Ex-New Order Bassist Peter Hook Calls Present Iteration a ‘Dangerous Cowl Model’

It’s been practically 20 years since New Order’s founding bassist Peter Hook left the group — and he’s not holding again on the “animosity” nonetheless lingering.

Bassist Hook, 69, was a founding member of each Pleasure Division and New Order, the second era of the band that launched in 1980 after the suicide of frontman Ian Curtis.

Hook advised The i Paper in a brand new interview that when he left New Order in 2007, he thought the pioneering digital pop band was breaking apart. As a substitute, they reunited with out him in 2011, finally hiring Tom Chapman on bass — and Hook shouldn’t be impressed with the latest high quality of the music.

“I don’t suppose they’re New Order. They don’t sound like something like them,” he advised the outlet. “I’ve watched them play songs [online] just lately, and so they’ve dropped the bass traces and play it like some bizarre, unhealthy cowl model of a New Order monitor. So the animosity is clearly nonetheless there now.”

The musician mentioned followers of the band have even taken to social media to complain to him.

“They’re like, ‘You’ll be able to’t hear the bass!’ Clearly, there’s a sure smugness one might undertake. However I’m, clearly, manner above all that,” he mentioned with a smile, the outlet reported.

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Hook was a member of Pleasure Division alongside Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner and drummer Stephen Morris. After Curtis died at age 23, the three surviving band members fashioned New Order, with Sumner stepping in as vocalist. They discovered success with singles like “Blue Monday,” “Weird Love Triangle” and “True Religion.”

Within the interview, Hook — who now performs with Peter Hook and The Gentle — mentioned he hasn’t spoken to Sumner in 17 years, and in addition needs that he and his bandmates had correctly mourned Curtis earlier than diving into a brand new enterprise.

“We didn’t grieve sufficient. I want we’d have grieved him extra,” he mentioned. “Actually, all we did was collect as a gaggle in a pub and sit there. Then we simply threw ourselves into New Order and type of erased earlier than.”

Although a number of authorized disputes together with his New Order bandmates had been settled in 2017, Hook mentioned “every little thing is coloured by the animosity.” Nonetheless, he’d present up ought to Pleasure Division and New Order be inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame this 12 months.

“However I feel I may be alone,” he added.