New Order returns to Los Angeles, without Peter Hook

The legendary Manchester post-punks in New Order will play their first L.A.-area show in seven years on Oct. 7. Well, most of the classic New Order lineup will be there anyhow.

The band’s much-anticipated local turn (its first since headlining Coachella in 2005) will stop by the Greek Theatre on Oct. 7 and is must-see viewing for local Anglophiles and latecomers to the electronica boom (“Blue Monday” famously remains the bestselling 12-inch vinyl DJ single of all time). No on-sale date has been set yet.

Core members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert will be playing along with more recent keyboardist Phill Cunningham and bassist Tom Chapman. But one noted figure who won’t be onstage is the band’s bassist, Peter Hook, who left the group in 2007. Though he remains an outspoken curator of the band’s preceding act, Joy Division -- he assembled a band, the Light, to play Joy Division albums on tour last year -- he’s not pleased with the New Order reunion news.

Last year, when New Order first re-connected without him for two charity shows, he posted on his website that “Everyone knows that NEW ORDER without PETER HOOK is like QUEEN without FREDDIE MERCURY, U2 without THE EDGE, SOOTY without SWEEP!”

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