Dodgy comments about Hooky's DJing in Oz

From Brisbane's Rave street paper earlier this month...

Not how I remember it

Dennis R www.factoryrecords.info

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END TIMESThis week we present New Order and Joy Division bassist Peter Hook as a sign of the coming apocalypse. Witness his performance at Parklife, consisting of a lot of air-punching, comical gurning, and hopping while pretending to tweak the mixer. Dressed like an aging nightclub owner straight from the set of The Bill, he proceeded to play a greatest hits selection of New Order, Joy Division, and sundry Manchester-related tunes (of which about 50% of the audience had obviously no knowledge of), before ending with an acoustic cover of Temptation and packing up a set of $500 headphones that he didn't actually use. Hilarious. A nice little earner this DJ lark.

Dodgy...but fairly accurate.

yup, he drops the needle and presses start. he's got a good reord collection to inflict though and so. hook's got the rhthym. give dance a dance.

Keeping with the official New Order program of late, Hooky even DJ's to backup tapes.

His Holiness, The Pope wrote: Keeping with the official New Order program of late, Hooky even DJ's to backup tapes.

When did NO fully switch over to backing tapes?

When Phil joined and was too damned lazy to play keyboards.

Witness: 2001, when Regrets synth parts ended up on the backing track so Phil could ruin it with his guitar.

Zachery Starkey wrote: When Phil joined and was too damned lazy to play keyboards.

Witness: 2001, when Regrets synth parts ended up on the backing track so Phil could ruin it with his guitar.

Give it a break, you're getting boring and repetitive. The move to backing tracks is all about Bernard. Phil is playing the parts Bernard used to!

Well you know what critics are like - take it will a pinch of salt, a lot of people there would have enjoyed it.

As Hooky has said, when he started djing he didn't play NO/JD and everybody wanted it - then when he started playing it people complained! Can't win!

He's a fucking winner in my book

When Phil joined and was too damned lazy to play keyboards.

you all seem to miss Roger Lyons on the left (behind the speakers) who could be described as the fifth member of the live band. He's controlling the electronics on two laptops.

johnny james wrote:

When Phil joined and was too damned lazy to play keyboards.

you all seem to miss Roger Lyons on the left (behind the speakers) who could be described as the fifth member of the live band. He's controlling the electronics on two laptops.

Well the autocue is on the one, and the electronics are on the other anyway. Couldn never miss Roger, he's always hassling us for Viking badges! (only joking Rog!)

I thought they used backup tapes in 93. They sound way to good in that tour. Plus in Everyone everywhere Gillian is playing guitar when there is nice keyboarding in the background.

Ness - Well put! *smile*

That review is pretty accurate really. I don't think Hook even used vinyl, just CDJs.

But oh well, I didn't go to see Hook's mixing skills, I went for the novelty of seeing a ROCK LEGEND djing at a small club.

FtotheDoubleOff wrote: That review is pretty accurate really. I don't think Hook even used vinyl, just CDJs.

But oh well, I didn't go to see Hook's mixing skills, I went for the novelty of seeing a ROCK LEGEND djing at a small club.

Spot on

Turn Jim wrote: I thought they used backup tapes in 93. They sound way to good in that tour. Plus in Everyone everywhere Gillian is playing guitar when there is nice keyboarding in the background.

Definitely were using something for Regret and the intros for Ruined a day, and Fine Time, of course. Whether tapes or live sequencing i dunno.

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Turn Jim wrote: I thought they used backup tapes in 93. They sound way to good in that tour. Plus in Everyone everywhere Gillian is playing guitar when there is nice keyboarding in the background.

Definitely were using something for Regret and the intros for Ruined a day, and Fine Time, of course. Whether tapes or live sequencing i dunno.

Live sequencing was still happening on the Technique tour, no?

Definitely live sequencing at the G-Mex gig just before Christmas in 88. I know this for a fact as Fine Time was the currrent single then and they did it as an encore.

(Imagine the scene, pregnant pause before they play one last tune):

Barney (to us lot): "We hope to play our final song now...as long as the Emulator and sequencer work ok. How about it, Gillian? It's broken down twice already tonight." (Looks across at the goddess Gilbert).

Gillian returns Barn's glance and smiles a smile that lit up the former rail station.

She presses Start and the 808 hi-hats to Fine Time kick in. Cue the beat and the place goes mental. Top night.

JV wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote:

Turn Jim wrote: I thought they used backup tapes in 93. They sound way to good in that tour. Plus in Everyone everywhere Gillian is playing guitar when there is nice keyboarding in the background.

Definitely were using something for Regret and the intros for Ruined a day, and Fine Time, of course. Whether tapes or live sequencing i dunno.

Live sequencing was still happening on the Technique tour, no?

I think Paradise had backing vocals from the sequencer when it was played in 1986-87, there's a bootlegged soundcheck from 1987 where Gillian presses start and the sha-la-la-la-las appear in the chorus, apparently as a part of the program.

In 1989 Barney was already singing along to a double-track of his voice in the chorus of Round & Round when they played it live. Don't know if it was sequenced or came from tapes though. I bet Cambo or some others here would know better.

Oh, and I'll be seeing Hooky DJing here in December. Likewise, I won't be giving a damn about whether it all comes from a CD or not.