Because I have yet to depart the 80's I am back in love with New Order. It comes in waves, I go from the techno beat to the hardcore slam to the New Romantics crap over and over. For now the "Blue Monday" boys have taken on my airwaves.
So much drama from these men. Upon the horrible suicide of singer Ian Curtis, the three remaining boys went from Joy Division to New Order and kept that Manchester sound alive. But these guys are in their mid 50s now and still snipping like school girls. What's more interesting than that is the fact that they're still at it all these years later. Bernard Sumner is the latest quotable this time about bassist Peter Hook. Like girlies in the lunchroom…heres the quote:
He said: "He's not been very nice. To boil it down to its basic elements, if someone's horrible a lot of the time, you're not sad when they're gone, you're glad.
"He wasn't happy in the band – primarily with me but also, it seems, with almost everyone else. If you're unhappy, OK, fine, but go away and do something else and don't bitch about us anymore."
Last summer, the group declared themselves defunct but played a number of shows this summer and Bernard admits he has no idea what the future holds.
He told The Guardian newspaper: "Who knows what's around the corner? I've had moments when I've thought, 'F**k them, I've had enough'. But once the anger dies down, the clarity pulls through.
"You're not willing to give up the past 30 years of hard graft, blood, sweat and tears because someone else had a tizzy fit y'know."