Interviews
Interview (2006)
Mark Rowland talks to New Order and Joy Division bassist Peter Hook about his new career as a DJ at one of his sets in Carlisle
Live
Heaton Park, Manchester, 10/9/2021
Denzil Watson watches New Order play a gripping set at Heaton Park in Manchester in their first home city gig in over four years.
London Finsbury Park, 9/6/2002
Despite near storm conditions, and getting absolutely soaked, Olga Sladeckova reaches near "boiling point" with excitement at New Order's only outside concert of the year
Features
Ten Songs That Made Me Love... (2015)
In our series, in which our writers write about ten songs that made them love a particular band or artist, Mary O'Meara reflects on her favourite New Order songs
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Interviews
Interview
With photographs from Amanda J, Window, Shirley Procter talks to poet Mike Garry about his success and working with Philip Glass and New Order.
Peter Hook
Interview
Anthony Strutt talks to bassist Peter Hook about his second book ‘Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division’, which tells of his life in Joy Division
Freebass
Interview
Anthony Strutt speaks to New Order and Joy Division's Peter Hook and Mani from the Stone Roses and Primal Scream at a show in London about their bass project, Freebass, and some of their other groups
Garlic
Interview
Garlic have now released acclaimed two albums through Bella Union, the latest of which is 'Jam Sabbatical'. They talk to Olga Sladeckova about playing support to New Order at Brixton Academy, and their unconventional use of sleeve imagery
Profiles
Joy Division
New Dawn Fades
Nicky Crewe attends 'New Dawn Fades', a theatre play on the history of Joy Division
Cinema
Control
New biopic 'Control' tells of the life and death of Joy Division's Ian Curtis. The directorial debut of Anton Corbijn who took photos of the band originally, Anthony Strutt finds it to be a masterpiece
Live
Bluedot Festival
Photoscapes 2
Amanda J. Window in the second of four 'Photoscapes' from the Bluedot Festival photographs New Order.
New Order
Apollo, Manchester, 26/4/2012
Denzil Watson watches the reformed New Order, even without the presence of iconic bassist Peter Hook, play an ultimately magical set at the Apollo in Manchester
Bad Lieutenant
Leadmill, Sheffield, 15/3/2010
At the Leadmill in Sheffield Denzil Watson watches Bad Lieutenant, the post-New Order band of Bernard Sumner, play a distinctive set which unfolds to include his past exploits as well as his new group's first album
Bad Lieutenant
Ritz, Manchester, 23/10/2009
Aaron Brown finds Bad Lieutenant, the new project of New Order's Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris, confusing their audience at their first hometown gig at the Ritz in Manchester
Wireless Festival
Hyde Park, London, 24/6/2005
At the new Wireless Festival in Hyde Park in London, Denzil Watson watches varying sets from New Order, Moby, the Bravery, Graham Coxon and others
Sunshine
Barfly, London, 29/4/2005
Czech band Sunshine have drawn comparisions with Primal Scream, the Damned and New Order, but Olga Sladeckova sees little in the way of originality at a recent show at the London Barfly
Albums
Revenge
One True Passion : V2.0
Re-released in 2004 as 'One True Passion : V2.0' with extra tracks, New Order and Joy Division bassist Peter Hook's side project Revenge's debut album 'One True Passion' received a critical pounding upon its original release in 1991. Olga Sladeckova re-assesses it 15 years on
Features
Heaven Is Whenever We Can Get Together 1 - ‘A small flame that burns very, very hot.’
In this special article spread over four parts, Steve Miles discusses the role of intimacy and belonging in music. He begins by remembering encounters with Joy Division and New Order, and starts to conduct an extensive and wide-ranging interview with The Hold Steady frontman, Craig Finn.
Joy Division
The Image That Made Me Weep
In this month's 'The Image That Made Me Weep' column, Dave Goodwin takes us on a deeply personal journey into a black-and-white picture of Joy Division's Ian Curtis
Joy Division
The Image That Made Me Weep
In our series 'The Image That Made Me Weep', in which a different one of our writers or photographers writes of a favourite photograph, Cila Warncke reflects on a photograph by Anton Corbijn of Joy Division at Lancaster Gate Underground Station in November 1979.
Joy Division
Ten Songs That Made Me Love...
Denzil Watson in 'Ten Songs That Made Me Love...' writes about his favourite songs by Joy Division
Nicky Crewe
Factory Records Memories
Nicky Crewe reflects on what she both remembers and does not remember about knowing from her teens Factory Records boss Tony Wilson and working the door at the legendary Russell and Hacienda clubs
Photography
Joy Division
Photoscapes
In this 'Photoscapes' Marie Hazelwood photographs Ian Curtis's one-time house and grave