Peter Hook & The Light announce 2025 UK shows playing New Order’s ‘Get Ready’ in full
nme.comPeter Hook & The Light have shared some new UK live shows for 2025, which will see them perform New Order’s ‘Get Ready’ in its entirety.Taking place next spring, the run of live shows will comprise three dates across the UK, and will see the former New Order and Joy Division bassist revisit the band’s somewhat overlooked seventh studio album, which arrived in 2001.The shows will kick off at the Marble Factory in Bristol on April 17, before continuing the following night (18) with their first show in London since last October, taking place at the Troxy.
The final of the three scheduled dates will be held on April 19 at the 3,500-capacity O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester. This will mark their biggest headline gig to date in the city and first time back there in two years.At each of the shows, Hook and Co.
will break out the full tracklist for the 2001 album, as well as deliver a selection of the most seminal tracks from both Joy Division and New Order.Tickets go on sale this Friday (September 13) at 10am BST and can be found here.
Pre-sale options will also be available from tomorrow (September 11) at 10am BST.A post shared by Peter Hook & The Light (@peterhook_thelight)APRIL 17 – Bristol, Marble Factory18 – London, Troxy19 – Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse“‘Get Ready was a honeymoon record’ Looking back now it was very enjoyable to make, and I think is massively underrated,” Hook said in a new statement. “It did sort the wheat from the chaff and led to a New Order mk2 which played better but had lost a naivety whilst gaining a maturity.”He continued: “Barney [Bernard Sumner] and I became a ‘power couple’ in Manchester during the making of the record but, sadly, the old problems recurred when we came to play live.
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