New Order's Gillian Gilbert shares cancer diagnosis New Order's Gillian Gilbert has explained she and husband Stephen Morris have taken a step back from the band because she is "living with cancer". BANG Premier · Sep 16
New Order’s Stephen Morris has ‘pretty serious illness’ and doesn’t know if he’ll tour again: ‘Things won’t get better’ Drummer says his health condition prevents him from leaving the country for any lengthy period The Independent UK · Sep 11
“We would just have done it balls out, legs akimbo like Status Quo. and probably messed it up”: The classic song that gave an iconic post-punk band their biggest hit – and became an epitaph for their tragic singer Frank Sinatra was an unlikely inspiration for one of the greatest songs of the 80s Louder · Jul 18
"The performance racked up over 25,000 viewer complaints as middle England soiled its collective pants." 10 times rock bands totally ruined Top Of The Pops From Nirvana refusing to mime properly to Manic Street Preachers inadvertently sparking IRA hysteria, Top Of The Pops hosted some unforgettable moments for rock bands Louder · Jul 15
Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert step away from New Order New Order will be without Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert "for the foreseeable future", "due to personal health reasons". BANG Premier · Jun 30
Johnny Marr to auction off dozens of guitars heard on Smiths classics such as This Charming Man Christie’s sale in London in September carries estimates up to £150,000, with some instruments also used by Noel Gallagher and Bernard Sumner The Guardian - UK · Jun 22
"He glared out into the audience like he wanted to kill each and every one of us, one at a time." The story behind the gig which inspired the birth of Joy Division The night that changed Manchester's music scene forever Louder · Jun 5
"I will never play with them again. I’d rather die than play with them." Don't hold your breath for a New Order reunion performance at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony Peter Hook makes his feelings on a New Order reunion crystal clear Louder · May 14
“Walk on. Press a button. Leave the gear to play a song all on its own. While we piss off back to the booze in the dressing room and chortle to ourselves”: The mistakes and judicious choices that made New Order’s Blue Monday Still the biggest-selling 12-inch of all time MusicRadar · May 10
“I haven’t spoken to Bernard for… I didn’t even speak to him. He spoke at me. That’ll be 15 years": Peter Hook says he won’t perform or stand with New Order at their RNR Hall Of Fame – unless he receives an apology Liam and Noel Gallagher could be intermediaries, he says MusicRadar · Apr 23
Peter Hook has no plans for New Order reunion but Oasis could hold the key Peter Hook doesn't plan to reunite with his former New Order bandmate at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony later this year. BANG Premier · Apr 23
“I hit the drum maybe five times. That was it. Concorde flights, 14 days in a 5-star hotel. The most expensive bit of drumming in history”: When stars of Duran Duran and Chic formed a decadent ’80s supergroup to rock out like Led Zeppelin “I had to be, like, strapped to the desk if I was gonna get a bass line finished," John Taylor said MusicRadar · Nov 25, 2025
“No one expected it to sell, but it did sell, didn’t it?”: the crazy story of an era-defining 80s classic that shifted millions but had such an expensive sleeve it sold at a loss Someone forgot to run the numbers… Louder · Oct 17, 2025
“People really go ape*** for the dance tracks”: saluting New Order’s imperious 2015 album Music Complete as it turns 10 The synth-pop trailblazers’ most recent record came out a decade ago and increasingly looks like a fantastic and fitting farewell Louder · Sep 24, 2025
Guitar World · Aug 9, 2025 “Whenever anybody says, ‘Can you just follow the root note?’ my immediate retort is, ‘Why don't you just f*** off?’”How Peter Hook re-wrote the rulebook on punk bass –and became “allergic to low notes” in the process With Joy Division, Peter Hook’s upper-register basslines were plucked straight from a rhythm guitarist’s handbook
The Guardian - AU · Mar 7, 2025 New Order review – classics front and centre, but electronic pop pioneers can still surprise Among Joy Division anthems and dancefloor classics that conjured the Haçienda’s heyday, the Mancunian icons showed they can still switch it up
Guitar World · Feb 22, 2025 “lan spotted that the relationship between high bass and low guitar was really interesting and unusual. My style of playing came from that”: Peter Hook’s ‘lead bass’ approach spawned a catalog of hits with Joy Division and New Order One of the most influential bassists of the ‘80s, Peter Hook developed a style marked by open-string drones, and a dark, chorus-drenched tone
MusicRadar · Jan 14, 2025 “How long will Shergold be one of the unknown pleasures of electric guitar if it carries on making guitars as good as this?”: Shergold Masquerader Standard SM11 review Another home run from Patrick James Eggle? This Masquerader could be the real deal for those seeking an affordable doublecut with a difference
MusicRadar · Oct 15, 2024 “It’s a mixture of a jam band, me as a singer-songwriter, and programming with late ‘90s, early 2000s dance music technology of the day”: Johnny Marr on how “Moogs, Korg 101s and Space Echo” shared space with guitar to shape his sound with the Healers With Johnny Marr and the Healers’ Boomslang receiving a deluxe reissue, the guitar icon reflects on the album's sessions and the impact technology had on writing and recording it
The Conversation · Sep 18, 2024 Linkin Park reform with a new singer – three other bands that have successfully done the same Linkin Park have announced that they are reforming, seven years after disbanding due to the death of lead singer Chester Bennington.
MusicRadar · Sep 8, 2024 “Every time I hear Love Will Tear Us Apart, I grit my teeth and remember myself shouting down the phone... I can feel the anger in it even now”: The story of Joy Division's swan song "He was obsessed. Martin sensed it was a song that was going to last forever and wanted to make it really special"
MusicRadar · Jan 15, 2024 "Rather naively, we thought we'd write a song that could be played by machines and all we'd have to do was press the button": The real reason New Order made Blue Monday, and the gear that powers it The birth of a landmark track. Plus, learn how to recreate that famous Moog bassline
The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2023 ‘Mind-boggling’: Johnny Marr on his 53 favourite guitars – and the one Noel Gallagher smashed They were used to write Smiths classics like Still Ill and What Difference Does It Make? As the star publishes a coffee-table book telling the stories of his most adored guitars, he remembers the loan to Noel that made him give up booze
Louder · Jun 15, 2023 “We don't want people to know what we think”: Why Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures may be the most important record to emerge from the UK punk scene Released on June 15, 1979, Joy Division's bleak, beautiful masterpiece has lost none of its power or stark dread
Louder · Jun 3, 2023 Five new bands you need to hear if you love Joy Division Joy Division have become one of the most influential alternative bands of the last 40 years, and these five new bands are bringing that sound bang up to date