Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
After their European success with Peter Hook , Section 25 have announced a special one-off SXXV Xmas Party at the Beat Club in Blackpool on Friday 19 December. The line-up will comprise Section 25 plus a special aftershow DJ set from Peter Hook plus support from Pink Hearse, Dave Mac and DJ Stu Diggle. Tickets are only 8 quid in advance or 10 on the door. A source close...
Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Peter Hook's forthright honesty comes through loud and clear in a set of 5 video interviews for MagicRPM.com . (Conducted during the recent Peter Hook & Section 25 tour .) Titled ' Saga New Order ', and running about 25 minutes in total, Hook touches on subjects as varied as the woulda shoulda coulda parameters of the recent New Order Rhino remasters, truly knowing...
The Panic Manual (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
With the release of Rhino remastered collector editions of choice New Order albums (Movement, Power, Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique) comes an interview with the always outspoken Peter Hook during his Section 25 tour. In this series of 5 clips titled simply ‘Saga New Order’, Peter candidly talks about his frustrations when dealing [...]
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
... directly from commercially available vinyl recordings rather than from the original master tapes. Peter Hook, the bass player with the defunct group, said in his MySpace page that the reissue project was a “mess.” He blamed the label for not sending out advance copies so that he and his former bandmates could do some quality control. Despite the discontent, Rhino released the discs...
Idolator (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Customers have been taking to the Internet to catalog their numerous complaints regarding Rhino's recent New Order reissues, so the company has apparently pulled the discs from sale until the issues can be resolved. Peter Hook, as seems to be his current habit, blogged his ire when the reissues hit shelves in England last month, saying that the band didn't have a chance to hear the discs'...
Best Digital Camera Ratings (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
November 18th, 2008 This past weekend I went to Hida-Takayama again. My friend Peter hooked me up (again) to take part in another monitor tour that was sponsored by the city of Hida-Takayama. With how winter-like the weather has been recently here in the Kanto Plain, I was thinking that it was going to be downright COLD up in the mountains of Gifu-ken. But as it turned out it was rather nice....
Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Cerysmatic catches up with Kevin Hewick for his thoughts on Peter Hook Section 25 Live : "I was not only lucky enough to get to perform at four superb venues, I also got to witness all four SXXV/Hook soundchecks and sets and and watch them evolve and bond as a unit. By show three at Oss you were getting a version of 'Interzone' that made a lot of heavy metal seem wimpy. "I was...
Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Alex Staszko reports on all of the Peter Hook Section 25 Eurogigs from a fan's point of view: "The 4 gigs got better after each one. The setlists were slightly different: Paris was much shorter, S25 only did 5, with a different encore. Hook didn't do Ultraviolence at the 1st 2 gigs. Poppyfields was played at 3 & at the last 3 afterparties (it went down really well in Brussels),...
Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Cerysmatic caught up with Section 25 following the Peter Hook Section 25 Live European mini-tour with Peter Hook and Kevin Hewick : Vin: "It was bloody great. The turnout varied, about 600 Os (NL), 800 Brussels (BE), about 400 in Paris (FR) and Krefeld was 350-400 (DE). Michel Duval (Factory Benelux / Crépuscule) and Mark Kamins turned out in Paris. Playing with Hooky...
Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Be sure to check out the big-hearted Kevin Hewick 's blog entries covering the behind-the-scenes for the Peter Hook/Section 25 shows over at his website .
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Movement, unsurprisingly, sounds like a band still in the clutches of its old sound: It was the first time Bernard Sumner had sung (bassist Peter Hook even takes lead on one song), and sonically, the band clung to Joy Division's darkness. It's a good but uneven set, though the supplementary material outshines it, particularly the first appearance of "Everything's Gone Green." 1983 saw...
Listening Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Maybe it's the Peter Hook-style basslines, the floating keyboard strains or the rat-tat-tat drumbeats, but The Whip really reminds us of New Order. And when the lyrics start sounding like Ian Curtis, our Joy Division neurotransmitters kick in as well....
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
In celebration of the New Order Collector's Editions releases, Rhino Records has put together a contest where you can win a signed bass from Peter Hook of New Order ...
Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
The house where the Ryder brothers grew up, the schools attended by Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner, Terry Mason and Tony Wilson and Morrissey's favourite club are just some of the locations on the first ever Salford Music Map which launches today. The aim of the new map is to reclaim some legendary 'Manchester' music myths that rightly belong to its sister city, while helping promote Salford...
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
1976 in Manchester, England. The situation was desperate. Neighborhoods were run down. Rubble and smoke filled the streets. It was really hard to find a good job. Most young people felt they had no future. They were destined to work in the factories all their lives. Two young men: Bernard Sumner and Peter [...]
