Peter Hook played bass in Joy Division, the short-lived but highly regarded post-punk British band, as well as Joy Division’s massively popular successor, New Order. Hook left New Order in 2007, ...

It’s been hailed as an “indie Stairway To Heaven” but such a comparison arguably undermines its greatness. Almost 35 years since it was released in June 1980, Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart ...

Peter Hook played bass in Joy Division, the short-lived but highly regarded post-punk British band, as well as Joy Division’s massively popular successor, New Order. Hook left New Order in 2007, ...

Joy Division is one of those rare bands that doesn’t really sound like anything that came before it – a true original. Joy Division recorded 53 songs between 1976 and 1980 before breaking up after ...

Forgive New Order fans if they took the lyric “I used to think that the day would never come” from 1987’s “True Faith” and applied it to the chances of the band ever playing Pittsburgh again. It has ...

Peter Hook & The Light are set to perform the entire back-catalogue of Joy Division at a one-off charity gig in Macclesfield in May. Find details below. Hook was the bassist for the iconic band, who ...

In what may be an unprecedented set of concerts, Peter Hook and The Light performed six New Order and Joy Division albums in their entirety, during four concerts across Southern California, on the ...

Jäh Division grew out of a joke between Brad Truax (Home, now Interpol) and Barry London (Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue), when they were roommates in early-’00s Williamsburg and became a real band doing ...

Peter Hook, the bassist for seminal British rock band Joy Division and its successor New Order, has an unusually vivid memory of his first visit to Atlanta on June 17, 1983. And it remains entirely ...

The bittersweet part of The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony” remains how the Wigan band imploded following its blockbuster third album, Urban Hymns. Singer Richard Ashcroft and his group had recorded ...

Peter Hook & The Light will be on the “Joy Division: A Celebration” tour in 2022. The 26-date North American trek will feature the band performing Joy Division‘s Unknown Pleasures and Closer in full, ...

Their shared history was formed in a crucible of loss, as singer Ian Curtis' suicide left his former Joy Division bandmates to carry on with New Order. At first, they were more directly influenced by ...