Thirty years after Ian Curtis' suicide and Joy Division's subsequent break-up, the band's legacy stillmeans both magic and misery for its three living members. Peter Hook Revives Joy Division Live ...

Peter Hook & The Light, led by former Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook, have revealed plans for a 2025 North American tour, where they will perform New Order’s 2001 album “Get ...

On this day (Jan. 25) in 1978, Joy Division played their first live gig, a moment that is often credited with kicking off the post-punk era. The iconic, yet short-lived rock outfit – made up of ...

Joy Division is one of those rare bands that doesn’t really sound like anything that came before it — a true original. A co-founder of both that group and New Order, Peter Hook has been ...

“Because most people have heard Joy Division only on record,” he says. “They’ve never heard them live, and Joy Division were a very different sound live than we were on record.

Because of frontman Ian Curtis’ suicide in May of 1980, most of the world never got to see the British band Joy Division live. But for many of the past 12 years Peter Hook has made it his ...

Joy Division kept on working, shooting a video for their next single, "Love Will Tear Us Apart", recording a live show at Birmingham University, demo-ing new songs, preparing for their first tour ...

Noel Gallagher‘s new High Flying Birds album, Council Skies, is out tomorrow and is absolutely drenched in strings, so when he recorded a live session at the BBC Radio 2 Piano Room in the ...

Here’s my interview with Hook, who joined Sumner and Morris after the demise of Joy Division to form the famed synth-pop act New Order in 1980. The latter broke up in 2007, but reunited in 2011 ...

From the intensity of working with Scott Walker, to the transformative thrill of seeing Joy Division live, via Mahler, Brel and Bowie, former Virgin Prunes frontman Gavin Friday takes Julian Marszalek ...

Hook, who was present at the painting of the Curtis mural, said it had meant a lot to Joy Division fans 40 years after the singer took his own life at his home in 1980, shortly before the Salford ...