New Order‘s Bernard Sumner has said he has no desire to reunite with the band’s estranged bass player Peter Hook following a series of frank comments made by Hook in the wake of New Order’s decision to embark on a series of gigs late last year in his absence.
“After some of the things he’s said about me, I certainly don’t want to work with him again,” Sumner has told Mojo.
When news first broke of Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert‘s plans to perform two benefit shows for their former producer Michael Shamberg, Hook described it as being like ‘Queen without Freddie Mercury, U2 without The Edge’, and ‘Sooty without Sweep’. He also later told Spinner that it had made him ‘all the more determined to fuck New Order over in any possible way I can.’
As the dust settled on the news, Hook did retract some of those comments and, on an edition of The Jo Whiley Music Show, said: “I have come to the conclusion that it would be better to bury the hatchet and sort it all out and get on with it. Unfortunately the other side, don’t seem to be doing that.”