Iconic bassist touring New Order albums.
Back by popular demand, Peter Hook & The Light takes to the road for a string of dates in Spring 2016 to perform New Order’s third and fourth albums, Low Life and Brotherhood, returning to many venues where the band’s previous shows have sold out and been very well received.
Having recently returned from touring the albums in Australia, New Zealand and North America, the shows mark the opportunity to see the LPs and singles performed in full in England.
As has become standard, Hooky and The Light will be supporting themselves at the concerts performing a selection of Joy Division material.
The concerts will include the singles and B-sides from New Order’s most prolific period. From August 1983 up to 1987, taking the audience from Confusion to True Faith, with both Low Life and Brotherhood performed in full alongside all the other tracks from that fans consider New Order’s greatest period including Thieves Like Us , Bizarre Love Triangle, The Perfect Kiss” and many more.
Both the singles and the albums for this period stand out as some of the finest work ever produced by the band and marking the high period of New Order artistically. The critical plaudits heaped upon Power, Corruption & Lies were followed by similar notices for Low-Life and Brotherhood, which are considered as a trio as the band’s greatest albums.
Releasing Low Life in 1985 alongside epic single The Perfect Kiss, whose nine minute 12 inch mix is considered one of the best of the decade, Low Life has made many regard it as New Order’s most complete single album. Aside from the singles, the album contains many great records that have entered the canon, including This Time Of Night, Sunrise, Elegia, Sooner Than You Think, and the album’s closer Face Up, an energetic club track.
Brotherhood itself took a unique approach, splitting the rock side of the band to the first side of the album, with tracks Paradise, As It Is When It Was and Way Of Life, whereas the flip side was electronic, taking in the two singles and also Every Second Counts.
The Light’s concerts run up to 1987 when New Order enjoyed their biggest international hit True Faith.
Peter Hook & The Light’s Lowlife & Brotherhood shows chart New Order’s final stage of evolution from the post punk of Joy Division to defining themselves as electro pop pioneers at the cutting edge of the emerging club scene in the mid to late Eighties. They play the Copper Rooms at Warwick Universoty, Coventry, on Friday 4th March.
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