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NEW ORDER presented their new album 'Music Complete' in Hamburg (Germany) at the 10th annual Reeperbahn Festival. The band was interviewed by long time collaborator Arthur Baker. You can watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6MG5QW3-20
Source: The Guardian
For longtime fans, Music Complete is something of a return to form for New Order—complete with appropriately chic minimalist artwork courtesy of Peter Saville. The record’s carefully considered aesthetic and meticulous production bear all the hallmarks of the band’s most iconic work. Still, it’s hard to know if anyone other than the band’s legions of devotees will find most of this material truly arresting. Music Complete certainly doesn’t do anything to diminish New Order’s formidable legacy, but it doesn’t necessarily expand upon it either. That being said, it still sounds like classic New Order, and now over three decades deep into their career, it's kind of amazing that nothing else really does.
Source: Pitchfork
It took a crisis to reunite New Order. The pioneering dance-rock group had ostensibly called it quits in the latter half of the Aughts, but in 2011, they learned that their friend, "Blue Monday" and "True Faith" video director Michael H. Shamberg, had taken seriously ill. So the band regrouped and booked some gigs to raise money for his medical bills. Originally, the band — which consists these days of frontman Bernard Sumner, drummer Stephen Morris and returning keyboardist Gillian Gilbert (who had left in 2001), along with guitarist Phil Cunningham and bassist Tom Chapman — was set to play only three gigs. But Sumner, who is age 59 and typically soft-spoken, says the reunion snowballed. "We've been on tour for three-and-a-half years off and on," he says from his home near Macclesfield, England. "It seemed like the opportunity to write an album."
Source: Rolling Stone Magazine
Music Complete was produced by New Order with additional work from Stuart Price (Superheated) and the Chemical Brothers Tom Rowlands (Singularity and Unlearn This Hatred). It will be released on September 25. The tracklist is as follows: Restless Singularity Plastic Tutti Frutti People on the High Line Stray Dog Academic Nothing But a Fool Unlearn This Hatred The Game Superheated
Source: NME
New Order have signed to the legendary independent label Mute, which will release their 10th studio album worldwide. “We couldn’t imagine a better place to be than working with Daniel Miller and his team,” the band said of their new home. “Mute has a superb roster of artists and a history that complements our own. In many ways, joining the label feels like we are coming home.” (The band’s Bernard Sumner had recently suggested the band might be working with DFA Records.)
Source: The Guardian
New Order played a new song in their South American tour, it's called "Singularity" Click here to view the video on YouTube
New Order know how to keep busy: They're touring, working on a new album (or possibly a series of EPs) and, as Stephen Morris cracks at Rolling Stone's Rock Room, they're cooking up a plan to open a New Order hotel in Vegas. "We could play by the pool every night," the drummer says, but no gambling or Elton John allowed (if your name is Elvis, though, you're in). It wasn't all goofing around though. The band reminisced about some of the grimier hotels they stayed at during their early days, while frontman Bernard Sumner discussed the band's recent attempts to balance touring and writing more evenly: "We're coming out in small bursts and writing in small bursts at home – so we're constantly here whether you like us or not, we're here to stay," he says. Sumner describes the band's most recent work as more electronic- and synthesizer-based, which they were excited to return to after their more recent guitar-heavy material. "That's not to say there won't be enough space on the album for enough cool guitar tracks if someone's got them," Sumner says. "I think New Order's a hybrid band and will always remain so."
Source: Rolling Stones
New Order North American tour dates: April 18: Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA (with Johnny Marr) April 20: Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Indio, CA July 19: Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX July 21: Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta, GA July 24: Williamsburg Park, Brooklyn, NY (with Holy Ghost!) July 26: The Mann Center, Philadelphia, PA (with Holy Ghost!) July 28: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (with Holy Ghost!) July 31: Bank of America Pavilion, Boston, MA (with Holy Ghost!) Aug. 2: Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL Aug. 2-4: Osheaga Festival, Montreal, Quebec
New Order North American tour dates: April 18: Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA (with Johnny Marr) April 20: Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Indio, CA July 19: Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX July 21: Chastain Park Amphitheatre, Atlanta, GA July 24: Williamsburg Park, Brooklyn, NY (with Holy Ghost!) July 26: The Mann Center, Philadelphia, PA (with Holy Ghost!) July 28: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (with Holy Ghost!) July 31: Bank of America Pavilion, Boston, MA (with Holy Ghost!) Aug. 2: Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL Aug. 2-4: Osheaga Festival, Montreal, Quebec
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New Order and The Cure will be headlights of the Osheaga Festival in Montréal, Canada next summer. We don't know yet which date, but the festival is from August 2nd to August 4th, and is in downtown Montreal. This will be the first time in 26 years that New Order will be coming in the 2nd biggest french city in the world. It's a bit of a big deal for us, since NewOrderOnline is a Montreal based site.
Source: Osheaga
New Order are very happy to be returning to South America to play debut concerts in Lima and Festival Estéreo Picnic in Bogota in April 2013. 5th April Explanada Sur Del Monumental, Lima, Peru 7th April Festival Estéreo Picnic, Bogota, Columbia Alongside New Order's festival shows at Coachella we will also be playing 2 headline shows in Las Vegas and Santa Barbara with our special guest Johnny Marr. 11th April The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, NV 13th April Coachella, Indio, CA 18th April Santa Barbara Bowl, SB, CA 20th April Coachella, Indio, CA New Order intend to play more US dates later in the year.
For the first time in seven years, U.K. post-punk pioneers New Order will return to North America for a string of shows this October. The seven-date tour kicks off on October 5th at San Francisco's Oakland Fox Theatre and swings through Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas, New York City, Chicago and Toronto.
Source: Rolling Stone Magazine
Peter Hook – bassist and founding member of Joy Division and New Order – receiving an honorary fellowship from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). He was awarded the honour to acknowledge his contribution to the development of popular music as a musician, author and record producer.
Source: Facebook
New digital book available about New order and Joy Division. From the author: "I'm a novelist (Mysterious Skin, etc) and huge fan of JD/NO, and for the past year I've been working on a series of books where musicians & writers tell their stories of hearing specific iconic bands for the first time. The very first book in the series is about Joy Division / New Order... 45 different musicians and writers have contributed to it."
I wanted to let you know about our Fundraising Auction Put Your Money Where Your Eyes Are. We have donations from 60+ nationally and internationally acclaimed artists/curators, many of whom have worked with Castlefield Gallery before, including designer and co-founder of Factory Records, Peter Saville. The auction is currently online at http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/ and culminates in the live auction event at the gallery on Wed 30 May. Saville has donated a signed lithograph on paper (artist’s proof/produced for re-issue) of the legendary Joy Division album sleeve Unknown Pleasures. http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/lots/unknown-pleasures/
To sum up the current world tour New Order is doing, here are the full dates of past and future dates: Feb. 27: Vector Arena, Auckland, New Zealand March 1: Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia March 3: Future Music Festival, Brisbane, Australia March 4: Future Music Festival, Perth, Australia March 7: Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia March 10: Future Music Festival, Sydney, Australia March 11: Future Music Festival, Melbourne, Australia March 12: Future Music Festival, Adelaide, Australia March 23: Ultra Music Festival, Miami, FL, USA April 26: O2 Apollo, Manchester, England April 27: O2 Apollo, Manchester, England April 29: Ballroom, Birmingham, England May 2: O2 Academy, Brixton, England May 3: O2 Academy, Brixton, England May 5: O2 Academy, Glasgow, Scotland May 6: Edinburgh Usher Hall, Scotland May 8: O2 Academy, Newcastle, England May 18: Gasometer, Vienna, Austria May 20: Nuits Sonores Festival, Lyon, France June 2: Titanic Lockdown, T13, Belfast, Northern Ireland June 3: Forbidden Fruit, Kilmainham, Ireland June 16: Sónar Festival, Barcelona, Spain June 21: Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany June 22-24?: Hurricane Festival, Scheeßel, Germany June 22-24?: Southside Festival, Tuttlingen, Germany June 30: Prague City Festival, Prague, Czech Republic July 4: Heineken Open'er Festival, Gdynia, Poland July 6: T in the Park, Balado, Scotland July 7: Heineken Jammin' Festival, Milan, Italy July 13: Exit Festival, Novo Sad, Serbia July 15: Benicàssim Festival, Spain July 21: Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg, Norway August 10: Lokerse Feesten, Lokeren, Belgium August 12: Olympics Closing Ceremony, Hyde Park, London, England August 19: Summer Sonic, Chiba/Osaka, Japan September 8: Bestival, Robin Hill Country Park, Isle of Wight, England September 11: Majorca Rocks, Magaluf, Majorca, Spain September 12: Ibiza Rocks, San Antonio, Ibiza, Spain September 14-16?: Festival No. 6, Portmeirion, Wales October 5: San Francisco Oakland Fox Theatre October 7: Los Angeles Greek Theatre October 10: Denver Broomfield 1st Bank Centre October 12: Dallas Palladium Ballroom October 18: New York Roseland Ballroom October 21: Chicago Aragon Ballroom October 23: Toronto Sony Centre for the performing arts
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New Order's tribute to Ian Curtis, "Elegia", was originally released on their 1985 album Low-Life in a truncated form. But now, the full 18-minute version is being released on vinyl, as Dummy reports. The track is out on a 3-track 12" EP via Slow to Speak and available via Dope Jams. The 12" also includes a Peel Session take on "5-8-6" off Power, Corruption & Lies, as well as Movement's "The Him", which was also written for Ian Curtis.
It's been announced that Blur will headline the closing ceremony at the Olympic Games in London on August 12. The BT London Live Closing Ceremony, taking place in Hyde Park, features a "Best of the British" lineup that also includes New Order and the Specials.
Source: Pitchfork
With Mancunians New Order about to play their first gig since 2006 (and their first ever without bassist Peter Hook), and news from back home announcing the reformation of another seminal Manchester band, the Stone Roses, it's only fitting that, on arrival in Paris, clouds are gathering and rain is beginning to fall.
Source: The Guardian
CD featuring 3 remixes by the fantastic Factory Floor, whoʼve collaborated with Gillian and Stephen since first meeting in early 2010. The music was originally conceived and written as a soundtrack to Anna Blessman & Peter Savilleʼs exhibition between October 2010 and January 2011 at the Gallerie Frac Champagne-Ardenne in France.
The members of New Order have agreed to release the seven songs left over from the sessions for the band’s 2005 swan song Waiting for the Sirens’ Call, bassist Peter Hook tells Slicing Up Eyeballs, saying the move should help make the group’s acrimonious split “a little cleaner” and finally “draw the line” under the break-up.
Source: Slicing Up Eyeballs
Following the postponement of our Japan tour due to the recent earthquake, The Hacienda decided to recast its Easter event in aid of the country and with headliners Basement Jaxx making a rare appearance in Manchester, a top drawer bill of locals and Hacienda talent as below compliment the occasion, which we are undertaking in conjunction with our partners in Japan to in aid of our many friends there. All proceeds from the night will be going to disaster relief charities and the night looks set to be a major Manchester occasion. We are also raising money via just giving for people who cannot attend the event via just giving - http://www.justgiving.com/hacienda