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The legendary bassist of Joy Division and New Order revisits his life’s work in Peter Hook & The Light, who are touring the ...
New Order’s founding bassist is reminiscing on a honeymoon for this tour with his current band, The Light. The 69-year-old wraps a short run ...
Forgive New Order fans if they took the lyric “I used to think that the day would never come” from 1987’s “True Faith” and applied it to the chances of the band ever playing Pittsburgh again. It has b ...
Peter Hook was in not just one, but two bands that deserve serious consideration for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The first was the mighty Joy Division, the seminal English post-punk band that ...
Then, after Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis died in ... He parted ways with New Order in 2007 and began leading his group — dubbed Peter Hook & the Light — in 2010, and has been delighting ...
Hook was a member of Joy Division alongside Curtis ... In the interview, Hook — who now performs with Peter Hook and The Light — said he hasn’t spoken to Sumner in 17 years, and also ...
After spending 2024 performing both Joy Division and New Order’s Substance live, Peter Hook & The Light will return stateside in 2025 with a new tour focusing on New Order’s Get Ready.
PETER Hook is a man making up for lost time. Denied the chance to keep performing the songs he helped create in seminal post-punk outfit Joy Division, first by the tragic suicide of friend and ...
Since his estrangement from New Order in 2007, Peter Hook has worked on numerous other projects, not least touring regularly with the songs of his former band and their predecessors Joy Division ...
Hook formed New Order in 1980 with Joy Division bandmates Bernard Sumner ... nearly 20 years since New Order’s founding bassist Peter Hook left the group — and he’s not holding back on ...