simon & schuster, 224pp, october 2008, £18.99. "far funnier, sadder and stranger than anyone has imagined", apparently.
thing is: we don't need to imagine, do we? because hooky, god love 'im, has been whacking on about this for years.
still: i guess there's no danger of wilson getting cross and suing now, so ... there might be the odd anecdote in there that's worth sharing with ILM when i blag a review copy of the thing. (because i'm not buying it. i've made enough contributions to the hooky mortgage fund as it is.)
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 28 April 2008 22:22 (seventeen years ago)
Rock musician invests money unwisely shocker.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 28 April 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)
yeh. in 198-fucking-2. then doesn't stop harping on.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 28 April 2008 22:33 (seventeen years ago)
Looking forward to the sequel "I Definitely Gave Him a Fucking Twenty".
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 28 April 2008 22:37 (seventeen years ago)
Followed by "They Can't Be New Order Coz I Said So On Me MySpace".
― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 00:26 (seventeen years ago)
"Look, Playing A Pre-Mixed CD While I Put My Fingers On The EQ Knobs Bloody Counts As DJing Because ARTHUR BLOODY BAKER Told Me About Putting My Fingers On The EQ Knobs, What Do You Bloody Know?" to be sold via Amazon Kindle only
― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 01:02 (seventeen years ago)
Peter Hook – legendary bass-slinger with two of the most influential bands in British pop music history, Joy Division and New Order, and now, having reinvented himself as a respected DJ turned author, takes his own show on the road to tell the tragi-comic tales of Factory Records, Joy Division, New Order and Manchester nightclub The Hacienda.The evening will include exclusive and previously unseen footage of Joy Division, New Order, The Hacienda, plus outtakes from Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Party People alongside music and chat. Audiences will also have the opportunity to ask Hooky questions about his life and his starring role in the history, legend and mythmaking of modern Manchester.PRE-SHOW EXHIBITION: On display will be an exhibition of Hooky’s personal memorabilia from Joy Division, New Order, The Hacienda and the early Manchester Punk scene.
I'm going to this in a couple of weeks. And now I've just read he will also be playing bass "I’ve also decided to play a few instrumentals I like the bass on – The Happy One and Elegia, for example".Oh good.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=180575671&blogId=529385738
― Duke Newsom (DavidM), Thursday, 1 April 2010 09:34 (fifteen years ago)
"I can't imagine an album of all bass would have much variation." "It's not about variation."
― all the pure blonde you could drink (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 1 April 2010 13:18 (fifteen years ago)
"What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism," says Mr Hook.
New Order's Peter Hook launches music industry degree
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18579791
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 08:45 (thirteen years ago)
also:
"What would he have said to Ian Brown or people who I count as important in my life? They would have dismissed them. They don't have technical ability, but they've got something called soul."
I believe Simon Cowell signed Ian Brown to Polydor records.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 08:47 (thirteen years ago)
Maybe he will be teaching some practical skills like beat-matching while DJing!
― mmmm, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 09:54 (thirteen years ago)