English - Musician | February 13, 1956 -
I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations.
Peter Hook
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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.
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When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.
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For the first 18 months of Joy Division, we used our jobs to fund the band. We'd all chip in three, five quid to go and do a gig. But it was worth it. It was amazing we could afford to feed ourselves. But we were so creatively and artistically satisfied. You can't explain that to somebody who's never been there.
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Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.
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My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.
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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.
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When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.
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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.
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When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night.
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I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.
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My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.
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