Bernard Sumner: It's the heart and soul of New Order that's important. If something sounds like a pastiche, that's not good enough.
Bernard Sumner: The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes. I've been watching that series about Jamie Oliver setting up his restaurant and he's doing exactly what we did with the Hacienda. The similarities are amazing.
Peter Hook: (talking about Waiting for the Sirens' Call)If I'm gonna make any general statement about New Order's music, it would be that these days, it's much more layered and also very balanced. In the old days, it was a bit wilder, but now --I don't think smoothed out is the right phrase, but it's definitely polished.
New Order has never been a band to shy away from technology, most notably in the area of digital recording.
Critics and the evidence say Bernard Sumner's voice is better on the last two albums, than in the first ones.
Honours this band has received: *BRIT Award for Best Music Video, for True Faith (1988) *Mercury Music Prize shortlist, for Republic (1993) *NME Godlike Genius Award (2005) *UK Music Hall of Fame, both 'New Order' and 'Joy Division' (2005) *Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection (2006)
In the movie Shaun Of The Dead, there's an scene where Shaun, the protagonist, is throwing records to a zombie. One of them was "Blue Monday".
For a short time, on their early days, they used a very special and democratic way to write the lyrics. Each member had to write a line, then pass it on.
Apart from New Order, Peter Hook formed Revenge, but it got separated after only one album, and a couple of EPs. So he got into Monaco, with David Potts. They released two albums.
Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert were about to start a project of their own, called "The Other Two," until New Order got back together to play in the Reading Festival, in 1998.
They were part of the videogame FIFA 2005 soundtrack, with a radio-edited version of "Blue Monday"(3 minutes shorter than the original).
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