Two years ago, Peter Hook recruited a new band, The Light, and toured first the U.K. and then America, performing the two records from his seminal original band, Joy Division, in Unknown Pleasures and Closer. Those two early eighties albums basically defined New Wave, a sound that has more than come back around in today’s acts (think Interpol, think Editors…). They have also always been shadowed by tragedy, in the suicide of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, which brought that seminal band to its end.
Now, Peter Hook & The Light are touring the first two records from the band that came out of the ashes of Joy Division, and which basically defined electronic dance music in the eighties, New Order, in Movement and Power, Corruption & Lies. The shows will include both records, in full – and singles & b-sides (such as the early, post-Division “Ceremony” and “In a Lonely Place”, as well as the breakthrough hits that came between the two albums, “Temptation” and “Blue Monday”). After a few select dates in his native Britain, Hook & co. come to North America for a fifteen-city cross-country tour:
September 10 – Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA
September 11 – The Magic Bag, Ferndale, MI
September 13 – Webster Hall, New York, NY
September 14 – The Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA
September 15 – Riot Fest, Chicago, IL (US Exclusive Joy Division set)
September 15 – Double Door, Chicago, IL (Riot Fest aftershow)
September 17 – The Belmont, Austin, TX
September 18 – Club Soda, Montreal, PQ, Canada
September 19 – The Hoxton, Toronto, ON, Canada
September 21 – Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
September 23 – Venue, Vancouver, BC, Canada
September 25 – Neumo’s, Seattle, WA (Decibel Festival)
September 26 – Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR
September 27 – Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA
September 28 – Gothic Theatre, Denver, CO
September 30 – Auditorio Lunario, Mexico City, Mexico
