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Peter Hook

July 2023

  • Peter Hook: ‘The Summer of Love, from ’87 to ’89, is a blissful time in our memories.’

    This much I know
    Peter Hook: ‘I never get sick of hearing World in Motion’

    The Joy Division bassist, 67, looks back on breakdowns and addictions, losing Ian Curtis, his precious friends and the early rave scene

October 2021

  • The Lathums at Victoria Warehouse, Manchester.

    The Lathums review – all hail Wigan’s conquering heroes

    This one-time wedding band have ditched the floor-filling covers, but their show retains a joyous jukebox feel

October 2020

  • Gorillaz 2020

    Gorillaz: Song Machine Season One: Strange Timez review – playful and potent collaboration

    Damon Albarn provides the melodic anchor to this pioneering album that balances concept and fun

March 2019

  • Ian Curtis performing live in Rotterdam, 16 January 1980.

    ‘Ian Curtis wanted to make extreme music, no half measures’

    Forty years after Joy Division’s seminal debut album, Jon Savage’s oral history sheds new light on the band

September 2017

  • ‘We’re a bunch of fat old men arguing’... Peter Hook pictured in 2013.

    Peter Hook reaches 'full and final' settlement over New Order royalties

    Following years of rifts and a 2015 lawsuit, New Order have wrapped up their legal battle with former bassist Peter Hook

June 2017

  • Bradley Cooper filming scenes from A Star is Born on the Pyramid stage.

    Glastonbury 2017: Friday as it happened – with Bradley Cooper, Johnny Depp, Charli XCX and more

    Worthy Farm welcomed the stars of grime, film stars muscled on to the Pyramid stage, while Charli XCX and Dua Lipa pulled out all the stops to light up the festival’s first full day of music

January 2017

  • Musical forecasters … from left, Peter Hook, Little Simz and Shirley Collins.

    Music blog
    Musical highlights of 2017: Peter Hook, Ellie Rowsell, Shirley Collins and more share their tips

    From next-generation morris dancers to a psyche-pop comeback and Toronto’s rising urban music scene, artists share their top picks on the musical calendar

October 2016

  • New Order - Portraits<br>Portrait of UK band New Order (Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert) photographed in Manchester 1993. Job: 56847 Ref: BMN - Exclusive (Photo by Photoshot/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook review – as debauched as Led Zep

    The band’s bassist gives full details of drugs, groupies and excesses on tour, but his account of the band’s voyage to becoming a pop institution remains haunted
  • Peter Hook and Caroline Aherne

    Caroline Aherne's brother hits back at Peter Hook's 'disgusting' abuse claims

    Former New Order bassist described as ‘excuse of a man’ after claiming he was attacked by late award-winning actor and comedian
  • Peter Hook and Caroline Aherne in 1996

    Peter Hook says Caroline Aherne was physically abusive during marriage

    Musician claims in autobiography that the comedian, who died in July, attacked him with knives, bottles and chairs before split

December 2015

  • Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner … ‘a love-hate thing.’

    Shortcuts
    How does it feel ... to treat me like you do? Those New Order squabbles in full

    Peter Hook says he is taking his former bandmates to court over royalties and ownership of the group’s name. It’s not going to come as a surprise to anybody who has followed Hooky and Barney’s barnies over the past decade

November 2015

  • New Order Portrait Session<br>NEW YORK - OCTOBER 1989: Influential British rockers New Order (L -R) bassist Peter Hook, keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, lead vocalist/guitarist Bernard Sumner and drummer Stephen Morris pose for an October 1989 portrait in New York City, New York. (Photo by Bob Berg/Getty Images)

    Peter Hook sues New Order, claiming they 'pillaged' the group's name

    Former bassist claims he has lost more than £2m after the remaining three members licensed the group’s name to a new company

September 2015

  • New New Order: Stephen Morris, Tom Chapman, Bernard Sumner, Phil Cunningham and Gillian Gilbert.

    New Order: ‘There’s no point in just staying together for the kids’

  • Bernard Sumner in 1983

    From Rock's Backpages
    New Order: 'We want music without any of the peripheral rubbish' – a classic interview from the vaults

May 2015

  • peter hook and the light

    Peter Hook & the Light – tenderness and venom in a three-hour homage to Joy Division

    The bassist plays the band’s entire catalogue on the 35th anniversary of Ian Curtis’s death

March 2015

  • Peter Hook

    30 minutes with …
    Peter Hook: ‘If my son joined New Order at least they’d get the bass played properly’

    The Mancunian ace of bass on hate mail from fans, refusing to be hypnotised, and trying not to have a barney with New Order

September 2014

  • Peter Hook Bernard Sumner

    New Order feud reignites over launch of Joy Division Twitter account

    Peter Hook says he should have been informed before former bandmates created account to promote their original group

August 2014

  • New Order

    10 of the best
    New Order: 10 of the best

  • Basement Jaxx at Camp Bestival 2014

    Camp Bestival review – boutique festival meets preteen summer camp

February 2014

  • Basement Jaxx

    Johnny Marr, Basement Jaxx and Sinéad O'Connor to play Camp Bestival 2014

    First tranche of names for Bestival's family-friendly offshoot named

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