“Doo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo, ba-ba-bum-ba-bum.” New Order bass guitarist Peter Hook is explaining how the bass line went in Joy Division’s 1977 track “Leaders Of Men”. “That was more Barney, that,” Hooky is quick to point out. “It’s got a great chord in it – dern-ner-ner-na-newww”
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The New Order frontman and one-time Joy Division guitarist Bernard Sumner loves the wine, weather and warm welcome of Chile
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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.
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The inaugural Festival No.6 in North Wales mixes Sixties spy drama with the better elements of indie rock. Despite the rough red wine and absolutely miserable weather, it proves an outstanding, curiously British, cultural gathering
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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
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You’d need to know New Order’s back catalogue with McWhirter-like obsession to realise that the soundtrack to the Indesit Moon washing machine commercial is Hey Now What You Doing from the 2005 album Waiting For The Sirens’ Call. New Order and white goods – let’s Hoover up the irony. I once asked bassist Peter Hook if drugs were ever a problem with the band, and he replied; “Yeah, sometimes we couldn’t get hold of any for days.”
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Kraftwerk in pants, and a grade two back’n’sides: there’s nothing Bad Lieutenant’s Bernard Sumner regrets, he tells Lee Gale
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One of the unsung architects of the Manchester sound, the Salford stalwart has influenced every major musical movement of the past 35 years. Whether pioneering post-punk with Joy Division, melding rock/dance with New Order, or blowing £1m on a nightclub, “Barney” was there. As his band limber up for an Olympic concert, GQ pays tribute to the straight man of Madchester
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Clocking in at over 700 pages, former New Order bassist Peter Hook has much to say in his new book Substance, which catalogues, in fan-delighting minutiae, his tumultuous tenure in Britain’s foremost indie four-piece. Intra-group wrangling, love trysts, moodiness, shocking amounts of white powder and hangovers from hell defined the band’s existence. Throw in some…
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The bit of the magazine where someone of sonic sophistication supplies a selection of serious dance-floor stompers. YOUR DJ 2-NITE! Stephen Morris of New Order
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