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News Bad Lieutenant

A message from Bernard Sumner

"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.

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Bad Lieutenant cancel US tours due to visa issues

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."

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Bad Lieutenant to support Pet Shop Boys

Chances to hear old Electronic material might surface! --- Pet Shop Boys are very proud to announce that Bad Lieutenant will be performing as very special guests on the Christmas UK dates of their “Pandemonium” tour. The UK dates are: December 17: Glasgow SECC December 18: Birmingham NIA December 20: Manchester Evening News Arena December 21: London O2 Arena

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Bad Lieutenant Gig Reviews

There has been several fan reviews of the first Bad Lieutenant gigs and a fair amount of video bootlegs for some song that are worth watching if this interest you. Bad Lieutenant are now finishing their mini UK tour, are expected to gig in New York and Chicago in November and there are rumors of a Hamburg gig soon. Brighton Digital 20/10/2009 (Gig Reviews) London Heaven 21/10/2009 (Gig Reviews) Manchester Ritz 22/10/2009 (Gig Reviews) Paris Olympia 04/11/2009 Chicago Park West 18/11/2009 Chicago Aragon Ballroom 19/11/2009 New York Webster Hall 21/11/2009 New York Hammerstein Ballroom 23/11/2009 It was a nice surprise to see them play original material as well as Joy Division, New Order, Electronic and Chemical Brothers material.

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BAD LIEUTENANT LAUNCHES ONLINE STORE, ANNOUNCES LIMITED EDITION BOX SET

Bad Lieutenant, the new project helmed by Bernard Sumner (Joy Division/New Order), has just launched a U.S. store on its website - http://badlieutenant.net/ - and has announced a Limited Edition box set for its debut release, Never Cry Another Tear, in-stores November 10. A limited number of the Never Cry Another Tear Deluxe Edition will be made available in the U.S., and includes a copy of the CD, a 14-track, deluxe double 180g vinyl of the album, a 7" vinyl featuring the tracks "Sink or Swim" and "Dynamo," a deluxe 12" booklet, an artwork print, and a special Bad Lieutenant t-shirt. In addition, several other bundles are available from the Bad Lieutenant store, offering the physical CD and high quality MP3 digital downloads of the new album, bonus tracks, album artwork, and 180g, 14-track exclusive vinyl. Log onto http://badlieutenant.net/us-store/ to pick your bundle.

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Exclusive Intewview with Peter Hook

Chris Nash interviewed Peter Hook last week at his book launch for a good 30 minutes interview exclusively done for NewOrderOnline. You can watch the interview by visiting our forums. Click here to view the interview or visit our YouTube video channel. Click here to download a pdf transcript of it.

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New Order’s Sumner Talks Birth of Bad Lieutenant, Plans for U.S. Gigs

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.”

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Get Never Cry Another Tear for $2.99 today

Hello Fans, The highly anticipated new album, Never Cry Another Tear, is NOW available HERE exclusively through Amazon MP3, for only $2.99. Purchase now as this deal will only be available for 24 hours! We hope you enjoy! - The Bad Lieutenant Team

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Never Cry Another Tear: The NOOL Review

As a New Order fan, you have to have mixed feelings when you are about to listen to Bad Lieutenant's first LP Never Cry Another Tear (released in UK on October 5th), you're sure you won't like it because it's not New Order and wish for them to come back, but then you watch the video for Sink or Swim, the album opener and first single off the album (which you can view here and suddenly it looks like it's New Order circa 2005 with the obvious missing bass god. And this is what you get from listening to the album, you find yourself expecting Hooky's bass at specific places in songs and it's nowhere to be found or it's replaced by guitar and you know it would have been amazing featuring Hooky instead. But, we had that feeling earlier with Electronic material, so it's not new for the New Order fan, while Monaco was Hooky's bass, and as close to Bernard Sumner's vocal David Potts can be, he's not Bernard Sumner, and it's nothing against David which I met and talked with when we collaborated on the Community tribute project. Overall, Never Cry Another Tear is exactly like all material coming from Bernard Sumner, you are not sure if you enjoy it, but the more you listen to it, the more you actually enjoy it. It's always hard to detect the input of other band members Phil Cunningham and Jake Evans, as it seems every song in there could have been written by New Order, but that was also the case with Johnny Marr's work with Electronic, we never really how which percentage is Bernard Sumner, but that album has obviously his touch all over it. You can't be a Manchester legend and let the others drive the show! For the New Order fan, if you followed the band on their UK tour like I did in 2006, you will maybe remember Jake Evans from the support band Rambo and Leroy, which was supporting New order in Wolverhampton. Many of us were in the pub at that time sadly.

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Watch the Sink or Swim video

The new video for Bad Lieutenant's first single Sink or Swim is now available. Click on "more" below to see the video.

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FAC51 - THE HAÇIENDA

FAC 51 The Haçienda architect Ben Kelly, the design team of Ben Cox and Bill Holding at Morph have collaborated with the full approval and support of original owner Peter Hook to produce two separate, limited edition art prints of the original FAC 51 The Haçienda which are to be launched at Buy Art Fair at Urbis, Manchester from the 24th to 27th September 2009. The prints will subsequently be exhibited at the Zoo Art Fair in London from 16th to 19th October. At both exhibitions, they are exclusive to the Paul Stolper stand.

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Freebass releasing an EP soon

There is no official release date yet, but the 4 tracks EP will be: You Don't Know This About Me (with Tim Burgess) Milky Way Is Our Playground (with Pete Wylie) Dark Starr (with Howard Marks) Live Tomorrow You Go Down (Peter Hook vocals). The EP is called Two Worlds Collide and will be out on Hacienda Records. The tracks with Gary Briggs will be released as an LP at a later date.

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The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club - REVIEW

ISBN 978-1-84737-135-5 Release Date: 5th October 2009 Many aspects of this book will be familiar to so many people, from the startling danger tape-design cover, taken from Ben Kelly's Hacienda Club design, to the characters involved in the whole story. Familiar, but certainly not boring. It will be of great interest to fans of the Hacienda, New Order, Factory, the club scene in general... and quite possibly to Greater Manchester Police and HM Inspector of Taxes. If asked three years ago who might have written a book with such a title, you'd probably be thinking of a few names, such as Mick Middles, Paul Morley, Claude Flowers, even David Nolan. Although Claude Flowers was one of those who suggested that the book be written, it was Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order/Revenge/Monaco/Freebass) who was persuaded to take on the task. After reading it from cover to cover, it becomes apparent that he was not only the obvious choice, but also the best. Afterall, Hooky spent more time at the Hacienda and the Dry Bar than most and is therefore better qualified to comment, even if, at his own admission, much of the time spent there was slightly blurred by "overindulgence". http://www.fac51thehacienda.com

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Never Cry Another Tear Available

The debut album from Bad Lieutenant, "Never Cry Another Tear" is now available to order exclusively at the Bad Lieutenant online store. A limited edition, Deluxe Box Set is available to pre-order. This includes the "Never Cry Another Tear" CD album including two bonus tracks, double vinyl album, exclusive 7", a deluxe booklet and a numbered Art Print. The band have also designed a Limited Edition T-Shirt that can only be ordered with the Super Deluxe Box Set. "Never Cry Another Tear" is also available on Limited Edition Digipack CD (featuring Two Bonus Tracks), Vinyl LP, standard CD, and Digital Download. For more info go to http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/sites/badlt/

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Peter Hook's "The Hacienda - How Not To Run A Club"

Peter Hook's "The Hacienda - How Not To Run A Club" and "Hacienda Acid House Classics" compliled and mixed by Hooky released this October with nationwide UK signing tour Oct 3rd to Oct 10th. A superclub before the term even existed, FAC 51 The Hacienda lasted fifteen years as the Mancunian musical institution, forming the epicentre of the city’s dynamic music, clubs and bands scene throughout the 80’s and 90’s. Now, some dozen years after misfortune, misjudgements and misbehaviour caused the ground-breaking Whitworth Street West venue to sadly close its doors on the dream, the characters and culture that created The Hacienda have ensured its legendary status, longevity, and appeal.

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Meeting with David Nolan

Stockport Library and Information Service is very proud to welcome local author David Nolan who is launching his latest book You’re Entitled to Your Opinion, a biography of ‘Mr Manchester’ Tony Wilson, at Marple Library. We invite you to come along and hear David talk about his book and the research he did with local people into the early life of Tony Wilson when he lived in Marple. You will be able to buy a signed copy of David’s book for a great price too! When? Thursday 30th July 2009, at 7pm Where? Marple Library, Memorial Park, Marple, Stockport, SK6 6BA The evening is FREE ... But you will need to book your free ticket to get a place. Please contact our Reader Development Team on 0161 474 5751 or email readers@stockport.gov.uk

News The Quietist

Jude Rogers On The Right Way To Remember Joy Division

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

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New book Shadowplayers The Rise and Fall of Factory records

Sam Harrison at Aurum has acquired World English Language rights from Matthew Hamilton at Aitken Alexander Associates to James Nice’s Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records. The book will be the first definitive account of Factory Records, perhaps the most radical and innovative label in British pop history, and will draw on the author's professional association with many of the key players - some of whom rarely speak publicly - as well as contemporary sources and previously unpublished documents. Published in Spring 2010 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of era-defining single

News Macclesfield Express

Former band members create a new order

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."