Posts Tagged ‘Peter Hook’

Ex-New Order bass player Peter Hook has elaborated on the feud which has been playing out between himself and his former bandmates since Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert reformed the band back in September 2011.

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Though with us for only a short time during the post punk years of the late Seventies and early Eighties, Joy Division‘s legend makes them one of Manchester’s most mythologised groups, as well as one of the cities most influential bands.

And though the story itself has been put to film several times and told by a number of people who were around at the time, no one from the group has ever taken the tale up themselves, until now.

Here, Peter Hook talks to Live4ever contributor Carl Stanley about why he felt the time was right for his new book Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division and of all the memories his writing brought back.

Books about bands – and, for that matter, rock music in general – are big business, playing on the compulsive need of fans to know the finer details; to inhabit a space and time in which the songs they so lovingly play on their iPods and car stereos flourished, to take a peek between the ears of the artists who created them.

It’s no surprise then that when such books are penned by bands and artists themselves, a more coveted bounty of music ephemera is laid bare.

Peter Hook’s Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division is a lucid and unromantic account of the band’s short life and a veritable treasure trove for those aforementioned fans. Between chapters, a detailed timeline is presented, sketching Joy Division’s gigging history and notable events of the period, including the rise of bands like the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols, and the goings on at the then-nascent Factory Records.

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New Order frontman Bernard Sumner has admitted he is ‘glad’ Peter Hook is no longer with the group, as he feels their former bass player had previously been unhappy within the band.

Peter Hook will tell the inside story of Joy Division in a new book which is due to be published later this year.

Former Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook has launched a new music industry course which will offer students a degree in management and promotion.

New Order have unveiled an extra four UK dates for April and May this year in the wake of news of legal proceedings being instigated against them by estranged bass player Peter Hook.

Former Joy Division bassist Peter Hook has said Disney’s new Mickey Mouse t-shirt, which takes its design from his former band’s ‘Unknown Pleasures‘ era artwork, is ‘quite a compliment’, but has also admitted the merchandise represents a grey area legally.