Matt Lee

I'm Matt Lee, one of the folks behind behind Foo Communications, a company/experiment in music and social media, including Libre.fm, a new social media platform that offers musicians exclusive promotion and play in exchange for licensing their music under a free culture license, and GNU social, a federated social networking project.

New Order are touring? Not if you ask me.

This post is mostly for the benefit of Rob.

The members of Joy Division had agreed before Curtis's death not to continue under the Joy Division name should any one member leave the band.

Wikipedia, New Order

It's a shame New Order never thought of this.

If New Order is Joy Division without Ian Curtis, what do you call New Order without Peter Hook? Bad Lieutenant? Electronic? Not The Other Two, Revenge, Monaco, FreeBass, The Light... not even Be Music.

Now, Gillian Gilbert joined New Order pretty quickly, and she's certainly no Billy Preston, but the line we always heard from Factory, from Tony Wilson himself... Joy Division and New Order were the same band.

I've never seen New Order live, and I always wish I'd seen Joy Division live, but I've seen Peter Hook and The Light, and they're good. Very good.

But they're not Joy Division, and they're not New Order... but they're not saying they are.