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PETER HOOK'S THE LIGHT PERFORM CLOSER!
"1102/2011 E.P also to be released!
"1102/2011 E.P also to be released!
Ben Kelly and Aaron mellor chreck out the plans For Fac251
• Peter Hook’s The Light to perform “Closer”, Joy Division’s second album and melancholic masterpiece live for the first time ever at The Factory in Manchester On Wednesday 18th May 2011.
• Other UK dates with The Light performing “Unknown Pleasures” prior to The Factory gig are London Scala (Saturday 23rd April) and Liquid Edinburgh (Saturday 30th April). The Light’s guest vocalist Rowetta will be appearing at all three dates.
• Exclusive video footage from The Factory Unknown Pleasures Concert, May 2010 of The Light performing “Disorder” and “New Dawn Fades” with Rowetta will be released Monday 7th March at :
• “1102 / 2011” the debut EP from Peter Hook’s The Light will be released via Hacienda Records on Monday 2nd May 2011. Recorded by the band and Rowetta, the EP features the first ever recording of a previously unfinished Joy Division track “Pictures In My Mind” with vocals by Peter Hook and three tracks which highlight Rowetta’s unique vocal treatments of “Insight”, “New Dawn Fades” and “Atmosphere”.
Peter Hook’s The Light Perform “Closer”
Wednesday May 18th / The Factory Manchester / 8pm
112 – 118 Princess Street Manchester, M1 7EN
In Association With Mind & The Keith Bennett Appeal
Tickets : £20.11 (Includes Charity Donation)
Tickets available from Thursday 10th March 2011 at:
Peter Hook’s The Light return to The Factory on May 18th 20011 for the first ever performance of Joy Division’s starkly passionate, seminal second album, “Closer” live and in its entirety at the club’s intimate downstairs gig floor, a year to the day since The Light first performed “Unknown Pleasures” at the venue.
In revisiting “Closer”, whose haunting austere atmosphere and emotive content is considered a “start to finish masterpiece”* (Pitchfork Media, see below), the gig will see The Light respectfully reproduce the revered and highly esteemed album for the Joy Division fans and faithful.
As an album, “Closer’s history is forever associated with Ian Curtis’ death, its recording sessions seeing his condition worsen, and was released two months post in July 1980. The Peter Saville chosen cover of a Bernard Pierre Wolf, Appiani Tomb portrait has served to enhance its myth although Saville had never heard Closer when he chose the image prior to Ian’s passing.
With Martin Hannett’s incandescent production permeating the record allied with a band that had developed in stature and confidence since their debut “Unknown Pleasures”, the album came to yield many classic Joy Division tracks, “Atrocity Exhibition, “Heart And Soul”, and “Twenty Four Hours”.
With a much greater use of keyboards than its predecessor, Closer also contained many references to New Order’s future direction, which the Joy Division’s remaining band members were to move on with, almost immediately at the time of the release of “Closer”, studiously ignoring the album at the time.
*On Closer – The Album” (Pitchfork Media)
"Closer is even more austere, more claustrophobic, more inventive, more beautiful, and more haunting than its predecessor. It's also Joy Division's start-to-finish masterpiece, a flawless encapsulation of everything the group sought to achieve" 10 / 10.
The Light’s performance of “Closer” on the evening is also being recorded by Ronnie Lane’s mobile recording studio for a vinyl only release later in 2011.
On Mind & The Keith Bennett Appeals Involvement
The May 18th Closer gig continues the same charities involved in last year’s event, Mind and The Keith Bennett Appeal.
On Mind’s involvement, chief executive Paul Farmer commented "I am delighted that Peter Hook has decided to once again support Mind following the success of last year's gig which helped fund our work to improve the lives of people with mental distress, and to combat the stigma that still surrounds mental health problems. Our huge thanks goes to Peter and everyone else involved with the concert for their continued support."
Peter Hook Press Quotes On Closer
Hooky on Closer’s release in July 1980....
“Well I remember the recording very well I don’t remember the release at all. I think I disowned it in the shock of losing Ian. I just retreated from anything to do with Joy Division recording or otherwise, I didn’t celebrate it, I didn’t listen to it it, I didn’t read the reviews I didn’t have anything to with it, nothing at all.
Peter Hook on revisiting Closer....
“When I decided to do Unknown Pleasures, I knew that was a strong record. We all felt confident about the material, about ourselves, the way that you have to be in a group, full of self belief. Closer is a completely different thing - I’m actually approaching it with great interest because I know that by the time we got to “Closer”, the elephant in the room or rather the epilepsy in the room, was such a big part of everything Joy Division did. It was like a fifth member and living with it was very difficult and it coloured the atmosphere and the music of “Closer” a great deal.
“Although we tried to make the best of the situation when recording Closer, it was really tempered by Ian’s illness. After living with the lyrics of Unknown Pleasures, analysing them and then singing them live, living them in much more in depth. I know that with Closer I am going to have to do the same, I will be trying to put Ian's feelings in, to believe in what I'm doing. I am wary to say the least, because of Ian’s state and frame of mind at the time. I’m really not looking forward to living with and analysing these lyrics.”
Peter Hook on playing the albums live...
“ I’m doing this because I have enjoyed playing Unknown Pleasures so much, after 30 years to get the music back is the best thing artistically that’s ever happened to me because as I said I turned my back on the music, we all did. Now I’ve had the opportunity to take it back some three decades later.
“It’s taken me 30 years to come to terms with what happened. I don’t think we were wrong at all to do what we did.”
“The responsibility is daunting but ultimately when I look at the people watching me play it. I have never felt once that anybody watching it didn’t want me to do it.”
Peter Hook’s The Light
Peter Hook’s The Light features Peter Hook on vocals and bass, Jack Bates on bass, Nat Wason on guitar, Andy Poole on keyboards and Paul Kehoe on drums. Rowetta performs as guest vocalist at selected gigs.
Having performed together at the opening night of The Factory in February 2010, in the past twelve months The Light have undertaken extensive tours of mainland Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and The United States, as well as numerous UK and international festival appearances.
Peter Hook’s The Light Tour Dates To June 2011
Dates in Bold feature Rowetta as guest vocalist
All dates apart from May 18th at The Factory Manchester see The Light perform Unknown Pleasures
09/03/11 La Carene, Brest, France
10/03/11 Le Trabendo, Paris, France
11/03/11 Big Band Cafe, Caen, France
17/03/11 Astro Hall, Tokyo Japan
18/03/11 Zepp, Tokyo, Japan
19/03/11 Creative Centre, Osaka, Japan
25/03/11 Helsinki, Finland
27/03/11 Oslo, Norway
30/03/11 Rosso, Manchester (Nordoff Robins Charity Event)
23/04/11 Scala, London
30/04/11 Liquid, Edinburgh
07/05/11 Festival Donorte, Pontevedra, Spain
18/05/11 The Factory, Manchester (Performing Closer)
28/05/11 Den Haag, Holland
29/05/11 Eindhoven, Holland
Ben kelly,Aaron,Hooky outside FAC251
Boardroom being finished..
All photos above are courtesy of and credited to Kevin Cummins
All photos below - webmaster S.Smith
Press from all over the U.K descend on FAC251 at the press call
FAC251 - THE FACTORY FLYERS
Hooky and son Jack
random bar staff shot
Hooky caught unawares
Rowetta,Jack,Gary,Howard,Mani and Hooky
Aaron Mellor
Ben Kelly designed "industrial" stairwell
Webmaster interviews Mani
DJ Dermo
Pic of Tony Wilson looking out over the club.
They have done you proud
Rest In Peace .
They have done you proud
Rest In Peace .
Neworderinfoweb would like to thank the following people for the fantastic opening night.
Hooky,Aaron and all the staff at FAC251
Mani,Rowetta,Gary,Howard,Old Leadfoot and everyone else involved in the gig.
The Vikings
Colin Torr,John Montague for the photos.
And last but not least,Extra special thanks to James Masters.
Webmaster.
Hooky,Aaron and all the staff at FAC251
Mani,Rowetta,Gary,Howard,Old Leadfoot and everyone else involved in the gig.
The Vikings
Colin Torr,John Montague for the photos.
And last but not least,Extra special thanks to James Masters.
Webmaster.
This is probably THE rarest Joy division item the world will EVER see !
This is a copy of the Transmission 12" acetate which actually belonged to Martin Hannett who produced Joy Division for many years.
This item is owned by a friend of mine from New York who bought it in 1983 and paid a sustantial amount of money for the item.
There are only three on these acetates in the world!
which HAS to make it THE rarest Joy Division item in the WORLD!
This is a copy of the Transmission 12" acetate which actually belonged to Martin Hannett who produced Joy Division for many years.
This item is owned by a friend of mine from New York who bought it in 1983 and paid a sustantial amount of money for the item.
There are only three on these acetates in the world!
which HAS to make it THE rarest Joy Division item in the WORLD!
24 hour party people promotional slidebook from the Cannes film festival only 100 copies worldwide
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