Best New Order tribute band?
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Best tribute act?
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love vigilantes 1 (4%)
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the light 7 (29%)
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re order 9 (38%)
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substance 3 (12%)
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true order 3 (12%)
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other 1 (4%)
24 votes · voting closed
None, I'm afraid.
Cannot bear ANY tribute bands - make your own bloody music or don't bother at all.
As for re order, they are downright creepy in their cloning of the slightest mannerisms even if they are better live than New Order. Horrid.
Re:Order though i've never seen the others! Never heard of Love Vigilantes or Substance😕
Seen Re Order a fair few times, twice at Nottingham Rescue Rooms (opened with Too Late at one of those -ace!) but was always irked that they always seemed to be support for The Smyths and play a shorter set.Should have been the other way round.
Get Ready wrote: Cannot bear ANY tribute bands - make your own bloody music or don't bother at all.
Fair point but very few decent bands come down to Rome and I've had some awesome nights watching tribute bands - Sex Pistols, Skunk Anansie. Next poll: Most pointless rerelease. Best of NO, International and The Best Of JD? I'm glad I gave up being a completist.
Michael Monkhouse wrote:
Get Ready wrote: Cannot bear ANY tribute bands - make your own bloody music or don't bother at all.
Fair point but very few decent bands come down to Rome and I've had some awesome nights watching tribute bands - Sex Pistols, Skunk Anansie. Next poll: Most pointless rerelease. Best of NO, International and The Best Of JD? I'm glad I gave up being a completist.
Well, I'm sure you still complete over Mel C.'s frost detectors.
Digital Mike Binoche wrote: VOTE
Where's the New Odour option? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA (Oops. I just shit my pants.)
Wow, it feels great to be included in this poll. Thanks Digital Mike for including Substance in there. I am "Hooky" in Substance. I am a big fan of all the different New Order tributes and support them however I can. I've seen LoveVig live, and they're awesome.
Re:Order and True Order, I've only seen them via youtube. Love'm both.
I think each band focuses on something different --- some focus more on the performance and stage showmanship, others on looks and manerisms, some focus on sounding like New Order live (which historically never sounded like New Order in the studio), some focus on sounding like the studio/album, etc.
Great poll, great post, and glad to be back here after being away for a few years.
Digital Mike Binoche wrote: VOTE
The Light is kind of a troll-y option here, no? It's not exactly a tribute band -- it does have Hooky, remember. I saw them last year and they're great, no way any other of the lot here comes close
True Order are fantastic. Great musicians who capture the sound feel and look of New Order. Their diverse set list means that each gig is a new treat. They have my vote!
Mike, you seem to have forgotten Digital in your list!
I haven't seen True Order yet, will be interesting to see if they are as good as their self-publicity. Re:Order will take some beating though, they got it very right.
Tim wrote: Mike, you seem to have forgotten Digital in your list!
I haven't seen True Order yet, will be interesting to see if they are as good as their self-publicity. Re:Order will take some beating though, they got it very right.
Apologies Tim, just an oversight ! Good to catch up soon, please sort me that French gig PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE
andrean wrote: i have seen re-order not good at all....now true order blew me away they are as good as new order live and there set list is unbelievable regularly sell out KGH at blackburn have to be for me the best new order tribute worldwide....
at a guess your one of the band!
true order aren't a patch on re:order i'm afraid
a few of my mates were at king georges a couple of weeks ago and said they left early....said the crowd weren't into it at all and were all stood around talking and not paying hardly any interest
LostSiren wrote: The Light is kind of a troll-y option here, no? It's not exactly a tribute band -- it does have Hooky, remember. I saw them last year and they're great, no way any other of the lot here comes close
Even Hooky said on the 2012 Maconie interview "I've become my own tribute band". So not Troll-y.
This thread is actually hilarious. One of the perks of being a moderator is that you get to see the IP address of people who post messages. And guess what peeps! Andrean and True1 are posting from the same computer! Bit sad, lads, if you are resorting to making up your own "fans" to give good reviews. Looked slightly suss having two people join within minutes, using the same writing style, both seemingly for the purpose of bigging up True Order.
Tip from the top - let your gigs do the talking. If you become as good a band as Re:Order and Digital used to be, then you'll have earned the right.
So I was right with my guess!
If you was as good as you say you are true order word would spread quick enough without doing pretend reviews of your own gigs
Your trying too hard
true1 wrote: you gotta blow your own trumpet a bit these days
I'd leave that to cuntortionists. The Light are always awesome. Unlike rowing, that's oarsome.
Wonder how much hookys made from touring? Hes done a massive Amount of gigs and will he get prs from new order gigs?....
true1 wrote: Wonder how much hookys made from touring? Hes done a massive Amount of gigs and will he get prs from new order gigs?....
Makes me laugh. People used to moan about New Order doing the same sets, now Hooky advertises his tribute bands same set ... so funny.
We're gonna have new New Order songs live in November ![[hi]](/emoticons/hi.gif){kind=small}
Your right mike...once hookys played the full catalogue and the substance dates where can he go from there? Own material?...I think new order are going to be awesome on this tour ticket sales speak for themselves. ..
Erm it's got to be The Light hasn't it? Always excellent live. Seen reorder and digital a couple of times and both are great. Remember a good night a few years ago in Derby when they both played, but at the time there was no New Order or The Light. Now we have both. Not many tribute bands can boast an original member!
I'm sure you'll all be glad to know that Joy Revision are back in the rehearsal rooms and will be on stage again soon!
Hurry up Tim!!! Can't wait to hear you guys and watch on youtube ;-)!!!!
Tim wrote: I'm sure you'll all be glad to know that Joy Revision are back in the rehearsal rooms and will be on stage again soon!
W all due respect, I would say PH&TL does not qualify here --- with an original member and all, plus they're really all pros. Most of us here in tribute land have day jobs ---- right? But if you insist, yes, PH&TL is the winner by far. I've seen all of their LA shows plus Dallas, so around 8 or 9 times. Cannot wait to see'm again in 2016.
The Shadow wrote: Erm it's got to be The Light hasn't it? Always excellent live. Seen reorder and digital a couple of times and both are great. Remember a good night a few years ago in Derby when they both played, but at the time there was no New Order or The Light. Now we have both. Not many tribute bands can boast an original member!
The subject of tribute bands is always a very emotive one, some people just can't get them at all, others love them. I must admit that I never had any intention of being in a tribute band until Stash's Homage night in 2002, when the combination of Goldblade's Martin, Jim Reilly and myself first got up and did Truth without any rehearsal, but it was great fun to be playing the songs and it sort of grew from there.
With any tribute bands though, like with purveyors of original material, you get good bands and shit bands. Some tribute bands are professional tributes, playing countless gigs in toilets all up and down the country. Fair play, if that's what floats their boat. Until they tire of JD/NO and switch to the next band to clone. Some prefer to go for the special occasion element, playing as and when they want to. Some tribute bands are absolutely awful, anyone remember that JD tribute Unknown Pleasures, who had the fat singer who whistled the keyboard parts as they didn't have keys for LWTUA? Some bands go for the look as priority over the sound. Some focus on the sound but look nothing like the act they are supposed to be a tribute to. I guess the best thing is a happy medium. Digital always went for authentic sound but tried to look half right. Re:Order generally got look and sound right, having Ian's collection of genuine Hooky basses on board helped. When Ian and Jim swapped bands, Digital changed name to Joy Revision and we got all the good gear!
From what I've heard of Substance, they sound really authentic and are clearly enjoying what they do, which has to be the aim at the end of the day for most people. New Dawn Fades from Aberdeen look right, not seen them yet but they seem well received.
All this "we're the best band in the world" you get from some acts is all bollocks, especially when they've only done a handful of shows!
There's enough room for all the tribute bands, but at the end of the day you have to sound right else there's no point.
I really like Jonathan's Band SUBSTANCE. They do a great version of 'Dream Attack' and are good friends of ours.
Not heard much of Re-Order only the couple of tracks on Youtube so its tricky to know what they are really like. I will try and catch them the next time they are in The North.
Thanks for the complement TruOrder2015. We love playing Dream Attack, modeled after the "Live From Montreaux" version --- two guitars really makes this song. Unfortunately, it is considered a deep cut track in most venues we play. So we don't play it as often as we'd like to. Cheers!
TrueOrder2015 wrote:
hi, I'm the Bernard out of True Order.
I really like Jonathan's Band SUBSTANCE. They do a great version of 'Dream Attack' and are good friends of ours.
Not heard much of Re-Order only the couple of tracks on Youtube so its tricky to know what they are really like. I will try and catch them the next time they are in The North.
I think its a travesty to put Peter Hook and the Light in this poll. There is an ongoing dispute over the name of New Order and despite the vitriol between the two camps, Peter Hook was integral to the crafting of some of the most amazing songs in the history of music. It would be like saying Roger Waters is a tribute to Pink Floyd😕
Although i don't see any point in voting for myself for as someone just said it is better to let your performance speak for itself, I don't agree with the bitter comment about King Georges Hall. It was a great gig. Last count of ticket sales was 290. That might be because Blackburn is our home town and we always do OK here. Saying that we have recently played another gig in Derby to 10 people
It looks as if the light will play substance, then technique, republic , get ready , wftsc, lost sirens ,bad lieutenant, then the 3 electronics, and music complete, by which time Neworder may have another release or two so as to keep the light busy.
