Joy Division and New Order Founding bassist, PETER HOOK, and his band THE LIGHT make a triumphant return to New Zealand in July 2026.
Peter Hook & the Light are on their fourth or fifth tour of Aotearoa/New Zealand since 2010 when they formed three years after his colleagues in New Order gave him the cold shoulder.
Growing up in the rain soaked dole-age of 1980s Northern England…a school kid was often asked one important question… Are you New Order or Smiths ? The answer potentially could break up playground fights. Certainly the latter I embraced obsessively and still do, they reflected two very different visions of a post industrial downtrodden Manchester […]
Metropolis Touring Presents An Evening with Peter Hook & The Light performing the legendary Factory Record’s albums ‘Substance’ by Joy Division & New Order. Both albums will be performed sequentially and in their entirety this October in Australia and New Zealand.
Before the Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses, long before Oasis, Peter Hook was a mainstay of the Manchester music scene, playing bass first in Joy Division and then, following the death of Ian Curtis, New Order. But New Order are infrequent performers of late, and its members, increasingly, are solo artists. Bernard Sumner, the […]