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Peter Hook performing with The Light in London on the July 2022 Joy Division: A Celebration tour (Adam Hampton-Matthews for Live4ever)

The Peter Hook And The Light concert took place last month.

Peter Hook And The Light’s recent Joy Division: A Celebration concert at the O2 Apollo in Manchester is…

Peter Hook performing with The Light in London on the July 2022 Joy Division: A Celebration tour (Adam Hampton-Matthews for Live4ever)

Peter Hook’s Joy Division: A Celebration concerts were originally due to take place in May 2020.

Peter Hook & The Light were finally in London last night celebrating the…

slowthai performing at the 2019 Pitchfork Paris Festival (Jessica Bartolini for Live4ever) You’re in the right place if you’ve missed any of the week’s top news stories – here Live4ever’s News Round-Up presents a recap of the biggest and best headlines we featured during the last seven days… Related news:…

Peter Hook & The Light performing at Kendal Calling 2018 (Gary Mather for Live4ever) One of the all-time classic British debut albums, Joy Division‘s Unknown Pleasures, is to get a reissue on its 40th anniversary next month. Related news: Iron And Wine set new album Light Verse for release …

Peter Hook performing the Joy Division, New Order ‘Substance’ albums in London (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever) Peter Hook and his band The Light were at the Kentish Town Forum in London on Saturday night during a short tour in which the bass player was airing the ‘Substance‘ albums released…

Moby joined Peter Hook onstage in Seattle this week as the former Joy Division, New Order bass player’s tour of North America with his band The Light neared its conclusion. Related news:…

Personal notes and handwritten lyrics from the pen of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis will be published in a new book next year. Related news: Adele announces summer European shows You Me At Six announce decision to split The Reytons top UK Record Store Chart with Ballad Of A Bystander…

Peter Hook has confirmed he is hoping to gain possession of Joy Division master tapes which were reported earlier this month to have been rescued from a bin but, unsurprisingly, his shall-we-say strained relationship with Bernard Sumner and the rest of his former New Order bandmates is holding up the…

Original master tapes of albums recorded by the likes of Joy Division, New Order and The Psychedelic Furs have apparently been rescued from a rubbish bin and are now up for sale. Related news:…

A dark, brooding new wave classic, and one of Joy Division’s defining tracks Related news:…

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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…

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…

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New Order frontman Bernard Sumner has said fans should be ‘very wary’ of the new Joy Division book which has been written by his estranged bandmate Peter Hook. Related news:…

New Order closed their first ever live appearance in Poland last night (July 4th) by airing a couple of Joy Division classics as part of a career-spanning set. Related news:…