THE ONE THAT MADE ME THINK I COULD BE IN A BAND
New Order, Age of Consent (1983) The opening track of Power, Corruption & Lies. From that opening bassline, I was in love. Half the band were from Salford, where I was born, and half from Macclesfield, near where I lived when this came out. It made me think I could be in a band – that people from where I was could do that. I saw them headline Glastonbury in 1987 and they played this near the end. It was a real moment. [New Order drummer] Stephen Morris played drums on a couple of songs on the new Charlatans album and I did a couple of New Order songs with him at the Royal Albert Hall. I was like a football fan playing centre forward for their favourite team.
