- 14 CDs - audio from 16 live performances, sourced from audience cassettes, soundboard tapes, and broadcast recordings, all mastered at Abbey Road Studios
- 2 DVDs - over 2hrs 30mins of live footage, including the Plan K Brussels concert, two Apollo Theatre Manchester concerts, a soundcheck, and a new edit of Joy Division - A Malcolm Whitehead Film
- 1 x 16-page booklet - with personal notes by Simon Armitage and photography by Anton Corbijn and Kevin Cummins
- 12” x 12” lift-off lid box - artwork by Warren Jackson, Peter Saville, Howard Wakefield and Brett Wickens, with cover photography (Sirius Through a Defocused Telescope, 2023) by Wolfgang Tillmans
On 26th September, Joy Division will release Eternal, a brand new live boxed set. Pulling together myriad audio sources from audience recordings to sound desk tapes to international radio broadcasts, the set features 16 full audio concert recordings across 14 CDs, plus ca. 2 hours 20 mins of live video on a DVD, recorded between March 1979 through May 1980, just two weeks before Ian Curtis' tragic death.
Audio quality across these sources varies widely. Most of the audience recordings sound exactly like what they are - recorded by a fan in the crowd - and multiple concerts have been widely bootlegged. Although under normal circumstances this might make for a sub-optimal commercial offering, in this instance we have every confidence that Joy Division fans will revel in these official bootlegs, and be overjoyed by the higher quality recordings, especially with those that are previously unheard.
Following on from previous New Order Definitive Edition releases, Eternal will be presented in a 12" rigid box, with the 15 discs presented in 4x digipaks, with an additional softback 12" book featuring new liner notes by UK poet laureate and Joy Division fan Simon Armitage, as well as photography by band photographers Anton Corbijn and Kevin Cummins.
TRACKLIST:
- 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
- Exercise One - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- She's Lost Control - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- Shadowplay - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- Leaders Of Men - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- Insight - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- Disorder - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- Glass - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- Digital - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- Ice Age - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- Warsaw - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- Transmission - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- I Remember Nothing - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- No Love Lost - Bowdon Vale Youth Club
- Disorder - Acklam Hall
- She's Lost Control - Acklam Hall
- Shadowplay - Acklam Hall
- Wilderness - Acklam Hall
- Insight - Acklam Hall
- Candidate - Acklam Hall
- Digital - Acklam Hall
- Dead Souls
- The Only Mistake
- Insight
- Candidate
- Wilderness
- She's Lost Control
- Shadowplay
- Disorder
- Interzone
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Novelty
- Transmission
- Dead Souls
- Disorder
- Wilderness
- Auto-Suggestion
- Transmission
- Day Of The Lords
- She's Lost Control
- Shadowplay
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Insight
- I Remember Nothing
- Wilderness
- Transmission
- Colony
- Disorder
- Insight
- Shadowplay
- She's Lost Control
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Dead Souls
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Incubation
- Wilderness
- Twenty Four Hours
- The Eternal
- Heart And Soul
- Shadowplay
- Transmission
- Disorder
- Warsaw
- Colony
- Interzone
- She's Lost Control
- 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
- The Sound Of Music - 2nd April
- Wilderness - 2nd April
- Colony - 2nd April
- Love Will Tear Us Apart - 2nd April
- A Means To An End - 2nd April
- Transmission - 2nd April
- Dead Souls - 2nd April
- Sister Ray - 2nd April
- Love Will Tear Us Apart - 3rd April
- Glass - 3rd April
- Digital - 3rd April
- Heart And Soul - 3rd April
- Isolation - 3rd April
- Disorder - 3rd April
- Atrocity Exhibition - 3rd April
- Atmosphere - 3rd April
- Disorder
- Wilderness
- Twenty Four Hours
- Heart And Soul
- Atmosphere
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Isolation
- Interzone
- She's Lost Control
- Girls Don't Count
- Dead Souls
- Wilderness
- Digital
- Insight
- Passover
- Heart And Soul
- Isolation
- These Days
- Transmission
- She's Lost Control
- Colony
- Girls Don't Count
- Ceremony
- Shadowplay
- A Means To An End
- Passover
- New Dawn Fades
- Twenty Four Hours
- Transmission
- Disorder
- Isolation
- Decades
- Digital
- Joy Division – A Malcolm Whitehead Film (2026 edit)
- She’s Lost Control – Bowdon Vale Youth Club, Altrincham, Recording date: 14th March, 1979
- Shadowplay – Bowdon Vale Youth Club, Altrincham, Recording date: 14th March, 1979
- Leaders Of Men – Bowdon Vale Youth Club, Altrincham, Recording date: 14th March, 1979
- Transmission – Something Else, BBC TV, Recording date: 15th September, 1979
- She’s Lost Control – Something Else, BBC TV, Recording date: 15th September, 1979
- Ove Will Tear Us Apart [original 1979 Audio Version]
- Wilderness [Original 1979 Audio Version]
- Disorder [Original 1979 Audio Version]
- Colony [Original 1979 Audio Version]
- Insight [Original 1979 Audio Version]
- Twenty Four Hours [Original 1979 Audio Version]
- New Dawn Fades [Original 1979 Audio Version]
- Transmission [Original 1979 Audio Version]
- Shadowplay [Original 1979 Audio Version]
- She’s Lost Control [Original 1979 Audio Version]
- Atrocity Exhibition [Original 1979 Audio Version]
- Interzone [Original 1979 Audio Version]
- Wilderness [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version] - Plan K, Brussels (16th October, 1979)
- Disorder [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version] - Plan K, Brussels (16th October, 1979)
- Colony [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version] - Plan K, Brussels (16th October, 1979)
- Insight [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version] - Plan K, Brussels (16th October, 1979)
- Twenty Four Hours [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version] - Plan K, Brussels (16th October, 1979)
- New Dawn Fades [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version] - Plan K, Brussels (16th October, 1979)
- Transmission [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version] - Plan K, Brussels (16th October, 1979)
- Shadowplay [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version] - Plan K, Brussels (16th October, 1979)
- She’s Lost Control[2026 Reconstructed Audio Version] - Plan K, Brussels (16th October, 1979)
- Atrocity Exhibition [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version] - Plan K, Brussels (16th October, 1979)
- Interzone [2026 Reconstructed Audio Version] - Plan K, Brussels (16th October, 1979)