Peter Hook live in concert.
ON TOUR

Peter Hook

6
critic concert reviews
electronic

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

80
%
Based on 
6
critic concert
reviews
Last 12 Months Rating  
%
Based on 
critic concert
reviews

Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Based on 6 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Peter Hook is rated as a remarkable live performer, with worthwhile shows overall. Peter Hook concert reviews describe live shows and performances as defiant.

ON TOUR

Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, United States (Jun 2); The Orange Peel, Asheville, United States (Jun 3)

FESTIVALS IN 2025

No items found.
see more festivals

Latest Release

Peter Hook Presents: Dreams EP (Joy Division Orchestrated) (1 October 2021)

Artist Info

Genre
electronic
Origin
Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom (2/13/1956)
Bio
Peter "Hooky" Hook (born February 13, 1956 in Salford, Lancashire) was the bass player for the English Post-Punk band Joy Division, and the techno/rock band New Order. Hook was a co-founder of Joy Division along with Bernard Sumner in the mid-70's.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

Mercury News (USA)

September 22, 2024
%
Peter Hook revisits Joy Division, New Order catalogs

Manchester Evening News (UK)

October 15, 2022
100
%
It was "serious goosebumps time" as the Manchester Camerata reworked the music of the Manchester trailblazers with some standout guest vocals

Scenestr (Australia)

August 13, 2019
%
From the outset, Peter Hook’s latest musical endeavour - Joy Division Orchestrated - was bound to cause a stir among post-punk loyalists and classical aficionados.

The Music (Australia)

August 9, 2019
%
The takeaway emotions from the night all depended on which side of the familial fence you sit on with Hooky and New Order.

Gigwise (UK)

July 8, 2019
%
This could have been the slipperiest of outsize banana skins and a resurrected Ian Curtis would surely be incredulous. A defiant Peter Hook acknowledged the risks in a recent interview with NME: that the purists, or keyboard terrorists, as he coined them, might banish him to the Ice Age.

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)

October 2, 2010
%
Peter Hook has got a lot of flak for what he's doing at the moment

Past critic reviews published in

Bring The Noise (UK), Dead Press (UK), Bring The Noise (UK)

Image Credit

Paul Hudson [CC BY 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons