By 'Eck! My Neck! wrote:
Okay, my twopennethworth.
Disregarding all this petty bickering from the band members for a moment (anybody see today's MEN feature on the split?) and petulant bitching on Hooky's myspace page. The question has to be asked: Just how pointless would New Order be without Hooky?
I mean, seriously now everybody, just think about it for a moment. How can ANYBODY imagine New Order continuing (let alone evolving) without the bass playing and characteristic Hooky sound? I can't. It wouldn't be New Order. It would be Electronic. With Steve on drums. It would be also - arguably - be 5/11ths of Republic as well, but that's being really pedantic.
For the other two (not THAT other two of course, but the other other two) to carry on as they may well insist just sounds absurd. Come on now, we've had the best out of them, so why not just let the whole thing end there and then - close the book, complete the chapter and let things be. It would amount to a farce if New Order were to carry on writing under the name minus one of their most crucial personnel. It would lack gravitas and beggar credibility for one thing.
There's not much else they could possibly do now except lay platinum turds that sing back at us (at least by doing that we'd be spared the cabaret whoops and histrionics of Barney's dancing and gurning and the rest but beggars cant be choosers) so why not just accept that they are finished and content ourselves wiuth the rich legacy they have left us? After all, I think we're being just a bit greedy to keep wanting so much from them. Face it, they've already gone on way longer than we could possibly have expected them to, giving us an extra two albums in the process (and the gigs as well)...... and we all had them down as well and truly split up after Republic didn't we? We shouldn't really be complaining now this late in the day, because they've given us these extra couple of albums just when there could easily have been no chance of either of them happening at all. 
RIP New Order. Thanks for the great music and the gigs and the memories.
Now why the hell can't people just move on eh?
I actually agree with what was said, and I have some two cents' worth on the whole matter...
On my NOOL blog, Chapter 26, I finally posted on the situation with Hooky, Barney and Steve about to go chaotic [hopefully NOT] in the courtroom, complete with all of my common sense...
Last time around, I wrote:
In all seriousness, all this mudslinging over what Hooky said should really not be happening. I mean, yes, Hooky said some things that would probably have some of us charging at him with mallets, clubs and sledgehammers but, come on, CHILDREN!! You can't really fully change Hooky at all, but you also have to remember that, sometimes you're just going to have to deal with disagreeable people. That's how life is, and that's the way it goes.
I have a bit more to say about it now, especially after reading further common sense from Jack...
[orange]State of Love and Trust[/orange] wrote:
and it fucking sucks how you people can turn on the one guy that's given you the most out of all the people in that band
i didn't see barney or steve at your nool day
i didn't see barney or steve listening to hundreds of songs for the community cds and picking the ones for the cd
i don't see barney or steve giving interviews or interacting with fans
my dad's not doing all this to be a bastard, new order has been a major part of his life for over 25 years. he's doing this because things have happened within that band that cannot be repaired, and you people on here have no idea what's happened so you should all just accept that the band is gone for now and try and get over it, instead of slating the one person who's trying to tell you all what's going on.
I'm going to be honest--brutally honest--with you guys here.
Jack Hook is right.
And this is something we really have to face, whether we want to or not. This might as well be the end of New Order, whether we want it to happen or not. Hell, this might even get settled in court... whether we want it to go down this road or not!!
I guess what I'm saying is what many others have or might have been trying to put it into words - that if, indeed, this is the end of the Order, then it's time to move the fuck on.
I hate having to say it like this, but this is basically what it boils down to.
So with that, from EVERYTHING that I have read, from all sides of the battleground of the bitching, here's my proper two cents' worth of common sense from the principessa of the Small-Town Order...
So Hooky's leaving the band? With everything he's done for the fans, and the fact that Barney and Steve haven't done very much at all since late last year, he probably has every reason to want out. And who could blame him? He's done so much more for the fans than we can really understand.
And while I'll always be an 
of 
'til the day I die, Jack has made a very important point. Hooky's done all he could in the band. And I think some final thanks is due for the man.
Now as for the court dilemma, if this does get to the court, it's going to get ugly. But unfortunately this is the reality that we have to face, as fans and as a community here.
I guess the best thing we can do is hope for the best for the aftermath, and to move on with our lives. Hopefully this can be sorted out[-side] of the courtroom.
Everyone, I say we 'turn our eyes [and our bitching!] from them--it's time for them to go.'
As one person posted on her last month,
Duh.
*facepalm* Hooky, Hooky, Hooky...
You're lucky this is as pissed off as I'm gonna get!!
(oh and the dried parmesan in shakers)
No pizza like it! Screw Pizza Express or Pizza Smut! 
How do I sort this out?
I'm just eating some i cooked myself , and its bloody lovely if i may so myself
Ooooh. 
