Peter Hook

Peter Hook revisits Joy Division, New Order catalogs

It was "serious goosebumps time" as the Manchester Camerata reworked the music of the Manchester trailblazers with some standout guest vocals

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 takeaway emotions from the night all depended on which side of the familial fence you sit on with Hooky and New Order.

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.

Peter Hook has got a lot of flak for what he's doing at the moment