New Order: a marvellously unexpected rebirth

Bernard Sumner and Gillian Gilbert reflect on Joy Division, Peter Hook and 30 years of chaosAt the pavement table of a hotel bar on a sunny Sunday afternoon in London, Bernard Sumner is revisiting the most calamitous concerts of New Order's career in the kind of gleeful detail that your average musician would reserve for moments of glory. There was the time at Roskilde in 1984 when they appeared late and drunk with out-of-tune equipment and played so badly that the police were called to protect...

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