Peter Hook began a three-day residency celebrating the early work of two of the city's most celebrated bands, Joy Division and New Order
There may never be a better opportunity to find out on which side of that particular Mancunian divide I fall.
Look, I get that as you’re reading this you’ll be a figure of discerning musical taste with a strong grasp of Manchester pop folklore, so I wouldn't dare insult you by explaining how the stellar rise of Joy Division was tragically halted by the suicide of singer Ian Curtis. I don't know if Barney has ever been introduced to the stage by the Mayor of Salford, but his former bass player has has clearly earned enough brownie points with the top brass in the other city for such an honour tonight.And he is greeted by the crowd with a welcome worthy of the triumphant Salfordian Viking he resembles .
It was our man’s unique approach to bass playing that put the, ahem, hooks into these songs pinning a punk-pop aesthetic beneath the all-powerful vocals and sentiments of the band’s lost auteur .
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