English - Musician | January 4, 1956 -
I think if you take 'Get Ready,' 'Waiting For The Siren's Call,' 'Lost Sirens' - those three New Order albums were mostly guitar-based. There were a couple of dance tunes in there, but they were mainly guitar-oriented. They came about through jamming, a lot of them.
Bernard Sumner
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If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.
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As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.
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Where I grew up was a place called Salford, which was the industrial heartland of Manchester. And where I lived in Salford, I could walk to the center of Manchester within about 20 minutes. So I lived really close to the center.
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I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
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If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn't work at home like it does in a nightclub. You've got no atmosphere.
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We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.
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In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.
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Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
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By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
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If I work on music, it'll be for 10 hours a day, so sometimes I'll feel stressed, and I'll go for a two-hour walk. That sorts me out.
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If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
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