A JOY Division and New Order legend has announced a gig in Glasgow. Peter Hook & The Light will take to the stage at the city‘s Kelvingrove Bandstand. Peter Hook was the bassist for the post-punk band ...

Former bassist and co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, Peter Hook, has reflected on his long-standing friendship with Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield – the Stone Roses and Primal Scream bass player who ...

Most discussion of the most influential band of the 20th Century starts with the Beatles, but Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan offered an interesting suggestion as the runner-up while taping an ...

As we look forward into 2026 and find big anniversaries awaiting celebration – 50 years since their formation, for example – with our latest Deluxe edition Ultimate Music Guide, we’ve taken the ...

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When Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stepped off a plane wearing a Joy Division t-shirt, he triggered a political storm. A minor one, but one that has us asking: Is wearing a Joy Division ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, of the centre-left Labor party, was photographed on October 23 leaving his plane wearing a t-shirt featuring the cover art from the band’s seminal 1979 album ‘Unknown ...

The biggest story in Australian politics this week has involved the Prime Minister wearing a Joy Division T-shirt. On Oct. 23, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, of the center-left Labor Party, was ...

Apparently it’s his T-shirts that are the problem. Confession time. I love Joy Division. Unknown Pleasures, the album whose artwork graced the prime ministerial chest in T-shirt form, is one of the ...

When the remaining members of legendary British band Joy Division reconvened after the suicide of singer Ian Curtis in 1980, the top agenda item was a new band name with no Nazi connotations. “No ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As someone who spent a good deal of their teen years lying in the dark listening to Unknown Pleasures on high rotation (yes, my parents ...

The Prime Minister had disembarked from a Royal Australian Air Force Airbus last week, dressed in the band shirt, which sparked criticism from the Opposition Leader on Tuesday. “Arriving back in ...