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Peter Hook announces Joy Division memoir

Posted on July 8, 2012 by

From the Guardian’s website: Peter Hook will publish a new memoir looking back on his years in Joy Division. Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division follows 2009′s The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club, which traced the origins of Manchester’s … Continue reading →

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Peter Hook to perform Joy Division album Still

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

In May, Peter Hook will be covering ‘Still’ the closing Joy Division album (hot on the heals of his succesful Closer gigs).  It’s an ambitious idea considering the diversity of material on the record and it’s emotional position in the … Continue reading →

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Peter Hook brands supposed Joy Division “Aerial” track “a bloody awful hoax”

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

Peter Hook has branded ‘Aerial’, a track that surfaced online this week that purported to be an unreleased song from Joy Division’s seminal album ‘Unknown Pleasures’ as a “bloody awful hoax”. The track appeared online earlier this week and according … Continue reading →

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Disney’s Joy Division shirt: Peter Hook ‘appreciates the irony’

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

Many fans of Joy Division were aghast Monday over Disney’s new Mickey Mouse T-shirt that (lovingly or cluelessly) riffed on the Manchester, England, post-punk band’s iconic album art for 1979′s “Unknown Pleasures.” Our own commenters called it “wrong, just wrong” … Continue reading →

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Peter Hook returns to perform Joy Division album Closer

Posted on January 14, 2012 by

After the success of his 2010 Unknown Pleasures 30th Anniversary Tour, Joy Division bassist, PETER HOOK, will return in 2012 with his band THE LIGHT, to play songs from CLOSER – back to back – with shows in Wellington and … Continue reading →

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