2020’s boxset of Power, Corruption & Lies was accompanied by the reissue of the four standalone 12˝ singles New Order made around the era. Although there’s two gigs’ worth of live footage on the bonus DVDs, Gillian admits: “I shouldn’t say this, but I haven’t bothered watching the boxset gigs. When I watched the Channel 4
documentary Play At Home that’s in the boxset, I just worried about how fat I looked. I was only watching it to see how I looked back then, rather than if I played well. But I was able to appreciate how good the band were – I’d been really nervous before watching Play At Home, but I ended up thinking, ‘That was you, that’s how you were at the time, and
that’s OK.’ So I would now like to watch the gigs.”
Stephen says of the shows: “They’re surprisingly good – alot better now than they seemed to me at the time. It was all very passionate, and it comes across that we really meant what we were doing. They’re not the best recordings: there’s not one gig where we don’t make at
least five mistakes per song. But they’ve still got something charming about them.” He continues: “Boxsets are hard. There’s no point when it’s just got three songs you might not have heard, but King Crimson doing 40 CDs for one album is overkill. Doing it one album at a time is neater, and hopefully we’ve struck a balance that satisfies everybody.”