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New Order

Reviews 11

Floating In Space: Teeth Of The Sea Take Off With New Album Hive

“Make It Go Woomph!” New Order’s Low-Life Revisited

Sweets To The Sweet: Carmel Smickersgill’s We Get What We Get And We Don’t Get Upset

Forever Watching Love Grow: New Order Live At MIF

Roskilde Festival And Anti-Nationalist Sentiment In Denmark

The Lead Review: Mick Middles On New Order’s Music Complete

New Order’s Music Complete: A Track-By-Track Preview

New Order

Lost Sirens

I Feel So Extraordinary: The Odd Charm Of New Order Live

Here Are The Old Men: Unexpected Pleasures At Hooky’s Joy Division Tribute

New Order Back Catalogue Reissues

Articles 28

Books

Lumpen Revolutionaries: Lars Iyer’s My Weil Playlist

For his latest novel, Lars Iyer returns to his alma mater for a story about student film-makers, disaster studies, and Simone Weil
Low Culture Essay

Low Culture Essay: Audrey Golden On ‘Lost’ FAC Film The Mad Fuckers

In this month's Low Culture Essay, author Audrey Golden explores Factory Records film The Mad Fuckers, which could have been the UK's answer to Pretty In Pink but ended up as one of the label's great ideas that never was – though it did inadvertently give the world Madchester
Art

Manchester Will Haunt Itself: The British Pop Archive Reviewed

At the launch of the British Pop Archive at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Lottie Brazier asks what it means to exhibit Ian Curtis's handwritten lyrics next to Shakespeare and the Gutenberg Bible
A Quietus Interview

Gillian Gilbert Of New Order On Power, Corruption & Lies

Gillian Gilbert speaks to Jude Rogers about how New Order found their feet recording what is to many fans, their finest album
Low Culture Essay

Low Culture 3: The ‘Curse’ Of Echo & The Bunnymen

Richard Foster sets out to rescue Bunnymen from thee crack of doom - the hackneyed “coulda been” curse - with a celebration of their music’s demonic heat. All photographs courtesy of Will Sergeant
Art

How Does It Feel? Michael Bracewell Show Explores Art & Pop, 1976–1995

The current show at Sprüth Magers, London, curated by British writer Michael Bracewell, explores the mutual fascination between the worlds of art and pop music in the 80s and 90s
A Quietus Interview

We Only Have This Excerpt: Mark E Smith Of The Fall Interviewed

Mark E Smith has a drink with Kevin EG Perry and tells him about literary influences and Ersatz GB. Photograph by Valerio Berdini (Originally published 24th November 2011, republished 24th January 2018)
A Quietus Interview

This Happened: Sylvia Patterson And Miranda Sawyer In Conversation

Jude Rogers took a long brunch (if we're going to be specific) with two of this country's best music writers, Sylvia Patterson and Miranda Sawyer, recently. Samantha Hayley was on hand to take photographs
Black Sky Thinking

Euro 96 20 Years On: Gazza, UKIP, Brexit – Where Are We Now?

Phil Harrison looks back 20 years to Euro 96 and all that, just to ask, "How far have we actually travelled since then?"
Black Sky Thinking

How I Learned To Love Tony Blackburn, By Pete Paphides

After the recent sacking of Tony Blackburn by the BBC, Pete Paphides has the revelation that the guileless broadcaster was a prism through which he's charted his own life in pop
A Quietus Interview

Unfinished Business: New Order Interviewed

Don't call it a comeback... John Doran talks to New Order about their best album in a quarter of a century
Beyond The Hits

Beyond The Hits Of New Order, Joy Division And Warsaw

Our favourite album tracks, deep cuts, rarities and b-sides as chosen by Alfred Soto, David Bennun, Julian Marszalek, Jude Rogers, John Doran, Yousif Nur, Aug Stone, Joe Kennedy, Andy Thomas, Ian Wade, Colm McAuliffe, Geoff Cowart, Ed Power, John Mullen, David McKenna, Pavel Godfrey and Adrian Lobb
Anniversary

Believe In A Land Of Love: New Order’s Low-Life 35 Years On

Julian Marszalek casts his mind back to teenage years in Slough to remember the record that saw New Order continue their transition from the monochrome of Joy Division to the bright lights of the 1980s dancefloor
A Quietus Interview

Haphazard Archivism: Stephen Morris Of New Order Interviewed

John Doran talks to Stephen Morris about New Order signing to Mute, pulsar PSR B1919+21 and Joy Division oven gloves
Black Sky Thinking

The Seven Ages Of The World Cup Song

With this weekend seeing Gary Barlow and Gary Lineker unveiling the latest stirring anthem to inspire the national XI to success in Brazil, Jeremy Allen looks back at the world cup songs of yesteryear and finds them to be surprisingly telling signs of the times
Anniversary

So Beautifully Bright: New Order’s Technique 30 Years On

Ned Raggett recalls his first encounter with the "massive achievement" that was Technique three decades after its release
A Quietus Interview

Stripped To The Bone: Factory Floor Interview

Dom Butler, Gabe Gurnsey and Nik Void talk to John Doran about the intense and protracted business of making their first album
Anniversary

30 Years On: New Order’s Power Corruption And Lies Revisited

Ned Raggett, our man in Orange County, CA, ponders the magnificence of New Orders second long player

Black Sky Thinking

Sweeping From The Factory Floor: The Label’s Final Years

Twenty years after the Factory Records empire collapsed, Stuart Huggett sifts through the wreckage of the label's final releases
A Quietus Interview

Not So Polite: Wally Van Middendorp Of Minny Pops Interviewed

Nix Lowrey talks to a mainstay of the Dutch post punk scene about reformation, Joy Division and cheeky northerners. Wally portrait by Robin Butter. Live shot by Jos van Vliet
Art

Dancing About Architecture: Postmodernism At The V&A

Postmodernism has become a dirty word in recent times. The V&A's current exhibition shows it wasn't all bad, writes Lee Arizuno

A Quietus Interview

Twist Of Fate: Bernard Sumner Interviewed

Former Joy Division and New Order guitarist Bernard Sumner talks to Jude Rogers about his new venture Bad Lieutenant, the demise of the Hacienda and Joy Division merchandise
Black Sky Thinking

Dr Samuel JOHNSON’S Dictionary of the new Musick: The Letter B

Wherein popular Minstrels & divers Forms of Song are subjeckt to withering Definition & justly lampoon’d for the common LISTENER

A Quietus Interview

Kevin Cummins Hits The North – Joy Division To Oasis Caught On Camera

As legendary NME snapper Kevin Cummins exhibits photographs of his Mancunian muse in Yorkshire, we present a gallery of his photographs and hear the curious story of Ian Curtis' pink suit. Interviews by John Tatlock
Books

An Extract From John Robb’s Manchester Music City 1976-1996
A Quietus Interview

Peter Hook Interview: Freebass, New Order and Joy Division Cruet Sets

Ben Hewitt talks to the Northern bass monkey about his involvement in getting some of the North's most historic music sites blue plaques
Black Sky Thinking

Jude Rogers On The Right Way To Remember Joy Division

As _Unknown Pleasures_ reaches its 40th anniversary, Jude Rogers looks behind the commercialisation at Joy Division's eternal truth
Black Sky Thinking

Manchester, So Much To Answer For. A City Accused

Any day now a horde of parka wearing divs will pile out off various National Express coaches clutching new reissues by The Smiths, New Order and the Inspirals, on their way to Uni in Manchester. Let it fucking go already says Austin Collings

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 7

Baker's Dozen

Party Pieces: Andy Burnham’s Favourite Albums

The Mayor of Greater Manchester takes Fergal Kinney through 13 records that shaped him, via his days as a Hacienda regular and his children introducing him to Big Thief
Baker's Dozen

Howls From The Soul: Bobby Gillespie’s Favourite Albums

After the release of Primal Scream's eleventh album, Chaosmosis, the singer boils his record collection down to a mean 13, a selection that formed his "own private world" while he was growing up in Glasgow
Baker's Dozen

Club Members: Julianna Barwick’s Favourite Albums

From very long-term library loans and overnight camp-outs to chance shopping-mall buys and poster-based confusion, the composer gives Gary Kaill the stories behind 13 LPs she's listened to a "bazillion freaking times"
Baker's Dozen

“Music In Which To Get Truly Lost”: Daniel Avery’s Favourite Records

The Phantasy producer and DJ goes from mid-teen discoveries to recent acquisitions as he writes us his own Baker's Dozen of top albums, EPs and mixes ahead of his b2b set with Erol Alkan at fabric later this month
Baker's Dozen

This Is My Music: Dean Wareham’s Favourite Albums

April Clare Welsh gets a rundown of the former Galaxie 500 frontman's all-time top 13 LPs before he comes to the UK to tour in support of his debut solo album next week
Baker's Dozen

Corrupting Sonic DNA: Moby’s Favourite Albums

Moby talks Luke Turner through his formative musical influences, from Nick Drake and OMD to the sound of New York via Suicide, Silver Apples, Eric B & Rakim and Public Enemy
Baker's Dozen

Just Some Modern Rock Songs: Stuart Murdoch’s Favourite Albums

The Glaswegian indie pop pioneers' frontman picks out his top 13 records

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