Bernard Sumner leading New Order at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl. July 2016. (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
New Order will make a few visits to North America starting in August.
There’s dates to be found in August, September and October as the band venture out again after adding a live album last year to the 2015 studio effort Music Complete and its subsequent remix album. Live4ever declared it ‘a complete rebirth‘ in our review:
“It almost goes without saying that the collective’s no-Hook prerogative is being flouted to its max; ‘People On The High Line‘ thumps with a limb-wrecking Cantina piano heft, whilst ‘The Game‘ tics nervously around a hybrid programming/people axis.”
“In keeping with this new tradition of experimentation, not everything works. ‘Stray Dog‘ for instance finds Iggy Pop growling unconvincingly, his skills as a raconteur inferior to that as a reformed hell-raiser. Equally, amidst the comets of invention elsewhere, the album’s final chapter ‘Superheated‘ – complete with a handful Sumner’s occasionally trite lyrics – is by comparison something of an ambiguous washout.”
Tour dates:
August
23 – St. Paul, MN, Palace Theatre
25 – Cleveland, OH, InCuya Music Festival
28 – Washington, DC, The Anthem
30 – Toronto, ON, Budweiser Stage
September
29 – Long Beach, CA, Music Tastes Good Festival
October
3 – Kahului, HI – Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Castle Theater
5 – Honolulu, HI, Blaisdell Arena