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New Order: Hook "showed us the light"

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Oct 21, 2012 Updated Oct 23, 2012

New Order frontman Bernard Sumner says former bandmate also "opened the gateways of hell" by deciding to tour the band's albums.

Sumner says it was Hooky's decision to tour two of the albums - Unknown Pleasures and Closer - without the rest of the band's approval that prompted him to reform New Order: "Once he started doing it, we did think, 'What are we doing holding back with New Order?' So, in a way - if you'll excuse the pun - he showed us the light."

As for the future of New Order, Sumner says: "I'd just like to make another album. I'm getting a creative itch that I need to scratch".

Source: NME external link

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New Order are an English rock band comprising Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Phil Cunningham and Tom Chapman. The band was formed in 1980 by Sumner (vocals, guitars, synthesisers), Peter Hook (bass, synthesisers) and Morris (drums, electronic drums, synthesisers) – the remaining members of Joy Division, following the suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis – with the addition of...

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