No they weren't.
I went to fucking hundreds of raves all over the country, from free parties on farmland to aircraft hangers, to warehouses...never once did I hear New Order. They were not remotely massive on the rave scene - they were popular in the Hacienda* and that's about it.


*coincidentally chock-full of weedy indie student benders into 'Madchester'. My brother lived there at the time and I went a few times. Compared with the proper mental raves on the M25 circuit it was rubbish. Fucking piano house bollocks.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 15:22, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I refuse to believe that you can say with absolute certainty that you never heard New Order at a rave,
if only because I've been at raves where I wouldn't have known if St Winifred's School Choir had made a surprise appearance
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 15:24, Reply)

You aren't me. Never once did I hear New Order.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 15:25, Reply)

That's because as soon as 'Fine Time' came on
you'd cover your ears and run around shouting "lalalalalalanotlistening".
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 15 Apr 2011, 15:27, Reply)

Fair play
I can barely remember who I was on most of these occasions, let alone what was playing. But, as is common knowledge, your capacity for larging it is unparalleled.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 15:28, Reply)

This is so.
It's my life's work.

*cries*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 15:29, Reply)

you went to more than me
so obviously I'll bow to your knowledge. But their stuff was massively common, particularly mixed, in the ones I went to.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 15:26, Reply)

YOU'RE massively common.


I'm just being a knob now. Sorry.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 15:27, Reply)

haha. Well played.
I'm not trying to out music you, I know that would be stupid. And I get why you don't like them, but they were very influential, even if they did influence a lot of crap as well as good.

/incidentally, have you really never heard them at a rave? because there's a really common about 20 second cut from bizzare love triangle that I've heard shitloads to move from xxxx to yyyy (I don't really do dance music so i'm buggered if I know which tracks)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 15:31, Reply)

Not once. Honestly.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 15:34, Reply)