Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it’s always bound to have a pecking order. Peter Hook Read Quote
There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely. Peter Hook Read Quote
In the late ’70s, the conditions that bands had to endure were, shall we say, not as civilized as they are today. People were a lot more aggressive back then. So there was definitely a lot of suffering for your art. But I would argue that was a good thing. Generally, people make better music when they suffer. Peter Hook Read Quote
Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually. Peter Hook Read Quote
My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time. Peter Hook Read Quote
There are so little outtakes from the Joy Division era. We didn’t have much money. You couldn’t be very generous in recording, so we were very thrifty in how we recorded. Everything was very, very well looked after financially because we just couldn’t afford it. Peter Hook Read Quote
I don’t find imitating other people’s music easy at all. I remember being fifth in line for a Rolling Stones tour, early ’90s, when Bill Wyman left, and I was hoping against hope that I wouldn’t get the call to audition. I wouldn’t be able to play a Stones song if you put a gun to my head. Peter Hook Read Quote
When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night. Peter Hook Read Quote
I’m one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in. Peter Hook Read Quote
