16 page booklet, including personal notes by Simon Armitage and photography by, amongst others, Anton Corbijn and Kevin Cummins.
Features:
- Box Set
- 14 CD's
- 2 DVD's
- Audio from 16 Live Performances
- Includes 2 Previously Unreleased Shows, 3 Unheard Recordings & the Band’s Final Live Performance
- Mastered at Abbey Road Studios
- Over 2.5 Hours of Live Footage
- 16 Page Booklet, Including Personal Notes & Photos
- 12" x 12" Lift-Off Lid Box with Artwork by Warren Jackson, Peter Saville, Howard Wakefield & Brett Wickens
- Cover Photography (Sirius Through a Defocused Telescope, 2023) by Wolfgang Tillmans
Track Listing
CD1: Hope and Anchor
- Exercise One
- She's Lost Control
- Shadowplay
- Leaders of Men
- Insight
- The Only Mistake
- Disorder
- Glass
- Digital
- Warsaw
- Transmission
- I Remember Nothing
- Interzone
- Ice Age
Recording date: March 1, 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
- Exercise One
- She's Lost Control
- Shadowplay
- Leaders of Men
- Insight
- Disorder
- Glass
- Digital
- Ice Age
- Warsaw
- Transmission
- I Remember Nothing
- No Love Lost
Recording date: March 14, 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
- Disorder
- She's Lost Control
- Shadowplay
- Wilderness
- Insight
- Candidate
- Digital
Recording date: May 15, 1979
Audio source: An audience recording by Jonathan Crabb
CD3: The Factory, Manchester
- Dead Souls
- The Only Mistake
- Insight
- Candidate
- Wilderness
- She's Lost Control
- Shadowplay
- Disorder
- Interzone
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Novelty
- Transmission
Recording date: July 13, 1979
Audio source: A previously unheard sound desk recording.
CD4: YMCA, London
- Dead Souls
- Disorder
- Wilderness
- Auto-Suggestion
- Transmission
- Day of the Lords
- She's Lost Control
- Shadowplay
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Insight
Recording date: August 2, 1979
Audio source: Sound desk recording.
CD5: Futurama, Leeds
- I Remember Nothing
- Wilderness
- Transmission
- Colony
- Disorder
- Insight
- Shadowplay
- She's Lost Control
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Dead Souls
Recording date: September 8, 1979
Audio source: An audience recording by Duncan Haysom.
CD6: Les Bains Douches, Paris
- Passover
- Wilderness
- Disorder
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Insight
- Shadowplay
- Transmission
- Day of the Lords
- Twenty Four Hours
- Colony
- These Days
- A Means to an End
- She's Lost Control
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Interzone
- Warsaw
Recording date: December 18, 1979
Audio source: Radio broadcast recording, France Inter.
CD7: Paradiso, Amsterdam
- Passover
- Wilderness
- Digital
- Day of the Lords
- Insight
- New Dawn Fades
- Disorder
- Transmission
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- These Days
- A Means to an End
- Twenty Four Hours
- Shadowplay
- She's Lost Control
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Atmosphere
- Interzone
Recording date: January 11, 1980
Audio source: Radio broadcast recording, VARA.
CD8: Effenaar, Eindhoven
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Digital
- New Dawn Fades
- Colony
- These Days
- Ice Age
- Dead Souls
- Disorder
- Day of the Lords
- Auto-Suggestion
- Shadowplay
- She's Lost Control
- Transmission
- Interzone
- Atmosphere
- Warsaw
Recording date: January 18, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording.
CD9: The Warehouse, Preston
- Incubation
- Wilderness
- Twenty Four Hours
- The Eternal Heart and Soul
- Shadowplay
- Transmission
- Disorder
- Warsaw
- Colony
- Interzone
- She's Lost Control
Recording date: February 28, 1980
Audio source: Sound desk recording.
CD10: Lyceum, London
- Incubation
- Wilderness
- Twenty Four Hours
- The Eternal
- Heart and Soul
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Isolation
- Komakino
- She's Lost Control
- These Days
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Heart and Soul
- Incubation
- Komakino
- Isolation (Instrumental)
- Isolation
Recording date: February 29, 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
- The Sound of Music
- Wilderness
- Colony
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- A Means to an End
- Transmission
- Dead Souls
- Sister Ray
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Glass
- Digital
- Heart and Soul
- Isolation
- Disorder
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Atmosphere
Recording date: April 2 & 3, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording by Andy Hooper.
CD12: Winter Gardens, Malvern
- Disorder
- Wilderness
- Twenty Four Hours
- Heart and Soul
- Atmosphere
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Isolation
- Interzone
- She's Lost Control
- Girls Don't Count
Recording date: April 15, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording by Tim Bayes.
CD13: Ajanta Theatre, Derby
- Dead Souls
- Wilderness
- Digital
- Insight
- Passover
- Heart and Soul
- Isolation
- These Days
- Transmission
- She's Lost Control
- Colony
- Girls Don't Count
Recording date: April 19, 1980
Audio source: An audience recording by Tim Bayes.
CD14: High Hall, Birmingham
- Ceremony
- Shadowplay
- A Means to an End
- Passover
- New Dawn Fades
- Twenty Four Hours
- Transmission
- Disorder
- Isolation
- Decades
- Digital
Recording date: May 2, 1980
Audio source: Sound desk recording.
DVD Video 1 & 2:
Bowdon Vale Youth Club (03/14/79)
- She's Lost Control
- Shadowplay
- Leaders of Men
Apollo, Manchester (10/27/79)
- Wilderness
- Colony
- Auto-Suggestion
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Shadowplay
- She's Lost Control
- Transmission
Apollo, Manchester (10/28/79)
- Sound of Music
- Shadowplay
- Colony
- Day of the Lords
- Twenty Four Hours
- Disorder
- Walked in Line
- I Remember Nothing
- Transmission
- Bonus: Soundcheck from TBC performance
Plan K, Brussels (10/16/79)
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Wilderness
- Disorder
- Colony
- Insight
- Twenty Four Hours
- New Dawn Fades
- Transmission
- Shadowplay
- She's Lost Control
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Interzone





