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Tours: Peter Hook and The Light ("Movement" and "Power, Corruption & Lies")
Peter Hook - the innovating basist and founder of both Joy Division and New Order - has announced a special run of dates with his touring band, The Light. Hook is planning to perform New Order's 1981 album, Movement and 1983's Power, Corruption & Lies in from Punk News Read more »
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Peter Hook to Bring 'Movement' and 'Power, Corruption & Lies' to North America, Books Shows in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver
Alex HudsonPeter Hook has been performing New Order's first two LPs —1981's Movement and 1983's Power, Corruption & Lies — during shows, and even released a recent live album of that material. Now, Hook has confirmed plans to bring these albums to our co from Exclaim.ca Read more »
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The first Division – Peter Hook’s Unknown Pleasures
A good book about popular music will always give you a new appreciation of the records. Joy Division bassist Peter Hook’s Unknown Pleasures, just published in paperback by Simon & Schuster, might do just that, though perhaps not in the way the author int from Spectator Magazine Read more »
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Is Peter Hook Being a (B)asshole?
That’s no typo! That’s my new word for a bitter bassist who’s being kind of a cock lately. Old Peter Hook is currently the grumpiest post-punk dude of 2013 (after Mark E. Smith and Morrissey, of course). Although he left New Order back in 2007 apparently from Buddyhead Read more »
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The West in Low Light
The West’s opens with “It was Disco and it's Over,” a song that's built on a signature Peter Hook high-toned bass riff, complete with lead singer and guitarist Anthony Darnell doing his best Ian Curtis impression. During the song they play a Joy Division from The Stranger Read more »
