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I don’t need a reason to post a professionally-shot live New Order show, so I won’t offer one. This one comes from June 2012 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, relatively early on in their post-Peter Hook incarnation. The video comes courtesy of Telekom Electronic Beats and while it’s not the complete show, at 45 minutes […]
If you’re reading this it’s likely you’ve seen Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 film 24 Hour Party People but if you came out of thinking, “I’d like to see the story of Factory Records but with a lot more talking heads and a lot less Steve Coogan”, BBC4 had your back, albeit five years later. Released in […]
Reams have been written about New Order’s iconic “Blue Monday” – I did my best to collect a lot of them a couple years ago – but in honour of the song’s 40th anniversary, podcast Song Exploder has devoted an episode to the genesis of the song. There’s interviews with all the original members of […]
It’s probably overstating things to call “Elegia” one of New Order’s signature tracks – it’s too much of a stylistic outlier for that – but it is one of their most notable and memorable. Opening up side two of 1985’s Low-Life, it’s an elegiac instrumental that bridges the far poppier halves of the album with […]
A quick but fun one today, coming out of the promotional campaign for New Order’s forthcoming Low Life: Definitive Edition box set, due out on January 27 of next year. In this clip – edited such that you wouldn’t think the four original members carries massive grievances against the others (okay, one does) – they […]
This is a touch redundant if you saw my Instagram yesterday but today, Peter Hook & The Light are releasing a triple-CD set of their July 2022 show at the Apollo O2 in Manchester. That was was the hometown date for their current “Joy Division – A Celebration” tour, which finds Hook and company performing […]
“Temptation” might be one of New Order’s most famous and beloved tracks, but given the song’s twisty history, it’s not unreasonable to ask, “yes, but which ‘Temptation’?”. And there’s actually a very simple answer to that one, but we’ll get to that. The first documented appearance of the song was in the live film Taras […]
I started playing guitar when I was 17, starting out taking a class in high school where 30 dudes sat around a classroom with cheap acoustic guitars trying to follow the teacher as he ran through the chord changes for “American Pie”. I took to it enough to want to borrow the school’s one electric […]
New Order’s 1980’s output is nigh-untouchable, but amongst those albums, it’s arguable that 1983’s Power Corruption & Lies is the best of the best, as they stepping out of the shadow of Joy Division and boldly established their own identity. And while there were no singles taken directly from the record – the band somehow […]
I spent Friday with New Order‘s just-released live set Education Entertainment Recreation, which captured the band’s November 2018 show at London’s Alexandra Palace – a show with a great set list and performance from the band’s current lineup. And when I saw them live for the first time a few months earlier on that same […]
