The latest news, release notes, tour updates, archive additions, and site dispatches from across the New Order family and the wider scene — the details that used to travel through fanzines, forums, and word of mouth.
"On behalf of the band and management I would like to apologize to all our fans who have been inconvenienced in any way by the cancellation of our US gigs. The band are very upset and surprised by this, as the fans obviously are. I am informed that this was caused by administrative problems with our visa application and at this late stage nothing can be done. We are trying our hardest to reschedule the gigs for spring next year and to add extra shows in the USA." Bernard Sumner.
From Badlieutenant.net: "It is with frustration and regret that Bad Lieutenant reluctantly announces the cancellation of the band’s four U.S. dates set to commence next week. The more stringent immigration laws and changing visa parameters resulted in an inability to process the necessary paperwork. “We were all so very excited about coming to the States to play our new music for our American fans,” said Bad Lieutenant’s Bernard Sumner, “and are extremely disappointed that on this occasion, we won’t have the opportunity to do so. We plan to reschedule the Chicago and New York shows along with some additional U.S. dates in Spring 2010. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you.” The four Bad Lieutenant dates that have been cancelled are: November 18 – Park West (headline), Chicago, IL November 19 – supporting the Pixies in Chicago, IL November 21 – Webster Hall (headline), New York, NY November 23 – supporting the Pixies in New York, NY The concerts were in support of Never Cry Another Tear, Bad Lieutenant’s debut release which arrived in stories on Tuesday, November 10. The band features New Order/Joy Division’s Sumner, newcomer Jake Evans on vocals and guitars as well as guitarist Phil Cunningham and drummer Stephen Morris, musicians who helped make the legendary New Order a multi-Platinum-selling band and one of the most influential forces over the past three decades in the alt/rock/dance genres. Bad Lieutenant’s Spring 2010 dates will be announced soon."
Two years ago New Order bassist Peter Hook quit the group and made it clear he wanted the band name retired. “You are no more New Order than I am!” he wrote in an infamous MySpace screed. “You may have two-thirds, but don’t assume you have the rights to do anything ‘New Order-ey,’ because you don’t.” The remaining members (Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and New Order touring guitarist Phil Cunningham) took his advice, and re-dubbed themselves Bad Lieutenant. Their debut album Never Cry Another Tear is out October 13th. “The last New Order project was hard work,” Sumner says. “This was a happier atmosphere.” Sumner got the idea for the group’s name at Johnny Marr’s house. “I walked in and he was watching the scene in the movie Bad Lieutenant where Harvey Kietel is shooting the radio,” Sumner says. “I said, ‘What the fuck is this film?’ It was so gross and over the top.”
As Unknown Pleasures reaches its 30th anniversary, Jude Rogers looks behind the commercialisation and Paul Morley's jowls at Joy Division's eternal truth. Read the full article at: http://thequietus.com/articles/02105-jude-rogers-on-the-right-way-to-remember-joy-division
FIRST came Joy Division, then New Order – and Macclesfield’s latest claim to musical fame is Bad Lieutenant. Following the demise of New Order, three of the group’s former members have teamed up for a new band – along with a member of Blur. Frontman Bernard Sumner, drummer Stephen Morris and guitarist Phil Cunningham have joined with Blur’s Alex James for Bad Lieutenant’s debut album, due out in October. Rainow resident and drummer Stephen, said: "I think it’s going to be a great record. I’m only on a few tracks, but it’s great to be playing with them again – any chance to make a racket these days." The record has been road-tested on his kids Tilly, 13, and Grace, 11. "They loved the version I played them, which is always a good sign," he added. Bad Lieutenant formed after the acrimonious break-up of New Order – created by members of Joy Division after the suicide of Macclesfield singer Ian Curtis in 1980. Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 crime-drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel. In response to rumours an American band of the same name already exists, Stephen joked: "I’m sure we can settle it over a game of darts."
An exclusive new track from the upcoming album of Peter Hook's new project Freebass was aired on XFM last night, the song is called STALINGRAD. You can listen to the song online on XFM's website while the show is archived. It also features a full interview with Pete Mitchell. The song is featured on the show Razor Cuts and is aired around 1:41:00.
The Crystal Method have recruited a star-studded cast of contributors on their new album 'Divided By Night'. New Order bassist Peter Hook, Matisyahu, former Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle and Metric frontwoman Emily Haines are among the artists who have contributed to the Los Angeles electronic duo's latest effort, due out in the US on May 12. Matisyahu provides vocals on 'Drown In The Now', the album's first single, while Hook appears on 'Blunts & Robots' and 'Dirty Thirty'. Haines and drummer Samantha Maloney, formerly of Hole and Peaches, lend their talents to 'Come Back Clean'.
New Order bassist Peter Hook likens his recent split from bandmates Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris to the unravelling of a marriage. "You know in a marriage or in a relationship when a few years after you get together you look 'round and see a stranger?" said Hook, down the line from his home in Manchester leading up to Tuesday's release of War Child Presents: Heroes, featuring a Hot Chip cover of Joy Division's Transmission. "It was just a change of attitude, really. I mean over the years we (in New Order) developed different tastes and different attitudes. Being in a group is all about compromise and the more you compromise, each of you, the better that group works ... Basically it just got to the point where I thought I had compromised enough. What surprised me is that I didn't think Bernard was bothered about New Order. It was only after we split up that I found out he was." Since the split, Sumner and Morris have indicated that New Order, formed by the three musicians in 1980 out of the ashes of Joy Division after the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis, would continue without Hook. But Hook is not convinced that could ever happen. "They wouldn't be allowed to go out as New Order 'cause I'd sue 'em," Hook said. "It'd be a Spandau Ballet moment -- that thing where Tony Hadley can go out playing the songs of Spandau Ballet. It's childish but that's what being in a group is all about, isn't it?" Hook, who was a founding member of Joy Division with Sumner in 1976, said he'd never considered touring without him.
New Order will be releasing a 7" if Temptation/Hurt for Record Store Day (April 18th 2009) This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances
Peter Hook is a big deal. As the co-founder of Manchester greats Joy Division and a driving force behind New Order, the man has been a bass-wielding god for over three decades. For a new compilation called "Heroes" being released by the War Child International Charity, Hooky gave British electro-pop fivesome Hot Chip his blessing for their cover of the legendary Joy Division track “Transmission.” In part one of our five-part series, Hook chats with FILTER about his involvement with War Child and his reaction to Hot Chip’s version of his favorite Joy Division song. He opens up about Ian Curtis, New Order and the digital revolution a little later. Stay tuned. War Child approached you to pick a band and a song for that band to cover. So why choose Hot Chip? Steven Morris is a really big fan of Hot Chip and he was telling me about them before I had even heard of them. With DJing, I was going out and hearing this really wacky music that I eventually found out was Hot Chip. For this comp, Steve suggested Hot Chip and I thought they were a perfect choice. I like the way they look at the music and I am inspired the influences they pull in. They sound very current, very fresh and they have a great irreverent attitude to this business that we’re in. How did you get involved with War Child? I was first approached by War Child three years ago for another sampler CD. It’s so important and breaks your heart as a parent to think that there are children that don’t have access to a great childhood. When this came about it was an interesting way to look at the compilation in general and it's really done well so far in England. The people that are involved in putting this together are music fans themselves. It’s nice to be included, now that we’re at home now and New Order is no more it’s nice that people still remember us. How did you feel when you heard the Hot Chip cover for the first time? Strange thing was it really made me smile. I thought it was quite irreverent. The way Joy Division did it was very angry and aggressive and Hot Chip made it very endearing and warm and it’s more personal that way. With a song like “Transmission,” it's the best song we wrote. It’s sort of hard for me to remove myself from the song, but their version really did make me smile.
Joy Division - Turtle Festival Screening [ http://www.turtlesalon.com/newyork.html ] @ IFC Center [ http://www.ifccenter.com/index ] 323 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10014 Thursday, May 8th @ 8:00 pm Tickets can be purchased at http://www.movietickets.com/house_detail.asp?house_id=9598&rdate=5%2F8%2F2008 Q&A with one of the documentary’s producers, Tom Atencio, following the screening. The Turtle Festival is curated by Michael Shamberg, long time Joy Division and New Order collaborator.
Stephen Morris will be talking to nemone on Tuesday 6th May about the new Joy Division documentary film. You can listen via this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/nemone/
Microsoft is readying a Joy Division edition of its Zune MP3 player to coincide with the June 10 release of an eponymous DVD about the band. The Joy Division Zune will feature an adaptation of the cover art from the band's 1979 debut, Unknown Pleasures, which artist Peter Saville created using a graph of one hundred pulses from pulsar CP 1919 (apparently the first radio pulsar ever discovered). So far, no images are available of the Joy Division Zune, so to remind you what the pattern looks like, here's a picture showing how it looks on the underside of a pair of New Balance running shoes. A Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed via e-mail: "Zune is working with Peter Saville on a design for a limited edition device in conjunction with 'Joy Division The Documentary,' and will be announcing further details regarding that design in the near future." Note: This is not the real look, it's a mock-up the guys at Engadget.com did, sort of wishful thinking.
On 2nd June Warner Music Entertainment will release "New Order: Live in Glasgow", a live DVD of the band’s celebratory concert filmed at Carling Academy, Glasgow in October 2006. Filmed over two nights it features tracks and footage highlighting the band's extraordinary career, as well as including a number of Joy Division songs. In addition to this concert, there will be a bonus disc featuring never-seen-before footage from band’s personal archive and live performances from throughout the 1980s, showcasing the band’s early Glastonbury performance through to their self-assured big tour concerts of later years, climaxing in their stunning performance headlining Wireless 2006. Click more to see tracklisting.
Rhino is releasing a best of Joy Division on April 29th. The tracklisting of the album is: Digital Disorder Shadowplay New Dawn Fades Transmission Atmosphere Dead Souls She's Lost Control Love Will Tear Us Apart These Days Twenty Four Hours Heart And Soul Incubation Isolation Here is a link to the Listening Party from Rhino. Preorder your copy today: Amazon.com Amazon.com (2 CDs Edition) Amazon UK Amazon UK (2 CDs Edition)
You can pre-order the upcoming collaboration between Bernard Sumner and Blank+Jones on the following sites: Amazon Germany You can sample the song out of Blank+Jones' MySpace Website. http://www.myspace.com/blankandjonesinfo And you can already purchase selected music on the website Beatport at the following url: Beatport - Miracle Clure Part One EP
Noting that when the time comes the discreet and legendary German electro-wizards blank+jones release a new single organised in collaboration with Manchester post-punk visionary Bernard Sumner. The collaboration between blank+jones and Bernard Sumner, of Joy Division, New Order and Electronic, is called Miracle Cure, and it is the first song to be taken from this years very special blank+jones album of beats, treats and collaborations, “The Logic of Pleasure”. Bernard Sumner is high on the list, if not the highest, of those musicians, writers and singers that have influenced blank+jones fascination with mood, intoxication, romance and rhythm. The combination of the sure, vibrant blank+jones and the enigmatic, iconic and tender voiced Bernard Sumner is naturally a dream, as Sumner’s fragile yet bouyant melancholia slips beautifully into, and out of, blank and jones’ very own electronic sense of the epic. The collaboration is the sensational result of electronic communication involving email and MP3 set up during 2007. Sumner wrote and sung his part after completing work with New Order on the soundtrack for Anton Corbijn’s award winning film about Joy Division, Control. Miracle Cure will appear as the song it is and also as a brilliantly arranged series of energising/lounging uptown, down town and across town mixes from the blank+jones studio, and also from Manchester born Berlin based hypno-trance pioneer Mark Reeder, the currently on fire electro-obsessive Canadian Glenn Morrison, the prolific trancefrenzied German master Martin Roth, the Anglo-German electro-adventurers Onetwo and Scandinavian chilltronica club kings Lulu Rouge. It says something about the reputation and ability of blank+jones that the discriminating Sumner, a genius of melody, wished to work with blank+jones, and that the collaboration has produced a song that can live with the best of Sumner’s ingenious, smart and infectious pop songs. More news soon about the ninth blank+jones album “The Logic of Pleasure” and the record’s various enterprising collaborations, including Miracle Cure with Bernard Sumner. Artwork, all text and bio written/designed by Paul Morley. The world premiere of the song will be with Pete Tong on BBC Radio One's WMC miami special on March 28th. Release dates for Miracle Cure Single: May 30 - Worldwide June 2 - UK Release dates for The Logic of Pleasure: June 9 - UK June 6 - Worldwide www.blankandjones.com www.myspace.com/blankandjonesinfo
Rambo and Leroy are the band that opened for New Order in their last UK concert in Wolverhampton, and are working with Bernard Sumner on his new project Bad Lieutenant. 'Last One Standing' Limited edition vinyl "7" released March 3rd Vinyl Revival Records Manchester Available in all good record shops
Wherefore art thou, Billy Corgan? It's been some six weeks since you and your Smashing Pumpkins last graced our news pages, but here you are again, with plentiful items of interest for your devotees. First there is the matter of Freebass, the Peter Hook/Andy Rourke/Mani all-bass supergroup. Freebass, as you know, have been recording with a number of different vocalists, including ex-Stone Rose Ian Brown and the Charlatans' Tim Burgess. A BBC 6 Music report yesterday quotes Hook as saying, "We persuaded Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins ." Mr. Corgan will, presumably, assist in the vocal capacity, as will Haven frontman Gary Briggs, UK singer Rowetta, and celebrity dope-dealer Howard Marks ("doing a rap," according to Hook). Oh boy!
Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher is set to head a supergroup next month in Manchester. According to The Sun’s Bizarre column, the singer will team up with legend Ian Brown, and Freebass - the band featuring The Smiths' Andy Rourke, New Order’s Peter Hook and Mani from Primal Scream - at Manchester Versus Cancer charity concert. The event will take place on February 23 at the MEN Arena. The Freebass collective has been a side project for the three bass masters for several years. The band have reportedly been recording an album together, calling in vocal favours from singer Tim Burgess and Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie.
The Joy Division film 'Control' is set for release on DVD next year. The biopic about the band’s frontman Ian Curtis is out on February 11. The movie was directed by the band’s visual collaborator Anton Corbijn, who has also worked with the likes of U2 and Depeche Mode, and was based on the book ’Touching From A Distance’ by Curtis’ widow Deborah. Along with the film starring Samantha Morton and former singer Sam Riley (pictured), the DVD release features extended scenes, a director's commentary, a making of film and Corbijn’s ’Atmosphere 88’ video among the extras.
Friday, December 21st From 7pm-8pm: Join US Manager of the Joy Division catalog, and New Order's US Manager for 18+years, Tom Atencio, as he discusses Joy Division and shares excerpts from his upcoming Weinstein Company documentary release, JOY DIVISION. Temporary Rhino Popup Store 8032 W. Third St. Los Angeles, California 90048 USA
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/davidpottsmusic We're offering the album 'Coming Up For Air' and ANY single for just £5 including the limited edition 7" white vinyl version of 'I'm the Greatest' and the Ram EP 'Songs on Page One' or 'Monkey in the Rain', the new double A-side single which is out now for download and as a limited edition CD EP. Happy Xmas!
New Order now has an official MySpace page, managed by the NewOrderOnline staff for New Order. http://www.myspace.com/neworder If you are a member of MySpace, add New Order as your friend, you can use the songs to put on your profile and don't forget to put them as a top friend.
Anton Corbijn's "Control" was the big winner at Wednesday night's British Independent Film Awards, walking off with best movie, director and a pair of actor awards. Corbijn's black-and-white film, based on the short life of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, scooped a total of five awards, including the evening's big two: best British independent film and best director. Corbijn's biopic exorcised the threat of "Eastern Promises," "And When Did You Last See Your Father," "Hallam Foe" and "Notes on a Scandal" to secure the evening's best picture nod.
With Joy Division successfully memorialized on CD and the big screen, bassist Peter Hook would like to see the same done for its successor, New Order. But, he says, there are issues. "Since New Order has split up, we ... aren't really friends yet," says Hook. Therefore, plans for a New Order box set and expanded reissues -- similar to Rhino's recent treatment of Joy Division's three initial Factory releases -- are on hold. "Because of our relationship," Hook notes, "we're struggling to find a way of moving it forward. Everybody is busy doing their next project." Hook says there's a wealth of rarities to populate any New Order sets -- particularly a large passel of live recordings that includes the fledgling group's very first concert in 1980. Also around is a selection of songs left over from sessions for New Order's final album, 2005's "Waiting for the Sirens' Call." "We had seven or eight tracks left over," Hook recalls. "Our idea was to bring them out very quickly after 'Sirens," but because we fell out and weren't enjoying working together, that idea was just pushed further and further back. Those tracks are still there, still unfinished. And they're as good as 'Sirens,' funnily enough." Hook says Bernard Sumner is particularly resistant to moving forward on any archival projects. "Bernard sort of dislikes the past; he's quite open about that. And he dislikes our live past even more," Hook explains. "It's quite sad, really. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more value to your history being judged." Hook isn't just living in the past, however. He's moving forward with Freebass, his bass guitar-celebrating group with Smiths alumnus Andy Rourke and Stone Roses/Primal Scream vet Gary "Mani" Mounfield. The group has recently cut tracks with the Charlatans' Tim Burgess and rapper Howard Marx and is putting together a schedule for 2008 summer European festivals. "It's really coming on and we're very, very pleased," Hook says. "As nice as looking back is, musicians of my ilk are really interested in looking forward. I feel very positive about Freebass right now."
In an interview about the lack of progress on a proposed slate of New Order reissues, Peter Hook has hinted that his supergroup Freebass will be touring this summer As previously reported, the group is made up of Hook, the Stone Roses/Primal Scream legend Mani, and Smiths' vet Andy Rourke. If that sounds a little bass-heavy, rest assured that collaborators will be adding plenty of top end: in addition to previously-rumored sessions with Liam Gallagher and Tim Burgess, the band is also working with Ian Brown and Howard Marx. A schedule for the 2008 European summer festivals is being drawn up, according to Billboard. "It's really coming on and we're very, very pleased," Hook is quoted as saying of the group. "I feel very positive about Freebass right now." Specific dates for Freebass have yet to be determined.
He was working in a warehouse in Leeds folding shirts when he was cast to star in a film about the life, loves and brief musical reign of Joy Division's ill-fated frontman, Ian Curtis. Today Sam Riley found himself being tipped for Oscars glory alongside 30 international stars of the screen singled out by the industry bible, Variety, whose predictions are regarded as a barometer of the film world. With the Golden Globes nominations to be announced next month, before the Baftas in January, the film world is already gripped by awards fever, before the ultimate prize awarded by the American Academy. In his first role as a leading man, Riley found widespread acclaim this year at the Cannes Film Festival, with the premiere of Control, in which he portrayed the post-punk icon who committed suicide 27 years ago at the age of 23.
With a Film about Joy Division Singer Ian Curtis Due This Fall, Rhino Revisits the Band's Catalog for Expanded Editions of Three Essential Albums, a Special Vinyl Boxed Set and Ringtones, Plus the Film's Soundtrack, Which Contains Unreleased Music by The Killers and New Order The Reissues, Soundtrack and Ringtones Will Be Available October 30 The Vinyl Box Will Be Available Exclusively from Rhino September 11
In collaboration with Rhino, we are giving away many Joy Division related prizes on NewOrderOnline. 1 Unknown Pleasures (Remastered CD) 1 Closer (Remastered CD) 1 Still (Remastered CD) 1 Unknown Pleasure (Vinyl Reissue) 1 Closer (Vinyl Reissue) 1 Still (Vinyl Reissue) 1 Control Soundtrack CD Joy Division Posters Joy Division Buttons Joy Division Earplugs Control T-Shirt 7" Limited Edition Promo Vinyls (includes She's Lost Control and Dead Souls) To participate to this competition, you must email us at: competition@neworderonline.com and answer the following question: What is the name of Ian Curtis' daughter? Winners will be announced mid-November. Good luck!
Apologies to all the misanthropic synth-punks out there, but we at Viva Radio believe there is no substitute for the rhythmic and emotional charge of Joy Division. In fact, the simultaneous theatrical release of Control, Anton Corbijn’s darkly affecting film study of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, and reissue of the band’s three albums on Rhino Records nearly gave us our total sonic fix. Yet our quest for unknown pleasures got the best of us, and we are now proud to announce the Joy Division-inspired Complete Control Radio. Starting Tues. October 23rd and continuing through the 30th, with extensive research and help from contributor and institutional pillar Dan Selzer, Viva excavates the post-punk vaults for classic and rare Joy Division / New Order / Factory Records material and brings exclusive interviews with band members and affiliates to the online arena. http://www.viva-radio.com/control
Peter Hook is part of the judges of the International Song Writing Competition. The deadline to submit a song has been just postponed to November 19. http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/
Former New Order bassist Peter Hook has told Gigwise that he plans to work with Liam Gallagher and Ian Brown in the near future. Since he called time on New Order, Hook has been working alongside Primal Scream bass player Mani and former Smiths’ bassist Andy Rourke on a new project under the name, Freebass. Hook told Gigwise this week that The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess has just turned in the first vocal for the outfit and that the momentum behind the band is building quickly. Describing Burgess’ contribution as “fucking great,” he went on to reveals the impressive list of other artists who are scheduled to contribute guest vocals for the band. “We’ve got other people working on it,” Hook revealed. “Ian Brown is doing one for us, Howard Marks is doing one for us, Pete Wiley, Ian McCulloch, Liam Gallagher.” Explaining the trio’s motivation for forming Freebass, Hook explained: “We’ve just called friends in really which has been nice. “I think it’s always good to give something back and we’ve helped them in the past all of us, me and Mani have helped a lot of people and so has Andy Rourke, so it’s been nice to do it.” As we revealed exclusively on Monday (October 8th), Hook has ended all speculation that New Order would record new music, saying there was “no future” for the band.
MORE than three decades have passed since Joy Division emerged from the cultural rubble of post-industrial Manchester, England to rechannel punk rock's sound and fury into something more sublime.
The members of New Order have dismissed rumours that they plan to reform. Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner attended a screening of the new Joy Division film Control - but not as a happy trio. "We've all been shouting at each other - now we're just arguing about who has custody of the children," joked Sumner. Hook recently admitted that he's working on a new venture called Freebase with Gary 'Mani' Mounfield (Stone Roses, Primal Scream) and Andy Rourke (the Smiths). Meanwhile, Sumner and Morris are putting together a project of their own. Sumner said: "I'm working on some stuff at the moment. Steve is gonna be involved with it, and it's a project called Bad Lieutenant."
Shortlist magazine has revealed that distributors in the US, working the new Anton Corbijn film Control, asked if Joy Division could perform live at the US premiere. Says Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook (pictured): “Someone from the film’s US distributor’s office phoned up saying that the New York premiere was on 25 September and would Joy Division play? “I replied, ‘Well, the last I heard, the lead singer was dead but I’ll give them a ring and see if anything has changed'.” Control, which focuses on Joy Division singer Ian Curtis' life and eventual suicide on May 18 1980, is released in the UK on Friday (October 5); its soundtrack compilation, featuring David Bowie, The Sex Pistols and The Buzzcocks alongside the obvious two, is out now on Warner Music.
By accepting the role of one of rock's most mythologized figures, Sam Riley had to live up to many people's expectations. Worse yet, some of those people were standing right in front of him. For the filming of the concert sequences in Control – Anton Corbijn's sensitive, stately drama about the short, tumultuous life of Ian Curtis, the Joy Division singer whose menacing music and gloomy mystique had an enormous influence on both the Manchester scene and the last three decades' worth of alt-rock – the sweaty extras in the audience were many of the band's biggest fans.
Peter Hook has no interest in being idle. The former New Order/Joy Division bassist is making progress with his new project Freebass, which gathers Smiths bassist Andy Rouke and Stone Roses counterpart Mani. "I've sat down with Mani and Rourke and we desperately want to play the festivals next year," Hook tells Billboard.com. "We're going to work our balls off up until Christmas to get this f*cking record finished."
Control has been selected as part of the Vanguard selection at the Toronto Film Festival according to their website. CONTROL : Friday, September 7th @ 9:45 pm Scotiabank 2 Saturday, September 8th@ 9:00 am Scotiabank 2
Details of the Control OST have now emerged. The album, scheduled for release on 1st October, includes three brand new tracks from New Order, a cover of Transmission by the cast (presume that's the JD actors) and The Killers' cover of Shadowplay. The New Order tracks are titled, 'Exit', 'Get Out' and 'Hypnosis'. It would be cynical to speculate that Bernard wrote these for Hooky . Full Tracklisting: 1) Exit - New Order 2) What Goes On - The Velvet Underground 3) Shadowplay (Joy Division cover) - The Killers 4) Boredom (Live) - The Buzzcocks 5) Dead Souls - Joy Division 6) She Was Naked - Supersister 7) Sister Midnight - Iggy Pop 8) Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division 9) Problems (Live) - Sex Pistols 10) Hypnosis - New Order 11) Drive In Saturday - David Bowie 12) Evidently Chickentown - John Cooper Clarke 13) 2H.B. - Roxy Music 14) Transmission (Cast Version) - Joy Division 15) Autobahn - Kraftwerk 16) Atmosphere - Joy Division 17) Warszawa - David Bowie 18) Get Out - New Order The three New Order tracks are the instrumental tracks used in the last third of the film. They consist of Hooky's trademark bass lines, some sparse drumming from Morris, and Sumner playing what sounds like a flute sound on a mellotron - not particularly in the style of Joy Division, as was previously mooted.
According to a fan site of Nine Inch Nails, New Order's Stephen Morris is to remix a track for Nine Inch Nails' upcoming remix album, Year Zero Remixed. The album is set to be released on September 25.
Bernard Sumner, the guitarist with Joy Division and lead singer with New Order, the band that succeeded it, got married a month ago and Wilson, despite being so ill, attended the wedding. It was the last time Sumner saw the man who he describes as “an eternal teenager”, “an incredible optimist” and a massive creative inspiration. Asked what he would like to say to Wilson, he said: “I’d like to say thank you for completely changing my life and allowing me the opportunity to haul myself out of my working-class background. Thanks for allowing Joy Division and New Order to develop in their own way and letting us retain our individuality. And to do it all in Manchester.” It was Wilson’s relaxed management style that allowed the bands not to be shackled by corporate demands. “There was a fun side to Tony’s flippancy with money,” said Sumner. “We didn’t have a record company breathing down our necks for hit singles. It allowed us to express ourselves in our own way.” He said the love-hate relationship that some people in Manchester had with Wilson was just the Mancunian way. “People would like to say they hated him, but they loved him really. It’s Manchester humour: you greet people you like with an insult and you expect one back.”
Peter Hook has paid tribute to Tony Wilson, who died yesterday, saying "my heart is broken". The New Order and Joy Division bass player likened the passing of the Factory Records founder to the death of his father. Posting on his MySpace blog from Japan, Hook wrote: "It's a very, very, very sad day. I feel very lost out here in Japan. It's like my father dying all over again. I'm devastated." "I'll be going back to England as soon as possible to pick up the pieces. My heart goes out to Yvette, Oliver, Hilary and Isabelle. I'm thinking of you all, my heart is broken. "Say hello to Rob, Ian and Martin for me please Tony. Rest in peace. God bless." Wilson signed Joy Division to his Factory Records label, and together they opened Manchester's legendary Hacienda nightclub. Wilson died yesterday in Manchester, from a heart attack following complications from cancer.
Renown British designer Peter Saville has made tribute to Tony Wilson who died today (August 10). Saville worked for the legend's Factory Records, producing iconic sleeves for the likes of Joy Division and New Order "Tony was an intellectual in popular culture and he brought greatness and importance to it and it was important," he told Newsnight. "He changed it and built it up."
New Order and Joy Division's Stephen Morris has paid tribute to Tony Wilson who died tonight (August 10). The drummer's bands were both signed by the legend's Factory Records and he in turn became an important guiding force on their career. "There would be no Joy Division or New Order without Tony," Morris told Newsnight. "He really believed in us and he was smart enough to start a label and put our records out." He added: "He was so enthusiastic, he was always 'we'll just go ahead an do it and figure out why we did it afterwards. It was his sense of enthusiasm that was so important. You could have an argument with Tony and walk out hating him and the next time you saw him it was all forgotten. You just love him." From signing the likes of Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays, to being a general support of exciting an innovative music, Wilson established himself as a true indie hero.
From Rolling Stone magazine. Last week New Order bassist Peter Hook shocked fans by lashing out at his bandmates on his blog and announcing the group had broken up (in something resembling Courtney Love speak): “You are no more new order than i am! You may have two thirds but dont assume you have the rights to do anything NEW ordery cos you dont ive still got a third!” New Order guitarist Bernard Sumner — who hasn’t seen Hook since the group toured South America last November (NOOL Editorial Note: Not true, they were in Cannes at the premiere of Control) — was as surprised as anyone who read the post. “I find it very distasteful for him to do that after all this time,” he says, checking in by telephone from England. “He should have had a meeting with us. I’m not having someone tell me that we’ve split up without consulting me first. I think that’s very arrogant.” Sumner is unsure whether he and drummer Stephen Morris will continue on as New Order without Hook. “We haven’t got any plans to make any music under the guise as New Order,” Sumner says. “I’ve working on two other projects at the moment so I’m kind of busy for the next couple of years anyway.” And Hook, he says, needs to take five: “I think that Hooky just needs to chill out a little bit and relax.” Sumner says he has no plans to reach out to his blogging bandmate to clear everything up. “He’s the guy who with the problem, so he should approach us,” he says. “We haven’t got a problem. I just don’t think he likes me, so what can you do?”
Well im here at last with my statement! im travellin round america at the moment so its difficult for me to reply properly> Ive decided to tell the whole story? so itll be an amusing? insight into how groups work... FIRST. Damning me for doing something as in not coming to you personally? and then doin the same thing , never heard of two wrongs dont make a right? My god if i was to list my disappointments with this group id miss my plane to frisco.My first thoughts were very angry but now ive slept on it or not rather its sadness really ! this is getting political and personal so here goes...................... SECOND> never assume anything! This group has SPLIT UP! you are no more new order than i am! you may have two thirds but dont assume you have the rights to do anything NEW ordery cos you dont ive still got a third! But am open to negotiation. THIRD. Just in case you hadnt noticed weve not had a "PERSONAL" relationship for a long time now...years in fact! whenever you contact me its through the management(like hale and pace eh?) i did exactly the same you all knew what was happening re the split! in FEBRUARY! using cannes and mojo as some excuse to at last get your own back is wrong. FOURTH. i have never spoken on your behalf i wouldnt presume to. i spoke for myself WE HAVE SPLIT! as traceyBB would say "deal wiv it!so as one third of ex new order im off to gate 36 and pizza hut. ive got a lot to tell you all but this has worn me out for a while so normal; service will be resumed as soon as possible! See you in court! love hookyx --- Well ive been sent all this forum nonsense and will now put it straight! as soon as i did the nme thing i had a feeling id been stitched up( he will get his dont worry) this came throught the new order press representative and seemed legit!It was supposed to be your ten favourite gnomes? when i saw the headline i knew i had been stitched up! i do not blame barney or steve for the split i blame my sobriety actually cos its impossible to put up with all this bullshit sober! but im very happy (apart from this bleedin lot) and dont intend to change! the headline does not refer to the content and when i say "i work a lot" it should be" "because i dj alot and do a lot of interviews i.e. Croydon evenin post Dogs weekly etc Guildford reporteretc etc > THe first question is always.......... Whats happenin with new order? hence my frustration! part of my very important recovery is bein HONEST with myself and other people. i informed our management of this in november '06 February "06 repeatedly in fact.When i asked for statement informing you lot of our plans for the future? this was ignored. So san fairy bloomin anne! Condolences for mike reids family i liked him!. him and bernard manning gone! well have no comedians left soon .
Robbie Williams has approached former Smiths bassist Andy Rourke to work on his solo project. Rourke revealed that the singer had got in touch to join in with his new project Freebass, the band he shares with Primal Scream's Mani and New Order's Peter Hook. Musicians also pencilled into to work with the band include Ian Brown and Tim Burgess from The Charlatans. Rourke revealed the Williams collaboration during a Q&A session about the new Smiths documentary 'Inside The Smiths' with band drummer Mike Joyce in London yesterday (July 19). When asked about the possibility of a Smiths reunion Rourke optimistically offered: "Never say never," despite the duo admitting that they had not spoken to Morrissey since the royalty court case in the early 1990s.
SHOWBIZ stars are paying for music legend Anthony Wilson to have £3,500-a-month cancer treatment - after the NHS refused to fund it. The broadcaster - known as Mr Manchester - is taking a controversial new drug after chemotherapy failed to beat the disease. He was diagnosed with cancer last year and had a kidney removed. Doctors at the Christie Hospital recommended Sutent, a drug which has doubled the life expectancy of some patients in trials. But the Manchester NHS Primary Care Trust has refused to pay for the treatment. It says there is not enough `demonstrable evidence to support the use of this drug in treating kidney cancer'.
Fans of New Order and Joy Division are not only rabid, but inventive. They make biopics about Ian Curtis. They make (the focus of this review) cover albums. And they do it well. On Community 2: A NewOrderOnline Tribute (a project of the NO/JD fan club, www.neworderonline.com"), fans enlisted in a competition by submitting their covers of various New Order songs to be handpicked by Peter Hook himself for inclusion on the album. Who better than Hooky to decide who covers his work the best, right?
LONDON (Billboard) - Tony Wilson is difficult to pigeonhole. The veteran British music man -- whose Factory Records spearheaded the career of Joy Division, among other bands -- is a raconteur, an A&R exec, a scene-builder, a businessman and a celebrity. Wilson can now add "fighter" to his list. The man whose unconventional career was the subject of 2002 feature film "24 Hour Party People" is battling cancer. But the illness hasn't curbed his zest for music and his commitment to bringing new artists to the fore.
Dianne Bourne takes a look at what's going on around Manchester. NO sooner had it been revealed they'd split up, than New Order were back together - for the world premiere of Ian Curtis biopic Control at the Cannes Film Festival. "It was a bit tetchy, to say the least," reveals bassist Peter Hook. “It was the first time we’d met up since we split up. “I mean the thing is, we’re 50 years old, not 15, if things don’t work out, or someone’s not happy you get on with it, you have to." But the success of the Anton Corbijn-directed movie, which follows the life and tragic death of Joy Division frontman Ian, is providing comfort to Hooky.
The Weinstein Co. scored a triple play at the tail end of the Festival de Cannes, nabbing North American rights for Anton Corbijn's Joy Division biopic "Control," North American home video rights to Tom Shankland's detective thriller "Waz" and Australian rights to the animated "Persepolis."
The new Ian Curtis biopic 'Control' has won a host of acclaim and prizes at this year's Cannes Film Festival, including Best European Film. Anton Corbijn's movie about the Joy Division singer, who committed suicide at the height of the band's powers in 1980, was shown outside the main Palme d'Or competition. However, 'Control' was the big winner of the Director's Fortnight section, winning the CICAE Art & Essai prize for Best Film. The movie also claimed the 'Regards Jeunes' award for best first or second directed feature film and the Europa Cinemas Label prize for Best European Film in the sidebar. The Europa Cinemas jury said about the film: "This is a very impressive and assured debut from a renowned photographer, but he never allows the look of the film, beautiful though it is, to detract from the powerful story and character development. "The performances are all excellent, not just the leading characters. We feel that this is a film that will strike a real chord with audiences around Europe, and not just with music lovers." The movie is an adaptation of Curtis widow Deborah's memoirs of her life with the singer, 'Touching From A Distance'. In the movie, she is played by Oscar-nominated actress Samantha Morton, while Curtis is played by relative unknown Sam Riley. 'Control' is due for release later this year.
Side-Line.com has published the full Annick Honoré interview on their website due to popular demand, here is an excerpt: On May 18th, it was 25 years ago that Ian Curtis, the enigmatic frontman of cult act Joy Division committed suicide. Curtis died at age 23 in 1980, shortly before he was due to tour the US. The BBC spent a whole day broadcasting songs, tributes and many more while press worldwide commemorated this rather sad anniversary. And it isn't over yet, for the next several months up until next year we will see several books released on Curtis, at least one biopic and several tribute CDs of which a few have already reached the market. As far as the CDs are concerned, one can say that they are what they are, copies, the one paler than the other, of what was and still is revolutionary, even now as not many bands have succeeded in reaching a similar creative standard and level as Joy Division did back then and this with only two albums produced. (By Bernard Van Isacker - 2005) Less predictable though are the efforts by film directors and related to have their go on Curtis' life. Whereas "24 hour party people" described the rise and fall of Factory Records, the projects now focused on the man himself and not always in such a good way as some might think... In the end 2 projects saw the light of day in early 2004, but only one made it through. To read the rest of the interview, please visit Side-Line at the following link: http://www.side-line.com/interviews_comments.php?id=23440_0_16_0_C
According to the french magazine Les Inrockuptibles, New Order would perform a concert live in Manchester at the place where the Hacienda was because they built apartments there. The concert would be July 17. This would be part of the Hacienda exhibition that will be held this summer, called Haçienda 25 : The Exhibition Fac 491. This exibition contains a lot of objects from Tony Wilson, Ben Kelly and many private people including members of this very own site, it will be going on up to February 17 2008.
A small film about a short-lived rock star is making a big splash at Cannes. "Control" — the story of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide at 23 — marks the movie-directing debut of rock photographer Anton Corbijn and features a star-making central performance from British unknown Sam Riley. The ingredients are familiar — a soupcon of sex, a dash of drugs, a blast of rock'n'roll. But "Control," which opened the film festival's Directors' Fortnight sidebar on Thursday, is far from a standard showbiz biopic. Shot in stark black-and-white and set in gritty, unglamorous 1970s England, it re-creates the life of a singer who died unhappy and almost unknown but has secured a place in rock mythology.
There was a palpable buzz on the Croisette today as Control, Anton Corbijn's film about Joy Division, was given its premiere - to immediate critical acclaim. The young British actors who play the band members are all unknown names. A star seems to have been born in Sam Riley, who plays Ian Curtis - pulling off, audiences agreed, an uncannily accurate and charismatic portrayal. He had been working in a warehouse in Leeds before being chosen to play Curtis. The only "name" in the film is Samantha Morton, who plays Curtis's wife Deborah.
Newcomer Sam Riley has found himself the centre of attention at the Cannes Film Festival, where his film Control is showing. The 27-year-old, who plays Joy Division star Ian Curtis, is also in a band - as the singer of rock group 10,000 Things, which spent four years with the Polydor record label but, he admits, never "troubled the charts".
A 27-year-old former retail warehouse worker is causing a sensation in Cannes for his first film lead role as the lead singer of iconic Manchester band Joy Division in a low-budget British movie which failed to secure UK public investment. Dutch director Anton Corbijn had to pour his own cash into the film Control to ensure its survival.
A failed rock star who until recently was packing shirts in a warehouse has been hailed as one of Britain’s brightest new acting talents at the Cannes Film Festival. Sam Riley, 27, who admits that his band, Ten Thousand Things, "never troubled" the pop charts, has been lauded for his performance in Control, the British film about the late frontman of seminal 1970s group Joy Division. Critics have described his portrayal of troubled singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour, as "spectacular" and "outstanding".
A British film about the life and death of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, starring a first-time actor, has earned a rapturous reception in Cannes. Unknown Sam Riley said he was "working in a warehouse in Leeds folding shirts" when he was cast to star in Control. Debut film director Anton Corbijn said the newcomer had brought "an innocence and freshness that I was hoping for but never thought I would find". The movie opened the 60th Cannes Film Festival's Director's Fortnight.
Peter Hook, the bassist of Joy Division then New Order, has confirmed on his blog today that it's official: New Order splits. "I suppose it was the interview with clint boon that started it all off hed asked me for a few words on perry farrells satellite party single dogstar so i went on and lo and behold mentioned the New Order split so i suppose because it was me sayin it it was out at last. im relieved really hated carryin on as normal with an awful secret so lets move on shall we?" We at NewOrderOnline.com offers our best wishes to Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris and Phil Cunningham for the future. Expect the Control soundtrack soon, as well as Joy Division remastered CDs, but after that, nothing is planned, we can only one the songs left from the Waiting For The Sirens Call sessions will see the light of day.
New Order have split up, according to bassist Peter Hook. As previously reported the band denied they were splitting earlier this year despite drummer Stephen Morris being quoted as saying: "We should stop for a while." Speaking about his involvement in Perry Farrell's Satellite Party, Peter Hook told Xfm that the band have broken up. He said: "I spoke to Perry, and he asked me to play bass, as he'd heard about New Order splitting up. Well yeah, me and Bernard (Sumner) aren't working together." When asked if the split was permanent, he added: "Bernard went off for a break with Electronic, but that was different. But it's like the boy who cried wolf this time." Listen to the full interview online on XFM.
Anton Corbijn’s film Control will open the 39th Directors’ Fortnight on Thursday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m. Cast: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara Synopsis: The life and death of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the legendary post-punk rock band, Joy Division. Devoured by his demons, torn between his family life, his growing fame and his love for another woman, Curtis committed suicide on May 18, 1980 at the age of 23, on the eve of Joy Division’s first U.S. tour. Without realizing it, Ian Curtis changed the face of rock music, Anton Corbijn, a world-rank photographer, has also directed video clips for U2, Depeche Mode, New Order, Nirvana, Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others. Control is a black and white fictional account of the career of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the legendary rock band Joy Division, which would become New Order after Curtis’s death. Fabrique de Films will release the film in France on September 26, 2007.
Peter Hook is now officially on MySpace at: http://www.myspace.com/peterhookneworder and he is posting blog entries, here is the latest you can read: "just managed to lose all this once so here we go again................ week started a bit oddly sortin out some problems for the control soundtrack but its done now so im lookin forward to control at cannes. as becky said a once in a lifetime opportunity to be in a film at cannes its quite excitin . ive been asked to dj somewhere as well so double whammy!"
New Order bassist Peter Hook is gathering some famous friends to collaborate on his new project, Freebase. The trio -- which comprises Hook, former Smiths bassist Andy Rourke and former Stone Roses/current Primal Scream bassist Mani -- will turn the mic over to some of Manchester, England's best-known frontmen. "We've been working with some great singers. (The Charlatans') Tim Burgess has done a vocal for us. (Oasis') Liam Gallagher, I believe, is doing one , (Stone Roses') Ian Brown and (Primal Scream's) Bobby Gillespie," Hook tells Billboard.com. "We're going to get them up on stage as well. It's nice that Mani and I can call in a few favors. We were going to call it 'Fourbase,' but it didn't have the same ring to it," he laughs. Hook spoke to Billboard after the recent NME Awards in London, where he presented the best British band trophy to Muse. Although the Freebase project is not yet signed to a label, Hook confesses, "It's great to write again. I'm really excited about it." Hook, however, remains coy on prospects of a follow-up to New Order's most recent album, "Waiting for the Siren's Call." "Its possible," he says, "But I'm not too sure the climate is great for at the moment." Hook and former Revenge and Monaco bandmate David Potts will perform March 21 under the guise of "Hooky" and "Pottsy" at Manchester's Hard Rock Cafe. It will be the first time the pair have shared a stage in seven years. Proceeds will benefit the Nordoff-Robbins music therapy charity.
Two new videos were released on Michael Shamberg's website, here are the links to see them: Everything's Gone Green Turn (Napoli) Enjoy! And you can download them and several others at www.kinoteca.net.
Anthony Wilson, the music mogul behind some of Manchester's most successful bands, has been diagnosed with cancer. The Salford-born entrepreneur, who managed New Order, Joy Division and the Happy Mondays, underwent emergency surgery last month to remove a kidney. The 56-year-old, who launched Factory records and the Hacienda nightclub, is due to start a chemotherapy course at Manchester's Christie Hospital. The disease was found during a routine visit to the doctor. Two minutes into his check-up the doctor identified that something was "seriously wrong" with his right lung. After having the lung drained a scan revealed that his right kidney was "completely consumed" by cancer. It was then removed at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and he is now set for two five-day treatments at the Christie. Mr Wilson said: "It was a bit of a surprise to find out I had cancer because there is no family history. "All my family tend to have heart attacks in the middle of the night aged in their 70s, 80s and 90s. "I wasn't too upset when I was told the news. I just think you have to go with it and I see it as another step in life's adventure." 'Madchester' founder Mr Wilson reserved particular praise for the staff who treated him after his diagnosis. "The sheer quality of the care provided to me by the nursing staff and doctors has been fantastic," he said. "It's funny that everyone has a moan about the NHS except for people who actually use it." Mr Wilson, who is a presenter on BBC Radio Manchester, rose to fame after he co-founded Factory Records and the Hacienda nightclub which was famously known as the birthplace of the "Madchester" music phenomenon. The semi-fictional story of both the music label and the historic club was told in the 2002 film, 24 Hour Party People. --- NewOrderOnline would like to wish him the best of luck in the most important fight of his life. Join our discussion on the topic to express your good wishes to Anthony, we will try to submit them to the proper people.
Mancunian songsmith David Potts aka ‘Pottsy’ is back with his first solo album, a highly energetic, hits-packed offering ‘Coming Up For Air’ in January 2007. Those who remember Pottsy from Monaco and RAM are about to have their patience rewarded. This album has been a journey which has mirrored Pottsy’s own. “I had to put some distance personally and musically between Monaco and myself.” says Potts, “I’m proud of what we achieved but it’s been a mixed blessing. Reactions to the music now make me realise that I’m out of that shadow for good. ‘Coming Up For Air’ is about just that, being able to breathe again”. This is the theme of an album which charts a very personal fight to be recognised as an individual talent. So has he arrived? “It’s made me connect with the music I love and want to make” says Pottsy. “Setting up my own label was an important step, a statement I suppose that I no longer needed a mainstream music business to get out there.” Each track stands proud and shows off Pottsy’s diverse influences from The Who to The Kinks, and The Beatles to The Jam. Essentially ‘Coming Up for Air’ demonstrates Potts’ abilities as a first class songwriter in a time when they are few and far between. You can buy the album online: Amazon (UK) Amazon (USA)
The Killers have covered the 1979 Joy Division song “Shadowplay” for the soundtrack to the forthcoming biopic, “Control”, about the life of the band's front man Ian Curtis. Based on the biography, “Touching From A Distance”, by Curtis' widow Deborah, the film has been directed by renowned photographer and music-video maker Anton Corbijn. Deborah Curtis has also co-produced “Control”, her character in the film is portrayed by Samantha Morton. As previously reported, New Order have recorded the incidental music for the movie, and are also thought to be re-recording a number of Joy Division tracks. The biopic is set for a September 2007 releas
NewOrderOnline has now its own MySpace profile, join us and put us as your friend, this will hopefuly increase NOOL's exposure and it will be a nice addition to this website. http://www.myspace.com/neworderonline Meanwhile, enjoy the 4 songs from Community 2 we have put online on that site and feel free to comment them.
RUMOURS of Mancunian pop legends New Order's demise may be somewhat premature, I am reliably informed. While numerous websites have been screaming out loud that the band has decided to call it a day I have it on good authority that the band are actually about to embark on one of their busiest years for many a moon. "It's the first I've heard of it," drummer Stephen Morris declares when I asked him about the split stories. "We've got an album to finish and a movie coming out this year."
NEW Order's Peter Hook is the first artist confirmed for the Versus Cancer charity gig. He played at last year's show alongside Doves, Badly Drawn Boy and Elbow. More of the line-up for the March 30 show will be revealed over the next week before tickets go on sale on Friday. Ex-Smiths' bassist Andy Rourke was inspired to arrange last year's gig after his manager's sister, Nina Rehman, was diagnosed with bowel cancer in October 2004. She lost her battle with the disease in August and it's hoped this year's gig - being organised in her name - will raise £1m. Finale Peter, known as Hooky, said: "I remember being on stage for the finale last year, singing a Happy Monday's track with an array of top artists. You wouldn't see that anywhere else and I couldn't help but smile at how amazing it was." Money raised last year helped to fund clinical trials at the Christie Hospital, in Withington, and a Manchester-based awareness campaign highlighting the importance of checking for signs of the disease.
SOME of the north west's biggest bands are preparing for a charity gig to raise £1m to fight cancer. The line-up for the second Versus Cancer show is a closely guarded secret, but organisers promise it will match the standard of last year's set, which included New Order, Doves, Badly Drawn Boy and Elbow. The M.E.N. will be revealing some of the acts taking part over the next fortnight. Advertisement your story continues below Ex-Smiths' bassist Andy Rourke was inspired to arrange it in aid of Manchester's famous cancer hospital, The Christie, after two close friends were diagnosed with the disease. The highlight of last year's show was his performance with former bandmate Johnny Marr for the first time in almost 20 years. Andy was overwhelmed by the support he received from fellow musicians and the response from the public.
According to a german site, the movie about Ian Curtis, Control, directed by world-famous photographer Anton Corbijn will be in Berlin on Feburary 2007 at the Berlinale movie festival, and the movie will be in theatre in April. Original german text: The Ian Curtis Movie ist Anton Corbijns jüngstes Projekt und in gewissem Sinn ein Kulminationspunkt seines bisherigen Schaffens. Corbijn, als Photograph der Pop- und Musikszene weltberühmt, dreht nach mehr als 75 Videoclips zur Zeit seinen ersten abendfüllenden und selbstproduzierten Film. Control, der im Februar 2007 bei der Berlinale uraufgeführt wird und ab April in die Kinos kommt, handelt von Ian Curtis (1956-1980), dem Leadsänger, Gitarristen und Songwriter der legendären Rock Band Joy Division. Mit seinen Songs, die von Depression, Gewalt und Entfremdung erzählen, seiner sinister dunklen Stimme und seinen Bühnenauftritten - tänzerischen Einlagen, die den epileptischen Anfällen des tatsächlich Kranken sehr nahekamen - wurde Curtis in den drei Jahren, die Joy Division existierte (1977-1980), zum Helden der Post Punk-Ära. Sein Selbstmord mit 23 Jahren am Tag, bevor die Band zu ihrer ersten Amerika-Tournee aufbrechen sollte, bestätigte noch den Mythos vom jung sterbenden Rockstar. Closer to "Control" ist das Buch zum Film, Anton Corbijns visuelles Tagebuch vor, während und nach den eigentlichen Dreharbeiten. Handschriftliche Notizen, Zeichnungen und jede Menge Photographien, darunter Stills, die er selbst mit einer 35mm-Kamera vom making of des eigenen Films aufnahm, dokumentieren den kreativen Entstehungsprozeß von Corbijns Regiedebut, auf dessen Ergebnis man gespannt sein darf.
Bassist Peter Hook confirmed what -until saturday- his partner Stephen Morris told Página/12 before the Personal Fest show. They say nowadays they look as the "old guys of the neighbourhood”. “This might be our last concert ever.” Bassist Peter Hook talks and the show he mentions is the one New Order did last saturday night in Buenos Aires closing Personal Fest´s main stage. The interview in which Hook confirmed their split -at least temporary- to Página/12 it was given right before the band´s gig, in one of the comfortable dressing rooms in club Ciudad de Buenos Aires, where the festival took place. But before talking to the bassist it was drummer Stephen Morris who throwed the first stone when we reminded him that in 2007 it would be the 30th anniversary of the band, first as Joy Division and then -after Ian Curtis suicide in March 18th 1980- as main characters of the crossover between dance and new wave New Order. The drummer said they didn´t think about anything special for the anniversary: "We´re not very good in making plans. The good thing about when we started in Factory (their first label, which is shown in the 24Hour Party People movie) was that you didn´t have to plan what you were going to do. You could write a song and say "this could be a good single" and then release it two weeks later. You can´t do that anymore, you have to write and record an album... But the truth is that we´re not good planning anything, so i couldn´t say what are we going to do do next year".
Exclusively available in advance at Blue Saturday/NewOrderOnline Day, the new EP from David Potts will now be available for sale on Nov 13, so here is the press release: The new EP is out today Nov 13th featuring 4 songs, 'I'm The Greatest' from the fothcoming album 'Coming Up For Air'. New song 'Stop and Wonder' and new versions of 'Different Planet' and 'For Your Love'. Buy now through Amazon UK Amazon.com HMV and Piccadilly Records Visit http://www.myspace.com/davidpottsmusic to hear online and see up and coming news and gigs.
It must be the longest commercial break in history. After 19 years off the air, the iconic music show The Tube is back. The new incarnation captures all of the anarchic innovation of the original television show, which ran for five seasons between 1982 and 1987, but it is not on TV - it is a radio show to be streamed on the internet at channel4radio.com. Bands on the first show, which goes online on November 3, include New Order, Camera Obscura, Clinic and Eskimo, playing live in front of an audience at Blueprint Studios in Manchester. The producers, north-west-based independent UK1FM, have pulled off something of a coup in persuading Freebass, the collective name for Hooky, Mani and Andy Rourke of New Order, Primal Scream and the Smiths, respectively, to compose the show's signature tune, which, just to complete the name-dropping, has been remixed by the Utah Saints. Such is the affection for The Tube that Michael Stipe of REM also pops up in a phone interview with Hacienda and Factory Records guru Tony Wilson.
Community 2 : A NewOrderOnline Tribute has been sent to production today. As expected, the album should be available in the shop on October 31st, you are more than welcomed to pre-order your copy right now in our NewOrderOnline Shop. Be also present at the ULU in London on October 28th where you will be able to buy a copy directly a few days before the release date. Remember that you need to buy Community 2 in our online shop to receive the bonus cd A Retroforward Compilation, featuring the original material from the bands of Community 1 and 2.
Yes guys, tickets are now on sale from me for the NOOL Day/Event, now entitled "Blue Saturday" (don't ask.....!). Saturday 28th October at ULU, Malet Street, London from 7.30pm Tickets are £10 each. There is also a £1.50 postage/paypal fee per order (so if you buy one ticket you pay £11.50, if you buy 4 tickets you pay £41.50). I will post the tickets out first class as soon as payment is received. Paypal link - send your payment plus full address details to tim@neworderonline.com. I will confirm receipt of your order by return e-mail. A quick reminder of what you are getting: Peter Hook DJ set Monty DJ set Re: Order live Digital live Flight live very special guests Not bad for a tenner, which is going to Cancer Research. Peter Hook's fee is going to the NSPCC as per his request. EDIT - I've had to put the postage/paypal fee up to £1.50 as fookin' paypal are taking more than I thought they would. I'll cop the extra on the first few orders placed, no probs. Tickets will be sent out tomorrow.
Long before its black velvet and pale skin fashions crept into American malls, Goth music represented an underground movement led by fans who favored songs that tapped into the antisocial energy of punk but celebrated dark introspection, tempestuous atmospherics and visual panache. Rhino brings together influential bands that rarely or never participate in Gothic music compilations to create a fascinating cross-section of all matters pertaining to Goth with A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box. This four-disc boxed set-three CDs and one DVD-will be available September 19.
Trawl certain US-based websites, and you will routinely see Electronic described as "one of England's supergroups". But while the duo of former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and New Order frontman Bernard Sumner would collaborate with The Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant, among others, it was nothing so crass or premeditated. Talk with Sumner and Marr today, and you are reminded that Electronic, formed in Manchester in 1987, was a happenstance, feel-good, deliberately on-off project that let them recuperate from the less savoury aspects of band politics chez New Order and The Smiths.
New Order bassist PETER HOOK is working on a book chronicling the decadent heyday of iconic Manchester, Northern England, venue The Hacienda. The club was run by the BLUE MONDAY stars alongside Factory Records pop mogul TONY WILSON - and throughout the 1980s it became a notorious mecca for music fans, as portrayed in 2002 movie 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE. Hook, whose upcoming work is provisionally titled HOW NOT TO RUN A CLUB, says, "I realised I'd bored my friends for years with tales from The Hacienda so now I thought I'd bore the general public with it. "But once I started to get into the writing I realised what a huge endeavour it was, and that I was going to have to work on it properly to do it justice. "To us it's a tale of woe, but The Hacienda did change the world of clubbing. Even though it took me to the edge and it took Factory Records to the edge. The stories are legion and legendary."
Now is your chance to pre-order Community 2: A NewOrderOnline Tribute which will be available at the end of October or beginning of November. By doing so, you will receive bonus material, the compilation A Retrofoward Compilation containing exclusive material from the artists of Community, and a promo DVD-R containing bonus material, extra videos (content is not set yet, read our forums for details). This offer is only for pre-sales, and this offer will expire on September 11th 2006. (This has been extended due to popular request). You can start pre-ordering Community 2 at the following link: NewOrderOnline Shop > Community 2
Rhino Spotlights All Three Albums from the Supergroup Featuring New Order's Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr of The Smiths With a Collection of Favorites and Hard-To-Find Tracks Available September 19 from Rhino Records There is no CD/DVD edition for the USA, only a CD edition.
The final tracklisting of the album has just been revealed, you can exclusively learn about it by listening to NewOrderOnline Radio's podcast by subscription or by clicking the following link: NewOrderOnlineRadio_C2_Final.mp3 You will learn about the 17 tracks and video that will be featured on the CD, winners of the cover competition, remix competition and sleeve competition and the producers' picks and New Order's picks. Pre-sales for the album should start next monday, stay tuned for more details, winners of the giveaway competitions will be known later this week, we will also publish the information about the CD later this week. Thank you to WenOrder & Almanso, as well as all the competitors that made this album possible, we are planning to ship at beginning of November, with an official launch in NewOrderOnline Day in London on October 28, more details soon!
Peter Hook is playing a very special dj set alongside fellow legends Graeme Park and Bez(!) recreating the proper acid house vibe on the Hacienda Soundsystem at Get Loaded in the Park. This Sunday the 27th- it will all be 'going off' on Clapham Common- so there really is only one way to spend you're Bank Holiday- by Getting Loaded.... Get Loaded in the Park is literally days away now and on the verge of selling out for the 3rd year running, so we felt “Guide to Getting Loaded on Clapham Common” may be useful for anyone heading down there.
A member have submitted footage of an interview Anton Corbijn done on dutch TV this week. For your own pleasure, he included english subtitles and for your convenience, we have uploaded it on youtube, so you can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNqeEtnX8ic
Ladies and gentlemen, it's the FINAL WEEK of the Community 2 competition! Over the next week you are welcomed to vote for your favorite sleeve and favorite remix of the competition. The sleeve competition is between finalists Steven Hankinson and Nicolas LeBlanc, they are the finalists among all the sleeves received for this competition, and to finish this in beauty, they were tied in first place. To vote for your favorite sleeve, click here. And for our remix competition, it will be a battle between the two Hilberg Brothers from Finland as Atomic Boy will face DJ Ionic in the final of the remix competition. Click here to vote for your favorite remix. We would like to congratulate François-Marc Loze, from France, who won the competition for Best Video and congratulation Jonathan McCarthy from Ireland to be a close second. Good job guys. The final results as well as the producers' picks and the picks done by New Order will be revealed on August 22nd 2006, pre-sales for Community 2 should also open on that day, so please stay tuned and follow us starting next week when we'll reveal the winners from all the people who have voted in Community for t-shirts, cds and other giveaways we had through the whole competition. Remember, you need to vote again as votes are not automatically repeated each week, and it's a close race so any vote can make a difference.
THE filming of Control – the movie of Joy Division’s tragic frontman Ian Curtis – has left his former band mates with some mixed emotions. After Ian’s suicide in 1980, aged just 23, Joy Division famously went on to become New Order – and the band have given their full backing to the movie of Ian’s life currently being made by renowned music director Anton Corbijn. But when cast and crew invited the band to come and watch the filming, on location in Ian’s hometown of Macclesfield, it left them in a bit of a dilemma.
ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT. Once again, our competitions are so close that we have a final round for the video competition and a 3rd (and possible final) round for the sleeve competition. Once again, you need to pick your favorite of the lot. Remember that you have to register your vote, as we don't include votes from prior rounds. The polls will close on Tuesday April 15 at 11:59 AM (Easter Daylight Time, GMT-5). Click here to vote for your favorite VIDEO. Click here to vote for your favorite SLEEVE. Click here to vote for your favorite REMIX. The remix competition is to determine the popular winner, the remix on the album is selected by Mr David Potts himself.
The case that will represent Joy Division is now complete, according to the Internet Movie Database, the case will be the following: Sam Riley as Ian Curtis James Pearson as Bernard Sumner Joe Anderson as Peter Hook Harry Treadaway as Stephen Morris Cast also include Oscar nominee Samantha Morton and Alexandra Maria Lara.
You have picked the finalists, we're going on until we have reached 50%+1. 8 various designs and 3 videos are still in competition to be featured on the Community 2 Tribute Album that will be released this fall. Please register your vote, it is very important that you do so. The winning remix is known from the producers since it was selected by David Potts himself, we're doing a second round of voting to pick the popular winner, although it doesn't impact the final decision. Click here to vote for your favorite sleeve Click here to vote for your favorite video Click here to vote for your favorite remix And visit http://community.neworderonline.com for all your information needed, and read David Potts' comments on his favorite videos of the competition. The polls are closing on August 7th at 23:59 PDT (GMT-8). Good luck to all contestants! Please watch the latest episode of NewOrderOnline Radion by clicking here to watch all sleeves properly.
There is going to be a New Order/JD night at Funhaus in Toronto this Saturday July 29th. It's located at 526 Queen St. W. Here is the link: www.djlazarus.com
Electronic the band formed by The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and New Order singer Bernard Sumner are set to release a new album. 'Get The Message - The Best Of Electronic' is to be released on September 18. The album includes the single mixes of 'Get The Message' and 'Disappointed'. The band released three albums between 1989 and 1999, the most successful of which was their self titled debut from 1991. Click here to pre-order it from Amazon (UK)
It's the last week to vote for your favorite Remix, Video and Sleeve for the Community 2 - A Tribute to New Order and Joy Division album. We now have an alternate way to view the videos for those who were unable to view them, Click here to visit Spotnick's Blog and have access to our 5 videos. To vote, you must be a member of NewOrderOnline and visit the special Community 2 Website at http://community.neworderonline.com. The deadline to register your vote is July 31st, do not miss that opportunity! For videos and sleeves, if no contestant get 50%+1 of the votes, we will do another round, for the remix, the ultimate winner will be selected by Mr David Potts himself.
According to Stylus Magazine, Atmosphere, directed by Anton Corbijn in 1988, is ranked third best video of all time. Anton Corbijn is currently directing a movie on the story of Ian Curtis to be released next year and titled Control. True Faith, by New Order, is ranked #76.
A 3rd video for the postponed single Turn from New Order's last opus Waiting For The Sirens' Call is now available on Michael Shamberg's website http://www.kinoteca.net The video was directed by Jane Nisselson at Virtual Beauty. For convenience, we have uploaded it on Google Video, Click Here to see it.
DJ Greg Haus invites you to a night of music by Joy Division and New Order + various side projects & collaborations (Electronic, Revenge, The Other Two, Monaco, Chemical Brothers, 808 State, etc) 10pm to 4 am @ NEO, 2350 N Clark St., Chicago. Remember, this is where the NewOrderOnline official after show was in May 2005.
Sure to excite (or enrage) many a disaffected, morose fan, filming for Control, the long-awaited movie about Joy Division's late frontman, Ian Curtis, began this week. Directed by veteran music video director and photographer Anton Corbijn, the film focuses on the tumultuous last years of Curtis' life before he committed suicide in 1980, at the age of 23 and shortly before the band was to depart for its first American tour.
Saturday, July 15 9pm to 3am - NO COVER New Order and Joy Division featured all night- taking requests. Will also spin related bands & related post punk. The Mark Bar 1025 Manhattan Ave bet. Green & Freeman Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY G train to Greenpoint Ave or B61 Bus to Huron http://www.themarkbar.com 718-349-2340
It's time for all members of NewOrderOnline to vote for their favorite artwork for the upcoming Community 2: A NewOrderOnline Tribute album which will be released next fall. You have 18 designs to choose from from several artists around the world, each submitted a full artwork and not only a front sleeve, you are welcomed to check it in full and leave a comment on the artist profile page. This is a direct link to the vote page We also remind you that the Remix and Video competition for David Potts' cover of The Village are still going on. All votes are closing on July 31st and if needed a second round will be launched.
According to website CD-WOW, The Best of Electronic will be released on Monday September 18 and will be available on two format: CD & CD/DVD. The tracklisting was also revealed.
Peter Hook is set to DJ at the Earthcore Festivals, and he is also set to join the bill at ParkLife. So he will visit all the Earthcore dates on November 24 to 26 and December 1 to 3 and ParkLife on September 23, 30 and October 1 and 2. Visiting Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Queensland and Victoria.
You can now vote for the remix and video competitions of David Potts' cover of The Village, winners will be included in the upcoming tribute album Community 2 to be released this fall. Do your selection among the 21 remixes and 5 videos today! And please, comment the remixes and video, it's very appreciated by the artists. http://community.neworderonline.com Direct link for Remix Competition Direct link for Video Competition Polls will close on July 31st for the first round. Winner must have 50%+1 to win, except the video where finalists will be submitted to David Potts who will pick the winner.
David Bowie, Roxy Music and Iggy Pop are among the acts confirmed to join New Order on the soundtrack to the new film about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, 'Control'.
New Order have announced a new UK tour for this autumn. The Manchester legends will head out for a series of big shows this October. They play: Newcastle Academy (October 11) Blackpool Empress Ballroom (16) Glasgow Academy (18) Glasgow Academy (19) London Wembley Arena (27) Wolverhampton Civic Hall (29) Tickets for the gigs go on sale at 9am on on May 26
It is our great pleasure to announce the results of the Community 2 competition that ended on May 21st 2006. The top 10 artists are sure to be on the album. O'ou - Dream Attack (Finland) Glasnost - Turn (Greece/Argentina) C Bentley - ICB (USA) Tomihira - Mr Disco (USA) Yokohama Crepuscule - Run (Japan) Almanso - New Dawn Fades (Argentina) Popvert - Subculture (USA) kREMLIN - Lonesome Tonight (UK) Tin God - Your Silent Face (Brazil) Sunrise Before Dawn - Ruined in a Day (USA) Congratulations to all winners. As for the other artists, the producers' picks will be announced at a later date (probably on July 1st with the winners of the remix, video and sleeve competition), so stay tuned. Click here to listen to the archived episode of NewOrderOnline Radio that revealed the results, this show also features David Potts' cover of The Village.
It's the final week to vote for your 20 favorite submissions in our New Order and Joy Division cover competition Community 2, you can still listen to the 68 finalists. The 10 most voted tracks will be announced on May 20 and will be featured on the Community 2 album that will be released later this year, along with the cover from our guest artist David Potts (ex member of Monaco with New Order's bassist Peter Hook) The Village, the winning remix and video of that track. It's up to YOU, the members of NewOrderOnline to decide who goes on the album, and to comment each entry in the profile pages of the artists on the Community 2 website. You can listen to all songs on that website, and also listen to the official NewOrderOnline Radio Community 2 Episodes. We also created a sampler including 30 seconds clip of each song to help you in your task: Community 2 Final Round Sampler MP3 Right click and use "save target as" to save this mp3 to your hard drive. Here are the important links: Official Community 2 Website Click here to listen to all tracks and vote Click here to learn how to remix David Potts' cover of The Village Click here to learn how to shoot a video for David Potts' cover of The Village Click here to learn how to design the artwork for the Community 2 album Click here to listen to NewOrderOnline Radio shows about Community 2 Community 2 Forum We remind you that the deadline to vote has changed and is now May 20th at 13:00 PDT (GMT-8), the artists participating in the competition are counting on you to leave a comment about their version on their profile pages.
Former Jane's Addiction/Porno For Pyros frontman Perry Farrell is finishing up work on the debut album from his new group, Satellite Party, which also features ex-Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt. Farrell is eyeing a late summer release for the self-titled effort, which boasts guest appearances from Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and guitarist John Frusciante (on the track "Hard Life), Black Eyed Peas vocalist Fergie, New Order bassist Peter Hook and Farrell's wife, Etty.
The exclusive NewOrderOnline.com t-shirts pre-sale will close on April 30th and these 2 exclusive t-shirts won't be available afterwards as it's a one time deal only. Remember that buy buying this t-shirt, you are doing a donation to this website and helping to keep it alive. Be ready for the summer gigs, and support this website! Visit the NewOrderOnline Shop to pre-order your t-shirt today!
The final round is going on for the Community 2 New Order & Joy Division Cover Competition, you can right now listen to the 68 finalists on the official website and now listen to more than 9 radio shows featuring the cover tracks and original songs from the artists as well as interviews. You can pick up to 20 songs among the 68 finalists, the top 10 tracks will be featured on the upcoming CD as well as the cover done by David Potts of The Village, the winning remix and video of that track and the producers' selections. Here are the important links: Official Community 2 Website Click here to listen to all tracks and vote Click here to learn how to remix David Potts' cover of The Village Click here to learn how to shoot a video for David Potts' cover of The Village Click here to learn how to design the artwork for the Community 2 album Click here to listen to NewOrderOnline Radio shows about Community 2 Community 2 Forum We remind you that the deadline to vote is May 19th at 23:59 PDT (GMT-8), the artists participating in the competition are counting on you to leave a comment about their version on their profile pages.
In our special serie of podcasts before the final round for Community 2, we have our second show dedicated to UK tribute bands. Our first today is about Digital, the Joy Division and New Order tribute band. You can listen to the radio show they recorded for us by subscribing to the PodCast (see how on the NewOrderOnline Radio Page) or do a direct download We hope you enjoy this, we hope to make more of these in the future. We would also like to remind you that the final round podcasts have started today, we hope you will enjoy them.
68 songs are now available for your listening pleasure. Your mission? Pick 20 of those you like. The final top 10 will make it to the Community 2 CD and 3 will be selected as producers' picks. Visit the Community 2 website at http://community.neworderonline.com or go directly to the final round page. Remember to listen to our daily podcast on NewOrderOnline Radio. You need to be registered to vote, and all people voting will enter automatically our big giveaway competition were we will give t-shirts, CDs, DVDs and more. 1 vote is one chance to win! Come over and participate, and of course, comment those song on the artist's profile pages.
In our special serie of podcasts before the final round for Community 2, we have our first show dedicated to UK tribute bands. Our first today is about Re:Order, the New Order tribute band. You can listen to the radio show they recorded for us by subscribing to the PodCast (see how on the NewOrderOnline Radio Page) or do a direct download We hope you enjoy this, we hope to make more of these in the future. We would also like to remind you that the face-off podcasts will be removed tonight, so it's the last day to listen to them.
New Order will participate in the Summer Pops event in Liverpool (UK) on July 8th. It's the first time New Order goes back to Liverpool since their secret gig warm-up in 2001. The show is confirmed for Saturday July 8th. Tickets will go on sale at 9am on Friday 21st April.
Just before the Community 2 Final Round begins on April 15th where you will be able to vote for your 20 favorite songs among our 68 finalists, we are presenting you special editions of NewOrderOnline Radio, our episode tonight is about the french tribute album Revolving Worlds which was released in 2005 and which features 4 artists from this website. You can listen to this show by subscribing to our PodCast RSS Feed or by a direct download. We remind you that this tribute is available in the NewOrderOnline Shop if you enjoy it and feel like supporting the Popswirl initiative. Stay tuned for more radio episodes all day up to the end of the final round on May 20th where a live show will announce the winners of the Community 2 competition.
According to spanish members and the official website of the festival, New Order has been confirmed for Summercase Festival in Madrid and Barcelona on July 14 and 15.
Channel 4 in the UK will be broadcasting the New York City Hammerstein Ballroom concert from New Order done on May 2005. It will be broadcasted om 4 Music at 1:55am - 3:25am.
New Order has been confirmed for Ejekt Festival 2006 in Athens, Greece on Saturday June 3, 2006. It was confirmed to us on April 3rd by New Order's touring agent. Other bands listed are Hooverphonic, Radio 4, Miss Kittin, James Lavelle, Vitalic and Phil Kieran.
Here's a chance to bid for the actual 12 string guitar used on New Order's Technique and by myself on Monaco's Music For Pleasure album. The guitar is not in mint condition. It looks great but like most old 12 strings, because of the string tension the neck and body has bowed slightly. There's a few scratches but it still plays and sounds lovely. You can hear 'I've got a feeling' or 'Run' as soon as the note's struck. So buy yourself a fairly usable guitar and great piece of musical history. It's up on Ebay now... Click on... eBay link for this item And... Here's a chance to bid for a near mint condition 3 channel 30th Anniversary Marshall Combo. Great clean, overdrive or dirty (very) loud sounds. Used (by myself David Potts and Peter Hook) on Monaco's albums. Not gigged. All new valves and handbook. Happy bidding. Click on... eBay link for this item For more details go to... http://www.myspace.com/david_potts http://www.david-potts.com
This week will be the end of the face-off round for the Community 2 competition as we go on with the face-off for Isolation, Shadowplay, Ruined In A Day and New Dawn Fades. Remember, each time you vote, you earn a Community Point, each Community Point gives you a chance to win a prize each monday of the week, our first prize will be drawn today and is a free t-shirt from the shop. Listen to the podcast to check if you are a winner, the name of the winner will be announced on the Shadowplay show.
Please take your time to vote for the 3 polls finishing tonight in the Community 2 competition. Our face-off are for Regret, Round & Round and Your Silent Face, 3 of the most interesting AND close polls we had so far in this competition. Also begining tonight will be the poll for Isolation, then the final face-off will be featuring Shadowplay, Ruined In A Day and New Dawn Fades. After this Community 2 will be moving to the final round. Our video competition is always opened for people willing to shoot a video for David Potts' cover of The Village, the remix competition will be starting monday as well, so stay tuned. http://community.neworderonline.com is the place to go!
New Order has been confirmed for the Electric Picnin Festival in Ireland for September. Reports show they will be live on Sunday September 3rd. Stradbally Hall Estate is located in the centre of Stradbally, Co. Laois. Stradbally is about 10 minutes outside Portlaoise on the N80.
Today we are starting the Community 2 Video Competition, this is your unique chance to shoot a video for the cover done by David Potts (ex-Monaco singer/guitarist) of New Order's song The Village You can check the rules page by clicking on the following link. The deadline to register (and submit your video) is May 15th, then a vote will be held to determine 2 finalists that will move into the final round. So dust off your video camera and do your part! The winner will be included on the upcoming CD Community 2 :thumb:
We did a schedule for the face-off for Community 2, which should be one per day until the end of the month, and that should last until we have a clear winner for each song. Here is the schedule: Friday March 3 - Paradise Saturday March 4 - As It Is When It Was Sunday March 5 - Doubts Even Here Monday March 6 - Run Tuesday March 7 - Dream Attack Wednesday March 8 - Turn Thursday March 9 - Atmosphere Friday March 10 - Blue Monday Saturday March 11 - Regret Sunday March 12 - Your Silent Face Monday March 13 - Subculture Tuesday March 14 - Disorder Wednesday March 15 - Love Will Tear Us Apart Thursday March 16 - Twenty Four Hours Friday March 17 - She's Lost Control Saturday March 18 - 1963 Sunday March 19 - Round and Round Monday March 20 - Lonesome Tonight Tuesday March 21 - No Love Lost Wednesday March 22 - Chosen Time Thursday March 23 - Decades Friday March 24 - Confusion Saturday March 25 - Every Little Counts Sunday March 26 - Isolation Monday March 27 - Shadowplay Tuesday March 28 - Ruined In A Day Wednesday March 29 - New Dawn Fades
New Order's 1990 hit World in Motion has been named the best World Cup song by football fans. World in Motion, which was in the charts as England reached the semi-finals at Italia '90, came top of a Littlewoods Pools poll of 1,500 fans.
The 3rd face-off for Community has been posted tonight, it features Movement's Doubt Even Here. Don't forget to vote at http://community.neworderonline.com To enhance your experience, we suggest you listen to the NewOrderOnline Radio podcasts.
You can now decided which version of Paradise and which version of As It Is When It Was will participate in the final round of voting for Community 2. Visit the website http://community.neworderonline.com and follow the proper instructions.
Believe it or not, it's 104 songs that were received for the Community competition, this is success beyond our most optimistic thoughts. So in the next few days, there will be 27 face-offs, you, the members of NewOrderOnline, will be asked to find the winner between the multiple selection for the same song, as only one can go to the final round. The face-off round should start today, check the forums and the Community 2 website at http://community.neworderonline.com for more details. Since a few people used the privilege we gave them, an extra 15 days to polish their submission, face-off will be progressive and the last ones will be done starting March 16, so this means the final round should start in April. Stay tuned! And thanks again for this huge success!
As of now we received 69 songs from original artists, we are expecting more today, so we went over the amount of tracks submitted for the first edition of the Community competition. Deadline is tomorrow, February 28th at 23:59 PST. Send us your cover of a New Order or Joy Division song (please read our rules before) and have your own song published on CD. The voting process should start in early March with the face-off rounds, where people who submitted the same track will face each other to determine the winner for the specific song, as only one entry per song is allowed in the final round. Your vote will be important then! Check our website and meet the artists! http://community.neworderonline.com
Sam Riley, who sings with Yorkshire rock group 10,000 Things, will take the part of Ian Curtis, the troubled lead singer with iconic Manchester band Joy Division who committed suicide in 1980, in a forthcoming biopic. It will be his first major acting role. The film, provisionally titled Control, will co-star Oscar-nominated Samantha Morton as Curtis's wife, Deborah. Filming begins on location in Manchester later this year. Mr Riley, 25, of Woodhouse, was told he had the role on his birthday.
Arguably one of the reasons we loose so much of our weekends to the evening hours, The Hacienda will launch an album aiming to catch those magic moments. Originally conceived, founded and financed in 1980 by Factory Records and New Order through a deal steered by Rob Gretton, the manager of the by then disbanded Joy Division, The Haçienda first opened its doors on May 21st 1982 sporting a Factory Records catalogue number of Fac 51, a pioneering interior designed by architect Ben Kelly and featured Bernard Manning as the opening night act. From that day forth until 1997 The Hacienda created an environment for electronic music expression that helped shaped UK club culture. ‘The Hacienda Classics’ is delivered by Peter Hook, bassist from New Order, who shared a founding hand in The Haçienda and remembers the good old days: “The Haçienda was built on blood, sweat and tears… I think it’s safe to say we made every mistake in the book, that said it was the most magical time and I wouldn’t change any of it. I have so many special memories from those days, the way the DJ’s would select the tunes especially for the club, I remember Sasha’s first set, the atmosphere was electric and he played the best set of his life, the music was perfect as was the crowd, when we left you just knew you’d been a spectator of something very special indeed’ To mirror The Haçienda’s genre bending music policy as well as chart a selection of the tracks that created The Haçienda and became anthems for the foundations of UK, even global clubbing as we know it, ‘Hooky’ has compiled three CD’s of definitive Haçienda classics bringing together elements of rare groove, soul hip hop, hip house, house and indie-dance painting a true picture of the highest moments of The Haçienda. Highlights and Hacienda moments from the album include New Order ‘Confusion’, Happy Mondays ‘Step On’, Orbital ‘Belfast’, Candi Staton ‘You Got The Love’, Doug Lazy ‘Let It Roll’, Inner City ‘Good Life’, Guy Called Gerald ‘Voodoo Ray’ and more.
Over 35 submissions so far, awaiting another 20, be part of the Community yourself! Send us your cover of a New Order or Joy Division song (please read our rules before) and have your own song published on CD. The voting process should start in early March with the face-off rounds, where people who submitted the same track will face each other to determine the winner for the specific song, as only one entry per song is allowed in the final round. Your vote will be important then! Check our website and meet the artists! http://community.neworderonline.com
18 tracks have been submitted so far for our Community 2 Cover Competition for the upcoming New Order / Joy Division tribute album. It's still time to submit your track, we are expecting a lot of tracks in the upcoming days as the deadline (February 28) is at the corner. After then, it's to all the members of NewOrderOnline (registered members) to vote for the top 10 tracks that will be on the album. So hurry up, and don't forget to visit the website for the competition where you'll find the registered tracks, and don't forget our plan b clause allowing you to enter a 2nd song (if it has not been submitted by anybody else) in case your song is eliminated in a face-off (details on the website). http://community.neworderonline.com
THE new series of Cracker starring Robbie Coltrane as police psychologist Fitz is sure to be must-see TV, but I hear members of Manchester band New Order will be getting an earlier viewing than most. For drummer Stephen Morris and his wife, keyboard and guitar player Gillian, are writing the soundtrack for the Manchester-set series. "I was a fan when Cracker was last on TV so it's great to be doing the music for the new series," Stephen says. "The writer Jimmy McGovern asked us to do it. It also means we'll be two of the first people to see it." The husband and wife team, who live in Cheshire, also got their radio DJ debut last month on 96.2 The Revolution - and have been asked back to do more shows in future. "It was a bit nerve-wracking but a lot of fun," Stephen says.
You have only 4 weeks left (until February 28th) to submit a song for the Community 2 competition. The next phases of the global competition, the sleeve design competition, the remix competition and the video competition will kick in shortly, stay tuned if to know about the rules for these competitions soon. Community 2 is the 2nd edition of a New Order & Joy Division tribute album done by members of NewOrderOnline, an album for fan, by fans. Parts of the profits with go to New Order's charity, other part will pay the hosting bills for this website, so it's a real Community project. Special guest on this album is David Potts, member of RAM and ex-member of Monaco with Peter Hook of New Order, this cover of The Village will be used for the remix and video competition. To learn all details about Community 2, visit the special website done for it and you can also right now see the profiles of the artists that have already submitted their cover. http://community.neworderonline.com
New Order played a set entirely of Joy Division songs. Bass player Peter Hook told the adoring masses that it was, "time to tear the fuckin' house down". Set highlights included 'Transmission', 'Warsaw' and 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. The setlist was: Transmission She's Lost Control Shadowplay Atmosphere Twenty Four Hours Warsaw Love Will Tear Us Apart Ceremony
The BBC plans to mark the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ this Easter with an hour-long live procession through the streets of Manchester featuring pop stars from The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays and featuring songs by The Smiths and New Order. In the programme, called Manchester Passion, a character representing Jesus will sing the legendary Joy Division anthem Love Will Tear Us Apart before dueting his arch-betrayer Judas on the New Order hit Blue Monday, according to senior church sources involved in the production.
"I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs," says Peter Hook. "It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blasé about it. I can only apologize." Holding DJs in disregard is one thing. But such an attitude coming from a man who's partly responsible for the best-selling twelve-inch single of all time? It's downright ironic. And yet New Order's "Blue Monday," the 1983 slab of wax that remains a surefire floor-filler at any club in the world, counts Hook as a creator. As the bassist of New Order and, before that, the majestically doomed Joy Division, he's considered an architect of modern electronic music. And deservedly so: In the late '70s, Joy Division helped pioneer the fusion of punk force and dance beats that continues to inspire legit artists and copycats alike. After the suicide of singer Ian Curtis in 1980 -- dramatized in Control, a major motion picture directed by renowned rock photographer Anton Corbijn -- the survivors of Joy Division formed New Order. Splicing genres as varied as house, electro and rapturous indie rock, the band seeded the soil from which every Interpol and Franz Ferdinand has sprouted. Not that Hook won't admit to a bit of affectionate appropriation himself.
The last time bass guitarist Peter Hook performed in King County, his pioneering rock band New Order headlined at Seattle's Paramount Theatre. The year was 1989. At the time, Hook's group was promoting its magnificent album ``Technique,'' which set painfully confessional lyrics against a backdrop of thumping disco beats. Local radio stations already had pounced upon melodic tracks such as ``Fine Time,'' ``Round & Round'' and ``Dream Attack,'' so local fans attended the show in droves. They were not disappointed. There were some funny moments that night (like lead vocalist Bernard Sumner sighing, ``Thank you, thank you, good people, but the song isn't over yet'' when folks cheered during the instrumental bridge of ``Vanishing Point'') and some unforgettably dramatic ones, too (drummer Stephen Morris' thunderous introduction to ``True Faith''). It was a concert to savor, which was only fitting, because the band wouldn't return to our state for another 12 years.
New Order will be releasing through New State 12x12" singles at the end of February. Among the exclusivities that can be found on this collection, you'll find: Waiting For The Sirens' Call (Planet Funk Remix) Waiting For A Sirens Call (Asle Dub) Waiting For A Sirens Call (Filterheadz Remix) Jetstream (Phela Vocal Remix) True Faith (King Roc Remix) Regret (Tocadisco Remix) Regret (Tocadisco Dub) I Told You So (Stuart Price’s Remix) The full tracklisting can be found on the news page.
Michael Shamburg's website has the brand new Turn video up for viewing, so pay a visit to his special website to watch some exclusive video and read very interesting stories about some classic New Order video shooting. http://www.kinoteca.net To watch the videos you will need the very latest version of the Quicktime Player
According to the RAM eNews, Peter Hook did bass overdubs for one of the songs for the upcoming RAM album. Of course, Hooky is called "celebrity bassist", but we confirm you that it's indeed Hooky.
New Order are working on new material for the long-awaited biopic of former Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Director and celebrated rock photographer Anton Corbijn - most renowned for his work with U2 - has asked the legendary Manchester four-piece to contribute songs to the film 'Control'. The biopic, which is based on a book by Ian's widow Deborah, had been planned for a number of years, but the late singer's family were never happy with the proposals until earlier this year. Bassist Peter Hook told NME: "We were asked to do the soundtrack to the film which I thought was a fucking great idea, for Joy Division to do the music for a Joy Division film because we've never really done a soundtrack before. The soundtrack could include new stuff. Basically Anton wants to use certain songs by Joy Division so that each song becomes a video. Like the way the 'Atmosphere' video was filmed, he wants to write videos that appear in the film.
New Order have revealed they are working on songs for the film about their late Joy Division bandmate Ian Curtis. Control is based on Touching From a Distance, the book by Curtis's widow Deborah. Casting for the role of Curtis - who committed suicided in 1980 - will take place in the spring. The film is being made by director and rock photographer Anton Corbijn, who has worked with U2 and Depeche Mode. Peter Hook told NME they wanted to record new songs for the film as Joy Division.
Amazon UK is selling New Order's latest album at a pretty low price right now, giving you the opportunity to get some copies to give as gifts for Christmas. Look here @ Amazon UK The CD is listed at £1.96, hurry up before they raise the price!
New Order has been nominated for a Grammy Award. The band has been nominated for Best Dance Record with their song Guilt Is A Useless Emotion. The nominees are: Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip for "Galvanize" Deep Dish for "Say Hello"; Fatboy Slim & Lateef for "Wonderful Night" LCD Soundsystem for "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" Kylie Minogue for "I Believe In You" New Order for "Guilt Is A Useless Emotion." Winner should be announced on February 8th.
NEW Order will play at Manchester's biggest-ever charity concert to raise money to help in the battle against cancer. The "Manchester versus Cancer" gig, which will feature some of the region's best-known artists, is backed by the M.E.N. and will be held on January 28. Also in the line-up is Badly Drawn Boy, The Stone Roses' Mani, Doves and Stephen Fretwell. More acts will be announced in the M.E.N. over the next two weeks along with details of how to get tickets. Ex-Smiths bassist Andy Rourke organised the night after hearing that his manager's sister had contracted cancer.
NEW ORDER LIVE JANUARY 28th 2006 at Manchester V Cancer Live music event Manchester v Cancer is the idea of ex-Smith, Andy Rourke, following news that his manager’s sister and father had been diagnosed with cancer. Andy and his new company, Great Northern Productions Ltd decided to group together to raise £1million to fund cancer research at Manchester’s Christie Hospital, Europe’s largest cancer treatment and research centre. Manchester v Cancer tickets will go on sale in December. Artists include New Order, Doves, Andy Rourke, Mani, Badly Drawn Boy, Stephen Fretwell. Much more to be announce
In Montréal (Canada) last monday, U2 were joined on stage by local band The Arcade Fire who were opening for U2 in their hometown and it was for them the end of their tour before going into writing/studio for a 2nd album. At the general surprise, at the end of the 2nd encore, The Arcade Fire joined U2 on stage for a cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart.
Apparently, New Order has a song shipped by default with all Microsoft X-Box 360 gaming console. Indeed, Krafty is pre-installed on all consoles in WMA format.
Members of New Order, Stone Roses and The Smiths search for vocalist Freebass - a supergroup consisting of New Order's Peter Hook, The Smiths' Andy Rourke and The Stone Roses Mani - are on the lookout for a singer. The band are looking to complete their line-up with a fresh face. "We want someone young with something to say. Someone new," Peter Hook told filer-mag.com. "I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated! You've got Ian Brown, bloody Bobby Gillespie, Ian Curtis, Bernard (Sumner) and Morrissey. Those are big shoes to fill, especially collectively," he said.
helped a school celebrate a good Ofsted report by holding a lunchtime concert there. The band - two of whom are from Salford - played at the city's Oakwood High School after being inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame on Wednesday. The school, which caters for pupils with complex learning difficulties, was praised as "a very good school" by inspectors from Ofsted.
Pop bands often treat fans to the odd intimate gig after hitting the big time, but New Order took the idea to extremes when they performed at a school assembly yesterday. Not that many of the 173 children at Oakwood High School, in Salford, had heard of a band whose biggest hit, Blue Monday, was released in 1983 when many of their parents were teenagers.
When headteacher Janis Triska received an outstanding Ofsted report for Oakwood high school in Manchester, it took her a while to ponder how to celebrate best with her pupils. She put pen to paper and wrote to every famous person with local links she could think of inviting them to come and visit. This afternoon Manchester legends New Order took up that invitation and played a surprise gig for the school's pupils and the media. Bernard Sumner, the band's guitarist and singer, visited the school earlier this year and was so impressed he reportedly told Ms Triska he'd do whatever they wanted to help.
Rock heroes Pink Floyd, The Who and New Order have been saluted by the music industry at a ceremony to induct them into the UK Music Hall of Fame. Posthumous places went to John Peel and Jimi Hendrix while Prime Minister Tony Blair led praise for the Eurythmics. But Ozzy Osbourne, whose band Black Sabbath were also honoured, stole the show with a bottom-baring performance. "That was a lot of fun," he said after mooning at the crowd which gave him a standing ovation at the London event. Wednesday's show was the second annual Hall of Fame ceremony, after the likes of The Beatles, Madonna and U2 were honoured last year.
VH1 Will Telecast 'The Second Annual UK Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony' on Saturday November 26th 9:00 PM* VH1 Classic Will Air Entire Two-Hour Ceremony Ceremony Following the Premiere on VH1 NEW YORK, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time ever in the U.S., VH1 will broadcast "The Second Annual UK Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony" with the entire two-hour ceremony airing exclusively on VH1 Classic right after the premiere on VH1. Artists who have been publicly announced to date are: PINK FLOYD, BOB DYLAN, EURYTHMICS, OZZY OSBOURNE AND BLACK SABBATH, THE WHO, THE KINKS, JIMI HENDRIX, JOY DIVISION/NEW ORDER and the late, great legendary DJ and producer JOHN PEEL. The UK Music Hall of Fame is produced by Initial (part of Endemol) and distributed by Channel 4 International. The second annual "UK Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony" will take place at the famed Alexandra Palace in London on November 16th and premiere on VH1 as a two-hour live extravaganza on Saturday November 26th 9:00 PM.* The ceremony will be staged in front of a 3,000 strong audience and reveal up to ten legendary artists and one music industry figure to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame. For the first time, viewers in America will be able to witness this totally unique and utterly unmissable evening packed with amazing live performances from top international artists, exclusive video packages and tribute speeches from some of the leading celebrities of our time.
THERE are good weeks and there are great ones. For one of Manchester’s most esteemed outfits, this definitely falls into the latter category. On top of this triumphant first homecoming show in over three years; the group will join heavyweight luminaries such as Pink Floyd, The Who and The Kinks into the UK Music Hall Of Fame on Wednesday. And on last night’s evidence, New Order can punch their weight in any company. Timed to coincide with their new Singles compilation, a fervent sold out crowd got exactly what they clamoured for - a greatest hits set, which spanned their near 30-year career as both New Order and trailblazing Joy Division. Joy Division composition Ceremony got proceedings underway. Delivered with crackling intensity and Barney's trademark deadpan vocal, it acted as a perfect marker for what was to come. With bassist Peter Hook putting in a signature tour-de-force display - despite looking he would be more at home propping up a bar in an Alice Springs hostelry - and full-time axeman Phil Cunningham beefing up the guitar parts, it proved an assault on the senses that would have made Motörhead’s ears ring.
Bernard Sumner is in a repentant mood. "We never used to care if our audiences had a good time," New Order's frontman admits. "But now we're older we've mellowed. We care." Traditionally, it is true, one approaches a New Order gig with some trepidation, anticipating mumbled in-jokes and tuning problems; maybe an onstage squabble; perhaps, as at this year's Glastonbury, the perverse omission of their best-loved song, Blue Monday. No other legendary band seems so compelled to deflate its own mystique.
Collection of anthems and Joy Division classics played in London New Order performed a collection of classic anthems and legendary Joy Division songs last night (November 10) for the first of two special shows in London and Manchester. The legendary four-piece treated fans to a 90-minute set at Brixton Academy packed with hits from their back catalogue including 'Ceremony', 'Bizarre Love Triangle', 'Temptation', 'True Faith', 'Regret' and 'Blue Monday', a song which the band were forced to cut from their Glastonbury set this year. They also threw in Joy Division favourites 'Transmission', 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', 'Shadowplay' and 'Warsaw'.
Monday 14th November sees some of Manchester’s favourite sons play to hometown crowd. ACR (A Certain Ratio) will be supporting New Order at the Manchester Carling Apollo in what promises to be a legendary night for Factory fans. Both bands have enjoyed a massive resurgence in recent years with a host of new talent citing them as major influences from Interpol to LCD Soundsystem. Although New Order / Joy Division and ACR played together on a regular basis during the late seventies and early eighties this is the first time they have performed together under one roof since their gig in 1988 at Manchester’s G-MEX venue. Anyone lucky enough to have a ticket for this event is going to have an amazing night! For further information on ACR including information on forthcoming live releases via iTunes, check the official site at www.acrmcr.com
"Control" — rock photographer/director Anton Corbijn's long-awaited paean to departed Joy Division singer Ian Curtis — has moved at a glacial development pace for the last two years, but the film finally looks like it's beginning to take shape. Corbijn flatly dismissed rumors that Jude Law would play the deceased singer ("Laughable," Corbijn said. "I read that in the tabloids and it's nonsense") but said Samantha Morton is attached to play Curtis' wife, Deborah. It's not the first time Corbijn has worked with Morton; the director cast her as the mermaid in U2's "Electrical Storm" video in 2002. While he wouldn't reveal who has been cast as Ian Curtis, the first-time feature-length director says he hopes to start shooting the film in early 2006. "I originally moved to England for this band. The subject matter is very close to my heart," he said. "There's no agenda on my end, apart from making this a fantastic movie. I'm not trying to become a big film director, I just want to make this one movie." ...
"The Colorcalm 'By Design' DVD pairs leading graphic artists with musicians to produce three individual and distinct ambient designs. Color Wheel is by British designer Peter Saville with music by New Order (Elegia). Comprised of two separate pieces, Saville uses a color palette inspired by the Renaissance period to create a colorscape accompanied by a Terranova remix of New Order's track In the second piece, Saville explores the transition between two specific colors, blue to red, accompanied by the full- length original New Order track." FULL DETAILS at http://colorcalm.com The DVD launched this week at The Conran Shop here in NYC, and has started shipping now, online orders can be made through Colorcalm. It is available for order directly from Colorcalm (colorcalm.com), Amazon and at retail exclusively at The Conran Shop (New York, London, Tokyo & Paris).
New Order will be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame on November 16 at the Alexandra Palace in London, England. Endemol UK, the company behind the channel 4 program, have kindly invited 16 members of the New Order "fanclub" to assist to the ceremony. The tickets have been given away last friday, due to the short delay we had to process quick, expect a full report from those people in our forum after the induction ceremony. New Order are expected to perform live at the ceremony, and this will be the 3rd live performance for the month of November after London (Brixton Academy) and Manchester (Apollo).
Supreme changes its clothes with the seasons. Over the summer, T-shirts and skateboard decks designed for Supreme by Peter Saville flew off the shelves — one set was modeled after the artwork for Joy Division’s debut album, Unknown Pleasures; another set featured artwork from one of New Order’s EPs. You’ll have to search eBay to get them now. This season’s hot items are authentic remakes of vintage, high- and low-top Vans’ skate shoes. Vans did them exclusively for Supreme, so get ’em while you can.
NEW ORDER Singles (london) ***** A work of art, a thing of beauty, a piece of genius ... old New Order never did do 'ordinary'. And as this latest 'best of' compilation illustrates perfectly, New Order had few peers in pop. Singles traces their steps from playthings of bedroom-based students to global pop domination. And it boasts a raft of masterpieces including two versions of Blue Monday, the biggest-selling 12 inch single of all time and the stunning Temptation. Each track easily stands the test of time. In Barney Sumner, New Order were blessed with a fine songwriter of coolly penetrating melody - and in Peter Hooky Hook, a bass player extraordinaire. Compelling dancefloor beats sit alongside perfect electronic synth pop and techno beats. Quirky lyrics mix easily with ridiculously catchy riffs. Like their former selves as Joy Division, they can also be moodily introspective - but importantly never dull. There will be criticism - and rightly so - why the world needs Singles given the fact that Substance, The Best of New Order, The Rest of New Order and a four-CD retro box are already on the shelves. However, it is impossible when judging solely the music on display, not to offer anything other than the highest praise possible. Among the gems are the lush Perfect Kiss - you know the one where the sounds pass from speaker to speaker before erupting into one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever made. The inclusion of Ceremony - the last thing Joy Division wrote together just before Ian Curtis' death - is a poignant reminder of the way things were. Fine Time and World In Motion, the best footie song ever written, helps give this album a very definite five-star rating.
Rock photographer and music video director Anton Corbijn is preparing for an early 2006 shoot for his first feature film, tentatively titled Control, about the life of the late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Producers Orian Williams and Todd Eckert of US-based Claraflora first announced the project in January and Corbijn tells ScreenDaily.com that they are currently nailing down financing and starting the casting process. Corbijn expects to shoot Control for up to two months in early 2006 in Manchester, Macclesfield, and surrounding areas. Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, himself a mythical figure in the Manchester music scene (as captured in Michael Winterbottom’s 24-Hour Party People), will co-produce as will Ian Curtis’s widow, Deborah Curtis.
Two discs of NME-approved Godlike Genius Another 'Best Of'? Are they taking the piss or what? Currently, New Order have 'Substance', 'The Best Of New Order', 'The Rest Of New Order', the four-CD 'Retro' box-set and an American import called 'International' all serving the needs of casual fans with their varying track selections. So with this latest addition, it seems that the Manc legends are not just taking the piss but bottling it up and selling it on as 'salt-fortified' apple juice. However, this is music that can never leave you feeling ripped off and, given that 'Singles' brings together every New Order 45 to date, it's the only compilation that can claim to be truly comprehensive. Warner's Single Microsite: http://www.wmuk-apache.co.uk:88/neworder/ Buy "Singles" off Amazon: Amazon UK Amazon USA Amazon Canada Amazon France Amazon Japan Amazon Germany
A New Order video screening will be held on Friday September 30 in Los Angeles, part of the resfest. Screenings are $10 in advance (online) and $12 at the door. It will be at the Spielberg Theatre at 7pm. Information about resfest can be found here Info on the screening of the videos: http://www.resfest.com/index.php?page=film&id=92&zone=New%20Order:%20Early%20Years
John Peel is to be remembered with a compilation CD featuring 40 of his favourite acts as the first anniversary of the broadcaster's death approaches. Tracks on the CD will span Peel's whole career, starting with Lonnie Donegan, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pink Floyd and The Doors. The Ramones, The Clash, Joy Division, New Order and The Undertones will represent the punk and post-punk eras. Guitar legend Jeff Beck, New Order's Peter Hook and The Futureheads will also record a cover version of The Buzzcocks' Ever Fallen In Love as a tribute single, according to Radio 1.
The very first John Peel Day will take place on Thursday October 13th. The day will be a celebration of John's life and massive contribution to music and broadcasting with as many venues as possible staging gigs across the UK under the banner of Peel Day. The night before Radio 1 are putting on a special night at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. The line up so far includes New Order, The Fall, Super Furry Animals, Laura Cantrell, Jawbone, Misty in Roots and Venetian Snares. The show runs from 6.30pm until 10.45pm. Doors open at 6pm. Ticket Details Tickets: £25 + booking fees They go on sale ay 9.30am on Monday 19th September. They are available from the venue box office, by calling 0870 160 2516 or online at www.rfh.org.uk.
Having spent years carving out a career as a champion bassist, New Order’s Peter Hook has recently taken to spinning discs instead of making them. We chatted with him ahead of a Hacienda Classics night to find out how his DJing career is going.
SOME of the north west's biggest bands are assembling for a spectacular one-off gig to raise cash for Manchester's Christie hospital. The gig, planned for the M.E.N. Arena in January, will bring together artists such as New Order, The Charlatans and Badly Drawn Boy. The event is being organised by ex-Smiths' bassist Andy Rourke, who was so moved by seeing friends diagnosed with cancer that he got his music mates to lend a hand.
New Order, the innovative British pop group who have an enjoyed a 25+ year career, is set to release NEW ORDER: ITEM a 23-video collection that includes hit singles Bizarre Love Triangle, Blue Monday, and True Faith plus alternate versions and new videos for Temptation and Ceremony created exclusively for this release. The second disc in the set is a two-hour documentary with personal interviews, and interviews with musicians such as U2’s Bono on the affect the band’s music has had. You can pre-order the DVD by clicking here: Amazon UK - Region 2 PAL Amazon USA - Region 1 NTSC Amazon Canada - Region 1 NTSC Amazon Japan - NTSC
Ram news... Pottsy is currently playing bass in his mates band 'Beats for Beginners' around the northy west. First time playing bass live since the Revenge days! Two Ram songs mixed and finished last week. 'So low' and 'I'm not sleeping'. Both sounding great, thanks Tom Knot 'The Earlies'. Four more re-recorded songs will be mixed next week... 'And I...' 'Faces' 'Elliott's song' and lastly, 'Free Yourself' which (in demo form) will soon be available to listen to as the new featured track on the site. Thanks again to everyone who's logged on to the Ram site (www.ram.uk.com).
Gwen Stefani is releasing a 4th single off her debut solo album Love, Angel, Music, Baby, but she also stated in an interview to the Herald Sun (Australia) that she wants The Real Thing, New Order's collaboration on her album, to be released as a single.
Peter Hook will play a DJ set at the North Star venue in the Shetland Islands on Saturday 3rd September.The gig was meant to happen in December 2004, but had to be rearranged due to Hooky sustaining a hand injury a week before the show. The North Star has played host to a number of ex-Factory acts in the past including The Durutti Column, Silent Partners (featuring Dermo from Northside) and Graeme Park from the Hacienda. Ticket info for the Peter Hook date can be found at http://wwwthenorthstar.co.uk
A new compilation titled New Order - The Singles will be released by Warner Music on October 3rd. It will also feature an artwork by Peter Saville. CD1: Ceremony, Procession, EGG, Temptation, Blue Monday, Confusion, Thieves Like Us, Perfect Kiss, Subculture, Shellshock, State of the Nation, Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith, Nineteen63, Touched by the Hand of God CD2: Blue Monday 88, Fine TIme, Round & Round, Run 2, World In Motion, Regret, Ruined In A Day, World (Price of Love), Spooky, Crystal, 60 MPH, Here To Stay, Krafty, Jetstream, Waiting For The Sirens' Call
One of the most important and influential bands of the past 25 years, New Order recovered from the devastating death of singer Ian Curtis to make the biggest-selling 12-inch single of all time, help invent house music and inspire a whole new generation of bands from the Killers to Bloc Party. Features contributions from the Chemical Brothers, Doves, Ana Matronic, 2 Many DJs, Arthur Baker and Tony Wilson. To hear the show before it is broadcast next Monday August 8th 23.30 Lamacq Live, click on the following link http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/documentaries/
The Belgian music magazine, Side-Line, has interviewed Annik Honoré for their 52th Summer issue. Honoré had a relation with Ian Curtis up until the moment he died in 1981. She has always refused talking about the matter in public although Curtis ex-wife was not exactly flattering about her in interviews over the years. She has granted an exception to Side-Line Music Magazine. In the interview Honoré talks about the why she decided to speak openly and what Ian meant to her.
Thought you might be interested in this. A snippet from the press release accompanying the new Colder single "Wrong Baby" released on Trevor Jackson's Output Recordings (www.outputrecordings.com) on June 20: There is a snipper of information that came with the press release of Colder's single Wrong Baby on June 20th. According to that press release, highly acclaimed French electronic music maverick Colder, aka Parisian graphic designer and video producer Marc Nguyen Tan, and maintaining the pulsing Joy Division-esque programming which made Colder a natural choice to remix the forthcoming New Order single "Waiting for the Sirens' Call."
We received a note from David Potts, the former member of Monaco with Peter Hook. His new band RAM has a new website located at http://www.ram.uk.com. Potsy will also start mixing the LP Coming Up For Air August 1st so release shouldn't be too far off. Starting with 'Faces' and 'Roll Up'. Mixing it with Tom Knot from The Earlies. We also want to wish David a happy birthday.
For a guy turning 50 next year, Bernard Sumner is looking pretty darned good. Lazing around the restaurant of the posh New York hotel Soho Grand, the singer for techno-pop progenitors New Order is youthfully trim, decked out in a scholarly turtleneck sweater, brown corduroys and Velcroed Adidas, his tousled brown hair flecked with only the tiniest bit of gray at the temples. Sure, he’s been making music for 30 years, he’ll admit – but he still feels like the same Mancunian kid who almost singlehandedly launched the goth-rock movement with the late, lamented Joy Division (whose singer Ian Curtis committed suicide in 1980, pushing Sumner to frontman status of the subsequent New Order). And the band’s latest hyper-kinetic outing, Waiting For The Sirens’ Call, feels boyishly energetic, especially on the signature bass-thumping single “Krafty,” which echoes the band’s classic “Blue Monday" / "Bizarre Love Triangle” work. How does this father of three stay so hip? Read on...
BENEATH the floppy brim of his Cubs fisherman's cap, the driver's eyes glitter. He grabs the gear shift, lets the machine rumble in neutral for a couple of minutes, then puts the pedal to the metal and roars off through the quaint Chicago suburb where he resides. Children hear him coming, and hastily pull their Schwinns to the curb — the automobile is that loud. Billy Corgan squeals to a halt at his first red light and purrs with pride. "Soooo ... what do you think?" he asks rhetorically about the vintage'68 Mustang, all souped up and tricked out and ready to burn some mean Illinois rubber. It's all his. That's right, grins the ex-Smashing-Pumpkin/Zwan leader.
New Order has rounded up 22 music videos and a 1993 documentary for the upcoming DVD "Item," due Sept. 13 via Warner Music. According to a spokesperson, one disc of the package includes clips for such classic tracks as "Blue Monday," "True Faith," "Bizarre Love Triangle," "The Perfect Kiss" and "Regret," as well as two newly shot videos for "Ceremony" and "Temptation." The other disc will house the documentary "New Order Story," which chronicles the group transformation from Joy Division into worldwide dance/rock superstars. The film was previously released on VHS but has been expanded here to twice its original 70-minute length.
NEW ORDER were joined onstage by KILLERS frontman BRANDON FLOWERS during their triumphant headline set on the NME/RADIO 1 stage tonight (July 9) at T IN THE PARK. Flowers joined the band for 2001 single ’Crystal’. The band in the video for the song were called The Killers. The band also dedicated the Joy Division classic ’Atmosphere’ to the people of London after the recent bomb attacks on the city. Bassist Peter Hook said: “There was just no need for that, no need for that at all.” He had earlier told NME.COM: ”It’s really scary. It shows what a rotten world we live in.”
NEW Order's England World Cup song, World In Motion is one of the most successful football songs in history. And yesterday bassist Peter Hook was in a studio in Chorlton, putting his stamp on a new football anthem for Manchester United to lift fans whose spirits have been dampened by the Malcolm Glazer takeover. "We can't change the business side of football but we can give the fans a voice," he tells me.
The pairing of renowned artists Ashley Wood and Ben Templesmith inside the covers of the same comic book are the stuff of horror fans’s dark dreams. And now that dream becomes reality, with the September release of IDW Publishing’s new four-issue miniseries, Shadowplay. sh Wood followed that comment up with, “It’s a Joy Division song, and its a good name, of course, being an old man, you young bastards probably have never heard of it... off…”
Work by NEW ORDER’s sleeve designer is set to appear all over LONDON – and fans can take it home for free. Around 500 guitar cut outs designed by Peter Saville will be left across the capital to promote the launch of new hand-held game and music consol the Sony PSP, and they can be taken home by those who find them. In additional, 50 of the cut-outs will be signed by Saville, while a further 20 have been customised by up and coming British artists. Saville is famous for designing all of New Order’s sleeves, including the floppy disc cover for the ’Blue Monday’ 12” single, as well as creating album sleeves for the likes of Suede and Pulp. The guitar cut-outs will appear on London’s streets between July 21 and August 1
New Order turned back the clock last night with a rousing performance at the Glastonbury festival. The veteran Manchester band who successfully merged rock and dance music in the Eighties, proved that they were still a potent force. They began their set with two of their biggest hits, 'Crystal' and 'Regret', before delighting the crowd with a number of old favourites. New Order were created from the remains of Joy Division after singer Ian Curtis's suicide in 1980.
According to World In Motion, New Order's management confirmed the following facts: Waiting For The Sirens' Call will be the next single and is expected for early August. Rhino will be releasing a DVD compilation of all New Order videos, and there should be two brand new videos of older songs (Ceremony and Temptation) directed by Michael Shamberg. This compilatiohn should be released in mid-September, artwork will be done by Peter Saville. There is a possibility that the Hammerstein Ballroom (New York City) and Hyde Park (London) shows will be released on DVD later this year. No live date are expected after July 31st this year
It rained, it poured and it rocked! Yes, the O2 Wireless festival managed to achieve the impossible: It matched Glastonbury. Weather wise at least. A line-up of bands inluding the likes of Hard Fi, The Bravery and headliners New Order battled the elements. And Moby and Graham Coxon did their best to revive the somewhat dampened spirits of the 20,00 strong crowd.
SCISSOR SISTER ANA MATRONIC joined NEW ORDER onstage at GLASTONBURY during a stirring PYRAMID STAGE performance tonight (June 25). The legendary band, winners of this year’s Godlike Genius gong at the ShockWaves NME Awards, were joined by the singer for recent single ’Jetstream’. Singer Bernard Sumner earlier told NME.COM: “She came over for this. She looks glamorous, but she’s got wellies on!”
Many have talked about it, but I hear that New Order's Peter Hook and Salford band Hanky Park are taking the lead in launching a musical protest against Malcolm Glazer's takeover of Manchester United. Hooky is to produce an anti-Glazer single using the music from one of Hanky Park's tracks, Come On, with new lyrics written by lead singer James Davenport and their manager Ed Blaney.
Tune in for an extended Weekender on Friday from 6pm featuring New Order live from the O2 Wireless Festival, Chris Smith's delivers Part 2 of his Glasto Special from Sunday at 3pm plus laughs with Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant.
According to Richard X's website, there has also been rumbling about the unreleased New Order "Bizarre Love Triangle" RX remix coming out. But it also states to don't hold your breath.
Can't go to Glastonbury this year? Fear not, for you can watch New Order's full performance from the festival for free in the comfort of your own computer chair. All you'll need is a broadband connection and a copy of Windows Media Player and it'll be just like you're there, only minus the mud and 100,000 other people. But then again, they'd all make a mess of your living room anyway! Watch at http://glastonbury.playlouder.com where the exact webcast times will announced shortly.
New Order bassist Peter Hook is jealous of super group U2 because he thinks their success was destined for his first band Joy Division. The English group disbanded in 1980 when their iconic front man Ian Curtis hanged himself aged only 23, but later reformed as New Order. He says: "I've always felt a bit jealous because I felt that they've done what we'd have done as Joy Division. I always felt that Bono picked up the mantle when Ian went." Hook's theory was confirmed when he saw an interview with the Irish singer: "I read an article and Bono admitted it. So I was right! It gave him the inspiration to do what he did."
U2 have opened the UK leg of their ’VERTIGO’ world tour in MANCHESTER. Before ‘Miracle Drug’ the singer paid tribute to the city’s scientific legacy (the first computer was built in the city) and at the end of ‘With Or Without You’ he sang excerpts from Joy Division’s ‘Transmission’ and ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ - as bassist Peter Hook stood and watched.
A teenager from Bridgend is juggling his GCSEs with a starring role in a music video for rock band New Order. Nathan Stadden, 16, a pupil at Ynysawdre School in Tondu, was selected for the leading role in the video by the rock band.
According to his own blog, Richard Morel is currently working on a remix of Guilt Is A Useless Emotion, from New Order's last opus, Waiting For The Sirens' Call. Richard Morel is known for his Pink Noise remixes of True Faith and Krafty.
In the run-up to the Ivor Novello awards, the BBC News website is profiling some major songwriters of recent years. Richard X started his career in the underground music scene, then left it behind to write hits for the Sugababes and Rachel Stevens. His synthesised, grungy pop music is inspired by the bands he listened to while growing up in the North of England, such as The Human League and Kraftwerk.
New Order - Best Remixes will be available at all online digital retailers on June 7th. Jetstream (Richard X Remix) Krafty (DJ Dan Vocal) Crystal (John Creamer & Stephane K Main Remix) Spooky (Out of Order Mix) World (The Perfecto Mix) Ruined In A Day (Reunited In A Day Remix) Regret (New Order Mix) World In Motion (Carabinieri Mix) Round & Round (12" Version) Fine Time (Silk Mix) Blue Monday (88 12" Mix) True Faith (The Morning Sun Extended Remix) Bizarre Love Triangle (Shep's Extended Dance Mix) State of the Nation The Perfect Kiss (Long Version from the Perfect Kiss Video) Here To Stay (Felix Da Housecat Mix: Extended Glitz Mix)
1. It feels like some ancient vampire abode. St. Catherine’s Court (pictured above), the home/recording studio owned by actress Jane Seymour, is a rambling restored manor from the 1300s outside the British town of Bath. “So we called it Dracula’s Castle,” says Bernard Sumner, singer for Manchester technopop combo New Order. He even christened a punky dance track with the same name for New Order’s new return to “Blue Monday”-ish form, Waiting For The Siren’s Call.
Plaudits from younger bands and artists like Gwen Stefani have helped bring the eighties band New Order back into the spotlight. In a way, the music of the 1980s has never left us. Like the albatross around the neck of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, or the pastel-pink sweater draped over the shoulders of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's nerdy counterpart Carlton Banks, it's well-nigh impossible to shake off. During the nineties, we were supposed to appreciate it only ironically, looking back under arched eyebrows to a time when pop culture seemed less self-conscious, more wrapped up in its false sense of innocence. Now, the decade's pop, in all its earnest tunefulness and once-futuristic, synthesizer-soaked grandeur, is making an unmistakable resurgence.
A new DVD complication titled The work of Anton Corbijn will be coming later in 2005 (possibly September), this DVD will feature Joy Division's Atmosphere video done in 1988 by Anton Corbijn. Anton Corbijn is also the director of the upcoming movie Control, which is about Ian Curtis' life. New Order will record their commments for the DVD.
New Order's new single Jetstream has jumped from 18 to 2nd place of the UK club chart this week. 1 TIMO MAAS - First Day Warner Brothers / A&E 2 NEW ORDER - Jetstream Warner Brothers 3 RITMO DYNAMIC - Calinda 2005 Xtravaganza 4 SOUL SHAKER - Hypnotic Erotic Games Gusto 5 BON GARCON - Freak U Eye Industries
Despite having only recently returned to the furore, New Order have told Xfm that the follow-up to ‘Waiting For The Siren’s Call’ is already complete and discussed how their collaboration with Scissor Sister Ana Matronic came about. Peter Hook and Stephen Morris of New Order and Scissor Sister Ana Matronic dropped in Xfm for a chat with Lauren Laverne last week and addressed reports that their new record is already in the can (not that you heard that from us, mind). “That’s a secret!” exclaimed bass player Hook when aksed if the rumours wrer true, “To be honest, it’s very unusual for us to be that prolific. Every time you ‘come back’ the first question people ask is always, ‘So why did it take so long?’, so I think we thought by doing two at the same time interviewers would be scuppered for their first question. “It was nice because at the end the ideas just came very quickly, but then we had so many ideas and Bernard wouldn’t let any of em go. We’re used to him making our lives a misery, but he made us finish em all.” “So we ended up with so many tracks we couldn’t choose between them because they all sounded like A-sides,” Morris continued. “In the end we just tried to make the record run smoothly.” Ana Matronic and the New Order pair also spoke about how the collaboration on their new single ‘Jetstream’ came about. “When we were recording ‘Jetstream’ in the studio, we were quite happy with it. But one of our esteemed colleagues at Warner Brothers felt there was something missing and that Ana could add that something. “And we thought, ‘You what? The Scissor Sisters? Are You Joking?’ And low and behold as it came to pass, she did. And me and Stephen are great believers in people having part time jobs, something to fall back on. I’ve got a milk round,” Hook jokes. “And I’m in plumbing,” Morris adds… At this point conversation turned to plumbing, mending Lauren’s broken boiler and general vocational employment-related double entendre. However, when conversation returned to the single, Ana explained, “And so I got a cryptic email that said ‘Is Ana a New Order fan’ and so I wrote back a simple ‘Well, duh!’ And then about a week later I got a call to lend my vocals to the track. It was very nerve wracking at first I thought I’d have to be in the studio with the band, but I had a great few days recording with Steve Price. “In fact, Scissor Sisters’ first tour of the UK was as support act for Steve's band Zoot Woman, so we’re pretty friendly and we had fun. But last week was only the first time we’ve performed the track together live at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. I’m still deciding whether to join the guys for the festivals. I may come along for Glastonbury...”
According to Joy Division Central, the following events are happining near the tragic anniversary: Until May 22 - Slater Bradley's Doppelganger Trilogy Guggenheim Museum, New York Throughout May - Bowden Vale Photo Exhibition The Rampant Lion, Manchester 17 May Joy Division Wypominki Party - PUNKT club Warsaw, Poland. Tribute Band, slideshow, classical Joy Division cover versions etc 18 May BBC 6 will be showing just about all of the Joy Division footage on a large outdoor screen in Manchester on 18 May - plus various inteviews etc on the radio throughout the day 18 May ikon& will be will be hosting a Joy Division video night at Barzooka in Blackburn on 18 may - featuring unseen footage 18 May Dutch Public Radio - VPRO Grensverkeer Radio 1 - will have a 4 hour live show on Joy Division 18 May Klubb Closer in Stockholm are holding an Ian Curtis tribute night 18 May Decades, 25th Anniversary Ian Curtis Memorial Baby Seal Club, London N16 18 May Arena, Berlin - Tribute to Ian Curtis Night 19 May Tribute bands Digital and Re: Order are playing in London 21 May Tribute bands Joy Revision and Love Vigilantes Order are playing in LA
There is going to be a joy division day on bbc 6music on 18th may listings as follows 7:00-10:00 Gidion at breakfast featuring an interview with Tony Wilson. Andrew Collins 10:00-13:00 with John Peel`s Joy Division sessions Vic McGlynn 13:00-16:00 features other bands covering JD songs Steve Lamacq 16:00-19:00 interview with Anton Corbijn There will also be an event at Exchange Square in Manchester where the big screen will be taken over by 6music and they will be playing footage released by Factory Records including `Here Are The Young Men`, the 1979 Apollo gig footage and an 1988 documentary about the lagecy of JD. The radio station can be listened in the uk on digital radio or via freeview or world wide via http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music. The link for the even is http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/events/transmission
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Fri 13 May, 10:35 pm - 11:35 pm 60mins Jonathan welcomes David Hasselhoff, Kelly Osbourne, and The League of Gentlemen for a cosy chat, and New Order perform their brand new single, Jetstream, featuring guest vocals from Ana Matronic.
The Peter Hook interview will be aired Monday Night (May 9, 05) on WLUW 88.7fm in Chicago between 10pm and 12am CST. You can also listen on-line via www.wluw.org The interview will be available on neworderonline later this week and eventually will be transcribed by someone who is not lazy. Hope you all get to tune in Have a good Monday! Kamar DESTINATION UNKNOWN WLUW 88.7fm CHICAGO Mondays 10pm-12am New Wave, Synth-pop, Industrial, stuff WLUW.org to listen on-line www.retroforward.com/djkamar (on-line chat during the show)
After the success of the first edition, Turin will be again protagonist of an event unique for its features and totally free, which means to place the city at the centre of the contemporary youth culture: Traffic Turin Free Festival, from Wednesday June 29 to Saturday July 2 (for info to the general audience: 800015475 - http://www.trafficfestival.com). Amongst the exclusive events in the bill there is a day dedicated to the musical scene of Manchester which will peak with the concert by New Order, Saturday July 2 on the stage at Parco Della Pellerina. A feature of Traffic Turin Free Festival is to twin the city each year with another city after social, economic and cultural reasons. In the first edition Detroit was chosen, as Turin an industrial city transforming also through its vital music scene. The same can be said for Manchester, where music has had an essential role in its postindustrial growth. The idea is to represent whithin a day the crucial period began at the end of the Seventies, straight after punk (Joy Division, from which came New Order, invited to play live on the festival main stage on Saturday July 2, only Italian date of the current world tour) through the scene at the end of the Eighties called Madchester (represented by techno pioneers 808 State, by former Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder and Hacienda DJs Mike Pickering and Graeme Parks, all present in the day in different performances). Protagonist and witness of the entire story, and as such invited to be the master of ceremony, is Tony Wilson, founder of Factory Records and the Hacienda. A charachter of which the story has been told by Michael Winterbottom in the movie 24 Hour Party People, which will be premiered in a national preview in the afternoon of July 2 at The Cinema Museum.
New Order's latest opus, Waiting For The Sirens' Call debuted in 46th place of Billboard's Hot 200. You can buy Waiting For The Sirens' Call from: Amazon US: [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007WFYD4/neworderonlin-20/104-5696119-1270334?%5Fencoding=UTF8&camp=1789&link%5Fcode=xm2US CD Edition | UK CD Edition You can also order Krafty, the US single from Amazon US, it's out May 3rd. Amazon Canada: UK CD Edition Or buy the UK edition at: Amazon UK: CD Edition | Vinyl Edition Amazon France: CD Edition iTunes: Digital Download
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."
When New Order finished playing "Transmission" -- a quirky song by New Order's doomed, post-punk predecessor, Joy Division -- singer Bernard Sumner hissed and said, "Enough of that rock s---! We want you to start dancing!" And, true to the band's hits-heavy set, they launched into "True Faith" as if it were a brand-new nightclub sensation.
Sure, we all know ''Bizarre Love Triangle,'' but it's just one of our 10 favorite New Order songs. What are yours? Just because New Order has been around for a looong time (25 years!), that doesn't mean the band has lost its allure. Rather, they've gracefully evolved from the depress-o-rama goth party that was Joy Division (R.I.P. Ian Curtis) to the era-defining synth-pop that recalls — let's be honest — our collective youth. The release of their latest album Waiting for the Sirens' Call seems to be the perfect chance for us to pick our 10 favorite New Order songs. Check them out, then post your picks.
A quarter-century after rising from the ashes of Joy Division, English dance-pop pioneers New Order are a ubiquitous influence in modern rock, with dozens of young bands drawing inspiration from their streamlined rhythms and ethereal melodies. Following a string of indelible hits -- "Blue Monday," "Temptation" and "Bizarre Love Triangle" among them -- New Order sat out most of the '90s, and it has hardly been prolific since regrouping in 1998. "Waiting for the Siren's Call" is its first album in four years, and it doesn't break new ground. But bassist Peter Hook, guitarist-vocalist Bernard Sumner, drummer Stephen Morris and guitarist-keyboardist Phil Cunningham (who replaced Gillian Gilbert for "Get Ready" in 2001) easily outshine their many imitators, remaining the unrivaled masters of the sound they invented. I spoke with Hook from his home in England as New Order geared up to play a handful of rare U.S. dates, including a sold-out show at the Aragon on Tuesday. Q. Why the long wait for this album, Peter? A. You know, I was talking to Ian Brown yesterday, and I was saying that in the young days, you did everything to the detriment of your family. You don't get to see your kids get older and you can count all your failed relationships on both hands. There is a wonderful sense of realism that creeps in when you get older, and you realize that you need to do both things to be happy. That is the main reason why it took so bloody long -- you are forever running after the kids!
Even with 25 years under its collective belt—more, if you include its slightly earlier incarnation as Joy Division—New Order still often behaves like it has stumbled fortuitously into its place in the post-punk pantheon. For years the band has exhibited a remarkable lack of ego, its particular genius stemming from an endearing casualness. But the more these affable blokes from Manchester shrug off any honorifics, the more their followers offer them. The thousands at the sold-out Aragon Ballroom on Tuesday night worshiped the band like a spirit-fearing ancient tribe witnessing a solar eclipse. New Order, for its part, has gradually shifted from being almost confrontationally aloof to grudgingly accepting, and perhaps even being proud of, its legacy. That's noticeable from the number of Joy Division songs the group now regularly and enthusiastically sticks into its set.
"We're going to do it. We're going to play some Joy Division songs," singer-guitarist Bernard Sumner revealed a few days before New Order helped close the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday. "It's been 25 years since Ian died and we want to do something in his honor," he said. New Order had avoided playing songs by Joy Division for two decades, in part because it was a tragedy--the suicide of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis--that forced Sumner and the band's other surviving members, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris, to carry on as New Order. But as the 25th anniversary of Curtis' death on May 18, 1980, approaches, his old bandmates decided it was time last weekend to acknowledge their past. The performance was a prelude to the legendary band's first Chicago concert in more than a decade--on Tuesday at the Aragon.
Despite lead singer Bernard Sumner hobbling around with what he described as a torn ligament in his foot, New Order rocked through an impressive 11-song set last night that ran from vintage staples like "Blue Monday," "Regret" and "Bizarre Love Triangle" to brand new fare like "Krafty," "Jetstream" and the title track from its new album, "Waiting for the Sirens' Call." The group also drew roars of approval when it dusted off Joy Division's "Atmosphere," "Transmission" and a rousing rendition of "Love Will Tear Us Apart."
"We're going to do it. We're going to play some Joy Division songs," singer-guitarist Bernard Sumner revealed a few days before New Order helped close the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday. "It's been 25 years since Ian died and we want to do something in his honor," he said. New Order had avoided playing songs by Joy Division for two decades, in part because it was a tragedy--the suicide of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis--that forced Sumner and the band's other surviving members, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris, to carry on as New Order.
What do young hot bands like Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, the Killers, Bloc Party and the Bravery have in common (aside from wearing too much eyeliner)? They should all be sending royalty checks to New Order for its immeasurable influence. The veteran British synth-pop quartet returns this week with its eighth studio album, "Waiting for the Sirens' Call," and a show on Friday at the Henry J. Kaiser Arena in Oakland. We spoke with singer Bernard Sumner about three decades of making music, fighting and imbibing.. Q: I heard you were out late last night. A: Yes, but I'm all right. I managed to be relatively sensible.
Twenty-five years ago on May 18, Joy Division's Ian Curtis, whose voice penetrated dark-hearted souls with "Love Will Tear Us Apart," hanged himself. And New Order was born. Formed by Joy Division members still reeling from the death of their friend, the Mancunian band distinguished itself from the gloom-and-doom style of their former selves by having a party on the dance floor. Now, for the first time in a quarter century, the group will sing a handful of Joy Division tunes while on tour, including "Atmosphere" and "She's Lost Control," as a tribute to Curtis. "We never played them before," says frontman Bernard Sumner. "We felt if we were going to make New Order work, we'd have to do it under our own steam. Also we felt too upset to play them back then.
Warner Bros Records in the USA will be releasing their first single off New Order's latest album Waiting For The Sirens' Call, and it's the same as in the UK, Krafty. This release will feature exclusive mixes, and one available only on UK promo copies of Krafty, so here is the tracklisting for the 2x12" and the CD release. Krafty 2x12" 42800-0 A1 - Morel's Pink Noise Vocal (7:52) A2 - Phones Reality Remix (7:06) B1 - DJ Dan Vocal (8:18) B2 - The Glimmers Dub (5:54) C1 - Eric Kupper Club Mix (9:11) C2 - The Glimmers 12" Extended (6:52) D1 - Riton Re-Rub Remix (6:54) D2 - Morel's Pink Noise Dub Mix (7:48) Krafty CD Single 42800-2 1 - Radio Edit (3:47) 2 - Morel's Pink Noise Vocal (7:52) 3 - DJ Dan Vocal (8:18) 4 - Eric Kupper Club Mix (9:11) 5 - The Glimmers 12" Extended (6:52) 6 - Phones Reality Remix (7:06) 7 - Riton Re-Rub Remix (6:54) You can buy the CD single at Amazon USA (Direct Link)
Thursday, April 28th :: Guest DJ PETER HOOK of NEW ORDER This legendary man from JOY DIVISION and NEW ORDER comes to popscene for a special Guest DJ set, celebrating the release of New Order's latest album "Waiting for the Siren's Call". Cover charge is $8 for this event. Please arrive early as we expect to reach capacity popscene is located at 330 Ritch Street, San Francisco (USA)
Arthur Baker - Return to New York Friday, May 6, 2005 The Mod Club Theatre 722 College Street Toronto -Hooky -Junior Sanchez -Andrew Allsgood -Captain Z -Denise Benson Tickets $15.00 advance at Black Market Records, Rotate This! and Priape. Now on sale. http://www.addevents.com
NEW ORDER bassist PETER HOOK has no doubt why the British band still remains successful after a quarter of a century - today's music bosses are longterm fans. New Order formed from the ashes of JOY DIVISION after frontman IAN CURTIS killed himself in 1980 and have proved to be a phenomenally popular act around the world ever since. But Hook believes the band now has fate on its side. He says, "We've proven time and again that we make good music. The thing New Order has going for it is that a lot of people in this business have grown up with us, since 1979 with Joy Division. "Now the record execs that are the bosses were fans of ours in the 1980s. We were in France, and the head of WARNER BROS in France was explaining to us how he ran into a New Order gig and ripped his trousers."
NEW ORDER have remained united for over two decades because all band members have learned to obey frontman BERNARD SUMNER and follow his lead. The Manchester, England, dance pioneers have been scoring chart success since forming New Order in 1980, and have managed to stay strong in the face of the crises they've encountered over the years - which would have torn most groups apart. However, bassist PETER HOOK is convinced New Order have enjoyed a long and fruitful career because they're happy to bow down to Sumner's domineering leadership. Explaining what has kept them together, Hook says, "A wry sense of humour, patience, and doing what Bernard says. "It is democracy, as long as you do what he says. He is a very strange character, because he is sort of insecure. Even if he gets something great, he'll still try everything else."
NEW ORDER have been forced to look elsewhere for energy and inspiration since quitting drugs. The British TEMPTATION band spent much of the 1980s and 1990s on narcotics and depended on mind-altering substances to help them write songs. And while they've learned to create music sober, frontman BERNARD SUMNER believes they wouldn't have worked so hard during their heyday without the assistance of drugs. He says, "We used to stay up all night in the recording studio. The longest session we had was on PERFECT KISS. We stayed up for 72 hours straight. After that, we went back to our flat in London, packed up all our clothes, drove up to Manchester, flew to Australia and did a tour. "Maybe (drugs) weren't all that bad; they made us work hard. In the end, you start off using 'em and they end up using you. In the end they are always destructive. I wouldn't recommend anyone go down that road."
Bands who rock eyeliner and angular haircuts while churning out beat-laden tunes are all the rage these days. But if the Killers and the Bravery want to stick around to see their hairlines recede, they should pick up some tips from New Order. Though it's been almost three decades since they formed out of the ashes of Joy Division, the Manchester dance-rock stalwarts are still going strong, as they release their eighth studio album, Waiting For the Sirens' Call, today. New Order -- frontman Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter "Hooky" Hook, drummer Stephen Morris and new guitarist Phil Cunningham -- are more family-centric these days than the hedonistic clubbing community they helped spawn (Morris' keyboard-playing wife Gillian Gilbert left the band to raise their children). Though they engage in fewer late nights, Waiting For the Sirens' Call is peppered with the trademark synthesizer-laced grooves that made singles like "Blue Monday" and "Bizarre Love Triangle" time-tested dance-floor classics. Sumner talks to Rolling Stone about how he gets his groove on . . . while his kids are at school.
The tracklisting for New Order's upcoming single, Jetstream, featuring Ana Matronic from the Scissor Sisters, has been revealed. The single is due to be released on May 16th in the UK, the video is already playing. 12" Single (NUOX14) A1 - Jetstream (Jacques Lu Cont rmx) A2 - Jetstream (Radio Edit) B1 - Jetstream (Richard X remix) B2 - Jetstream (Tom Neville remix) Maxi CD Single (NUOCD14) 1. Jetstream (radio edit) 2. Jetstream (Richard X remix edit) Enhanced CD (NUCDP14) 1. Jetstream (Jacques Lu Cont rmx/2nd) 2. Jetstream (Richard X remix) 3. Jetstream (Tom Neville remix) 4. Jetstream (Arthur Baker remix) 5. Jetstream (Ana Bridge vox) 6. Jetstream Video 7. Jetstream (U-Myx)
NEW ORDER have confirmed details of a new single to coincide with their festival appearances. The veteran band will release ’Jetstream’ on May 16 via London, the second track to be lifted from their new album’Waiting For The Sirens’ Call’. The track, which features Ana Matronic from Scissor Sisters as a guest, will feature remixed from the likes of Arthur Baker, Richard X and Tom Neville, across the formats. New Order will play at various summer festivals in Europe throughout May and June, including an appearance at Glastonbury.
New Order will be playing on the Jimmy Kimmel late night show, which is being taped in L.A. on April 27th. Free tickets, but limited in number to the studio audience capacity (however many that is). They'd probably only play one or two songs, knowing how those shows operate. We still don't have confirmation from ABC. The Jimmy Kimmel Late Night Show is broadcasted on ABC at 00:05 weekdays. New Order's performance will be broadcasted the 28th at 00:05am. You can get tickets via the following link...
A little while ago, NewOrderOnline members were asked to send their questions to Mac Quayle, long time New Order collaborator and mixer/producer of the bonus track on the US version of Waiting For The Sirens' Call due by the end of April. So here they are: From Robert Monday, North Carolina, U.S.A.: (about Guilt is a Useless Emotion) So, how much of a difference can we expect? What are the stand out differences? New vocals sections? More guitar maybe? Just basic curiousity. MQ: My version is very different than Stuart’s – a lot more aggressive, more guitars, more Hooky – I think the vocals are pretty much the same though. You can visit Mac Quayle's website at http://www.macquayle.com See the rest of the Q&A sessions by clicking more, and you can preview the Mac Quayle vocal mix of Guilt Is A Useless Emotion by going to the discography page.
The Crystal Method released on April 5th the album Community Service which contains a brand new remixes of New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle titled The Crystal Method CSII Mix. The remix will also be available on the 2x12" available on April 11th. You can preview this mix by clicking the following link: New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (The Crystal Method CSII mix)
Martin O'Neill is having an exhibition of Joy Division photographs that have never been seen before. They were taken in 1979 at Bowdon Vale Youth Club, and I'm showing them at Hale library, which is only one mile from the venue. The exibition will be between from May 3rd to May 7th 2005, at the Hale Library in Altrincham. More information can be found on the following website: http://www.zyworld.com/cameraman/IRememberNothing.htm
According to the BBC Radio 1 album chart, New Order's new album, Waiting For The Sirens' Call, is #5. It's also the highest new entry. 01 - Tony Christie - Definitive Collection (UMTV) 02 - Basement Jaxx - The Singles (XL Recordings) 03 - Stereophonics - Language Sex Violence Other (V2) 04 - 50 Cent - The Massacre (Interscope) 05 - New Order - Waiting for the Sirens' Call - (London) 06 - G4 - G4 (Sony Music) 07 - Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby - (Interscope) 08 - Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze (Interscope) 09 - Jem - Finally Woken (Ato) 10 - Killers - Hot Fuss (Lizard King)
This month the influential British pop band New Order will release "Waiting for the Siren's Call," its eighth studio album since it formed 25 years ago in Manchester, England. Speaking with Joel Topcik recently, the band's lead singer and guitarist, Bernard Sumner, discussed what he's listening to and why. Moby He just recorded a version of New Order's song "Temptation" for his new album, "Hotel" (V2/BMG), which he sent us for approval. The original is an up-tempo, almost danceable track, but it's got a really emotive quality to the lyrics. (Don't ask me what they're about; it's been so long.) I think it's one of our best songs live, and I'd go so far as to say it's my favorite New Order track of all time. I'm really glad Moby did a version of it. He slowed the track down and stripped it to its basic elements, and I think it really works. It displays the words and the melody in all their wonderful nakedness.
The Krafty CD maxi will be released on tuesday May 3rd 2005 by Warner/Reprise. The CD will contain exclusive remixes by Richard Morel (Pink Noise), DJ Dan and Eric Kupper, as well as being the first CD release to include the Riton Re-Dub. The full tracklisting will be: 1. Krafty (Radio Edit) 2. Krafty (Morel's Pink Noise Vocal) 3. Krafty (DJ Dan Vocal) 4. Krafty (Eric Kupper Club Mix) 5. Krafty (The Glimmers 12" Extended) 6. Krafty (Phone Reality Remix) 7. Krafty (Riton Re-Rub Remix) Note that the single will be digitally available on April 26th via iTunes and other music stores.
ALTHOUGH WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR A GOOD FEW YEARS NOW, LAST TIME I SPOKE TO YOU YOU WEREN'T OFFICIALLY A GODLIKE GENIUS... That is true... although maybe I was and I just didn't realise it! It's a funny thing really - it's like no matter how many years you do this you're still fraught with the insecurities and the vulnerability and when you see all these youngsters - these good looking lithe young boys - running up to steal your fucking crown it does get you a little bit scared! One of the nicest things about doing the NME Awards and having them all there was that you didn't feel like the old grandad trying to get away with it... you actually felt like you were still part of it which was nice. We weren't as worried coming back with this album as we were with 'Get Ready' because we were really worried about that - about how people were going to perceive us... maybe because we'd sort of lost sight of New Order... AND DO YOU FEEL A BIT MORE FOCUSSED THIS TIME AROUND? Yes definitely... a lot more at ease, but the thing is that you still are wary - but I suppose that's a good thing really; a bit like being nervous before you go on stage and if you're not nervous then something's happened... 'WAITING FOR THE SIREN'S CALL' DOES SOUND LIKE A MORE FOCUSSED ALBUM... Well again it was that thing that because when we did 'Get Ready' we were really worried... and it was just that thing about not wanting to be too 'New Order' and I'm sat there going 'Well who the fuck are we going to be then? Please not The Cure!' it was like that - but then when you realised that, it would be good to start again and I personally believe that we could achieve that by looking backwards to Joy Division and writing in a differet way - more guitary, a more organic way, and just starting again. I think we succeeded there very well. As soon as we started playing 'Get Ready' of course all the punters were going 'Oh we miss Gillian, we miss all the keyboards, we miss all the New Orderisms' and all that... and really, truth be told, so did we!
Waiting for the Siren Call is the new album from New Order (released March 28). 6 Music celebrates their latest release by devoting a day of programming to this seminal and influential British act. Established and emerging artists such as Moby and LCD Soundsystems will explain the impact New Order had on their music tastes and careers. Natasha, Liz Kershaw, and Marc Riley will feature material from New Order past and present, with tracks from the new album, classic sessions and concerts, and an extensive in-studio interview with the band. Natasha 0700-1000: Natasha looks at the rarer New Order tracks in Killer B-side featuring ‘1963’, originally the flip side of ‘True Faith’. She’ll also play ‘Senses’ recorded in 1981 during their first session for John Peel, and ‘Isolation’ from a later John Peel session on Nov 24th 1998. 0700 – 1st track Blue Monday 0815 – Killer B-sides – 1963 with imaging and audio from LCD Soundsystem 0845 – Senses – 1981 0940 – Isolation – 1998 Liz Kershaw 1000-1300: Liz continues to raid the archive to play little heard classic session tracks ‘5-8-6’ recorded in 1990, and ‘Slow Jam’ from 2001. In It’s Alive listeners choose which of 3 live New Order tracks (‘Temptation’, ‘Perfect Kiss’, or ‘Age of Consent’) recorded at the Glastonbury Festival in 1987 by the BBC they want to hear at the end of the show. 1000 – 1st track Bizzare Love Triangle 1040 – 5-6-8 – 1990 session 1140 – Slap My Plaque – New Order theme into Slow Jam – session from 2001 Rocket Science with Marc Riley 1300-1600: The day culminates with an hour long interview with Stephen Morris and Peter Hook, discussing the band’s past, present, and future and previewing 4 tracks off Waiting for the Siren Call. 1400 – 1st track – True Faith 1500 – In studio interview with Peter Hook and Stephen Morris including 4 new tracks
You can listen to the single version of Jetstream featuring Ana Matronic from the Scissor Sisters right now. It has been played on The Essential Mix show today by Pete Tong and it will be online on the BBC website for 1 week. Jetstream has been played around 18 mins in the show, so click here and click on "Listen Again".
Pop singer ROBBIE WILLIAMS apologised to former JOY DIVISION rockers PETER HOOK and BERNARD SUMNER when his song ANGELS beat classic Joy Division track LOVE WILL TEAR US APART to a BRIT AWARD earlier this year (05). Williams was left so red-faced when his song won the Brits 25 Best Song award - honouring the best UK tune of the last quarter of a century - he immediately sought out the veteran stars, who formed NEW ORDER after Joy Division frontman IAN CURTIS killed himself in 1980. Bassist Hook says, "Robbie came and apologised. We've known him for years and he's a nice guy. "Me and Bernard were taking the p**s because he knew the score. I thought he should have given his Brit away - to us. He didn't need another one."
According to Worldinmotion.net, the 2nd single off New Order's upcoming Waiting For The Sirens' Call is scheduled to be released on May 16th, 2005. Remixes will be done by Arthur Baker, Richard X and Tom Neville. The video is currently being filmed as we announced yesterday.
Ana Matronic from Scissor Sisters has jetted into the UK to make a video with New Order. They met at this year's Brits and she's been a fan since she was 13: Ana provides vocals on their new track 'Jetstream' but stayed tight-lipped about what she's doing in the video: "All I know is that there are spacecraft involved." "My styling is futuristic but also has some Japanese embellishments."
This compilation contains over two hours of rare footage by leading bands from the highly-collectable cult labels Factory Records and Les Disques du Crepuscule, filmed between 1979 and 1987. Among the best known artists and tracks featured are Josef K, New Order, A Certain Ratio, Tuxedomoon, Cabaret Voltaire and Durutti Column. The New Order clip, a live track from Brussels May 1981, is the earliest concert material so far released by the band, and captures one of the first live performances of this electro classic. Other artists included on this fascinating archive DVD are Antena, Section 25, Marine, Berntholer, Crispy Ambulance, The Names, Malaria!, Thick Pigeon, Minny Pops, Kalima, Swamp Children, Quando Quango, Stockholm Monsters and Paul Haig. Combining studio and live footage, the DVD provides a definitive genre snapshot. Umbrellas in the Sun has a running time of two hours fifteen minutes and features detailed sleevenotes. The disc is Region 0 (multi-region), NTSC format. The jacket features original artwork by Benoit Hennebert. DUE OUT: MAY 2 2005.
Vor Augen geführt, dass New Orders Anfänge in den 77er Punkrocktagen liegen, wollen sie mit dem Nachfolger ihres überzeugenden 2001er Comeback Album "Get Ready" den Spagat zwischen Rock und Dance meistern. Konsequent ersetzt Phil Cunningham an der Gitarre nun dauerhaft Keyboarderin Gilian Gilbert. Dementsprechend müsste "Walking Overtime", die einzige harte Rocknummer den Anfang von "The Siren´s Call" machen. Doch anstelle dieses an die Stooges erinnernden Songs, versuchen sich New Order an Rockhymnen, die U2 oder R.E.M. besser zu Gesicht stehen. Nach dem flauen Beginn des Albums haben sich die Jungs aus Manchester erst mit der aktuellen Single "Krafty" warmgespielt. Danach folgen in enger Abfolge: "I told you so", ein New Order typischer Reggae. Zwei poppige Dancenummern, die wie alle Songs des Albums mit druckvollem Sound produziert sind. Mit "Jet Stream" folgt sicherlich die Vorlage für die nächste Popsingle. Höhepunkt des Albums ist "Guilt is a better Emotion", das entsprechend des eingängigen Refrains der Sängerin Ana Matronic besser "I need your love" heißen müsste. Egal, der Song ist die Steilvorlage in den Raum für die Remixer dieser Welt, aus dieser gelungenen Dancenummer einen noch größeren Tanzflächenmagneten zu machen. Von Ulrich Radespiel
Warner Music Germany is offering you the chance to win one exclusive Waiting For The Sirens' Call iPods and 5 address books. All you have to do is answer a simple question on their official website at http://www.neworder.de and practice your german skills.
New Order will be playing in Belgium next summer. The band has been confirmed for the Rock Werchter Festival on June 30th. Other acts confirmed for that night are the Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk, Thievery Corporation, Snoop Dogg, Saul Williams and Ozark Henry.
New Order created some of pop's most influential songs - with equipment they built themselves. By Andrew Perry New Order, one of the most enduringly popular British groups of the post-punk era, return to the charts this week with their 27th hit song, Krafty. Later this month, it will be followed by their eighth album, Waiting for the Sirens' Call. Like its predecessors, it is packed with the kind of lavishly produced, electronically enhanced, yet somewhat impenetrable pop tunes, for which the Mancunian quartet have been so beloved for 25 years - never more so than today, when the band are name-checked by a fresh wave of disciples, such as Bloc Party, Interpol and Franz Ferdinand. Since they formed in 1980 from the ashes of austere post-punks Joy Division, New Order have always been something of an enigma, born of the stately elegance of their music and their inscrutable lyrics, as well as their initial unwillingness to give interviews or to promote themselves as rock bands conventionally do. Over time, the mysteriousness has been offset against a growing sense that their grand façade masks little but a comedy of errors.
New Order are appearing live at the Dance Music Awards in Hannover, Germany on March 11th 2005. Also appearing are Moby and DJs like Sven Väth. More information at http://www.dancemusicaward.de (German)
The four day O2 Music Wireless Festival 2005, taking place in Hyde Park, London this summer and featuring New Order, Keane, Kasabian and Basement Jaxx. The brand new festival was announced today (March 8) during a press conference at the Islington Academy just hours before Keane took the stage to play their exclusive Xfm Jameson Live Session in front of Xfm competition winners. The four day event will take place in two parts Friday June 24 / Saturday June 25 and Wednesday June 29 / Thursday June 30, and take place in Hyde Park in London - the first time a festival themed event will have taken place there. The legendary New Order will kick off the event in spectacular style on the first Friday (June 24) followed by Basement Jaxx who headline the Saturday night party (June 25). Then two of the UK’s biggest new bands Keane and Kasabian will take to the main stage on Wednesday June 29 and Thursday 30 June respectively. All tickets can be purchased through O2 Active on O2 handsets and O2 customers can also benefit from purchasing tickets from March 8 2005 four days before they go on sale to the general public by texting the word FESTIVAL to an O2 shortcode 81145.
British rockers NEW ORDER have been forced to ditch the artwork for their forthcoming album - over fears the disc would be offensive to victim's of the Indian Ocean tsunami. The BLUE MONDAY stars' latest offering, WAITING FOR THE SIREN'S CALL, originally featured an Asian woman standing beneath a waterfall. After last December's (04) horrific tidal wave, which left thousands of people dead in Asia, frontman BERNARD SUMMER and his bandmates switched the design to simple lettering against a white background.
NEW ORDER, BASEMENT JAXX, KEANE and KASABIAN are all set to headline a new festival taking place in LONDON’s HYDE PARK. The 02 Music Wireless festival will take place in the capital in June and features a host of acts across several stages over four nights. The bands announced are headlining on the following dates: New Order (June 24) Basement Jaxx (25) Keane (29) Kasabian (30) More acts are expected to be announced soon.
You can download the Album Version and the Single Edit directly from the iTunes Music Store. Here are the direct links: New Order - Krafty (Album Version) http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=GTerNG3idRI&bids=78941.396789181&type=10&subid= New Order - Krafty (Single Edit) http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=GTerNG3idRI&bids=78941.396787645&type=10&subid= Krafty should be released as a single in the USA, however the tracklisting is not decided yet. Meanwhile you can enjoy this legal digital copy.
In his tour diary, Moby talks about New Order today: New Order 3/5/2005 - London hi, not much to report. i'm just travelling around being a narcissist and talking about myself to nice journalists(and, the truth be told, the occasionally not-so-nice journalist. eh, it's not so bad). we did top of the pops tonight and new order were on, as well. and new order were on the 2nd time that i did top of the pops, in 1993. and they were also on when i did top of the pops one time in 2000, i think. and, as many of you know, i love new order, and i consider it one of my career highlights to have played a joy division song with them in california(this recording appears on the fantastic '24 hour party people' soundtrack). now it's late. i'd write more but i'm tired and my spartan hotel bed is calling to me. moby
UNLIKELY AS IT SOUNDS, JERRY LEE LEWIS almost appeared on New Order’s latest album. Sadly, we will never get to hear this musical meeting between 1980s electronic pop legends and a 1950s rock’n’roll legend, because Lewis told New Order he wouldn’t do it for less than £10,000. "We weren’t going to shell out that kind of cash for anyone, so we dumped the track and told his people to f*** off," explains New Order’s bassist, Peter Hook, with characteristic bluntness. It’s mid-February, and Hook, Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and new member Phil Cunningham (not the accordion-playing former Silly Wizard, but a guitarist who joined the band in 2003) have gathered to talk about their comeback. With or without Jerry Lee Lewis, Waiting for the Siren’s Call sounds like the strongest New Order album in years. Nothing quite as sublime as Temptation or Bizarre Love Triangle, but Working Overtime is a wonderful slab of accelerated rock, and both the title track and the first single, Krafty, are catchy pop tunes with sugary hooks.
They are undoubtedly one of the most influential and innovative UK groups of the past 25 years. Yet it seems that New Order are always destined to be haunted by their past. Their 2001 comeback album, Get Ready, coincided with the release of the film 24 Hour Party People which showed how the Manchester band was born – formed by the remaining members of Joy Division after frontman Ian Curtis hanged himself in May 1980. Now, their new single, Krafty, and album, Waiting For The Siren’s Call, coincide with plans for rock photographer Anton Corbijn to make an Ian Curtis biopic. “I was apprehensive at first,” admits New Order’s jovial bassist Peter Hook. “I didn’t know how Debbie (Curtis’s widow) would react, but I think the right people are involved.
New Order have made 3 songs from their forthcoming album, Waiting For The Sirens' Call, available on Orange's mobile remixer Fireplayer. New single Krafty is available right now, with the album's title track and Jetstream being made available in time for the album release on March 28th. The classic Blue Monday should also be released in the coming weeks. Fireplayer uses samples from the actual studio recordings, allowing users to create their own truetone remixes of hit songs. It's available for a list of phones including Smartphones, Nokia and Sony Ericsson devices. Fireplayer won Best Use of Mobile at last year's Digital Music awards. It's currently only available to UK customers on the Orange network, and can be downloaded exclusively from the Music section on Orange World. But the service will soon be available online and to other networks. More info on the mobile version of Fireplayer is available here.
The US release of New Order's upcoming album Waiting For The Sirens' Call will contain an exclusive mix. The album will contain the Mac Quayle Vocal Mix of the track Guilt Is A Useless Emotion Here are the other information concerning the US release given to us from Reprise Records: 3/8/05 Digital Release Krafty (Radio Edit) Krafty (Album version) 3/22/05 Digital Exclusives Itunes Krafty (The Glimmers 12" Extended) Krafty (The Glimmers Dub Version) Yahoo Music Krafty (Phones Reality Remix) Napster Krafty (Bernard's Re-edit) Real/Rhapsody Krafty (Riton Re-Dub Remix) 3/29/05 Digital Release Waiting For The Sirens' Call UK version 4/26/05 CD Release Waiting For The Sirens' Call US version *Includes bonus track Guilt Is A Useless Emotion (Mac Quayle Vocal Mix)
NEW ORDER say they still feel the influence of JOY DIVISION frontman IAN CURTIS. Speaking to NME.COM bassist Peter Hook said “we don’t see Joy Division as a different group apart from not having Ian there physically. He’s still there mentally. Spiritually.” The full story of New Order is told in NME out now nationwide, while a documentary about the Godlike Geniuses will air on VH2 next week (March 7). Featuring live footage and videos the programme ‘From Joy Division To New Order’ is at 7pm on the music channel and charts the Manchester pioneers’ rise.
New Order and Queens of the Stone Age are the latest bands announced for this year's OXEGEN festival in Co Kildare. They join headliners Green Day and the Foo Fighters and James Brown, the Frames, The Streets and The Killers on the bill for the festival, which takes place at Punchestown Racecourse, Naas, Co Kildare on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 July 2005, subject to licence. Tickets for OXEGEN are priced €64.50 for one day, €120.00 for two days and €145.00 for two days including camping. Both New Order and Queens of the Stone Age will release their new albums, 'Waiting for the Sirens Call' and 'Lullabies To Paralyze' at the end of March.
New Order will be recording 7 songs live for the show L'album de la semaine on March 21st. The show will be recorded at La plaine Saint-Denis. To reserve your place, call 33 1 42 28 88 88. The show will be broadcasted on Canal+ in France.
New Order take music mobileWarner Bros Records is teaming up with mobile marketing technology company Hypertag to promote the latest New Order album, offering fans free mobile content at HMV stores. Warner Bros will use Hypertag technology to promote the launch of "Waiting for the Sirens Call", the first studio album from New Order since 2001. The campaign will see Hypertag units installed into the New Order window displays of the HMV stores in London’s Oxford Street, and Market Steet in Manchester in the week running up to the launch of the album on 28 March. Consumers who interact with the tag will receive free music clips, ringtones or wallpaper, depending on their phone-capability. The campaign represents the first time such technology has been used by the music industry to promote an album release. New Order drummer, Stephen Morris, said: "Technology has always been a driving force for us and we want the promotion of our new album to reflect that." "The convergence of music and mobile is a hugely important development in the way that people consume music; being the first band to hand out free music clips direct to mobile means we are in the vanguard of this industry shift," Morris added. Hypertags are short-range wireless devices, which send information to mobile phones via infra-red or Bluetooth. A user activates the infra-red or Bluetooth on their phone, holds it up to the Hypertag and receives content such as vouchers, business cards, ringtones or games. Because Hypertags use short-range wireless technologies, rather than SMS, interactions are free to both brand and consumer.
This is yet to be confirmed, but apparently the March 5th edition of Music Week contains a bit of useful information about New Order: New Order have confirmed a live date for London's Hyde Park on June 24th, the day before their Saturday night main stage slot at Glastonbury, where they are due to play second on the bill to expected headliners Coldplay New Order are to become the first act to utilise ground breaking interactive technology which allows consumers to sample music clips from interactive posters Warner Brothers has teamed up with HMV and Hypertag for the campaign behind the March 28 release of Waiting For The Sirens' Call A week prior to the album's release, window displays will be built into HMV's London Oxford St and Manchester flagship stores, which incorporate Hypertag technology transmitting data to mobile phones using infared and Bluetooth. Consumers who choose to interact with the technology will receive clips of tracks from the album as well as ringtones and wallpapers Warner Brothers domestic repertoire marketing director, Matt Thomas says, "We are always looking at new ways to promote artists and Hypertag's technology, together with HMV's participation, has created a unique way of getting exciting content into the hands of music fans Although it will be the first time the technology has been used to market a music release, it has previously been used as part of ad campaigns for Proctor & Gamble, O2 and Hewlett Packard. Again, this is NOT CONFIRMED.
DANCE pioneers New Order are to headline Stage 2 at T In The Park. The sold-out festival will take place at Balado in Perthshire on July 9 and 10 and will feature a host of acts including Green Day, Audioslave, Foo Fighters, The Prodigy, Travis and The Killers. Organisers have tried to attract New Order since the festival started and boss of DF Concerts Geoff Ellis has finally landed his favourite band. A spokesman said: "They will undoubtedly thrill the legendary Balado crowd with tracks both old and new, and never has the phrase 'not to be missed' meant so much!" The influential group were recently awarded the accolade of "Godlike Geniuses" for their services to music at the NME Awards and their live performance was a stunning highlight of the ceremony. Other acts added today include the Athlete and Queens of the Stone Age who will both play on the Sunday before headliners Green Day and Travis. Already announced to perform are Saturday headliners Foo Fighters, as well as Keane, The Killers, Embrace, Prodigy, Audioslave and Razorlight. DANCE pioneers New Order are to headline Stage 2 at T In The Park. The sold-out festival will take place at Balado in Perthshire on July 9 and 10 and will feature a host of acts including Green Day, Audioslave, Foo Fighters, The Prodigy, Travis and The Killers. Organisers have tried to attract New Order since the festival started and boss of DF Concerts Geoff Ellis has finally landed his favourite band. A spokesman said: "They will undoubtedly thrill the legendary Balado crowd with tracks both old and new, and never has the phrase 'not to be missed' meant so much!" The influential group were recently awarded the accolade of "Godlike Geniuses" for their services to music at the NME Awards and their live performance was a stunning highlight of the ceremony. Other acts added today include the Athlete and Queens of the Stone Age who will both play on the Sunday before headliners Green Day and Travi
On April 4, Sanctuary Records will re-release the original ‘Teenage Kicks EP’ by The Undertones as a limited 4-track 7”. Limited to just 1000 copies, the record originally released on Irish independent label Good Vibrations features the tracks ‘Teenage Kicks’, ‘Smarter Than U’, ‘True Confessions’ and ‘Emergency Cases’. The 42-track double album compilation, also called ‘Teenage Kicks’ and released on April 4, will feature tracks from The Jam, Blondie, The Clash, The Stranglers, Joy Division, The Damned and Sham 69.
Legendary British band New Order are getting some help on their latest album from the Scissor Sisters. Ana Matronic, who co-fronts glitzy New York band Scissor Sisters, is supplying the Manchester band with her incomparable vocals for a song on their upcoming 'Waiting For The Sirens Call'. Scissor Sisters had the biggest selling album in the UK last year with their self-titled debut. The track Matronic is featured on is called 'Jetstream', with her vocals appearing alongside New Order lead singer Bernard Sumners. The track is being considered for release as the second single from the new album, with a track called 'Krafty' being the lead off. The album is set for release in April.
NEW ORDER are to play this year’s sold-out T IN THE PARK festival in Scotland. This year’s event takes place over the weekend of July 9-10 at Balado. New Order were the recipients of the Godlike Genius gong at this year’s NME Awards, and release new album ’Waiting For The Sirens Call’ on March 28. A host of other bands have also been confirmed, including headliners Foo Fighters and Green Day, plus The Killers, Ian Brown, Kasabian, Prodigy, Audioslave, Embrace, Keane, Razorlight, Biffy Clyro, The Streets, Beautiful South and The Coral
You can't get the question right. You're fumbling for the right words but all you can hear are the lyrics to "Age of Consent" over and over and over again in your brain ... It's almost too easy to toss the word "influential" in front of a band to hype up its place in the pop-music pantheon. Few acts deserve it, and the word is so damn relative. But the culture mill spits out thousands of new bands each year and inevitably even the most wanly creative gets the "influential" stamp if it can hang in there long enough. So, then — what to call a band at the forefront of almost two and a half decades of pop, rock, punk and electronic music? All of your favorite records of the past decade owe patronage to this band in some way. What's the right word? Pick an adjective that's neither insulting (don't want them to feel like dinosaurs) nor sycophantic (the NME chose "godlike geniuses"). You want them to get it that you get it. You want them to take your questions seriously. You don't want to blow smoke in their collective asses. And, you've only got 20 minutes of their time.
New Order will be doing a warm-up concert in Oakland, California at the Henry J. Kaiser Arena on April 29th, 2005. The Henry J. Kaiser is a venue that can receive 5000 to 7000 people depending on the setup. This is the first non-festival US date confirmed by New Order (actually this is confirmed by the Chemical Brothers website), dates are expected to be included for Chicago and New York City soon.
According to Billboard, New Order bassist Peter Hook says the pioneering rock act plans to play "as many shows as we can" in North America this year, in lieu of the limited appearances the band made here in support of its 2001 album, "Get Ready." As previously reported, New Order will on April 12 release its latest Warner Bros. set, "Waiting for the Sirens' Call." "We felt very guilty for not coming to America last time," Hook tells Billboard.com. "We only did Moby's , which was before the album came out. That left us feeling quite annoyed with ourselves, because we realized how important our support in America has been to us. We wanted to make sure this time that the first thing we do is come over here. We're doing Coachella and then we'll do some dates in Chicago and New York." Hook says the band has already begun rehearsing material from the new album, as well as a host of extra tracks that did not make the final cut. He also reveals that New Order may revive a host of back catalog gems for the first time in ages, but that the time constraints of a typical festival set are making decisions tough. "We've all been listening to the older stuff and realizing that we'd love to play songs like 'This Time of Night,' 'Leave Me Alone,' 'The Village,' 'Thieves Like Us' and 'Perfect Kiss,'" he says. "But god knows how we're going to do that. I honestly can't figure it out, because with festivals, you only get to play for an hour usually." Although not all of the dates are confirmed, New Order is expected to appear at such summer U.K. festivals as Glastonbury, Oxegen and T in the Park.
New Order will play this summer's Oxegen festival and there is a strong possibility that Queens Of The Stone Age and the Cocteau Twins will also be added to the bill.
GOING UNDERGROUND proudly presents 'an evening with NEW order. Tuesday MARCH 1st 2005 at MONDO, Medborgarplatsen where STEPON will be support djs to the one and only NEW order. The band will be having a release party for their new album WAITING FOR THE SIREN's CALL and will be DJing themselves in person on the night. A fantastic night it'll be. Tickets are 60kr, the doors open at 9pm and close at 2pm. Look out for the poster on town and don't miss this one....
Warner Music Japan has posted a press release today revealing the bonus track on the upcoming New Order album Waiting For The Sirens' Call, which will be released on March 24th in Japan. Historic moment for New Order, it will be the first time Bernard Sumner sings in another language than English on record. The bonus track will be a japanese version of the first single, Krafty. The lyrics will be written by japanese band Asian Kung-Fu Generation. There will also be 2 other bonus tracks on the japanese edition, 2 remixes of Krafty, the Glimmers 12" Extended Remix and the Phones Reality Remix.
ROCK legends New Order are to play at this summer's T in the Park. The Manchester band's performance was the highlight of the Shockwaves NME awards bash last week. Scots are to be among the first to see the group back in action. Despite this summer's T in the Park festival selling out in record time, the latest big name act on the bill is down to festival boss Geoff Ellis's determination to provide the best ever line-up in the event's 12-year history. He admitted he is close to signing the deal with New Order to play the festival in July. 'It's true I'm in talks with a number of bands for this summer's bill and we're very close to completing a deal to bring New Order to T in the Park for the first time,' said Geoff.
In this week's New Musical Express, you will find a CD containing a song from all the nominees of the NME Awards. The track is I Told You So, which will only be available on the album on March 28th.
New Order has been confirmed today for the Hurricane Festival and the Southside Festival which will be from June 10th to June 12th 2005. Other listed bands are Audioslave, Beatsteaks, Boysetsfire, Die Ärzte, Kettcar, La Vela Puerca, Madsen, Millencolin, Moneybrother, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Phoenix, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, SKA-P System of a Down, Wir Sind Helden.
New Order has been oficially confirmed to be part of the Primavera Festival in Spain, which will be the last week of May, the 26th, 27th and 28th. Don't know yet which day New Order will be playing. Some of the other bands playing will be Gang of Four, Iggy and the Stooges, Sonic Youth, the Human League and Tortoise.
In 1974, teenage Salford scooter-boys Peter Hook and Bernard Dicken - who would later change his surname first to Albrecht, and finally to Sumner - went to see Deep Purple play at the Manchester Free Trade Hall. There's something rather unlikely about the idea of a pair of suedeheads ("We weren't thugs or anything; we didn't go around beating people up," Sumner insists, before embarking on a lengthy anecdote about a fellow Lambretta enthusiast called Lance, who was later sent to prison for stealing a double-decker bus) going to a heavy rock concert. Though they didn't know it then, it would be just such apparent contradictions that would sustain them through a career which incorporates as fine a balance of tragedy and fun as any other in the rock'n'roll pantheon.
NEW ORDER have been crowned GODLIKE GENIUSES at this year’s SHOCKWAVES NME AWARDS. Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris were present to collect their award which not only celebrates their own constantly innovative and exciting approach to music, but also the influence the Manchester band have had on acts across the musical spectrum. Formed in 1976 as Warsaw, with original singer Ian Curtis the band quickly became Joy Division, and though their recorded output was extremely limited their brutal and challenging post punk left a distinctive and lasting impression. Evolving into New Order after Curtis’ suicide in 1980, the band were pioneers and delivered a series of anthems including ’Blue Monday’, ’Truth Faith’ and ’Ceremony’ that have being embraced as lasting classics in both the dance and rock circles, with bands including Franz Ferdinand, Chemical Brothers, Interpol, The Killers and The Bravery citing them as an important influence. Accepting their God Like Genius award singer Bernard Sumner said: "I'd like to thank the rest of the band for putting up with my ego." Bassist Peter Hook also thanked the late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Sumner added: "Thank you everyone and we are honoured to get this award. I'd like to thank NME - the NME helped us out when we were just starting out and twenty years old." New Order then took to the stage to play a four song live set which featured ‘Crystal' (dedicated to The Killers), new single 'Krafty', 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and ’Blue Monday'.
NEW ORDER have revealed that they "burnt out" following 1993’s ’REPUBLIC’ album, explaining their more relaxed workrate over the past decade. The band have released just one album - ’Get Ready’ in 2001 - in the past ten years, and have said that a career-spanning gruelling touring schedule left the group feeling the strain. Singer Bernard Sumner said: "From the days of Joy Division to the ’Republic’ album, we'd just been touring, and we got burnt out, really."
You can now preview 4 tracks of the upcoming New Order album Waiting For The Sirens' Call on the BBC website: BBC Radio 1 - One World Website The 4 tracks are: Working Overtime, Krafty, I Told You So and Jetstream.
The upcoming New Order single Krafty, due out March 7th in the UK, will have the following tracklisting: 1. Glimmers Extended 2. Phones Reality 3. Andy Green Remix 4. Album Version (re-edit) 5. Video
According to the german site of Warner Music, here is the cover of New Order's upcoming album, Waiting For The Sirens' Call. The album will be released on March 28th in Europe, April 12th in the USA.
Michael Eavis has confirmed that Kylie Minogue, the White Stripes and New Order will all play at this year's Glastonbury Festival. There had been much speculation that the Australian pop princess would be appearing at this year's festival, but Michael Eavis has now let slip that it's more than just a rumour! In an interview with a reporter from the Wells Journal, the Glastonbury guru said Kylie will play the final slot on the Pyramid Stage on Sunday night. He also confirmed that the White Stripes and New Order will be playing. "Those people who might come along on Sunday to see Kylie Minogue might not enjoy New Order or the White Stripes, so we have something for everyone," he told the Journal.
Late breaking news! New Order have confirmed their appearance as co-headliners at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival on May 1, 2005, at Empire Polo Field in Indio, Ca. Please note that "Waiting For The Sirens' Call" has a new release date of April 12, 2005, on Warner Bros. Records. After the planet-shagging success of 2001's "Get Ready" and 2002's 'this-is-how-you-do-it' four CD boxset "Retro," Manchester's finest ever band, New Order, return with their new, hotly anticipated album, "Waiting For The Sirens' Call." Showcasing New Order's unique ability to both shake the dancefloor and rock the hardest, "Sirens'" is that rare thing: an album for everyone. It features eleven songs with influences as diverse as electro, rock, dancehall and punk, all bound together by New Order's cool romance, diamond-hard modernity and wild, unparalleled musicality.
They're almost rock pensioners but New Order have gone back to basics for their new album. New Order are the band that just won't go away. When Ian Curtis took his own life and Joy Division fell apart they re-emerged as New Order and, through thick and thin, have been around ever since. Now they're back on the scene with a new single (Krafty) and upcoming album (Waiting For the Siren's Call). But can they ever top World in Motion? Or Blue Monday? The Beat's Dean Jackson, from BBC Radio Nottingham, has been talking to Peter Hook and Stephen Morris. During the interview they discuss:- The "new" New Order Creativity overload New CD "Waiting For the Siren's Call" The jolly New Order New band member Phil Cunningham The mystique of the band The Blue Monday phenomenon http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/realmedia/2005/02/new_order.ram
T in the Park boss Geoff Ellis is currently also in talks with bands Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, Feeder, Kasabian and The Chemical Brothers among others. He hopes to persuade New Order to make a special visit north of the border for the festival, too. Also tipped to play are 1980s trio The Cocteau Twins.
Formed in 1980 by the remaining members of Joy Division after singer Ian Curtis committed suicide, Manchester's New Order have been a chart presence ever since. Blue Monday, from 1983, is the biggest-selling 12" single of all time. Their electronics, guitars, heart and soul have also made them one of the most influential bands of all time. From Kylie to Bloc Party to the Others, most of this year's pop carries New Order's musical DNA. London-based Bloc Party have been tipped as "this year's Franz Ferdinand", having already graced the cover of NME. Their past two singles - Little Thoughts and Helicopter - have gone Top 40. New release So Here They Are should finally transform them from hip contenders to household names.
According to the Daily Star, New Order is confirmed to participate to the V Festival. Oasis is to headline the festival, also mentioned are The Darkness, New Order and a few others. V Festival is held at Hylands Park, Chelmsford & Weston Park, Staffordshire on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st August 2005. Tickets are not on sale yet, but be prepared.
Peter Hook revealed today on XFM that New Order will be playing live at the upcoming New Musical Express Awards 2005 in two weeks. The ceremony will be held at the Hammersmith Palais on Thursday February 17th.
New Order have got a whole lot of beef of their chests about a collaboration with Gwen Stefani. Speaking to MTV News, the Mancunian icons explained that Stefani approached them about collaborating on a track, they eventually accepted, and now they very much regret it. "Gwen sent us a track she felt was a bit New Order-like, and I did some backing vocals on it and Hooky played some bass," said Bernard. But that was the last the boys heard from Ms Stefani, they went on to reveal, even after a version of their work appeared on her album. And are they pleased with the finished product? "It's shite," said Hooky. "It was an insult! To do all that work and then to get completely ignored - I was lead down the garden path and then shagged when I got to the end of it." New Order's new album 'Waiting For The Siren's Call' is released on March 28.
COLDPLAY, NINE INCH NAILS, NEW ORDER and WEEZER are set to top the bill at the sixth Californian COACHELLA FESTIVAL. A host of British acts including Razorlight , Kasabian, The Futureheads, Bloc Party, Keane, Snow Patrol, The Chemical Brothers, Doves, Prodigy, Katie Melua, Roots Manuva, British Sea Power and Stereophonics will also play over the two-day event, which runs over the weekend of April 30-May 1. The festival will again take place at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, a desert hot spot two hours outside of LA.
Today the lineup for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival 2005 was revealed, and New Order is scheduled to play on Sunday May 1st. Other bands scheduled to play that night include: Nine Inch Nails, Gang of Four, Prodigy, The Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Black Star, The Faint, British Sea Power and Stereophonics. Since the Coachella Festival is a 2 day event and your ticket gives you access for 2 days, the bands on the first day includes: Coldplay, Bauhaus, Weezer, Cocteau Twins, the Chemical Brothers, Keane, Doves and Snow Patrol.
Reprise Records, New Order's US label, confirmed the April release date for Waiting For The Sirens Call (April 26th) and they also confirmed New Order will be at the Coachella Festival 2005. They also gave 2 new links to listen to Krafty online: Windows Media Player Quicktime The official Coachella Festival 2005 lineup will be revealed next monday (January 31st).
Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is on 2 days, April 30th & May 1st. The festival is in Indio, California (USA), a 2h drive from Los Angeles. According the website Ambitious Outsides, New Order has been confirmed for the festival. The official lineup for Coachella will be revealed on January 31st. Confirmed bands includes e Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay, Massive Attack, Portishead, Gang of Four (all confirmed). Rumours states Doves, Interpol, The Killers, The Arcade Fire, Pulp and even R.E.M. Tickets for Coachella are available through Ticketmaster, price is 152$ USD for both days. Coachella Festival Official Website
New Order experienced a burst of creativity as it prepared to record "Waiting for the Sirens' Call," its first album since 2001's "Get Ready." As previously reported, the 11-track set is due March 28 via Warner Bros. in the United Kingdom and April 26 in North America. First single "Krafty" is due for commercial release on a date to be announced. The propulsive, smile-inducing track was premiered late last week on BBC Radio 1. Warner Music Japan's Web site is also streaming the single, which features shades of Joy Division's "Atmosphere" at its outset and the classic New Order single "Regret" during its bridges. New Order will tour in the months ahead in support of the new album and is one of the top acts rumored for the sixth Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, to be held April 30-May 1 in Indio, Calif.
Glastonbury Festival - Friday 24 June until Sunday 26 June 2005 Other Stage unknown day New Order - rumour Leeds Festival - Friday 26 August until Sunday 28 August 2005 Main Stage unknown day New Order - strong rumour Reading Festival - Friday 26 August until Sunday 28 August 2005 Main Stage unknown day New Order - strong rumour
Krafty was launched today on BBC Radio 1 on Jo Whiley's show, and it has been played also on Pete Tong's show. Pete Tong's show is archived online on the BBC website, so you can listen to the full song. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio1_aod.shtml?essselection Krafty is the 4th song played, it's around 12:00. For those using Windows Media Player or Real Player, you can also listen to Krafty on Warner Music Japan's website, here is the direct link: Krafty (Windows Media Player) Krafty (Real Player) Don't forget to review it in our forums!
New Order returns with their eighth studio album in the spring, and join the class of 2005 by taking their inspiration from... classic New Order. Recorded over the past year, "Waiting For The Sirens Call" is divided between guitar tracks in the vein of previous album "Get Ready" and the synth-based tracks that are their trademark. NME can confirm it's their best album since "Technique". A single, likely to be "Jetstream", will be released in advance and, as normal, sleeve art will be designed by Peter Saville. Bernard Sumner told NME: "The last album was guitar-heavy simply because we felt that we'd left that instrument alone for a long time and we thought that was what the general trend was and what people wanted to hear. But when we started doing live gigs, we found that people got off on the more dance-oriented and synth stuff just as much. This album really splits into two halves. It's a mixture of two, because that's what New Order fans like."
NewOrderOnline Radio, a 2 hours show about New Order's music will start tonight on Retroforward Radio, and internet radio station. If you want to listen to the show, you need a software able to read the stream, like iTunes, Winamp, Real Player or Windows Media Player. Retroforward Radio's website - go there and click on "Listen Now". The show is scheduled to start at 8pm Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5), a rebroadcast will be scheduled later.
New Order unveiled their new album to the UK music industry at a series of playbacks in London on Monday afternoon. The album, their eighth, and the first since 2001's Get Ready, is called Waiting For The Sirens Call. It had been rumoured to be a pure dance album, along the lines of 1989's Technique, but in fact mixes dance tracks with rockier songs. Written in Manchester and recorded in Manchester, Liverpool and London, the record was produced by Stephen Street. The playback was introduced by Warners MD Korda Marshall, who said the band plan to release three singles from the album: Krafty - one of the more electronic numbers, the title track and the poppy Jetstream Lover, which features Scissor Sisters' Ana Matronic. Several tracks press all the right classic New Order buttons ie, great bassline, wistful vocals, endearingly appalling lyrics, and the final track of the record sounded like the Stooges.
NEW ORDER have unveiled further details of their forthcoming studio album. The LP, ‘Waiting For The Sirens Call’, is set to be released on March 28 via Warner Music and will be preceded by a new single 'Krafty' two weeks before. Other song titles slated to feature on the album, which signals a return to the band’s dance period in the late 1980s, include ‘Jetstream’ and ‘Sugarcane’. The LP, which was recorded in Bath, has been co-produced by veterans Stephen Street and John Leckie. Guitarist Phil Cunningham has also replaced keyboardist Gillian Gilbert as a full time member of the Manchester band. Cunningham, who previously performed with New Order singer Bernard Sumner in Electronic, filled in for Gilbert during the group’s last tour in 2001/2002. At the time the former keyboardist was forced to pull out so that she could care for her ill daughter.
We have received a note from LTM that the Revenge live album No Pain No Gain is now available from their website, all can now be ordered direct from LTM ahead of the store release date. If you have already pre-ordered, then your copies will be with you very shortly.
The life of late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis is to be made into a film, it has been announced. The Manchester-based production is called Touching From A Distance, after a book by Curtis's widow Deborah which forms the basis for the film. Music mogul Tony Wilson, who headed the record company Joy Division were signed to, will be co-executive producer. The musician committed suicide in 1980 aged 23, shortly before the band were due to go on tour in the US.
Full details have emerged about the much-awaited biopic of former JOY DIVISION frontman IAN CURTIS. Celebrated rock photographer Anton Corbijn – most renowned for his work with U2 - has been confirmed as the director of the movie. It is his first time as a film director. Deborah Curtis, the widow of Ian Curtis, and former Factory Records boss Anthony Wilson will both have executive producer roles on the film. The film’s working title is ‘Control’ and is based on Deborah Curtis’ touching book account of Ian’s life ‘Touching From A Distance’. A film documenting Curtis’ life had been planned for a number of years, but Curtis’ family had never been happy with the proposals until now.
According to the website 4clubbers.net, Lee Coombs has been busy in the studio remixing for the likes of Paul Oakenfold and producing a new track by New Order. And they say that if anyone has listened to his mixes of Crystal, you'll know what to expect.
According to Warner Musique France, the first single will be titled Krafty, and it will be sent to radio on January 24th 2005. They also confirm that the album will be called Waiting For The Sirens Call, except that they did add the apostrophe in "Siren's".
The track "The Real Thing" opens with a subtle evocation of Cyndi Lauper’s "Time After Time" before shifting gears to ’80s-style Brit synth-pop, summoning the ghosts of New Order, Pet Shop Boys and countless now-forgotten one-hit wonders who were once the staples of KROQ’s playlist. Easily one of L.A.M.B.’s best moments, "The Real Thing" is a potent snapshot of days gone by. It’s also the cut with the greatest cast of cool supporting players — producer: Nellee Hooper (Massive Attack, Björk); background vocals: Bernard Sumner (New Order); keyboards: Lisa Coleman (the Revolution, Wendy & Lisa); guitar: Wendy Melvoin (Wendy & Lisa, the Revolution); bass: Peter Hook (New Order). It’s a mercifully irony-free nod to the synth confections once sneered at by critics and fans of "real" rock music. The chilled outlines of those songs were warmed from the inside by chords of melancholy. They linger in the memories of former (and likely, still) misfits, lonely kids and freaks because the poignant, naked ache in the grooves — almost defiant for being so pointed — spoke not just to the bearer’s isolation but to a yearning for transcendence that almost couldn’t be spoken for fear it might never be realized or fully understood by anyone else.
According to New Musical Express, Jacques Lu Cont is currently remixing tracks from New Order's forthcoming new album, due in March. When asked about the best thing he has heard recently, Sumner immediately said the Jacques Lu Cont remix of Gwen Stefani's single 'What You Waiting For?'. "I was really knocked out by it," he said: "And I know it sounds like New Order, but it's like seeing yourself in a mirror and someone's re-interpreted. That's the most recent thing I've heard that I've been impressed by. Loved it, absolutely loved it." Jacques Lu Cont is the founder of the group Les Rhytmes Digitales. On the official website of LRD, it is stated that despite his tender age, Lu Cont feels a particularly strong fascination with the synthpop explosion of the early 80's, alongside Arthur Baker, Mantronix and Todd Terry, he lists the Human League and New Order as his primary influences.
Unconfirmed news, but apparently, in the upcoming issue of MOJO Magazine, there is a bit of information about the upcoming New Order album. New Order - "Waiting For A Silent Call", due in February, produced by Tore Johansson, Stephen Street, John Leckie. Songs include "Waiting For A Silent Call" and "Jetstream". Guitarist Phil Cunningham is now a full member of the band. "It's very guitary and quite diverse" said a spokesman. Anybody can confirm this news, don't hesitate to send us a feedback!
According to a source close to the band, Peter Hook will be doing a DJ set in Miami in December. According to WorldInMotion.net, it will be December 5th, 2004 at the Knight Center, 400 SE Second Ave., Miami. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.
Johm Leckie, New Order's new album's producer, is answering Poptones' question of doom this week, and here is what he had to say about New Order: How are the studio sessions for New Order coming along? They are going really well. They have done some of the tracks with me and Stephen Street and some by themselves. All-in-all about twenty tracks. What can I say about New Order? They are great. Same as they ever were. How did you get asked to produce New Order? They just asked me. They phoned me up and asked me and that was it. I went up to see them at Realworld studios.
Veteran BBC broadcaster John Peel has died at the age of 65, while on holiday in Peru. Peel, whose radio career spanned 40 years, was on a working holiday in the city of Cuzco with his wife Sheila when he suffered a heart attack. John Peel played a huge part in Joy Division and New Order's career, hence why the band participated in his radio aniversary 2 years ago and played Transmission for him. He will be missed. Bernard Sumner said it was a "dreadful shock". "If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy Division and no New Order. "He was one of the few people to give bands that played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout his life. "He will be genuinely missed by millions of music fans all over the world, both inside and outside the music industry. Our thoughts are with his family." Peter Hook from New Order has also been in touch and told us that without John he doesn't think they would have made it: "It was funny because he actually helped our career from nothing." "We didn't meet him for a long, long time and one of our warmest memories is that he was just as nervous as we were about meeting him and as soon as you got together it was like meeting old friends." "I mean the guy really was somebody who looked after you - he had a love of music and helped people who made music." "He was the only support we had in the beginning - they were very cold and lonely days, and I've got an awful feeling that there'll be a lot of very lonely, cold, days without him ." "It's a really sad moment - for music, for radio, for groups in general. I'd hate to be in a new group starting out without John Peel."
No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani gets a lift from members of New Order and OutKast, rapper Eve and superstar producer Dr. Dre on her Interscope solo debut, "Love, Angel, Music, Baby." As previously reported, the 12-track set is led by the single "What You Waiting For?," which jumps 81-67 in its third week on the Billboard Hot 100. New Order vocalist Bernard Sumner and bassist Peter Hook guest on "Real Thing," which featured an intro provided by former Prince backing musicians Wendy and Lisa. Dr. Dre produced "Rich Girl" featuring Eve, who previously teamed with Stefani for the 2001 No. 2 Hot 100 hit "Let Me Blow Ya Mind."
Moby's upcoming album, to be released in March 2005, will feature a cover of New Order's Temptation. Actually Moby didn't clearly state if was Temptation, but judge for yourself: "i don't often cover other peoples songs. but cd1 will contain a cover. and the hint is...i bought a 7" single in the early 80's and it was very difficult to determine the artist because the artwork looked like blue flecked linoleum on the 7" sleeve. eh, you'll figure it out soon enough. it's very pretty, if i do say so myself."
LTM pushed the release date of the Revenge live album, titled No Pain No Gain to February 7th 2005. The album will contain 14 tracks: The full 8 tracks of the Cities in the Park 1991 performance. Plus 6 other tracks: Slave, State of Shock, Jesus I Love You, Dreams Never End (New Order cover), White Light/White Heat (Velvet Underground cover) and Citadel (Rolling Stones cover) Everything has been fully remastered.
Get Loaded Thursday 7th October DJ Sets: SHAUN RYDER (The Happy Mondays) TERRY HALL (The Specials) THE FARM (Feat. Keith Mullen & Peter Hooton) ANNIE MAC (Radio 1) SHAUN KEAVENY (X-FM) KAV (Sonic Audio / Happy Mondays) Live on Stage: SILENT PARTNERS (Feat. Dermo ex Northside) 3RD DAN (Honey Records) - - - Get Loaded Thursday 4th November An Audience with… Tony Wilson & Shaun Ryder Interview live on stage Shaun Keaveny (7.30-8.30pm) DJ Sets: PETER HOOK (New Order) SHAUN RYDER (The Happy Mondays) TONY WILSON (Factory Records) CLINT BOON (Inspiral Carpets) SHAUN KEAVENY (X-FM) KAV (Sonic Audio / Happy Mondays) 8.30pm – 3am £5 Guests / £4 NUS For more info at www.get-loaded.co.uk
How are you going to be approaching the soundtracks to the Joy Division movie? There are likely going to be three soundtracks to the movie; the first will consist of original Joy Division music, the second will consist of incidental music for the film, hopefully from the members of New Order, though, they may not be recording as New Order, per se. And the third soundtrack will be a little bit different - we have asked people who we know and like to do a cover of a Joy Division song. So far, Mogwai and Black Rebel Motorcycle club have expressed some interest to this, along with a few others. But to maintain the intensity and anxiety of each Joy Division track we are giving the bands only a couple days to record their cover - we will arrange the studio time at comparatively inconvient times - like, if they have a day off in-between a tour - to provide an atmosphere of intensity. What has been the reaction of people to the fact that Americans are making the movie of the life of Ian
According to the Observer, Brian Higgins of Xenomania has been commissionned to work for New Order. We can't say at this point if this is for a remix of an upcoming single, or for the album. Xenomania mades mixes for artists such as the Sugarbabes, Cher and Saint Etienne, they are currently working with Texas and the Atomic Kittens.
Tony Wilson faces Poptones.co.uk's QUESTION OF DOOM about his new record label Red Cellar, New Order, Joy Division, Grime, Raw-T, Hacienda, Happy Mondays, Factory, Twenty Four Hour Party People and the new projected film about Ian Curtis. Do you regret selling the Hacienda into flat conversions? No. The Hacienda before it ended was fifteen years of fucking financial nightmares. We lost millions on the place. When New Order were recording in Real World Studios I would be going down there every week to have a fucking crisis meeting about the Hacienda. It got to the point where Barney and I were in a meeting and I said ‘‘Barney, come one, it's been wonderful; if I there was a button that would make the Hacienda disappear - what would you do?'. And he said - ‘‘Show me the fucking button, Tony'. The Hacienda cost most of us a fortune. I agree that it is iconic and had its place for rock'n'roll and dance culture but everything has its time and place.
Jude Law is reported to have signed a deal to take on the role of tragic Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. The role is an unusual one for the British actor, who had recent big screen success in the American Civil War film Cold Mountain. The film has been backed by Hollywood and is apparently based on the book by Curtis' widow, Deborah. Curtis committed suicide in 1980 when he was only 23 years old. He is remembered as one of the UK's most troubled and talented musicians. The surviving members of the band went on to form New Order. Their classic hit Blue Monday was inspired by Curtis' suicide. Bass guitarist Peter Hook said Law was "not a bad choice". But he said he would have preferred to have seen Sean Harris reprise his role for the biopic, having played Curtis in 24 Hour Party People.
HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Jude Law is set for a return to Manchester - to play tragic Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis in a film about the celebrated singer. Producers of the biopic say they have lined up a "huge name" to play the lead role. And ex-Joy Division star Peter Hook says he believes 32-year-old Law, who was in Manchester to film a remake of Alfie last year, is the front-runner to play the role of Curtis.
Ian Curtis's fame lives on 24 years after his death The producers of a film based on the story of Joy Division say a major star is considering playing the tragic role of lead singer Ian Curtis. Curtis killed himself in 1980 just as the legendary and inspirational Manchester band were on the cusp of commercial success. The as-yet untitled film is based on a book written by his widow, Deborah.
In conjunction with Ian Curtis' posthumous 48th birthday (belated) six Malaysian bands, 360° Head Rotation, Hike, Crimson, Sick Society, Lurks, Hike and Walski of Sound present a tribute to one of the most influential bands the last century, Joy Division. Fried Monkey Productions presents LIVE TRANSMISSION. A tribute to Joy Division by Malaysian bands spanning several musical generations since Ian Curtis' untimely demise. Meant to be a belated celebration of Ian Curtis's posthumous 48th birthday, LIVE TRANSMISSION will show case local Malaysian bands ranging from one man acoustic to Electronic to Black/Death metal genres performing their interpretations of Joy Division songs and original numbers influenced by the great band. Saturday, 24 July 2004 . Paul's Place 105M, Jalan SS21/1A, PJ, Selangor, Malaysia. Saturday, 24 July 2004 . 8:00 pm (sharp).
The Turnmills are ecstatic to confirm that the legendary TONY WILSON will be headlining the next GETLOADED event on THURSDAY 1ST JULY. This is obviously a major coup and follows previous headline guests like Peter Hook, Mani, Bez, Mike Joyce & Andy Rourke, Clint Boon, Peter Hooton and Keith Mullin. As the former Factory Records boss, Tony Wilson oversaw the rise of JOY DIVISION, NEW ORDER, HAPPY MONDAYS, and countless other bands. He also ran Manchester's most notorious night spot - THE HACIENDA for over fifteen years… whilst still holding down his job as a Granada television reporter!! Tony’s autobiography – “24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE” was later made into a film of the same name with Alan Partridge actor Steve Coogan taking the lead role as Tony himself!!
Paul Cockerton (ManchesterOnline) - THREE New Order fans from different parts of the world have paid tribute to their heroes by compiling a CD of cover versions – despite never having met each other. Mike Nguyen from the US, Alejo Parella from Argentina and Canadian Nicolas LeBlanc ran a competition on the website neworderonline.com, where bands could submit their own take on one of the Manchester legends’ tracks. The site’s users then voted for their favourites and eventually whittled the list down to 16 tracks, which include versions of famous New Order songs like Temptation and Thieves Like Us as well as Joy Division classics Heart And Soul and Transmission. Nguyen, Parella and LeBlanc have now collaborated online to master the tracks, design the sleeves and iron out legal issues ahead of the release of the CD, entitled Community, on June 1.
Warner Brothers are about to discrease the amount of artists in their roster. According to Pitchfork Media, they will cut half of their 170 artists. The announced artists that might be dropped so far are: Green Day, The Stratford 4, Dream Theater, Depeche Mode, New Order, Jewel, Morcheeba, Deftones, Built to Spill, The Donnas, Barenaked Ladies, Junior Senior, The Stills and Mandy Moore.
It's difficult to think of many band managers who would inspire a memorial. But Rob Gretton - late manager of Joy Division and New Order, and driving force behind Factory Records - was a one-off. Shy but fond of situationist pranks, he had a gut instinct that earned him Herculean levels of respect and, five years after his passing at age 46, he is being remembered with love.
New Order’s highly anticipated new album is well on the way to completion, with the band explaining that they’ve got twelve songs ready, and that it sounds closer in style to their 1989 classic ‘Technique’ than their more recent output. The band are currently recording the as-yet-untitled new record (their first studio album since the disappointingly received 2001 ‘Get Ready’) at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios in Bath. "We've got 12 songs with vocals and we've recorded eight of them,” New Order frontman Bernard Sumner explained to 6 Music, “But because we've got Phil helping us on guitar now, the writing's going a lot quicker. ”So we've actually got 20 or 21 backing tracks written but of course I've got to catch up on the vocals and it's a lot harder work writing the vocals than writing the music, I can tell you."
DOVES were joined by NEW ORDER legend BERNARD SUMNER onstage last night (May 23). Doves did a 45-minute acoustic set at the Manchester Ritz last night at a tribute concert marking the fifth anniversary of the death of Manchester music legend Rob Gretton. A fan at the show told NME.COM: "About halfway though Doves' set Barney came on stage to play an acoustic version of ’Bizarre Love Triangle’. It was a touching moment." Elsewhere in the set the group played new song ’Almost Forgot Myself’, as well as the older material. A spokesperson for the event explained Gretton’s influence on the Manchester music scene. She told the Manchester Evening News: "Rob was a man who changed and shaped the Manchester music scene to such an extent that the past is now legend and the present still an ongoing part of the legacy. "He is best remembered in a professional capacity as the manager of Joy Division and New Order, and a directing force behind Factory Recordsand, later, Rob's Records.
Isn't it always the way? You wait 24 years for a biopic of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis and then two roll along at once. Barely 48 hours after the announcement of pre-production on the film Transmission by the team behind Secretary comes news of a rival production based on the memoir Touching from a Distance, written by the singer's widow. No doubt both films plan to cover the key events of Curtis's life: his formation of the seminal post-punk Manchester band, his bouts with depression and his suicide in May 1980 at the age of 23. It appears likely, though, that only one of the movies will now see the light of day.
New Order are currently holed up in a studio in Bath working on their 8th studio album. Peter Hook confirmed the band are halfway through the recording of what will be their follow up to 2001's Get Ready: "It's sounding great," he told 6 Music. "It's more Techniquey in its feel than Get Ready is and we're all feeling uppy and it sounds uppy." The forthcoming album will be the first offering since their collectors box set compilation 'RETRO' which came out late last year. John Leckie and Steven Street have been confirmed as dual producers. Hooky will also make an appearance at the Rob Gretton Tribute concert on Sunday 23 May at the Ritz in Manchester performing a song with A Certain Ratio.
An accoustic version of New Order's classic Bizarre Love Triangle was broadcasted today on BBC Radio 6. This version is a cover version recorded by Doves (former Sub-Sub), and they feature guest vocalist, New Order's own Bernard Sumner. The song is supposed to be played live at the Rob Gretton memorial event, but apparently, Doves and Bernard Sumner recorded it in a BBC Session, it was broadcasted yesterday, on ROCKET SCIENCE with Marc Riley. You can listen to the broadcast online, just go to the collaboration archives
Curtis (second left) died in 1980 aged 23 A film based on the life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis is to be made, according to reports. The film will be developed by American producer Amy Hobby, who was behind the Maggie Gyllenhall film Secretary, trade newspaper Variety said. Curtis committed suicide aged 23 in 1980, shortly before he was due to tour the US. Joy Division are regarded as one of rock's most iconic bands. Dance music star Moby is to act as the film's musical advisor.
The Manchester music scene of the 1970s and 80s that inspired Michael Winterbottom's film 24 Hour Party People is to spawn a second movie - based on the tragic life of the Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis. The biopic of the Joy Division star, who committed suicide at his Macclesfield home aged 23, is being developed by Amy Hobby, the American producer of the offbeat black comedy, Secretary, which starred James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhall. Moby will act as music adviser.
Shaun Ryder is going to play at Return To New York -- Barcelona on Friday 14th May alongside Arthur Baker & Sean McClusky. In addition to this, the same promoters are going to have a Hacienda room at RTNY in London which will take place on July 3/4th. The Hacienda Room Shaun Ruder Man Bez Bernard Sumner Graeme Park Mike Pickering Also, it's been said that Bernard will sing Transmission with the Doves at the Rob Gretton Memorial Event.
The lead singer for Peter Hook's new project (with Mani and Andy Rouke) Freebass has been selected, his name is Matt Clayson, 25 years old. He did an audition for the band last february and got the job! Answering at ads in the paper seems to work sometimes! Matt has been the lead singer for various bands, including GMR and Goodman Ray, he's also a guitar player. There is no release date for the Freebass album yet, but Peter Hook is playing one song on his recent DJ gigs.
John Leckie (picture) and Steven Street have been confirmed as the producers of the upcoming New Order album, along with Steve Osbourne (who produced Get Ready) for some tracks. Apparently the Brian Eno information wasn't accurate, even though the band tried to get him in the past. There is no release date yet and no live dates confirmed for this year.
Today, you can bid on two, apparently legit, Joy Division and New Order master tapes from Greece. The two tapes are Love Will Tear Us Apart and Thieves Like Us. Happy bidding! Love Will Tear Us Apart Master Tape Thieves Like Us Master Tape You are always welcomed to discuss this in our forums with other members.
20 May to 18 July A video project by Elliot Eastwick. The cities of Manchester and Detroit have many musical similarities, from the Northern Soul movement of 70s which adopted the Soul sounds of Urban Detroit, to the DIY nature of the early Detroit garage rock bands who influenced Manchester's punk era, the techno influences of the city on Manchester¹s club scene, which is still evident today. Both cities are renowned for emotive raw music that echoes the cityscape. Eastwick's video explores the influence this huge catalogue of Detroit performers and music producers has had on artists from Manchester. Featured are interviews with Manchester legends including The Hollies, Graham Nash, Carl Craig, Johnny Marr, 808 State's Graham Massey, Anthony Wilson, The Doves and many more. Look through the 'hall of fame' to see musicians from both cities, Iggy pop, Alice Cooper, George Clinton, New Order, Stevie Wonder, Morrisey....the list goes on, the beat goes on....and on. Free
A new book titled 33 1/3: Unknown Pleasures, written by Chris Ott (of Pitchfork) is set to be released on July 1st 2004. Paperback 128 pages Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group - Academi ISBN: 0826415490
AVALANCHE 3 / COMMUNITY RELEASE PARTY NO COVER CHARGE! THE BLUE ROOM 2321 18th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Sunday 30 May 2004 @ 8 p.m. Memorial Day Weekend! Special NEW ORDER party! The music of New Order, Joy Division and all the side projects spun the entire evening! Plus, Celebrate the release of COMMUNITY: A NEWORDERONLINE TRIBUTE. Copies of COMMUNITY and COMMUNTYEP will be given away that night! Stay tuned to NOOL for more information and visit MEDUSA PROMOTIONS
LTM will release in September the follow up to their Cool As Ice album, titled Twice As Nice and will be featuring songs from Section 25, Quando Quando, Cheyne, Anna Domino, Marcel King, as well as an exclusive edit of 586 from the Touch sampler, (aka Video 586). The Revenge live album will also be released in September, however, Peter Hook didn't decide yet which show will be released and is currently listening to tapes, but likekly to be culled from a couple of later shows and will include some classic covers. it will be a single disc set.
please tune in to WLUW 88.7fm (in chicago) on Monday April 26 for two hours of Joy Division. You can also listen on-line at wluw.org and chat with other nool'ers in the chat room wenorder created. There will also be a giveaway for the "Community" cd and "community ep". www.wluw.org (listen live on-line) chatroom: http://www.newordercommunity.com/newflash.html 10pm-12am (CST) Monday April 26, 04
We don't know if that is true (just like the John Frusciante news we posted yesterday, sorry for that, hope you liked it!) but the website PlayLouder announced today that New Order have asked 3 producers to produce their new album, those would be Steven Street, John Leckie and Brian Eno, they had a hard time chosing and they decided to have them all. More information when available...
Eight bonus tracks will be added to the soundtrack to the 1994 film "Reality Bites" for a 10th anniversary edition due June 8 from BMG Heritage. Six of the appended tracks, including Arrested Development's "Give a Man a Fish" and New Order's "Confusion," appeared in the film but not on the original RCA soundtrack. In its updated form, the set will contain all of the music that is used in the film.
Apparently, a new New Order song was played in Brighton, Peter Hook brought a little present for the fans, and the song had a positive reaction among the fans. He introduced the song as the "future of New Order" The song, we don't have the title, is said to have an intro like "1969" by the Stooges, and is supposed to be more guitar-based, it was also described as a mix of 1969 and Here To Stay.
Catalog Number: SFRSCD128 Tracklisting: 1. True Faith 2. Isolation 3. Touched 4. Atmosphere 5. Paradise 6. Slow Jam 7. Your Silent Face 8. Close Range 9. Rock The Shack 10. Transmission (Enhanced) Pre-order the CD directly from Pinnacle Entertainement by clicking here.
Time to vote! The final round is opened, you can now vote for the remix that will be featured on the Community EP. Project Wintermute or DJ Dorian. Direct Link to the poll
The remix competition for almanso's Angel Dust is now closed, it's time for you, the members, to vote for your favorite! The winner will win a place on the CommunityEP which should be available on April 13th, 2004. The 9 remixes received are: D.J. rEd - Angel Dust (Dealer of Magic Mix) (4:35) Spotnick - Angel Dust (Diabolique Version) (4:32) Dorian Hernandez - Angel Dust (Dorian's Electro-Mechanical Mix) (4:04) Tom Christen - Angel Dust (Dusty Mix) (4:01) Electric Colony - Angel Dust (Remix) (5:18) Project Wintermute - Angel Dust (Machine Remix) (5:23) Inta Don - Angel Dust (Dub Mix) (4:40) Manumatic - Angel Dust (Remix) (3:33) Mr Disco - Angel Dust (New Joy Remix) (4:24) Good luck, and don't forget to visit the Community Forum to cast your vote!
Is it a coincidence, or is it the work of our petition we launched last year and that draw so many signatures, but it's finally announced, Strange Fruit is releasing the 1998 and 2001 BBC Sessions on CD http://www.neworderonline.com/Images/Gallery/NewOrdeRadio1SessionSmall.jpg New Order - Radio 1 Sessions, Enhanced CD includes 5 tracks from 1998 plus 4 tracks from 2001. Tracks: 1.True Faith 2.Isolation 3.Touched By The Hand of God 4.Atmosphere 5.Paradise 6.Slow Jam 7.Your Silent Face 8.Close Range 9.Rock The Shack 10.Transmission (2002 Live Video) (see picture) Country: UK Release Date: 14-Apr-04 Catalog Number: SFRSCD128 Label: Pinnacle (Strange Fruit)
The non-winning songs have been uploaded to the website and are now available to download in mp3 format for those who are interested. Those are located in the cover archives, Community section So far, 19 songs have been uploaded, we are waiting for re-recorded versions and permission to publish the others.
LOOKS like New Order bass player Peter Hook might have something of a surprise chart hit on his hands. After some intense sessions in the recording studio, Salford band Hanky Park are finally putting the wheels in motion to release their own version of the Joy Division anthem, Love Will Tear Us Apart. And, while band frontman James Davenport tells me Hook has given his blessing for the cover of his old band's tune, the bass legend might not have been fully aware of what part he was going to play in the single's release.
Register today if you wish to have the chance to remix almanso's Angel Dust to have a change to win a spot on the upcoming Community EP which will be co-released with the Community album. Check the Community forum to register and check the latest news, more to come...
Good morning Peter, what's worth mentioning in Peter Hook's world today? Hours and hours of recording of the new NO album, while im also writing songs for my side-project with Mani and Andy Rourke (ex-Smiths), which will be called Freebass or Stalingrad, we havent decided yet... As for the rest, i lay at home with my wife, my 3 children, my 2 dogs and my cat, or i keep myself occupied with the basement, changing it all the time
Ram (ex-Monaco's David Potts' new band) release their new single "For Your Love" Feb 9th. The single contains 4 tracks For your love, Two Fine lovers, Dream Away and a Ninja Tunes remix of For Your Love. It's available on line now @ http://www2.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280%3b-1%3b-1%3b-1&sku=154117 Ram will be playing at 23rd Feb Boss music night - 93ft East London, 20th Feb Mcr Roadhouse, 11 March Leeds Royal Park Hotel, March (end) London Rough Trade. Any previous releases available from http://www.opalmusic.com/a_to_z/ram.htm
It was decided today that our 16th finalist, Project Wintermute (Transmission) would make it to the Community album, and that our 17th finalist, Manumatic (Love Less) would make it to the Community EP which has been announced last sunday.
Live tonight we revealed the winners of the Community contest. Congratulations to all our winners: 586 - La Fin De Tout Angel Dust - Almanso Bizarre Love Triangle - Dance Upon Nothing Dead Souls - Spiral of Silence Dreams Never End - Flight Face Up - Labster Heart And Soul - The Slightlynarrow Soundsystem In A Lonely Place - C Bentley Procession - Captain Black Some Distant Memory - Cloudless Sooner Than You Think - kREMLIN The Perfect Kiss - International Thieves Like Us - Evaluna Transmission - Project Wintermute True Faith - Unfaith We All Stand - The Minus One
Peter Hook, of New Order, now has a copy of the NewOrderOnline tribute album in the making, Community. A CD was given to him by Sophia and Elias (from the group The Minus One, one of Community's finalist) last saturday on Peter Hook's DJ set done in Thessaloniki, Greece (hosted by George Fakinos) So Peter now possess the CD and has said he would listen to them and give us his feedback, so there is hope. Once again, we remind you that you have until January 31st, 23h59:59 Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5) to cast your vote for Community (song and sleeve), access everything via the banner or the Community menu above. Visit the forum to see all pictures from the DJ event.
We received a mail today from James Nice at LTM saying that people who order One True Passion v2.0 off their website (http://www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk) will receive a free promo CDR of the two exclusive new tracks. It is said to come in a nice stamped card sleeve. The songs are the wilding and televive.
A new compilation that says to "FEATURING MANY TRACKS AND MIXES NEVER BEFORE COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE ON CD" will be released on January 27th 2004, and will contain the Pascal 12" Mix of Tasty Fish by The Other Two (Gillian Gilbert & Stephen Morris). Complete tracklisting is: 1. A-ha 'Take On Me' Extended Version 2. Camouflage 'The Great Commandment' (Ext. Dance Remix) 3. Erasure 'Blue Savannah' (Out Of The Blue Mix) 4. Vis-A-Vis 'Shadowplay' (Shadow Mix) 5. The Screaming Blue Messiahs 'I Wanna Be A Flintstone' (Ext. Mix) 6. The Spoons 'Symmetry' (Extended Mix) 7. INXS 'Burn For You' (12" Extended Mix) 8. The Dream Academy 'Life In A Northern Town' (Extended Version) 9. The Other Two 'Tasty Fish' (Pascal Mix 12") 10. Echo & The Bunnymen 'Bring On The Dancing Horses' (Extended Version) 11. The Cure 'Boy's Dont Cry' (Resung and Club Mix 86) 12. The Beloved 'Your Love Takes Me Higher' (The Pod Went Pop Mix) 13. Book Of Love 'I Touch Roses'
It is now the time to vote between the 38 sleeves submitted for Community - A Tribute To New Order, contest is opened from January 1st to January 31st. Winner will be the sleeve with the most vote and the contest is completely anonymous. Click on the Community menu above to visit the Community song & sleeve voting pages...
Returning to the city where his legendary career was launched, Peter Saville brings a three-decade retrospective of his work to Urbis in Manchester, opening on 23 January and running through 18 April 2004. Born in Manchester in 1955, Saville honed his skills at Manchester Polytechnic in the late 70’s alongside his friend, Malcolm Garrett. By their second year, Garrett had begun making his presence felt in the Manchester music scene by designing covers for legendary punk group, The Buzzcocks. This proved to be the catalyst that influenced Saville to start on a career path that would allow him to firmly establish himself as one of the luminaries of the Manchester scene.
You are now invited to vote for your 15 favorite songs from the Community project. Community is a tribute album made by NewOrderOnline members, now 50% of the songs have been eliminated, it's now up to you to select the best 15 tracks that will make it to the final CD. The final round is from December 1st 2003 to January 31st 2004, so there is no hurry, you will have plenty of time to listen to each and every song. To listen to the songs and vote, click on the "Community Final Round" in the main menu above. Do not hesitate to post your comments about the whole experience, but please read the rules carefuly as they are very important.
NEW YORK CITY SATURDAY, Nov 29th HYBRID (live) with NEW ORDER’s Peter Hook * Exclusive US Appearance * PETE TONG $25 general admission $15 reduced list before 12am / $20 reduced list after 12am Reduced list Email: NYAvalon@hotmail.com www.NYAvalon.com In support of their critically acclaimed album Morning Sci-Fi, HYBRID bring their unique live performance with very special guest bassist and collaborator - Peter Hook . The new album is a powerful, emotive opus that's equal parts exquisite and menacing. For their live performance you can expect them to effortlessly combine cinematic flourishes and sturdy rock inferences with their signature progressive house and breakbeat fusions. This is a historical merging and synergistic powerhouse performance from EDM’s past, present & future. @ AVALON 662 Sixth Avenue @ 20th Street 212.807.7780 Doors at 9:00pm – Show at 10:00pm 18+ girls, 21+ gents
We now have all our finalists for the final round beginning December 1st, but there are 15 finalists that didn't have to participate into the elimination rounds because they submitted covers nobody else did, so here is your chance to listen and comment their songs before the final round begins. Visit the Community Forum now
Here is the tracklisting of One True Passion v2.0: REVENGE “One True Passion V2.0” DCD Disc One: “One True Passion V2.0” Televive / The Wilding / Deadbeat / State of Shock / Little Pig / Cloud 9 / Jesus I Love You / Pineapple Face / Big Bang / Slave / 14K / Bleachman / Surf Nazi / 7 Reasons (demo) / Amsterdam / It’s Quiet Disc Two: “Be Careful What You Wish For” Underworld / Deadbeat (Gary Clail dub) / State of Shock (US Edit) / Pineapple Face’s Big Day (US remix) / Pineapple Face (Pickering & Park remix) / The Trouble With Girls / Wende / Slave (Joe Smooth edit) / I’m Not Your Slave (US remix) / Hot Nights Cool City / Surf Bass / Bleach Boy / Soul / Kiss the Chrome / Fag Hag / Precious Moments / Pumpkin
According to the band's website, the 2 songs that won't make it on their upcoming album are two New Order covers, Blue Monday and Confusion. The band is planning to release them as a 12".
Phase 2 of the Community tribute album has started, 3 challenges are up and it's up to you to decide which version of the following song will make it to the final round: Elegia: CTB vs Electrodiesel Face Up: Avenpitch vs Labster Guilty Partner: Alight vs Alight (Instrumental vs Vocal) Time to vote! No more arguing! May the best win!
A new Joy Division boxset will be released on November 17th, which will contain 3 CDs, Les Bains Douche, Preston and Live at the Paradisio (see picture). The first two are already available. The box will also contain a limited edition black t-shirt, but the design is not known yet, and an exclusive reproduction of Les Bains Douche's poster.
This is the last polls of the first round in the Community processing, and it's featuring 3 regular members of NewOrderOnline. Experience the industrial covers of Razed in A New Division of Agony (Disorder, Doubts Even Here and This Time of Night) Experience the deep covers of Known Pleasures who covers Joy Division's Passover and Exercice One. Feel free to leave your comments in the forum.
Flesh Berlin is releasing I Am Dalek, the first album by Corvin Dalek. Everybody that followed the story of Crystal knows the song was not a New Order song from the beginning, it was given to Flesh Berlin, who is the label of a former Factory Germany representant and former Factory artist (Mark Reeder of Shark Vegas) who had a song remixed by Bernard Sumner, You Hurt Me. The song has been used by several artists, it even contains lyrics that are not in the New Order version of the song. However, the song was pulled and New Order used it as their comeback single. However, Flesh Berlin is now releasing the first Corvin Dalek album, which contains the crystal Hustler & Stossdämpfer‘s Donner & Sumner remix of Crystal. You can listen to a preview of the album on Flesh Berlin's website.
As announced by NewOrderOnline.com last may, a new Revenge/Monaco compilation is in the works, we now have more details. It will be released on LTM Records, the same that released the Cool As Ice compilation recently on February 24th 2004. This will be, as announced in may, a double CD, which is supposed to contain One True Passion and Gun World Porn on the first CD, remixes and re-recorded tracks on the second CD.
According to ManchesterOnline, a source said to them that the latest New Order sound is similar to that which they produced in their previous guise. "It is much more like Joy Division again," he says. "Gillian has left completely and they don't write so many keyboard parts any more."
Again, it's the time to select a finalist for 3 new bands, mrmoth, C Bentley and Delaney. mrmoth: She's Lost Control, True Faith C Bentley: Temptation, In A Lonely Place Delaney: Heart & Soul, Decades Take a little time to listen to those covers and to pick your favorite for the final tracklisting battle of Community. Direct Link To The Community Forum
Parts of the Peter Saville show at the London Design Museum are transfering to New York's P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. It is scheduled to open on October 12th. Peter Saville British graphic designer Peter Saville is closely associated with the post-punk music world, and has designed iconic record covers for Joy Division, New Order, Peter Gabriel, Suede, Pulp, among many others. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is located at 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave in Long Island City, 11101.
The deadline has passed, submissions are coming it, it's Community time again, 3 polls have been uploaded by the producers this week, 6 songs are in elimination, 3 must proceed to the next level. kREMLIN submitted Sooner Than You Think & These Days. Captain Black submitted Procession & Transmission Kein Zeichen von L submitted Heart and Soul & Too Late Polls are opened until October 12, artists are waiting for your comments. Visit the Community Forum for the polls are more news about Community.
You can vote for the contender song for the final tracklisting of the Community Tribute Album, Manumatic is now facing elimination to pick one song for the final battle. His covers are: Love Less, Temptation Direct Link To The Poll Page
You can vote for the contender song for the final tracklisting of the Community Tribute Album, almanso is now facing elimination to pick one song for the final battle. His covers are: Angel Dust, Everyone, Everywhere & Ceremony. Direct Link To The Poll Page
On july 25th, BBC broadcasted a session of Hybrid songs featuring Peter Hook. You can listen to them now on BBC's website: Tracklistings: 25/7/2003 Hybrid Maida Vale Session Hybrid - 'Visible Noise' (Distinctive) Hybrid - 'Kill City' (Distinctive) Hybrid - 'If I survive' (Distinctive) Hybrid - 'I'm Still Awake' (Distinctive) Hybrid - 'Know Your Enemy' (Distinctive) Hybrid - 'Higher Than A Skyscraper' (Distinctive) Hybrid - 'True To Form' (Distinctive) Hybrid - 'Blackout' (Distinctive) Radio 1's One World Page Hybrid's album, Morning Sci-Fi, featuring Peter Hook is due to be released September 2003.
The polls to select a contender for groups Overcast and Minus One are opened in the Community Forum. Community is the NewOrderOnline tribute to New Order, we already had one poll for the group Flight which lead to their rendition of Dreams Never End to be their contender for the final tracklisting. Stay tuned as other groups are in the process of submitting their covers, with the upcoming deadline.
Razormaid are offering NewOrderOnline registered members another special in their catalog, here is the mail we got from them: Recently, we have had a few more people from Neworderonline.com contact us, asking if they could purchase the special offer we set up for your members awhile back. There's no problem at all with them buying. However, they are having trouble locating the link, as it is not visible from any area of our newsite. It was a special "link" set up by us, exclusively for your members, not to be seen by our members as the price was 1/3 of what our members were paying.
Mark Radcliffe presents a two part profile of the Manchester mavericks - from Joy Division to today. The first part will be broadcasted on Saturday 12 July 21:00 - 22:00, the second part will be broadcasted on Saturday 19 July 21:00 - 22:00 on BBC Radio 2. People not from the UK can tune BBC Radio 2 from the web at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2.shtml There is a feature page about the forthcoming New Order Documentary on Radio 2 which you can link to directly. Listeners will be able to hear the programmes for 7 days after TX directly from that page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/documentaries/neworder.shtml
You ever wanted to have a complete, autographed, Joy Division collection? This might be your chance, somebody is selling his pretty much complete collection at EBay.com and it has been a subject of discussion for the last few days on the NewOrderOnline forums. Of the few items available, the original An Ideal For Living 7" EP autographed by all 4 Joy Division band members, The Short Circuit 10" EP also autographed as well as several other rare items. The Holy Graal for all Joy Division collectors. This might be a once in a lifetime opportunity. Direct link to the auction...
A compilation labeled Cool As Ice will be released by LTM, which features hits produced by B Music (various members of New Order) from 1983 to 1985. The tracklisting will be: 52nd STREET - CAN'T AFFORD (TO LET YOU GO) SECTION 25 - LOOKING FROM A HILLTOP MARCEL KING - REACH FOR LOVE QUANDO QUANGO - LOVE TEMPO 52nd STREET - COOL AS ICE PAUL HAIG - THE ONLY TRUTH QUANDO QUANGO - ATOM ROCK NYAM NYAM - FATE/HATE LIFE - TELL ME THICK PIGEON - BABCOCK + WILCOX SECTION 25 - BEATING HEART BE MUSIC - THEME The album has been digitally remastered and runs for 74 minutes. The vinyl version will be limited to just 1000 copies.
"There's a "Glastonbury" style festival taking place in Wythenshawe Park on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd June. It's in aid of the Kirsty Howard Appeal. Peter Hook is one of the comperes. Loads of bands on. It's a free event so should be mega" Sun 22 June Special guest Peter Hook of 'New Order' will be introducing today's bands, he may even strap on his guitar.
According to WorldInMotion.net, New Order has recorded a new song called Soundtrack which can be heard only at The Peter Saville Show, opening on May 23rd at the London Design Museum. The song length is 25 minutes, and will be available for sale at the museum soon after the opening. The exposition is held from May 23rd to September 19th 2003.
24 Hour Party People is being premiered at the Rex cinema (Metro: Grands Boulevards) in Paris this coming Thursday evening (May 15th). Then there's a special Haçienda party in the Rex Club downstairs from midnight onwards. Ex-Haçienda DJs Laurent Garnier, Dave Haslem and Mike Pickering will be manning the turntables. More info available at http://www.rexclub.com
23 May to 14 September 2003 at the London Design Museum. One of the most influential designers working today, Peter Saville has been a cult figure in both graphic design and pop culture for 25 years since the start of his long collaboration with the bands Joy Division and New Order as art director of Factory Records, the legendary independent record label. He has also created iconic fashion images in his work for Yohji Yamamoto, Christian Dior and, now, Stella McCartney and Givenchy. This first retrospective of Peter Saville's work, drawn from his private archive, will trace his career from Factory Records to his recent multimedia projects while tracing the history of contemporary graphic design and the story of how style culture hit the High Street. Supported by VH1.
Other planned releases in this Rarities Series include Tender Bruises And Scars (CDMRED 232) by Kevin Hewick – A Collection of Cherry Red and Factory records tracks recorded between 1980-1983 which including the track ”Haystack” which features backing from the ex- members of Joy Division on their first recording as New Order.
Just follow the instructions below: Text HOPE followed by a space and then the 5-digit product code of the item you wish to order, and send to 87234. (For example: to get "Vietnam" ringtone, txt HOPE 09883 to 87234)
A website has been opened for Hope, the upcoming War Child charity CD that will be released on April 21st 2003. The full album is available for listening, so you can listen to the full New Order cover of Jimmy Cliff's Vietnam, but you must have Macromedia Flash installed. The Website is localted at: http://www.hope-cd.com
The full album tracklisting is as follows: Travis - 'The Beautiful Occupation' Avril Lavigne - 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door' Paul McCartney - 'Calico Skies' David Bowie - 'Everyone Says Hi' George Michael - 'The Grave' Ronan Keating - 'In The Ghetto' Lee Ryan - 'Stand Up As People' Moby - 'Nearer' New Order - 'Vietnam' Basement Jaxx feat. Yellowman - 'Love Is The Answer' Spiritualized - 'Hold On' The Charlatans - 'We Got To Have Peace' Beth Orton - 'O-O-H Child' Tom McRae - 'Border Song' Billy Bragg - 'The Wolf Covers Its Tracks' Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) - 'Peace Train' Available on April 21st.
PETER HOOK has joined forces with dance team HYBRID on their forthcoming album 'MORNING SCI-FI'. The New Order bass maestro has co-production credits on one track - 'True To Form' - and has also collaborated on new track 'Higher Than A Skyscraper'. The record is the follow-up to the Welsh-based collective's 1999 debut album Wide Angle, which earned them a support slot withMoby. Hybrid mark their live return this Friday (April 4) with a live set at London dance venue Fabric.
AVRIL LAVIGNE has reworked BOB DYLAN's classic 'KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR' for the forthcoming 'WAR CHILD: HOPE' album - a fundraiser for children in Iraq. David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Travis, Spiritualized, Moby, New Order, The Charlatans and George Michael are also amongst the stars who have contributed tracks to the 17-track record, set for release on April 21. "Whatever the politics, whatever the rights and wrongs of war, children are always the innocent victims so I am delighted to be able to make this small contribution to a magnificent project that I hope goes a long way to alleviating some of the pain and suffering," said McCartney. He has re-recorded his song 'Calico Skies' from 1997's 'Flaming Pie' for the album. David Bowie has also re-worked one of his own songs, 'Everyone Says Hi', and Yasuf Islam, '70s star Cat Stevens, has come out of self-enforced exile to redo his own hit 'Peace Train'.
THE Daily Mirror is joining the charity War Child to produce an album of peace songs to raise funds for children in Iraq. The record, called Hope, will feature stars including David Bowie, George Michael and New Order. Many have written songs specially for it. Others will cover classic peace songs. Yusuf Islam - formerly singer-songwriter Cat Stevens - has recorded his first song in English in 30 years. Major record label WEA will produce and distribute the album, which will be in the shops next month, without taking a profit.
Last night (March 11th 2003), during the Red Hot Chili Peppers's gig at the Manchester Evening News arena, John Frusciante and Chad Smith did a rendition of Blue Monday. John Frusciante is known as a Joy Division/New Order fan, and jumped on state at the Los Angeles 2001 gig to join New Order and Moby for their version of New Dawn Fades which is available on the 24 Hour Party People soundtrack.
The first argentine official homage party for NewOrder will take place in Buenos Aires. the bands almanso and final feliz will play and djs will put the best music of the 80s. With the support of the argentine web page www.newOrderargentina.com.ar the party will be celebrate on friday febraury 28th at 11PM on the De la Almohada Theatre, Bustamante 728, Buenos Aires, Argentina. We invite you to come if you´re near. the tickets costs 4 pesos (1.25 us dollars) including one drink and the right to listen to the bands and to enjoy the party.
"Heart and Soul" is the title of a rare limited Japanese LP, that was released last year in Japan to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the death of Ian Curtis on may 18th 1980. This Vinyl-only release contains the rare tracks from the "Heart and Soul" CD, previously available in a special and long deleted Box-Set only. The album is packaged in a full colour cover with inner sleeve and the LP comes in coloured vinyl. This is a limited edition, available in Japan only before. Available soon at MusicNonStop.co.uk, you can still order the rare Joy Division 8 track LP "Heroes"!
Le voilà! On l'attendait depuis près de deux mois, de délai en délai, mais il est arrivé: le coffret anthologique de New Order qui, non content d'être en soi un coffret digne de ce nom, réinvente le concept même du coffret.
The new HYBRID album is almost finished - it's 99% there. The last thing to do will be a collaboration with New Order's Peter Hook. He's doing the bass lines for a couple of the tracks for the album. Basically Peter is in the studios with Hybrid at the moment putting the bass lines onto two of their tracks. You can visit Hybrid's website at http://www.hybrid-group.com
New Order might be widely regarded as one of the most innovative British pop groups of the last two decades, but they still have no idea what the secret of their success is. Holed up in drummer Stephen Morris's Macclesfield studio, they crack jokes about their ex-label mates, reminisce about their back catalogue and speculate about their future. For the record, Hooky would like to move to Ibiza whilst Bernard and Stephen can't imagine ever leaving Manchester. Determined to find out what's kept them together for seven albums, twenty-something singles and a World Cup anthem, PLAYLOUDER grilled them about everything from Smashing Pumpkins to Joy Division.
Opal Music is listing International to be released in the UK on February 10th 2003 as a double cd package with bonus PAL DVD. We don't have the confirmation of that release yet, but it's listed for pre-order at Opal Music. The US edition of International, set to be released on February 11th 2003, has a limited edition of 25,000 copies, which is a double cd package with a bonus NTSC DVD (containing the True Faith and Perfect Kiss videos, as well as Blue Monday live at Finsbury Park)
Graças ao revival corrente, muita gente deve imaginar os anos 80 como um glorioso momento pop, legítimos bons tempos. Um erro. Existiam, claro, as saudáveis cenas de indie-pop inglês, electro, hip hop e tecnopop, além das melhores fases de Madonna e Prince. Mas quem dominava eram Dire Straits e Alphaville. O preconceito corria solto. Depois que a disco foi limada da superfície pop, quase tudo relacionado a dançar batidas mecânicas repetitivas era visto como pobre, raso e efeminado. Quem gostava de solo de guitarra não podia gostar de Madonna.
No dia 16 de janeiro de 83, pouco antes da meia-noite, pelas mãos de um DJ da rádio Piccadilly, uma emissora de Manchester, era veiculada pela primeira vez na Inglaterra a "música nova de uma banda que vocês já devem conhecer", nas palavras do locutor. Sem saber, ele estava debutando o single que mudaria o pop desde então. "Ouvir aquilo foi... estranho. E bem excitante", disse à Folha, por telefone, Tony Wilson, dono da Factory Records, a gravadora que lançava aquela canção: "Blue Monday", do New Order. "Aquilo foi uma linha separando a nova da velha música."
Peter Hook spent a few days to collaborate with a new band called Jobe, and produced the tracks on their upcoming Love Buzz EP which will be released on February 17th 2003. Visit their website to preview the EP http://www.jobeonline.co.uk And visit the forums for a chat with guitarist Rob Williams. Proceed to read the full article that came with the picture.
Q Magazine released a Top 100 of songs that changed the world, and New Order's Blue Monday is ranked 9th of all time. Top ten of Q's 100 Songs That Changed The World: 1 Elvis Presley - That's All Right; 2 The Beatles - I Wanna Hold Your Hand; 3 Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen; 4 Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight; 5 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit; 6 Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit; 7 Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone; 8 Run DMC - Walk This Way; 9 New Order - Blue Monday; 10 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
The album is now available for pre-orders at serveral stores (CDUniverse.com or CDNow not to name them). International is released by Rhino Records in the USA and is set to be released on February 11th 2003.
We were told that HMV is selling a special limited edition of the 24 Hour Party People which has a different cover, which is basically the same as Tony Wilson's book.
We received a mail from Fuses Magazine, they have put online on their website an interview with Peter Hook. Visit http://www.fusedmagazine.com and click on Peter Hook's photo, you need Macromedia Flash to see the interview.
The greatest band to consistently and artfully mix rock and dance music, New Order did everything right: craft well-written, sonically adventurous singles (Blue Monday), create quintessential albums of their era (1985's Low-Life), commission influential club remixes (Shep Pettibone's mix of Bizarre Love Triangle) and perform a career's worth of soul-stirring live shows. Treating its four discs as distinct samplings of each of these strong suits, Retro ropes in outside experts to select its track listings. Although this results in some duplications (three versions each of Crystal, Regret and Fine Time), and a few omissions (no Love Vigilantes), the usually inspired selections reflect the versatile Manchester, England, quartet's unfailing knack for tuneful passion. And for all of New Order's studio elegance and club-accessible mutability, the live disc is radically, raucously raw.
Peter Saville is perhaps the most influential graphic designer of his generation. Best-known for his seminal record covers for Joy Division and New Order, Saville has also art directed catalogues and advertisements for fashion brands such as Yohji Yamamoto and Dior, and created corporate identities for Givenchy, Mandarina Duck and London's Whitechapel gallery. More recently he has designed CDs for Pulp and Suede, and art directed the print campaign for Stella McCartney. 'Designed by Peter Saville' is the first book of his work. Comprising design for music, fashion, advertising and art, it chronicles his design from 1978 to the present. The book includes a comprehensive interview by Christopher Wilson as well as essays by style writer Peter York, music critics Paul Morley and Miranda Sawyer, and design critics Rick Poynor, Emily King, and Peter Hall.
"Just like the era it captures, this DVD of "24 Hour Party People" is unique. Produced in the UK, it pleases both in content and superior design that makes it the first exciting DVD of 2003, and a must-have for music fans." Go further to read the full review from the BBC...
DURAN DURAN are lining up some of the best remixers to help with their comeback. The Eighties giants are set to team up with Norwegian duo ROYKSOPP, Manchester legends NEW ORDER and techno star MOBY in the coming months. Singer SIMON LE BON said: "2003 is a big year for us."
24 Hour Party People will finally be shown to the people of Sydney, Australia. On February 12th, the movie will be shown at the Open Air Cinema, located in the Botanical Garden (overlooking the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House), quite different from Madchester! Tickets are available from the website http://www.stgeorge.com.au/openair.
Peter Hook gave an interview to the Metro free paper where he's talking about Retro and the Haçienda. Hooky is also talking about the new album and that he hopes the album will be done this summer and they can tour, all he needs to do is to convince Bernard Sumner. Go ahead to read the full interview.
Rhino has just launched a contest for an autographed New Order guitar at the same page. Unfortunately the contest is only open to US residents. The guitar, a Fender Stratocaster, is signed by Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Steven Morris. The link to do so is posted on Rhino's New Order Page at http://www.rhino.com/artists/neworder/
Rhino has just started to pre-sell the Retro box set on their web site at a 10% discount with the 5th bonus disc that's also available as a limited edition in the UK. http://www.rhino.com/artists/neworder/ It's in stores in the US on January 7, 2003. Sales are only open to US residents.
A limited number of the US edition of Internation will convain a free DVD that will contain the videos of: True Faith The Perfect Kiss Blue Monday (Live at Finsbury Park Festival 2002)
New Order chose a succinctly foretelling name in the aftermath of Ian Curtis's suicide. It speaks of a group intent on putting their glorious but infernally doomed past behind them. A group who would engineer a pioneering musical vision and, interestingly, write the first decent football song. 'Retro' - in theory - bids to reflect the resurrection of a group of gloomy, post-punk torch-bearers, who became a revolutionary pop group and ultimately infiltrated and shaped modern music in a more consuming fashion than even Joy Division could consider.
The US domestic release of Retro (Rhino, January 7th 2003) will have the same bonus disc as the UK release. It's been limited to the first 3000 copies, so we suggest you pre-order it to reserve your copy. For a full tracklisting, check the discography.
XFM are having a Christmas give away of CD's, DVD's and much more. Some of which are New Order Retro signed 4CD box sets. Please see the link below: http://www.xfm.co.uk/webClient?guid=42876&site=xfm&rs=xfm
A review in The Observer today is claiming what most of the forum contributors thought. "Fans on a New Order website grumbled so much when the details of the box set were announced - not enough rarities, you see - that a fifth CD was hastily added, of harder-to-find material, such as the full version of 'Elegia'." So you can see that we did have a small part on the bonus disc you can get with Retro, and again thanks to Jonathan Scott for being the link with the band's management. (Remember that you can see Jonathan's work in the bonus features on the 511 Finsbury Park DVD). Go ahead to read the full review from Kitty Empire.
This is a version of Crystal that surface before Get Ready, when this song was given away to a german label, MFS, many people are aware of the Corvin Dalek version, but NewOrderOnline has found another version, which is by CyberSecrecy, and it features exclusive lyrics that we are not sure the Corvin Dalek version had: The closer that I get to you The more you run away from me Just tell me what I've got to do You don't have to be afraid of me I want your love I need your love I want the things that others have Whenever you're here with me That's where I want to be This song is our Song of the Month in our audio archives, and can be found on a 12" Crystal from MFS/Berlin or on a trance compilation called Trance Extasy 2002.
A group of south americans New Order fans started a petition to ask New Order to tour in South America. More informations can be found in the portuguese forum of NewOrderOnline and at the following URL: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/FACLA1/
Many members of this site received an email from HMV UK confirming the shipment of their copy of Retro. "We have shipped the following items in your order 6335037 on 2002-12-06: 1 CD NEW ORDER RETRO: BOX: 4CD GBP 23.82"
The official site for the New Order box set Retro is now opened. Visit http://www.NewOrderRetro.com Well done site for the box set, and one information finally revealed, Cries & Whispers was mislabled as Mesh on Substance, so this mystery is finally solved.
A limited edition with a bonus disc will be available with the release of Retro by Rhino (A Warner Music Group company) in the USA. The release date is now January 7th 2003, and the tracklisting for this bonus disc is unknown for now.
A new official website, NewOrderRetro.com is coming up, according to the Network Solution website, the domain name is registered to Warner Music since November 14th. The site should open soon.
Virgin Radio is having an online vote to determine the Top 100 UK artists, you can vote for New Order by visiting http://www.virginradio.co.uk/thestation/top100/vote.html. It seems to be accessible to UK people only due to postcode restrictions.
Some users from this site who has ordered the Finsbury Park DVD (5 11) from HMV.com received a notice today that it has been postponed to December 17th.
Razormaid Production just released New Order - In Hindsight 2 a remix compilation, and it's currently the Daily Special at the Razormaid site. The compilation is containing home maid remixes from Razormaid, a DJ Service Remix company. The tracks on this album are: Confusion / Everything's Gone Green / Your Silent Face / Round & Round / State of the Nation / Thieves Like Us / Vanishing Point / Spooky / Mr. Disco / Perfect Kiss / Ultraviolence
According to Ice Magazine, the upcoming box set Retro will feature a 72 pages booklet similar to the one release with Joy Division's Heart & Soul. Liner notes from all four members, rare pohotos and more will be available in there.
NewOrderOnline has started a petition to ask Strange Fruit Records (affiliate of the BBC) to release the 1998 & 2001 BBC Sessions and the Transmission version played for John Peel in 2002. You can sign the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/FACP1/petition.html The petition will be submitted to Strange Fruit on December 25th, so we hope this will be a Christmas gift for everyone!
A five-year split, a suicide, financial ruin, heavy cocaine abuse... New Order have survived the lot - and they're nowhere near quitting. Ted Kessler meets the Macclesfield three.
Warner Music Vision marks more than two decades of New Order with a stunning live performance DVD and VHS release - NewOrder 511 on 9th December. Continuously at the cutting edge in music video evolution, New Order is a different breed when performing live. Bernard Sumner's abstract lyrics, Peter Hook's soaring bass-as-lead-guitar and mournful catchy tunes mesmerised audiences on their first UK tour in eight years. NewOrder 511 is an open air spectacular and features 16 tracks, 5 Joy Division tracks and 11 from New Order's impressive repertoire, hence the title NewOrder 511.
New Order are to give away a limited edition bonus CD with the first 3,000 copies of their forthcoming box set RETRO. The CD contains four tracks which do not feature on the four-CD, 56-track compilation, which is scheduled for release on December 9 in the UK. It also contains five tracks which appear on the box set in a different form. The tracklisting for the limited CD is: Temptation 98 Transmission (Live At the Big Day Out, 2002) Such A Good Thing Theme From Best & Marsh Let's Go (From 'Salvation' soundtrack) True Faith (Pink Noise Morel edit) Run Wild (Steve Osborne original mix) The Perfect Kiss (Live take from a video shoot) Elegia (Full version)
The 3000 first copies of the four CD boxset Retro, which will be released on December 9th in the United Kingdom, will feature a bonus limited edition CD which will contain rare tracks such as the full 17 minutes version of Elegia, Temptation 98 and the original mix of Run Wild, the World in Motion website reports. For the moment, this is only true for the U.K. release of the boxset. Click the picture for more.
Pink proved she could rock with the best of them at the opening gig of her UK mini-tour. Her feisty image and strong voice soared as the pink hair and girly appeal was ditched for a darker, grungier look. It was lapped up by a 3,000-strong crowd that included New Order’s Peter Hook and UK actress Tracy Shaw. Pink’s only other British dates will be the Birmingham Academy on Monday 11th and Brixton Academy on Tuesday.
This cover is the one on Amazon's french site, and we now believe that there will be a different cover for each country where the DVD will be released. Click to see the picture.
New Musical Express released its list of the 100 Greatest Singles of all time, and Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart is the #1 on that list. 1. Joy Division - 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' 2. Nirvana - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' 3. The Sex Pistols - 'Anarchy In The UK' 4. The Rolling Stones - 'Paint It, Black' 5. David Bowie - ''Heroes'' 6. The Stone Roses - 'Fools Gold' 7. The Smiths - 'This Charming Man' 8. Oasis - 'Live Forever' 9. Massive Attack - 'Unfinished Sympathy' 10. The Clash - 'London Calling'
For those in the US that didn't get a chance to pick up the Japanese CD with the live track "Temptation/Star Guitar" it is coming out in the US next Tuesday. 1. Star Guitar (Trisco LA Funk Dub) 2. HIA 3. Come With Us (H Foundation Remix) 4. Electronic Battle Weapon 6 5. Temptation/Star Guitar (Live from Brixton Academy) 6. Star Guitar video 7. The Test video
New Order have confirmed details of their forthcoming box-set, which comprises four CDs and chronicles the band's seminal 20-year career. 'Retro' brings together studio, live recordings and remixes from the iconic Manchester electro-rock heroes and is released on December 17. The box will be followed by a single CD release, entitled 'International', in January, which will feature 14 tracks. There will also be an accompanying limited edition run of a second CD, although the content is as yet unknown.
There are promotional copies of Retro available right now, if you feel like collecting CDR. The interesting thing is that it confirms the tracklisting, with all the proper times and everything.
In the nick of time for the holiday season, iconic British synth-pop act New Order will next month release "Retro," a four-disc survey of its career, to be followed in January by "International," a single-disc collection of hits. The box is scheduled for a Dec. 17 release, while the hits set is due Jan. 28; both will be issued via Warner Bros. A limited number of copies will also include an additional five-song second disc, the content of which was unknown at deadline.
Opal is offering New Order fans the opportunity to pre-order Retro on £27.95, they state they are one of the cheapest. They also offer a special deal for Confusion 2002, which will be released next monday. The Finsbury Park DVD & VHS will also be available from them.
Retro, the New Order box set, and the Finsbury Park DVD (in Region 1 NTSC) will be released in Canada on December 3rd 2002. There is no release planned for the DVD in the US, but the canadian version is the same. There is no plan to release a VHS copy of the Finsbury Park concert in Canada.
According to the french MTV, a Digipak version of Retro will be available, and will contain 5 exclusive rare tracks from the Power, Corruption & Lies sessions. They also say that a 12" single will be available with two remixes, one from Kevin Saunderson and another from Arthur Baker. No further details are given. This information was released on October 21st, and we're looking for a confirmation.
HMV Canada lists a different cover for the Finsbury Park DVD, we don't know yet if this is the right one, or if it's only for the canadian release. We have another artwork available for the DVD.
Tomorrow night 7pm-8pm on Xfm 104.9 (London) The Finsbury park gig is being played. The english station broadcasts also via the internet on its website (http://www.xfm.co.uk)
If you're fed up with superstar DJ poseurs and like the idea of an unpretentious rollicking good laugh on a Monday night, look no further. Birmingham's Code venue will shortly be hosting a new weekly Monday night entitled Happy Mondayz, which will feature Madchester DJs. The night will kick of on Monday September 30 with DJ sets from Bez (Happy Mondays) and Clint Boon (Inspiral Carpets). Subsequent Mondays will operate a rota system, whereby at least two of the following DJs will play: Bez (Happy Mondays), Manny (Primal Scream / Stone Roses), Bernard Sumner (New Order), Craig Gill (Inspiral Carpets), MC Tunes (808 State / Dust Junkies) and Andy Rourke (Badly Drawn Boy / The Smiths). HAPPY MONDAYZ Every Monday starting September 30, 2002 9:30pm - 2:30am Admission ?3 b4 10:30 / ?4 after At Code, Heath Mill Lane, Digbeth Birmingham
The tracklisting was released today, not official though. Disc One: Fine Time / Temptation / True Faith / The Perfect Kiss / Ceremony / Regret / Crystal / Bizarre Love Triangle / Confusion / Round & Round / Blue Monday / Brutal / Slow Jam / Everyone Everywhere / Disc Two Elegia / In A Lonely Place / All Day Long / Your Silent Face / Sunrise / Broken Promise / Dreams Never End / Cries & Whispers / Chosen Time / Ecstasy / Sooner Than You Think / Leave Me Alone / Lonesome Tonight / Every Little Counts / Run Wild Go ahead to see disc 3 & 4..
Apparently, the IV box set and the International album. will see the light of day in the US, on Rhino Records, the same label that released Joy Division's Heart & Soul box set. The box set would be released in December 2002, International in February 2003.
A LICENSING mix-up has left hundreds of music fans disappointed after the cancellation of the play Glastonbury at Whitworth Park. The stage version of the festival, written by Manchester's Zoe Lewis, has Brit-art's Damien Hirst on board as set designer, Fat Les frontman Keith Allen doubling up as actor and director and had recruited New Order to provide musical interludes live at the show's Whitworth Park tour dates.
This first collaboration between New Order and the legendary DJ/producer Arthur Baker brought Manchester's lively indie scene together with the sound of New York.
With the release of Song On Page One, RAM's (David Potts, ex-Monaco member with Peter Hook) new EP, their official website has been updated. A new RAM track in mp3 format (Roll Up!) is also available to download for all.
According to Amazon.fr, the french release of "International" would have the following sleeve and name. It has been postedponed to November 5th 2002. This is not an official information, as this was a work title as was "Here to Stay", we still don't have the confirmation from Warner Musique France. The french edition will be a double CD package.
24 Hour Party People will be released on DVD in the UK on January 27th 2003. This double disc set will contain a lot of bonus, including Anthony H. ilson's commentary, Here To Stay video, comments from Peter Hook. Also, the DVD is given a FACT number, FACDVD424.
Ex-FACTORY RECORDS boss TONY WILSON has been declared bankrupt, but is claiming it is all a mistake. Wilson, whose Factory label launched Happy Mondays and New Order, is due in court in at the end of the week in an attempt to get the judgement overturned.
The movie 24 Hour Party People finally finds it way to Sweden. It will be shown on october 25th, 22:45, at the Stockholm movie festival Popcorn(www.popcorn.nu). Don't miss out if you're in Stockholm and haven't seen it before.
Phil who? Yes, you know, the guitarist that was playing with New Order on their last tour. We received an email from someone sending us news of Phil and about his other band Label.
According to Opal Music, an indie specialist record shop, some versions of "International" will contain the original version of Confusion, others will contain the 1987 (Substance) version. We don't have any information yet, on which version will contain which version.
Fatboy Slim, New Order, Joe Strummer, UB40 and Alabama 3 are to star in the forthcoming Keith Allen-directed play, 'Glastonbury'. The play, which charts the experiences of seven festival goers, visits five venues over the coming months and features Damien Hirst designed sets underneath a 'big top' style circus tent.
You can now pre-order your copy of the Finsbury Park DVD on Amazon UK's website. The DVD will be released on November 11th. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006LSFK/ref=pd_rhf_p_2/026-6017665-6122810
The movie was translated to "A Festa Nunca Termina" (The Party Never Ends) and there are four dates in Festival do Rio BR 2002. More info in the official website: http://www.festivaldoriobr.com.br/f2002/asp/filme.asp?id_filme=117
A rep from New Order's U.S. management accused the record companies of lacking a spine. "If record companies and radio can't exploit bands, then they don't know how to handle them. I think it's systematic of the whole industry, not just one company. These companies can only handle radio fodder, although I don't know what that says about the whole business itself."
DMC and NewOrderOnline are offering you the chance to win one of the 5 copies of the new New Order Back To Mine, which was released recently by DMC. Visit the contest page by clicking here to submit your entry. The draw will be done on September 27th 2002.
Festival Rio BR abre maratona cinéfila em 26 de setembro da Reuters, no Rio e em São Paulo Cinéfilos cariocas vão precisar de muito fôlego, vários baldes de pipoca, aquele velho moletom do fundo da gaveta e paciência para enfrentar filas. Dia 26 de setembro começa o Festival Rio BR de Cinema, com centenas de produções espremidas em 14 dias de mostra _quatro dias a mais do que no ano passado.
According to WorldInMotion.net, New Order's single Confusion will be re-released for a 3rd time in the UK, on September 23rd 2002. New remixes done again by Arthur Baker (original producer and co-author of the track), who also did the 1990 remixes of Confusion. The single will be released in 3 different 12" (no information about CD yet): CONFUSION ARTHUR BAKER/ASTO UK, 12" CONFUSION J SANCHEZ UK, 12" CONFUSION KOMA & BONES UK, 12" Remixes are done by those artists.
24 Hour Party People is scheduled to play twice on August 23rd, in the Montréal World Film Festival (Canada). August 23rd at 09:00 Cinéma PARISIEN - P4.23.1 - English. August 23rd at 19:00 Cinéma IMPÉRIAL - CI.23.5 • English.
The most popular movie critics in the US gave 24 Hour Party People 2 thumbs up, meaning both liked the movie. You can listen to the review by clicking the speaker icon.
The new mix album from DMC featuring New Order in the Back To Mine serie will be available on September 30th 2002. The artwork is now available (see picture). The album will be available in two formats, one mixed, one unmixed, meaning there is a version where all remixes on the album will be mixed together, and one other with a silence between each track. Here is the tracklisting: 01. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band 'Big Eyed Beans From Venus' 02. Primal Scream 'Higher Than the Sun' 03. Missy Elliot 'The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)' 04. The Velvet Underground 'Venus in Furs' 05. Doves 'M62 Song' 06. Roxy Music 'In Every Dream Home a Heartache' 07. Cat Stevens 'Was Dog a Doughnut?' 08. Mantronix 'Bassline' 09. The Groundhogs 'Cherry Red' 10. Joey Beltram 'Energy Flash' 11. Donna Summer 'I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley mix)' 12. Can 'Mushroom' 13. Rhythim is Rhythim 'The Dance' 14. Giorgio Vs Talla 2XLC 'E=MC2'
It might not be as prestigious as Cannes, but the movie 24 Hour Party People, which is about Anthony Wilson and the history of Factory (New Order's initial label) will be shown at the Montréal World Film Festival in Canada. The exact date is unknown at the moment, but the movie festival is held from August 22nd to September 2nd 2002 in downtown Montréal. The movie festival will be showing movies from 75 different countries, and tickets for one movie will be 10$ CAN (6-7$ US approx).
The official web site for ex-Monaco (with Peter Hook of New Order) songwriter David Potts's new band 'RAM' is now available at http://www.r-a-m.com. It features all kinds of cool stuff as well as the opportunity to download an exclusive full-length RAM track "Whatever Happened To Me?" in MP3 format. Head on over and check out this exciting new Mancunian band, and be sure to give the track a listen. RAM will be playing live in September at the following UK venues: - 16/09/2002 Manchester Jabez Clegg - 19/09/2002 Manchester The Attic
24 Hour Party People, the new movie from Michael Winterbottom, shown at the Cannes Festival, will be show in New York City on August 9th 2002. The movie will be shown next in a limited list of cities accross the United States of America starting August August 16th. Here are the theatres: Opening 8/9: Landmark Sunshine- NY, NY AMC Huebner Oaks- San Antonio, TX Opening 8/16: Laemmle Sunset- LA, CA Laemmle Monica- Santa Monica, CA Laemmle Playhouse- Pasadena, CA Regal University- Irvine, CA Landmark Embarcadero- San Francisco, CA Landmark Shattuck- Berkeley, CA Opening 8/30: Angelika Film Center- Dallas, TX Landmark Greenway- Houston, TX Angelika Film Center- Houston, TX Landmark Lagoon- Minneapolis, MN Landmark Hillcrest- San Diego, CA Opening 9/20: Reading Tower- Sacramento, CA AMC Castleton- Indianapolis, IN Marcus Westgate- Madison, WI
NEW ORDER, Oasis, The Charlatans all turned down the offer to play at the closing ceremony of next months commonwealth games. Manchester's biggest heroes declined to support the event, being held in the city for the first time. Instead, Eastbournes Toploader will provide the musical end to the grande finale on August 4. A source tells us "The organisers were really keen to get a big home town name, so the obvious choices were New Order, Oasis and The Charlatans - however all refused the slot. The bands all came to the same conclusion - that the gig would be a bit naff." Robbie Williams was other to turn down the offer of playing at the ceremony.
New Order were joined onstage by comedian Keith Allen for a work through football anthem ’World In Motion’ during their homecoming gig on the final day of the NME-sponsored Move Festival, last night (July 13). Allen joined the veteran Manchester band just before the encore, taking the chanting vocal parts and the John Barnes ‘rap’ from the original – released as the 1990 England World Cup football squad anthem.
It's only taken them 25 years, but New Order have finally got this gig thing licked. All you need, it would appear, is a singles set, a few rehearsals to shed that hit-or-miss tag, and an approach to stagecraft presumably inspired by a careful study of pantomime. Here are the showmen, anyone?
The upcoming double-CD from the Joy Division/New Order Live in Concert tracklisting is now revealed, it turns out Radio 21 from Belgium was wrong, those are NOT the Peel Sessions, the CD is titled Before & After, the release date is July 16th: DISC 1: JOY DIVISION 1. Exercise One 2. Insight 3. She's Lost Control 4. Transmission 5. Love Will Tear Us Apart 6. 24 Hours 7. Colony 8. Sound Of Music 9. Transmission 10. She's Lost Control 11. Ian Curtis & Stephen Morris Interview DISC 2: NEW ORDER 1. Touched By The Hand Of God 2. Temptation 3. True Faith 4. Your Silent Face 5. Every Second Counts 6. Bizarre Love Triangle 7. Perfect Kiss, The 8. Age Of Consent 9. Sister Ray
World In Motion will be reissued on June 3rd 2002, with a brand new New Order song titled Such A Good Thing, the single version and the no alla violenza mix of World In Motion. This reissue is just in time for the FIFA World Cup 2002. The song will also appear on The Beautiful Game 2 compilation, which gave us the exclusive 1996 remix of World In Motion on it's first version.
Since New Order's comeback in 2001, the English band has been on the list of requests from Roskilde Festival's audience. The request is now fulfilled, New Order is confirmed for Roskilde '02. This time English band NEW ORDER joins the line-up. After eight years of silence, NEW ORDER came back last year with a new album, which will take them on a small exclusive tour this summer. One of the few stops on the their tour will be Roskilde Festival. Roskilde Festival takes place 27, 28, 29, 30 June 2002. The camping areas will be open from Monday 24 June at 12:00 noon.
24 Hour Party People has been selected in official competition at the 2002 Cannes Festival, the most prestigious movie festival in the world. The movie directed by Michael Winterbottom will be one of the 21 movies in competition. One of the rules to participate in the Cannes Festival is that the movie wasn't shown elsewhere than the country of origin, hence why the movie was only shown in the UK yet. The Cannes Festival is held from May 15 to 26, the jury is directed by David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive)
Monday April 15th 2002 is the official release date of the new New Order single Here To Say, produced by the Chemical Brothers and taken from the 24 Hour Party People Original Soundtrack. There is 4 items released, 2 CD Single, a DVD single and a 12" single which will be released on April 29th. There is a release scheduled for Australia, we have no information at this point for an american release.
NEW ORDER, DOVES, ELBOW, ALFIE and SHAUN RYDER’s new band SWR are to play the third day of the NME sponsored MOVE festival on July 13. The concert at Lancashire County Cricket Club in Manchester is jointly supported by both NME and Uncut and follows gigs by Green Day and No Doubt on July 11, the NME day, and Paul Weller, Ian Brown, Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros, Shed Seven and Haven on July 12, the Uncut sponsored day. Tickets for New Order are on sale from April 6 priced £28.50 (subject to booking fee). For tickets to the other dates, call the NME Ticketline on 0870 1 663 663, or click here for Green Day and here for Paul Weller
New Order are considering playing a whole set of tracks from their former Joy Division days at their forthcoming appearance in Finsbury Park. Recent tour dates have seen the band add Joy Division tracks to their set, but bass player Peter Hook says they are now considering separating their new and old material into two self contained sets. The concert follows the release of the movie '24 Hour Party People', which is based on the life of New Order and Joy Division associate Tony Wilson. The event takes place on June 9 and the line up also includes Air, Super Furry Animals and Echo And The Bunnymen.
New Order are confirmed to play in Paris on May 26th 2002 at the Zénith. You can buy tickets at the FNAC, the price is a flat rate of 34,90 Euros. There is a little confusion because there is sites listing this concert on June 5th.
Peter Hook and Keith Allen want David Beckham to rap on a remix of New Order's 1990 World Cup anthem. The pair want to release a new version of World In Motion in time for this summer's tournament in Japan and South Korea. A spokesperson for David Beckham says the England captain has yet to be approached about the project. Hook told dance music site BurnItBlue: "Keith Allen's got a bee in his bonnet about getting Beckham to do the rap on World In Motion and doing the remix.
New Order will join the Red Hot Chili Peppers as Very Special Guests at Dublin's Lansdowne Road on Tuesday June 25th 2002. Tickets are €45.50 - €54.50 and are available from Ticketmaster outlets nationwide. For telephone bookings, call the 24 Hour Ticketmaster credit card line on 1890 925 100.
Listen to a sample of the upcoming New Order single Here To Stay which is available in the Multimedia Audio Archives of this site. You can also listen to a simple of the Felix Da Housecat Mix which is online since two weeks. Like a bright light on the horizon Shining so bright, he'll get you flying Drive you away, Drive you insane but down on your move honour your pain Like a bright light on the horizon Shining so bright, he'll get you flying He'll get you flying, he'll get you flying He'll get you flying, flying, flying
Here is the official release information for the upcoming single Here To Stay: Here To Stay UK, 12" 01. Here To Stay (Full Length Vocal) 02. Crystal (Original) 03. Here To Stay (Felix Da Housecat Mix) 04. Here To Stay (The Scumfrog - Dub Mix) Here To Stay (Part 1) UK, CDS 01. Here To Stay (Radio Edit) 02. Here To Stay (Full Length Vocal) 03. Player In The League Here To Stay (Part 2) UK, CDS 01. Here To Stay (Radio Edit) 02. Here To Stay (Felix Da Housecat Extended Glitz Mix) 03. Here To Stay (The Scumfrog Dub Mix) Here To Stay UK, DVD 01. Here To Stay (Video) 02. Here To Stay (Radio Edit) 03. Here To Stay (Felix Da Housecat Mix) 04. 24 Hour Party People (4 Film Clips) The release will be on April 1st 2002.
It seems like New Order will be working this summer. NewOrderOnline can confirm that New Order will be part of the Hultsfred 2002 festival in Sweden. New Order will be the main artist of the festival, other known artist featured in that festival are The Chemical Brothers and Ramstein. The festival is from June 13th to June 15th 2002, New Order will be playing on the 15th. Tickets are on sale already, call +46 77 170 70 70 for more info. The price is 1.170 SEK (approx 116 €).
The tracklisting of the upcoming soundtrack for the movie 24 Hour Party People was revealed, and there is one more surprise: the live version of New Dawn Fades with Moby at the Area:One Festival. Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols / Ever Fall In Love - The Buzzcocks / Janie Jones - The Clash / Digital - Joy Division / Atmosphere - Joy Division / Otis - Duretti Column / Temptation - New Order / Hallalejah - Happy Mondays / Voodoo Ray - A Guy Called Gerald / Pacific State - 808 State / New Dawn Fades - New Order and Moby / 24 Hour Party People - Happy Mondays / Fools Gold - Stone Roses / Loose Fit - Happy Mondays / Here To Stay - New Order and Chemical Brothers / Blue Monday - New Order / Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
NEW ORDER's co-production with THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS will be released as a single in April. The track, titled 'Here To Stay', has been given a confirmed release date of April 1 via WEA/London. It doesn't feature on the current New Order album 'Get Ready', instead forms part of the soundtrack to the forthcoming Manchester movie '24 Hour Party People'. '24 Hour Party People' documents the rise of Tony Wilson's Factory Records label and the Hacienda club scene in Manchester during the late '80s and early '90s. Listen to a 30 seconds sample of Here to Stay in the audio archives of this site.
Thanks to DJ Pete Tong, he played a remix of Here To Stay in his Essential Collection called Felix Da House Cat Mix on his show. NewOrderOnline has a 30 seconds clip of the chorus available in the audio archives of this site. The release of Here To Stay is scheduled for March 25th 2002.
'24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE', the movie based on the story of FACTORY RECORDS and the HACIENDA nightclub, was given its first screening in its native MANCHESTER last night (February 13). Although it was not an official premier of the Michael Winterbottom-directed film, many of those involved in the production - including Factory boss Tony Wilson and New Order bassist Peter Hook - were present. Click the picture or more to see the actors playing New Order and the rest of this news.
Australia's video show «Rage» had invited New Order to pick their favorite videos of all time. The results are quite eclectic. We suspect some picks to be humorous more than anything else (like Hello by Lionel Richie... but who knows with New Order). Here are the videos they chose as their favorite ones and the time they were broadcasted:
According to Rage website, a New Order guest program is coming soon. The show will be on Saturday February 9th at 11:05PM in Australia. Rage is simulcast on Triple J between 1AM-6AM Friday & Saturday nights.
The collaboration between New Order and the Chemical Brothers called Here To Stay will be released as the next New Order single. It will be part of the soundtrack for the movie 24 Hour Party People and is scheduled to be release for March 25th 2002 or early April. Promo copies of the single will be sent in 2-3 weeks. The track listing may include 3 new songs from the Get Ready sessions, including the previously unreleased Player in the League.
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The house in which Joy Division singer Ian Curtis killed himself has been put up for sale. The property, in Barton Street, Macclesfield, was the scene of one of rock and roll's most tragic events, with Curtis hanging himself on the eve of an American tour in May 1980. Curtis's death prompted the collapse of Joy Division and the formation of New Order, who emerged from the ashes of the post-Punk legends. An advertisement on a housing website, understandably, makes no mention of the events in the home, which Curtis shared with his wife and daughter before his suicide. The two-bedroomed terrace house is described as being "ideal for first-time buyers" and valued at £65,000.
There is no confirmation from Reprise Records yet, but CDNow is listing 60 Miles An Hour in their advance orders, and it's not listed as imported. They have the following list: 60 Miles An Hour - January 15th 2002. 60 Miles An Hour 1 - January 29th 2002. 60 Miles An Hour 2 - January 29th 2002. So far, there is no track listing nor information about this upcoming release.
Anthony Wilson's book, 24 Hours Party People, will be released on March 8th 2002. Anthony (Tony) Wilson is the former owner of Factory Records & co-owner of The Hacienda with New Order. This book is a biography, probably about the history of Factory, so there should be plenty of material about New Order.
There is a New Order mix album due in March on DMC Records. There isn't much details available, but DMC (Dance Music Club) is the label that did several DJ Service remixes of New Order songs (Blue Monday for instance). According to some various sources, the album is set to be released in Q2 2002 and is from the Back To Mine collection.
The official Monaco website is putting online 4 unreleased tracks from Monaco, Peter Hook's side project. The track are available on the MP3 format. Those songs are: The Wilding, Glass Box, Microbes & Smoothie. Briefly commenting on the tracks, David revealed that "The Wilding" was a post-Revenge composition that was written before Monaco officially formed. He also mentioned "Glass Box" was originally titled "Happy Jack 2" and featured instrumental keyboard lines which eventually became Music for pleasure track "Sedona", and guitars which ended up on the final version of "Happy Jack".
Synthphony Records have put together a project in order to create a tribute album to New Order, and the product of their efforts will be available in stores on December 19th «TRUE FAITH - A TRIBUTE TO NEW ORDER» (SYN027) is featuring 14 tracks. These tracks are:
NewOrderOnline.com offers you the chance to view the 60 Miles An Hour video which was recently shot. The members of the band don't appear in the video other than on a postcard, but the video is a short movie about a man driving in his car with a bear suit. We'll leave the rest up to you, and you are invited to leave your comments in our forums (English, French, German or Swedish!).
60 Miles An Hour will be available on 2 CD Singles and a DVD single. So far, only a UK release has been confirmed. The single will contain remixes of 60 Miles An Hour & Someone Like You, plus a new track, Sabotage, which used to be called Run This River Dry on earlier promo of Get Ready. NUDVD9: 60 Miles An Hour Tracks: 01. 60 Miles An Hour (Radio Edit) 02. Sabotage 03. 60 Miles An Hour Video NUOCD9: 60 Miles An Hour (Part 1) Tracks: 01. 60 Miles An Hour (Radio Edit) 02. Sabotage 03. Someone Like You (Funk D'Void Remix) NUCDP9: 60 Miles An Hour (Part 2) Tracks: 01. 60 Miles An Hour (Supermen Lovers Remix) 02. Someone Like You (James Holden Dub) 03. Someone Like You (Future Shock) Release date has been postponed on November 19th in the UK. We have also confirmation that Someone Like You will be released as a Dance Remix Package in the UK.
According to VH1, if Get Ready is well-received Stateside, New Order plans to return for an extensive U.S. tour. In the meantime, the band will play dates across Europe and continue working on new material. New Order have already got four songs in the can and will release an EP next year called New Order Vs. Chemical Brothers, a collaboration with the popular electronic duo. According to other sources, the tracklisting would contain 2 mixes of Here To Stay, a remix and some bonus beats, plus 2 new other unreleased songs from New Order. It's also said that Stephen Morris is working on a remix of the song.
Rolling Stone Magazine gave Get Ready 3.5 stars out of 4. The review done by Neil Stauss can be read on the news page (click More or the picture). Many reviews will be posted for the release of the album in North America, stay tuned.
Crystal, the first single off Get Ready will be number one on October 20th 2001 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Dance/Club Play. Congratulations to New Order for this well deserved recognition. And thank you to the remixers of Crystal who helped this song go to #1. Due to the success of Crystal, Reprise Records is considering releasing another single with new remixes of Crystal, maybe some from the remix contest. Get Ready will be out in North America on October 16h 2001.
New Order has been confirmed to participate in the Big Day Out Festival in Australia, in January 2002. They will then play in the cities of Sydney (January 26th 2002) and Melbourne (January 28th 2002). Tickets go on sale on October 19th 2001.
NEW ORDER started their UK tour on home turf last night (October 4) with their first major MANCHESTER show for nearly three years. The band played the first night of a two-night residency at the Manchester Apollo to a suitably packed crowd of local fans and friends. Excepting a minor appearance to launch next year's Commonwealth Games, the last time they played in the city was New Year's Eve 1998.
On September 24th John Peel got together with a few hundred close personal friends to celebrate something special - his 40th anniversary as a Radio DJ. His career started at WRR radio in Dallas, America, before he returned to the UK to work for the ground-breaking pirate radio station Radio London. He's been at Radio 1 since its start and is credited as helping thousands of bands get their first radio plays. All in all an excuse for a proper celebration. The party was originally organised for a few weeks previous, but had to be postponed. Sadly this meant not everyone who had been invited to the original night could make it. New Order were going to play live, but as they had to miss it they sent a video message and live recording of 'Transmission'. The video is available for you to see for the next 2 weeks on the BBC website, follow this link.
Koch Records will be releasing a new edition of Twisted Tenderness called the Deluxe Edition on October 9th 2001. This 2 CD set will have the following tracklisting: DISC 1: Make It Happen / Haze / Vivid / Breakdown / Can't Find My Way Home / Twisted Tenderness / Like No Other / Late At Night / Prodigal Son / When She's Gone / Flicker DISC 2: King For A Day / Warning Sign / Make It Happen - (remix) / Haze - (alternative mix) / Prodigal Son - (Star in your own mind mix) / Radiation / Prodigal Son - (touched by the hand of inch) / Prodigal Son - (two lone swordsmen) / Prodigal Son - (Harvey's greatly deluded mix) / Come Down - (Cevin Fisher mix) There will be soon a promotion with Koch Records on this site, stay tuned.
According to the official Monaco website, David Potts and his band RAM (formerly Brushed) will be supporting New Order on key dates of their forthcoming UK tour in October. For those who don't know him, he was the singer/guitarist of Monaco with Peter Hook. More information will be available later, specific dates also.
It's been EIGHT years since New Order made a record but now they are back with Get Ready, one of their finest albums of the 20 year history. In the time away, they've teamed up with different bands, played the odd live show and even split up. Luckily they answered everyone's calls to get back together and now are planning an even longer and brighter future. Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris gave us the lowdown on life back at the top, and why they still remain the best of pals. You can read what they had to say here as well as hear them talk.
NEW ORDER have revealed details of their first UK tour in eight years. New Order play: Manchester Apollo (October 4-5) Glasgow Barrowlands (7-8) London Brixton Academy (10-11) Tickets for the shows go on sale at 9am on August 25, and are priced £23.50, and £25 in London. HOT NEWS: New Order will play in Berlin and again in Cologne (Köln), Germany. Check the news below for more details. They will also be in PARIS, France, November 11th and 12th at the Olympia.
New Order will be on Top of the Pops on BBC1 (UK) this Friday, August 24th at 7h30 PM. The show will be rebroadcasted on Sunday, August 26th at 2:25 AM also on BBC1.
The last time, it was for Spooky in 1993. Now New Order comes back in force with an outstanding first single from the new album "Get Ready". The new single is called Crystal and it announces that New Order has still great days ahead. A new New Order era.
Every New Order record needs to be well digested before you can make an opinion of it. This is what I did, and now I feel I can make an opinion. Read on.
PETER HOOK has told NME.COM that NEW ORDER will undertake a major UK tour in October - and he wants BOBBY GILLESPIE to perform with the group on some of the shows. Speaking to NME.COM this afternoon (August 8) following the band's return to the UK from the Area:One touring festival in the US, the bassist said New Order were hoping to play approximately 12 shows in the UK in the autumn.
New Order is today's Artist of the day at Billboard's website. We learn in the article that "New Order will tour Europe Oct. 14-Nov. 12. Sumner say a U.S. tour is also "strongly expected" during first-quarter 2002." Click on more below to read the article on them by Julie Taraska.
The US version of the Crystal CD Single will be released on August 14th 2001. It will be a 9 tracks maxi single, containing mixes of Crystal and the B-Side Behind Closed Doors.
New Order returned for the first time in the new millenium on stage today at Liverpool. Guest band member was Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins., replacing Gillian Gilbert who is taking care of her child. The setlist was: Atmosphere, Slow Jam, Crystal, Regret, Love Vigilantes, Isolation, Your Silent Face, Turn My Way (featuring Billy Corgan on vocals), Close Range, Touched By The Hand Of God, Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith, Temptation, Love Will Tear Us Apart Encore: Ruined In A Day, 60 Miles Per Hour, Blue Monday
The long-awaited 81 tracks summary of Joy Division's career that was released in the United Kingdom in 1998 will finally see the light of day on the north american continent on AUGUST 7th 2001.
New Order has finally settled on a tentative track listing for NEWORDERGETREADY, its first album in eight years. Here is the tentative track listing for NEWORDERGETREADY: 1. "Crystal" 7. "Run This River Dry" 2. "60 MPH" 8. "Player In the League" 3. "Turn My Way" 9. "Primitive Notion" 4. "Vicious Streak" 10. "Slow Jam" 5. "Nothing's Gonna Change" 11. "Run Wild" 6. "Someone Like You"
NewOrderOnline.com has the confirmation that New Order will play with Robbie Williams at the Mungersdorfer Stadium in Cologne, Germany, on Saturday August 11th 2001. You can verify yourself at Pollstar.
NewOrderOnline.com offers you the full Porno Club Mix of Crystal, by Corvin Dalek and Bernard Sumner. You had the opportunity last week to listen to a 30 seconds clip, now it's the full unreleased song. This song was written for Corvin Dalek but wasn't released because they tought it could become a good New Order single. Note that this version doesn't sound at all like the New Order version of the song, but it's a good techno version from the german DJ. Check our multimedia area for listening to it. Read the full story in our news section, the discuss it in on the Dry 201 Message Pub.
