Peter Hook, a founding member of Pleasure Division and subsequently New Order, has taken a shot at his former bandmates, making it clear the feud remains to be very a lot ongoing.
After leaving the band in 2007, Hook has been at odds with Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, and Gillian Gilbert, who proceed to play as New Order.
In a new interview with The Paper, Hook stated: ‘I don’t suppose they’re New Order. They don’t sound like something like them. I’ve watched them play songs [online] lately, they usually’ve dropped the basslines and play it like some bizarre, unhealthy cover model of a New Order observe. So the animosity is clearly nonetheless there now.’
Issues have been acrimonious between Hook and the opposite band members nearly for the reason that band’s inception in 1980 following the dying of authentic Pleasure Division frontman Ian Curtis.
The band determined to rebrand as New Order following Curtis’ dying, and have become massively widespread for mixing the extra gothic sound of Pleasure Division with an up to date, synthy 80s enchantment.
They’d a quantity of hits all through the last decade together with Blue Monday, True Religion, and Remorse.
After a hiatus within the Nineteen Nineties, they reformed in 2001, earlier than Hook left the band in 2007.
Hook continued, telling the publication how followers usually attain out on-line to complain in regards to the sound high quality at New Order exhibits, notably that the bass is simply too quiet. Whereas he admits it will be straightforward to really feel smug in regards to the criticism, he insists he’s ‘means above all that.’
Reflecting on the loss of Curtis, Hook acknowledged that the band by no means appropriately grieved the trailblazing frontman.
‘I want we’d have grieved him extra. However we have been allowed to type of ignore it as a result of we have been so younger,’ he stated.
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Hook likened it to erasing the previous, very like discarding images of an ex, and positioned some blame on Sumner, who he says refused to play Pleasure Division songs as a result of he thought they have been too heavy.
The intial trigger of the rift in New Order has by no means been made clear, however the band has variously expressed issues with Hook enjoying Pleasure Division songs along with his new band the Gentle, for trademarking the title of the Haçienda nightclub, and for beginning a DJ profession.
Hook sued the band in 2015, claiming that he was shedding thousands and thousands of kilos in royalties after a restructuring of the band’s funds following his departure. The case was settled in 2017 with the band releasing a assertion to followers.
The assertion learn: ‘The disputes have been primarily based upon Hook’s use of varied New Order and Pleasure Division property on merchandising and within the promotion of exhibits by his new band, and the quantity of cash he receives from the use of the title New Order by his former colleagues since 2011. The Pleasure Division and New Order names imply a nice deal to so many of the followers, and the band felt it necessary to guard the legacy.
‘With these points now handled, Bernard (Sumner), Stephen (Morris) and Gillian (Gilbert) can proceed to do what they do finest, make music and carry out dwell.’
Whereas issues could also be legally settled between Hook and the band, its made clear by his latest feedback that the feud is way from over.
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