New Order headlines the Cruel World festival on May 17 alongside Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It’s an unexpected ’80s revival that has maintained steady enough attendance to point toward becoming a ...

Peter Hook left New Order in 2007, and later settled several lawsuits with his former bandmates. In a new interview with The i Paper, he expressed "animosity" toward the group.

Low-Life' proved across its eight amazing tracks that in 1985 New Order had no peers when it came to inventively mixing synthesizers and drum machines with traditional rock instrumentation.

Without ever having become a technically flawless singer, Bernard Sumner now embodies New Order's more accessible vision, ...

Joy Division were one of the most popular and pioneering post-punk bands of the 1970s and 1980s - but many fans don't know ...

Joy Division formed in Salford nearly 50 years ago, but it has taken decades for some fans to realise what the band's name ...

Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook were inspired by a local Sex Pistols gig to gather guitars together and went looking for a singer. Finding Ian Curtis - and later Stephen Morris on drums - they ...

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“What the f— is going on?” Bernard Sumner says jokingly. After crashing on both Zoom and WhatsApp, the founding member of New Order decided to give FaceTime a shot. He materializes, sitting ...

Hook formed New Order in 1980 with Joy Division bandmates Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris after the death of Ian Curtis, but left in 2007 It’s been nearly 20 years since New Order’s founding ...

So the animosity is obviously still there now.” Steve Rapport/Getty Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook at the Roxy in London in 1986 Related: Why Gene Simmons Is 'Sick and ...