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Peter Hook booked for 3 dates in Greece

Peter Hook has been booked for 3 DJ sets in Greece by greek DJ George Fakinos. On March 18th, Peter Hook will be in Patra, the club needs to be confirmed. On March 19th, Peter Hook will be in Athens, at the Underworld Club. On March 20th, Peter Hook will be in Thessaloniki, at the Arthouse. Peter will be also "launching" the new New Order album before time at those 3 dates.

Krafty artwork revealed

You can now see the new artwork for New Order's upcoming single, Krafty, done by Peter Saville.

New Order confirmed for V Festival in the UK

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.

Source: V Festival

New Order live at the NME Awards 2005

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.

Source: New Musical Express Awards

New Order – 'Gwen Has Shafted Us'

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.

Source: MTV UK

CALIFORNIA DREAMING

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.

Source: New Musical Express

Hooky to play a DJ set in Leeds on February 10th 2005

Peter Hook and Clint Boon (Inspiral Carpets) are DJing at the The Elbow Room in Leeds England on Thursday February 10th 2005.

Listen to the first Krafty remix online now

The song was played on Zane Lowe's show on BBC Radio 1 today, you can listen to the stream until the end of the week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio1_aod.shtml?radio1/zane_mon Krafty's Phones Reality Mix is played at the 52th minute of the show. Also visit the Krafty Discography Page to see the full artwork of the 1 track promo and the press release.

New Order confirmed for Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival 2005

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.

Source: Coachella Festival

Coachella confirmed by Reprise Records + April release date in the US

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).

Source: Reprise Records

Peter Hook & Phil Cunningham to play in Manchester this week-end

Both of them will be present at the benifit concert From Manchester With Love, all funds from the event go to the tsunami help fund. The event is Sunday January 30th at the Apollo, tickets are priced £15. To book call the Box Office on 0870 060 1768 or Click here to visit Ticketmaster.

New Order confirmed for Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival 2005

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

Source: Ambitious Outsiders

New Order Oozes 'Heart And Soul' On New CD

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.

Source: Jonathan Cohen (Billboard)

New Order festival rumours

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

Source: efestivals.co.uk

Listen to Krafty

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!

Source: BBC Radio 1

Final tracklisting for Waiting For The Sirens Call revealed.

We received today the official press release for Waiting For The Sirens Call, and here is the final tracklisting of the album: 01. Who’s Joe? (produced by New Order) 02. Hey Now What You Doing (Stephen Street) 03. Waiting For The Sirens’ Call (New Order) 04. Krafty (John Leckie) 05. I Told You So (New Order) 06. Morning Night And Day (Stephen Street) 07. Dracula’s Castle (John Leckie) 08. Jetstream (Stuart Price) 09. Guilt Is A Useless Emotion (Stuart Price) 10. Turn (Stephen Street) 11. Working Overtime (Stephen Street) To read the complete press release for Waiting For The Sirens Call, click on More or visit our forum, where you'll be able to preview Krafty that had its world wide debut today on BBC Radio 1.

New Order in Paris, Interview + Krafty aired friday January 21st.

Krafty, New Order's first single since 2002, will be aired for the first time on the air of RTL2 and Oui FM in France tomorrow, where the band is to promote Waiting For The Sirens Call to members of the press. You will also be able to hear an interview with the band on the radio. On Oui FM, the interview will be between 20h and 23h on the Boogie Nights show. Oui FM's Website. On RTL2, the interview will be between 21h and 24h on Francis Zegut's show. RTL2's Website. For people around Paris, Mark Kamins will be DJing at the Delaville Café tonight (January 20th), and since this DJ is close to the band, you might have a little chance to see the band there, as well as Michael Shamberg, ex-US Factory boss. We also heard that The Perfect Kiss video, directed by famous director Jonathan Demme has been selected to be played at the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival which is held from January 29th to February 5th, 20 videos have been selected.

Waiting For The Sirens Call tracklisting revealed

Here is the tracklisting for the upcoming New Order album: 01. Lordsy 02. Road To Ruin 03. Waiting For The Sirens' Call 04. Krafty 05. I Told You So 06. Pop 1 07. Minidisk 2 08. Jet 09. Fast Synth 10. Turn 11. Working Overtime

The godfathers of everything return

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."

Source: New Musical Express

Album playback event review by one of our member

New Order's eagerly awaited forthcoming album 'Waiting For The Sirens Call', was aired for the first time on Tuesday 11th January at The Soho Hotel in central London. The playback was hosted by the band's record company, Warner UK and offered to press and media but not for review purposes. No copies of the album or track listings were provided but a few song titles were disclosed. The Soho Hotel is an upmarket gaff tucked away on a mews in the middle of London's West End. I must have walked within 50 yards of its front door many times without ever realising it was there. Bizarrely, one of the closest boozers to the place is the Slug and Lettuce on Wardour Street, the scene of many New Order fans drinking sessions over the last couple of years. On arrival, the reception staff guided me, an uninvited guest, down to a plush bar in the Hotel's basement. A few Warner’s staffers were sitting around on red cushion strewn sofas picking at trays of food with the distinctive sound of you-know-who filling the room. The track playing, ‘Turn’, as I nervously ordered a bottle of beer from the free bar, was the one spun by Hooky at Turnmills before Xmas. It occurred to me that if I was booted out at this point I wouldn't have heard anything new!.

NewOrderOnline Radio premieres tonight

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.

Source: Retroforward Radio

Album of the year contender + tour info soon.

According to page 351 of Channel 4 Teletext, Waiting For The Sirens Call is an album of the year contender with 9 out of 11 potential singles. It's dancier than "Get Ready" with unusually sweet vocals by Bernard Sumner, notably on Waiting For The Sirens Call and post-club comedown tale Morning Night And Day. It also mentions Jetstream (with Scissor Sisters Ana matronic on vocals), saying it has a nursery rhyme chorus while the final track Working Overtime sees New Order go glam rock to astonishing effect. It also mentioned that the second single (the title track) will be released to co-incide with summer festival appearances and an April tour will soon be revealed.

Source: Channel 4 Teletext

3 singles planned for Waiting For The Sirens Call

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.

Source: BBC

'CALL' FOR NEW ORDER

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.

Source: New Musical Express

Revenge live album now available

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.

Source: LTM