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Peter Hook will return to Australia to perform his two classic New Order and Joy Division compilations ‘Substance’.

The good news is Peter Hook will tour Australia. The bad news … it’s a year away.

Peter Hook wants to sort out his “difficult” relationship with his former New Order bandmates by sitting down and listening to their seminal 1983 album Power, Corruption & Lies.

Former Joy Division/New Order founder Peter Hook will tour Australia with the Metropolitan Orchestra in August.

Joy Division founder Peter Hook will perform the music of Joy Division with an orchestra in London in October.

Peter Hook and The Light will perform the first two Joy Division albums from start to finish in a special one-off show for Sydney.

Peter Hook will before a second concert of Joy Division and New Order’s ‘Substance’ albums in Melbourne in October.

Peter Hook easily makes my Top 10 bets concerts of all-time. Last time he was in Australia he played a special show on a vacant block in Melbourne’s Southbank called Testing Grounds.

Having detailed the rise and fall of ‘Madchester’ in The Haçienda and Joy Division’s short career in Unknown Pleasures, legendary bassist Peter Hook tells the third, arguably the most important and certainly the most controversial part of his story: the New Order years.

In 1987, Factory Records released the album Substance by New Order. Officially titled Substance 1987, the album compiled all of the band’s hits in their 12-inch versions plus each single’s b-side on a two-CD set. The album went to number 3 in the U.K. and 36 in the U.S., eventually gaining platinum status in both

Joy Division has today launched a new website, the first time that the band has had an official site.

Peter Hook has just performed every song Joy Division ever recorded in one show in Manchester.

Peter Hook will perform a one-off show in Macclesfield, UK featuring all 48 Joy Division songs.

Every now and then you can stumble upon a show that you start with little expectations and end gobsmacked. Peter Hook and the Light was one of those experiences.

New Order founder and former member Peter Hook will tour Australia and New Zealand in 2015 to perform classic albums of New Order.

Jon Brookes, the drummer and founding member of UK indie rock band The Charlatans, has passed away at the age of 44 after a battle with brain cancer.

The Happy Mondays Australian tour has been postponed until June. The reformed Happy Mondays line-up was due to start their Australian tour in Brisbane this Friday.

New Order/Joy Division guitarist Peter Hook will tour Australia as special guest on the Happy Mondays tour.

Britain’s NME (formerly the New Musical Express) has announced the nominees for the 2013 NME Awards and two veteran artists have scored high in nods.

New Order opened their first U.S. tour in seven years on Friday night at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA with a 16 song set that drew from their eight studio albums along with three covers of Joy Division songs.

Peter Hook And The Light are to debut their performances of the first two albums released by New Order, ‘Movement’ (1981) and ‘Power Corruption And Lies’ (1983) with two unique, inaugural London and Manchester concerts in January 2013, the first at the legendary Koko in London and the second a distinctive and special event, taking

In the frank, no-holds-barred style that has seen his previous book The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club reach critical acclaim, Peter ‘Hooky’ Hook takes us to the heart of Joy Division and the sound that defined an era and inspired a generation with propulsive bass guitar melodies such as ‘Love Will Tear Us

Former Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook has postponed his Australian tour with The Light.

Disney’s Joy Division inspired Mickey Mouse t-shirt was a great idea for a few days but today it is no more. Disney have withdrawn the t-shirts from sale.