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at a glance...
Hometown: Manchester, England
Formed: 1976
Members:
Bernard Sumner -vocals, guitar
Peter Hook -bass guitar
Gillian Gilbert -keyboards, synths, programming
Stephen Morris -drums, programming
Bands in the family :
Joy Division, Electronic, Monaco, Revenge, Primal Scream, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays
Notes:
The suicide of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis was a great loss to the world of music, but the fact that his cohorts would go on to make relevant, intelligent and occasionally thrilling music for another 20 years was more consolation than we could have hoped for. Picking up where Joy Division's dark, post-industrial pop left off, New Order saw The Other Four merging their implicitly mechanical sounds with explicit disco production, giving birth to the European wing of '80s electro pop. While '80s contemporaries lost the plot and became New Romantics, or worse, Howard Jones, New Order walked the edge of underground cred and mainstream success with a procession of brilliant 12-inch singles ("Blue Monday," "True Faith," "Bizarre Love Triangle"). As the decade turned, their electro roots and association with Manchester's Hacienda club made them leading lights of the Acid House revolution in Britain, and they followed their best-ever LP Technique with the chart-topping World Cup '90 anthem "World In Motion." After 1993's Republic, which spawned another international hit ("Regret"), rumors of their breakup began to circulate, and side projects (Monaco, Electronic) held sway for several years. The band reunited for a New Year's '99 show, however, and began to talk about writing new material together.
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