Original members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert and newer additions Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham returned for an encore of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” which capped a set you wished were longer with the biggest sing-along of the night.Ī rare full album set: The Canadian collective Broken Social Scene played before New Order, performing its 2002 indie rock classic “You Forgot It In People” from front to back. “Your Silent Face” and Bizarre Love Triangle” showed up early, earning huge cheers from the crowd, while “Blue Monday” and “Temptation” closed out the main set. The band opened with “Singularity” off its strong 2015 album “Music Complete,” but most of the set was pulled from albums across its 30-year history. Past headliners such as Ween and Sleater-Kinney a year ago, and the Specials a year before that, were solid if a bit more cult faves in 2017, and nostalgic in 2016.īut New Order, despite having been around since the early ’80s when it formed out of the ashes of Joy Division, is a band of a different magnitude, which was clear not only in the strength of its music over 11 songs in 70 minutes, but also in its production, the most advanced visuals and lighting ever on a Music Tastes Good stage. The arrival of the New Order on stage as headliner of Day 1 of Music Tastes Good on Saturday not only delivered a thrilling set of electronic rock from the beloved British band, it signaled that the Long Beach festival had stepped up a new level in this its third year.
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