Peter Hook: “Those of today I don’t think they are the New Order”

The former bassist of New Order Peter Hook – who left the band in 2007 due to a bad relationship with his teammates and was replaced by Tom Chapman – During an interview with The I Paper he said that he has not yet passed the bitterness towards his old group revealing that the fans still write to him about the messages that have the band as their object.

In the interview, Hook speaking of New Order He said: “I don’t think they are the new orders.

They don’t play at all like them. I recently seen them playing online, they eliminated the lines of bass and sound like strange, bad covers of the pieces of the New Order “.

Among the other questions, he was asked if he thought that the fact that the group had removed his parts of bass was not accidental, Peter replied frankly and irony: “Well, do you think it makes the song better?”. He then said he was still receiving messages from fans of New Order. “They tell me ‘you don’t hear the bass!’ Of course, I could have complacency.

Peter Hook In the chat he also recalled the tragic death of his former bandmate of Joy Divisionthe frontman Ian Curtiswho took his life in 1980, at just 23 years old. In this regard, he commented: “We didn’t suffer enough. I wish we had suffered more. But we were allowed to ignore him, because we were really young.”

To the question about how they had faced the loss of Ian CurtisHook replied with bitterness: “Literally, everything we did was gathered in a pub and sit there. Then we threw ourselves on the new order and in a certain sense we deleted the past. It was like getting rid of the old photos of the ex -girl: ‘No, I never had anything to do with that!'”.