Who CARES how FAT OR THIN New Order are, they dedicated a song to the Killers!

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Here's the photo, they won an NME award, Hooky looks fat, yes, and he also looks like he's about to cry and I happen to love that guy, like you might your own dad or John Peel, or maybe just your favourite musician.

They played Crystal and dedicated it to the Killers. YES THEY DID. Woooo hoooo! Take a bite out of that Killers haterz!

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From neworderonline:

Accepting their God Like Genius award singer Bernard Sumner said: "I'd like to thank the rest of the band for putting up with my ego."

Bassist Peter Hook also thanked the late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.

Sumner added: "Thank you everyone and we are honoured to get this award. I'd like to thank NME - the NME helped us out when we were just starting out and twenty years old."

New Order then took to the stage to play a four song live set which featured ‘Crystal' (dedicated to The Killers), new single 'Krafty', 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and ’Blue Monday'.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 February 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

U2 seemed to like them, too.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 18 February 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

http://media.portland.indymedia.org/images/2003/07/268134.jpg

― Fat Anarchy on Airtube (ex machina), Friday, 18 February 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

those guys have totally waterskiied the fonz!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 18 February 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

They certainly haven't jumped any shark.

Also, Bono annoyingly shows up in New Order Story.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

Yes, "the... HOLY voice of Ian Curtis".

― David A. (Davant), Friday, 18 February 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

At least he asks the fascist imagery question...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 February 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

Of course he says "risky" instead of "risque"...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 February 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

The Killers took their name from a New Order video, let's remember.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 February 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

Barney looks a lot better in that picture than in the one Alex in NYC posted a few days ago. Personally, I don't care how fat or old they get. Genius comes in many forms. Still not sold on the Killers though.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Friday, 18 February 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

actually the Killers took their name from the video for the very song New Order dedicated to them, to be exact.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 18 February 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

how did the killers get their name ?
their not mentioned in the song

We're like crystal, we break easy
I'm a poor man, if you leave me
I'm applauded, then forgotten
It was summer, now it's autumn

I don't know what to say, you don't care anyway
I'm a man in a rage (just tell me what I've got to do), with a girl I betrayed
Here comes love, it's like honey
You can't buy it with money, you're not alone anymore, (whenever you're here with me),
You shock me to the core, you shock me to the core

We're like crystal, it's not easy
With your love, you could feed me
Every man, and every woman
Needs someone, So keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming

Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming

― La Camilla Henemark, Friday, 18 February 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

Watch the video.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 February 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

I thought The Killers took their name from the hair metal band New Order pretend to be in the Touched By The Hand Of God video (directed by Katherine Bigelow), who were called The Killers. Or am I completely wrong?

― Neil, Friday, 18 February 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

This is just SO LAME.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 18 February 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

I mean. Oh dear. No. Shark, jumped, years ago, why do we need to tunnel back into the Sea Life centre for further aquatic adventures?! Sorry, I am feverish and easy to IRE today.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 18 February 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

You mean that wasn't the Killers actually in the "Crystal" video? Oh my shattered world.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 February 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

great, now i have to HATE New Order.

oh well, so be it.

― deadair (deadair), Friday, 18 February 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

New Order's "Crystal" video still ranks as the most prescient move of all time.

The circle is compleat.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 18 February 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

When has Bono ever said anything about New Order?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

KILLERS GET OPENING SLOT ON UPCOMING U2 TOUR OF EUROPE

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 18 February 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Who are "The Killers"?

― Arson_Bright, Friday, 18 February 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

ten months pass...

Hooky DJ'd in Seattle last night, and what a wonderful night it was. He played not one but two songs by the Killers (yes the real Killers) including Mr. Brightside. He also mixed in what sounded like his very own bass part during one of their songs.

― Tomato Voyeur (Bimble...), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Heheh, nice touch. He DJed here on Saturday night but I was already scheduled for something, though I'm sure it went down a treat.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I was already scheduled for something

i was going to say "it'd better have been a very special something, like a slap-up tea or the world's greatest blowjob" but then i remembered that hooky DJd in glasgow and i didn't go either. ahem.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

he played at least half a dozen new order songs when i heard him dj, which i thought was cute.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

He DJ'ed in T.O. last year and I didn't go. New Order haven't played here since 1993, I want a REAL GIG.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason the highlight of the evening I think was him going from playing Anarchy In The U.K. to Happy Mondays' "24 Hour Party People". I just thought that was brilliant.

― Tomato Voyeur (Bimble...), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

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