new Hooky blag post

I'm going to do what you, and Hooky, couldn't do, and thats take a dignified stance on the subject and stay silent.

Matt Hicks wrote: I'm going to do what you, and Hooky, couldn't do, and thats take a dignified stance on the subject and stay silent.

well you didn't before. ;)

Matt Hicks wrote: .....The band owe it to us, for all the money and travelling that we have done over the years...... Matt.

Sorry, Matt, that was a silly statement....

The band had to write the songs, do the jamming, then record them in the studio & all those other associated stuffs involved in getting an album made & released...... and all the average fan needed to do was to walk up to the local music store and cough up $20 to $30 for all those hard work.....(and god knows how much of that money actually filtered into the band's pockets...)

When the band is touring, they too have their share of travelling and then all those soundchecks beforehand....plus performing, trying to please the crowd..... and all the average fan needed to do was to rock up to the concert venue, etc....

My point is the band worked a lot harder for what your money's worth. The band doesnt owe any fans anything and vice-versa.

By the way, New Order is Hooky's band so I think he deserved every right to do what he wants or say what he like about New Order. I just have to be grateful that New Order has gone on for as long as they have and released as many albums as they have.....(eventhough the last few has been a bit on the crappy side :D )

hooky does not owe us anything; and quite a few of you are acting like asses. if anyone has any faults here it is that tempermental ex punk rock guitarist. your banging on hook's leg becasue he gives you some information? this has been going on since 1989 or so. who cares what the exact details are. i wish they could get along better, but quite frankly we have been dropped hints for years that bernard and peter do not have a personal relationship.

i'll take one DJ session in houston this month and 3 bassists singing with robbie williams.

Matt Hicks wrote: .....The band owe it to us, for all the money and travelling that we have done over the years......

As Gary Numan once said.

I have no sympathy whatsoever for anyone who thinks I 'owe' them an album. I don't work for them. I'm not employed by them. If I put out an album and they don't like it they won't buy it. They have a choice. I also have a choice not to write another song for as long as I live.

Shug, how many times in the past two months have you used the smilie?

Matt Hicks wrote: I think personally the fans have been treated badly to be honest. Correct me if I am wrong but we are responsible for the wealth of Hooky, Barney, Stephen and Gillian, and if this is the end of New Order then all this myspace stuff and rumour and court threats to me is not a dignified way to retire the band.

The band owe it to us, for all the money and travelling that we have done over the years, to be a little more dignified and make a decision and be nice about it, because after all, if we didn't pay the money, they wouldnt have a band to retire from, cos no-one would have bought the records, or gone to the gigs.

I know its terribly sad situation, I will miss the band hugely, and right now I dont want to think about no having the opportunity to see them live again or hear a new track. But please guys, look after the fans, they are your bread and butter, and I think you owe it to us.

We dont know whats gone on, but I tell you what, I consider myself a private person, I dont have a myspace site, I dont air my personal issues on blogs, and i dont slag people off in the press. Hooky would have been better to not comment. Thats not to say I have anything against him, I adore all of them, for their faults as well as the good things.

Its just a very sad time. New Order hasn't really been the same since 93, you could argue that following the reunion shows in 98, when Gillian played a few gigs, that the band name should have been retired then.

Matt.

I'll echo the comments made about what the band owe you... they owe you me and everyone else bugger all. You spent you money to own a CD or to see them live and you got just that...there was no small print that said you now have the right to own them and have them do as you wish forever.

So you don't own a myspace site or post a blog ... that's your choice just as it's Hooky's choice and anyone else's to do that or do the opposite.

Also how exactly are the fans being badly treated? Because you don't like what is being said??? You have expressed you opinion on this matter by making this post...just as Hooky has expressed his opinion on the situation, a situation that He is far more involved in than any of us are.