Peter Hook and the Light come to Los Angeles on Sept. 8-9, 2022 for a pair of shows at which they will play the music of Joy Division and New Order, two bands which Hook helped found.

Peter Hook is known for some of the most haunting upper-register basslines ever recorded – Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart and New Order’s Regret being just two obvious examples.

Joy Division is one of those rare bands that doesn’t really sound like anything that came before it — a true original. A co-founder of both that group and New Order, Peter Hook has been ...

Peter Hook & The Light have announced a massive 2024 tour across North America, the UK, and Ireland, during which they will play the Substance albums by Hook’s former bands Joy Division and New ...

Hook took over most of the lead vocals for the rest of the night, throwing in some loud “yeahs!” as the group first blasted through a run of Joy Division songs, as life pumped back into the crowd.

“With the making of [Joy Division’s sophomore album] Closer, Ian’s illness was degenerative, and it was getting worse,” the band’s bassist, Peter Hook, tells Yahoo Entertainment.

Tickets to see Peter Hook & The Light bring Joy Division back to life can be found on Vivid Seats, StubHub, Ticketmaster, TicketNetwork and TicketCity.

Peter Hook, the bassist for seminal British rock band Joy Division and its successor New Order, has an unusually vivid memory of his first visit to Atlanta on June 17, 1983.