The Guardian schreibt über die Perfomamce:
If your band had long ago been accused of Nazi sympathies over its choice of name – it was suggested it was a reference to Hitler’s demand for a new order in Europe – as had your previous band, which film-maker’s footage would you be least likely to use to introduce your set? You might think the work of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s favoured propagandist, was a bit close to the bone. Not New Order, who use her footage of divers at the 1936 Olympics to preface their headline appearance on the Other stage. Bernard Sumner may now look like a dyspeptic Tory MP who’s been given street styling for a magazine feature, but that’s taking the off-colour jokes a little far.
It’s a set that takes a while to catch fire. It’s not that newer songs such as Plastic and Waiting for the Sirens’ Call aren’t good (though the latter continues Bernard Sumner’s run of bathetically awful lyrics: “Travel with a document / All across the continent”); more that people who’ve been standing in the mud for a couple of days really just want to hear the whole Substance compilation played from start to finish. So the set really catches fire in its last 25 minutes or so, opening with The Perfect Kiss (featuring the ur-bathetically awful Sumner lyric: “I have often thought about / Staying in or going out”), followed by a fabulously pummelling True Faith and Blue Monday – which sees flares being lit around the audience – before Temptation causes the crowd to keep up the “Ooooo-ooooo-ooooo-ooooh” refrain after the band have stopped playing. They close, after moaning that Adele is probably being allowed to play longer, with Love Will Tear Us Apart. The singalong could probably have been heard back in Manchester.
