Peter Hook, JD’s bassist, will spread offer up some Joy Division, performing that band’s classic 1979 debut album, ‘Unknown Pleasures,’ in cities across Italy and America.

As if this weren’t gift enough, Hook is giving hope to fans that would like to see New Order — the group that rose from the ashes of Joy Division following the 1980 suicide of singer Ian Curtis — reform and revisit some of its seminal material.

“I’m a chancer, and I’d like to do New Order stuff, because I love it,” Hook told recently. “‘Power Corruption and Lies,’ ‘Low-Life,’ ‘Movement’ — I think they’re great records. Really, I think they deserve airing again. Why not?”

Joy Division “Wilderness” – from “Unknown Pleasures” – 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esqoTaWVdFg

“It’s funny, in a way,  as a businessman, you’d have to say if the offer to reform New Order came along, you’d consider it,” Hook says. “Emotionally, it’s a completely different aspect. But I don’t’ know, these things happen all the time. I used to joke with Bernard before we split up about us having to split up soon so we could reform. Everyone else had reformed, and we’d never split up. In a funny way, maybe I should have kept my mouth shut.”

“I know we’ve been offered a lot of money to reform, but it has not happened,” Hook adds. “That’s the great thing about life–you don’t know what’s coming around the corner. Everything surprises you. I never thought I’d get the response I have and get a whole new lease on life with [‘Unknown Pleasures’], a record I wrote 30 years ago.”

The italian & american tour:
ITALY:
25.11 MILANO – Magazzini generali
26.11 RONCADE (TV) – New age club
27.11 ROMA –  Brancaleone
USA:
1.12 Washington DC – 9:30 club
4.12 Boston – Royale Nightclub
6.12 Chicago – Double door
7.12 Seattle – Showbox at the market
10.12 San Francisco – Mezzanine
11.12 Los Angeles – The music box

by Ilaria Rebecchi

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