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Peter Hook at Mod Club Toronto
In order to celebrate their eighth studio album, Waiting for the Siren's Call, New Order are playing an extensive American tour... of four dates. The list of shows must make for the sparsest back of a t-shirt ever. It's been 12 years since they played Toronto, and the drought continues, but bassist-turned-DJ Peter Hook is flying in with a stack of CDs ("Too bloody 'eavy, them vinyls," he says) to help tide parched fans over at the Mod Club Theatre (722 College) for the Return to New York party May 6. On the phone from Oakland, just before kicking off his band's first gig in three years, the voluble Hooky took some time out to expand on his new hobby.
"I like the edginess of it," he says of DJing, "that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Reading the crowd -- sometimes it's very, very lonely up there because you've not got your guitar to hide behind. Fucking hell, it does get a bit traumatic."
"I like the edginess of it," he says of DJing, "that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Reading the crowd -- sometimes it's very, very lonely up there because you've not got your guitar to hide behind. Fucking hell, it does get a bit traumatic."
In order to celebrate their eighth studio album, Waiting for the Siren's Call, New Order are playing an extensive American tour... of four dates. The list of shows must make for the sparsest back of a t-shirt ever. It's been 12 years since they played Toronto, and the drought continues, but bassist-turned-DJ Peter Hook is flying in with a stack of CDs ("Too bloody 'eavy, them vinyls," he says) to help tide parched fans over at the Mod Club Theatre (722 College) for the Return to New York party May 6. On the phone from Oakland, just before kicking off his band's first gig in three years, the voluble Hooky took some time out to expand on his new hobby.
"I like the edginess of it," he says of DJing, "that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Reading the crowd -- sometimes it's very, very lonely up there because you've not got your guitar to hide behind. Fucking hell, it does get a bit traumatic."
Like New Order's 2002 Back to Mine collection, Hook's sets are apparently very eclectic. While he doesn't have a designated floor-filler to pull him out of the dead times, he does come armed with a number of his band's unreleased mixes. It seems fitting -- after all, most released remixes take his unmistakably melodic, chorused bass out of the songs.
"The mixes that I play I wouldn't say were bass-heavy; they're just different ones that I like that weren't used," Hooky says. "It's a great idea to think you could be able to go on and play all bass parts, wouldn't it? That would be quite funny: 'These are all the bass parts the bastards wouldn't let me put on. I thought I'd play them here in Toronto.' I'd love to do something like that. That's proper art -- like an installation!"
While rumours of the once-volatile Hooky's having mellowed out are somewhat substantiated by his friendly demeanour, it's comforting to know it's not all gone Pete Tong for him.
"I'd never ask people to dance," he states flatly. "Whenever I go to gigs and somebody goes" -- he puts on an American accent -- "'C'mon everybody, clap your hands!' I always think, 'Oh, fuck off, you jerk!'
"I'm not a people pleaser, because New Order have never been people-pleasers. I still believe that Johnny Rotten, in his attitude to what he does, has the best attitude. It's nice to provoke people and get people going -- you get a spark, don't you?"
Surely the biggest spark would be touched off by New Order's return to Toronto? "I'll keep my fingers crossed," Hooky offers, "because I've always had a really fantastic time there. I'm looking forward to getting back, and let's hope next time I bring my bloody others with me!"
MIKE DOHERTY
"I like the edginess of it," he says of DJing, "that sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Reading the crowd -- sometimes it's very, very lonely up there because you've not got your guitar to hide behind. Fucking hell, it does get a bit traumatic."
Like New Order's 2002 Back to Mine collection, Hook's sets are apparently very eclectic. While he doesn't have a designated floor-filler to pull him out of the dead times, he does come armed with a number of his band's unreleased mixes. It seems fitting -- after all, most released remixes take his unmistakably melodic, chorused bass out of the songs.
"The mixes that I play I wouldn't say were bass-heavy; they're just different ones that I like that weren't used," Hooky says. "It's a great idea to think you could be able to go on and play all bass parts, wouldn't it? That would be quite funny: 'These are all the bass parts the bastards wouldn't let me put on. I thought I'd play them here in Toronto.' I'd love to do something like that. That's proper art -- like an installation!"
While rumours of the once-volatile Hooky's having mellowed out are somewhat substantiated by his friendly demeanour, it's comforting to know it's not all gone Pete Tong for him.
"I'd never ask people to dance," he states flatly. "Whenever I go to gigs and somebody goes" -- he puts on an American accent -- "'C'mon everybody, clap your hands!' I always think, 'Oh, fuck off, you jerk!'
"I'm not a people pleaser, because New Order have never been people-pleasers. I still believe that Johnny Rotten, in his attitude to what he does, has the best attitude. It's nice to provoke people and get people going -- you get a spark, don't you?"
Surely the biggest spark would be touched off by New Order's return to Toronto? "I'll keep my fingers crossed," Hooky offers, "because I've always had a really fantastic time there. I'm looking forward to getting back, and let's hope next time I bring my bloody others with me!"
MIKE DOHERTY
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