New Order live, 1987, 'True Faith'.

[bradjones1977]

Think this is from a show called 'The Roxy' made by Tyne Tees Television. Basically ITV's very shortlived answer to 'Top of the Pops'.

[efusiongaming]

How come Hook doesn't have a broken spine from that insanely low bass playing.

[Padulas]

barney should shave his arms better :P

[shellswaves]

Love New Order; love this song! Thanks for posting!!



[norrisonthespot]

Having won a Victoria Cross for his valour fighting the Zulus In South Africa Private 'Hooky' took to the guitar. However after many years of playing his bass guitar ridiculously low his back wore out :)

[Meteddica]

Peter Hook will batter you.

[juan22007]

desde medellin colombia tengo 28 años y amo esta musica la ola nuw gey de los 80.s me uviera encantado vivir esa epoca

[plasticbudgie]

The original was, 'Now they're taking drugs with me,' but Stephen Hague our producer made us change it because he said it wouldn't be a hit if we kept that line in. He was right. It was a very big hit, but we chickened out. I change it back sometimes live."

[plasticbudgie]

"(True Faith) is about drug dependency. I don't touch smack but when I wrote that song I tried to imagine what it's like to be a smackhead and nothing else matters to you except that day's hit. There's a line in the song, 'When I was a very young boy, very young boys played with me/Now we've grown up together, they're afraid of what they see."

[paddyoshea55]

lowest bass in the west.............=)

[iguisard]

Amazing how they went from early Warsaw to Joy Division to this.

[AnnexGroup]

Hes hiiiiigh

[wisesatyr72]

American Psycho..

[thatseverin]

hooky....... aching to lay on some licks here. you can always hear hook come in no matter what band he working with.

[SagaSudaka]

Que imbeciles ustedes.....sean mexicanos o argentinos ustedes estan cortados con la misma tijera, disfruten la musica y dejen de calentarse por tanta trivialidad, al final que se llevan.....un ego bestial sedado por odio y nacionalismo retrogrado.

[doctorbenjiphd]

are they just wearing their guitars to look cool? theyre not even playing! bass player picks a few notes here and there to no effect. new order is still the best tho, love this song.

[djdarkmonkey]

@doctorbenjiphd later in the song he plays guitar

[doctorbenjiphd]

@djdarkmonkey yeah im an idiot thats what i get for posting comments on a video when im only half way through watching it

[terceldude]

@doctorbenjiphd This song never gets old even by today's standards! ;-) This song is pure classic! :)

[astrolabe1976]

@doctorbenjiphd no one plays live on the Top of The Pops...usually, but this sounds half and half, the bass interlude Hooky is playing is definitely different, there's an orchestra hit thats not in the original version

[svenssoncorps]

@astrolabe1976 I think it's not Top of the pops here

[canuck21]

@astrolabe1976 In the '80s, New Order was the only band that played live on TOTP. I never understood why other bands didn't play live.

[corrupt19785]

New Order with Don't do Drugs tee-shirts...LMAO!!! Man, a world without Hooky's bass would just be shit!

[miguellatico]

@complexten Jajajaja los argentinos tienen complejos europeos ya que jamas lo seran jajaja, oie por cierto argentina no ganara este mundial

Att: un mexicano que parte madres y culos argentino

[kimddown]

Just Do Drugs.

[djh29971]

Don't practice what you preach Barney!

[ady10001]

Most sarcastic T-shirt in history?

[kavazaka]

потрясно !

[richardms79]

yo soy mexicano y creo que lo argentinos son geniales en todo ......menos en la comedia . buen futbol. musica arte mujeres pero comedia no mas no con todo respeto mis hermanos argentinos

[evelinnee]

"Don't Do Drugs" XD

[aisforandrew]

nunca. new order ya no existe mas

[skinzeppelin]

eh new order cuando volves a argentina?

[putete124]

y crees que te van a responder, pinche argentino pendejo

[sas147741]

Mamala puto aunque te duela el ultimo show de New Order fue en Argentina asi que seguila chupando!

[putete124]

ey, pendejo. contigo no era el problema, pero si es que te nació lo patriótico, pues entonces chupa pija junto con todos tus paisanos mamones fracasados.

ooo y una ultima cosa, new order visita países tercermundistas como el tuyo solo para recolectar dinero de estúpidos como tu. a ellos no les importa tu país ni tu gente, retrasado mental de cagada

[sas147741]

Habran venido por la guita pero vinieron y a Mexico no fueron nunca. asi que comela!, mientras vos seguis resentido yo veo mi viniilo de Tecnique firmado por Peter y Bernard asi que matate chabon. Comprate una vida.

[putete124]

mira hijo de tu reputisima arrabalera piruja prostituta chupa pijas culera madre, yo tengo un cuadro de la virgen maria firmado por jesucristo y no lo presumo.

asi que metete por el culo tu vinil firmado por peter y bernard por el CULO. adios

[sas147741]

Nos vemos, un abrazo!

[putete124]

jajajajajajaja, te gane

vete a llorar con tu puerca argentin madree

jajajajajajajajajajajajajjajaj­aj.

[sas147741]

A quien le ganaste payaso? Madura tarado!

[putete124]

jajajajajaja. A TI TE GANE, ACEPTALO

ACEPTA Q LOS ARGENTINOS NO VALEN NADA

[JonOssett]

The Roxy sound crew were bang on here compare with TOTPS version. NO forever wherever..

[NordishTerror]

One of the best songs ever made in the 80's synthpop genre.

[mmmrenkas]

stratocaster fits him lot better than a gibson

[djh29971]

I always found Barney's 'Don't Do Drugs' t-shirt most amusing. Did anyone see the irony at the time???

[gosciu555]

this shit is so funky for being 20 years old. dang.

[tbgx1]

What kind of effect is the bass player using?

I always thought that was the keyboard.

[mmmrenkas]

a little bit of distortion and chorus

[tbgx1]

thanx.

It  sounds cool. Im gonna try it.

[fassaalbrecht]

He's using a Electro-Harmonix Clone Theory pedal.

[tbgx1]

Oh, ok. Cool. Thanx. I'll check it out.

[dfresh0114]

nice shirt Barney!

[eduu2]

iTS A REALLY AWESOME SONG !!GREAT YEARS !!!

[bobbydylanio]

jesus, thats one long bass

[rubencon]

One of the gratest songs I've ever heard , is perfect as a soundtrack when you're travelling.

[knownpleasures]

so gillian replaced ian curtis then??!!!

[erfer666]

Gillian? Wouldn't that be the WOMAN in the black dress, playing keyboards??!!!!

[ml2001]

where is my dear Gillian ?

[jj83er]

Bernard looked mighty hot here!

[AceHarding]

Ha. Hooky is going to fucking kill his carpals playing the bass that low.

[fassaalbrecht]

Yep, I know that seen as I decided to copy him while playing my own bass and getting RSI.

[funkybassman2020]

Hooky! Ha ha! Bless him! Learned to play bass in two weeks and then didn't bother learning anymore bass.... Got to hand it to him. what a guy!

[xylsvoss]

Barney has the same moves every time he sings this song, it is as if he is on automatic pilot, it's awesome....

[Luger911]

i dont fink it is a complete jock this t-shirt

'cause he signs the censured version of the song...

[Teaslevvvvvvvvvvvvvv]

Do you remember the Roxy? That tit from Blind Date had a stint co-hosting the show. And it was a stint as the show only lasted two weeks. Devastate the night forever!

[jogger1976]

Ha Ha! Nice T-shirt Bernard; Love the irony. And isn't Tue Faith about cocaine addiction? Priceless!

[Luger911]

some say its about heroin.

anyway its a magnific song(my favorite)

[jackgibbard90]

hooky is such a legend lmao

[lukitash]

Peter Hook looks like a drunk

[fassaalbrecht]

Probably is.

[Luger911]

he is!

[fassaalbrecht]

Hey, leave my Hooky alone!

[jonafone]

yes :P haha what a guy!

[fassaalbrecht]

Hooky FTW!

[u2spaceboy]

I gave this post a thumbs down by accident, Peter Hook is my hero.

[djgiga]

i dont think that t is a joke

[CasedFrozen]

XDDDDDDD I was laughing so hard at the T-Shirt, I almost forgot to watch the performance. Barney sure has a sense of humor!

[dj1971a]

I feel so extraordinaryyyyyyyyyyy... :O)

One of the greatest songs EVER!

[mca71]

that t-shirt is damn hilarious

[fassaalbrecht]

Bernard Sumner has always had a sense of humour...

[natanoliveira44]

Everyday I think that this is a wonderfultrack of my simple filmlife ...

[jonwaccoe]

also don't think they ever sounded any better live big up the ROXY sound guys. lmfao!!!

[jonwaccoe]

singing a song about cocaine addiction on a prime time pop show with don't do drugs tee shirts... New order!! fucking pricless :P

[terceldude]

@jonwaccoe hahahaha yeah! :D

[minderaser2000]

pretty funny wearing a shirt that says dont do drugs! when they did them all the time that what made there songs so fucking awsome!!

[kevkondro]

hehehehehehehhe way to go man ;)

[RockNRollGeisha]

I think Bernard looks so pretty when he sings like this.

[canuck21]

I really like it when he closes his eyes while he sings.

[jstewartf4president]

Dont do drugs, Barney. HAHAHA irony rules

[leoberutti]

mdma

[alanstarkie2001]

Never used to be bothered with this band until I tuned into a Reading gig and I was on Acid - opened my mind to this band - love em. And yeah I know - drugs are bad m'kay, but at 50 I was a late starter!

[DisasterousManiac]

Awesome t-shirt.

[fassaalbrecht]

Love this song, and it seems to sound even better live. About the T-shirt, I read somewhere that in some of New Order's early performances, Bernard Sumner often took LSD...what an irony.

[AdamG1983]

Ummm, LSD was at times the LEAST harmful drugs the band was doing...surprised they made it to the 90's!

[fassaalbrecht]

Add to this the experimentation done by Ian Curtis when Joy Division were about and I'm not too suprised!

[AIFL]

exactly! johnny rotten couldnt even keep up with new orders excess. He said they took more drugs than the greatful dead!

[AdamG1983]

If you know anything about the band, that t-shirt is the definition of irony.

[blynx666]

Gillian REALLY shows off her skills on this song. I really tought she was just a hack keyboardist until I saw her technique here.

[scottlstuart]

Barney with a "Don't Do Drugs" t-shirt is just awesome.

[InescapableRattrap]

:D That's why I love NO, the sense of humour...

[Cadu12345]

Great...I wish I could have been there....True Faith is their best song together with love vigilantes....