Lee Gale

Please by settled and take a seat, for this is a page of rest. Bassist Peter Hook talks tea, biscuits and naps

Aaah, domestic bliss in the New Order household. The kettle rumbles and clicks in the Macclesfield hillside farmhouse that provides shelter and synthesizers to Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert. “How many sugars?” Gillian enquires.

Is aura something you’re born with or something you develop? At Festival No.6’s inaugural gathering two years ago, Bez arrived in the VIP tent at 1pm on Saturday and was joined by a growing throng who, it seemed, had Terminator T-1000 abilities to morph into metallic puddles, seep beneath fences and re-form moments later by the bar.

Basing a comedy series in an alternative-reality coffee shop on top of an active volcano is as far removed from primetime TV as it’s possible to imagine, yet the exotic aroma of Noel Fielding’s latest Luxury Comedy is this year’s richest brew.

Everyone’s favourite guitarist has turned vocalist with his new band Johnny Marr And The Healers. Singing? How did this come about? We catch up with the former Smith at the swanky Hyatt Regency Hotel in Marylebone, London.

The Guardian’s The Guide’s great, lost, back-page interview from 2009! This interview was dumped when the newspaper’s cultural diary was overhauled – but now, here it is! It’s fantastic to see your character John Shuttleworth back on telly, the first time since Europigeon (1) in 1998.I’ve just made some TV and radio ads for Yorkshire…

While the weather did its best to ruin the superb Festival No.6 in north Wales, GQ took shelter with Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa and Father Ted director Declan Lowney, culminating in a Q&A on Sunday evening at Portmeirion’s majestic Piazza stage Words Lee Gale GQ.co.uk, 2013 On The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan’s lavish 17-part cult spy series of 1967,…

After phenomenally successful Big Beach Boutique shows on the pebbles of Brighton seafront, Fatboy Slim makes a hometown comeback with Big Beach Bootique 5, two nights of DJ goal-lagging at Brighton & Hove Albion’s Amex Stadium

“Rick Waller? Fat fella on Pop Idol? Yeah, he was great. Kraftwerk? Never heard of them. Were they dancers on Britain’s Got Talent?” It’s easy to say there’s no hope for civilisation when educated people in top jobs speak this way.

Feuds, addiction and beautiful bass lines – muscle-bound Salfordian Peter Hook discusses his new Joy Division memoir Unknown Pleasures, his plans for a New Order book and how his lawn-raking technique mirrors his low-slung playing style