A tribute band for his own bands.
, and he’d give me a John Cale solo album. Then he’d do Can and Faust and Kraftwerk. … He really, really did educate me from a musical point of view.”
“To me, most bands sound like Joy Division or they sound like New Order,” he says. “New Order’s mix of dance and drum machine sequences with rock is more of a traditional group format these days because of the technology that everyone has. I’m very lucky indeed to have been in both.” He says Curtis shot him an odd look and somewhat begrudgingly admitted to being in possession of a Doors record, which he handed over. Hook gave it a listen and heard the similarity. “Oh, my God, we did sound like the Doors,” Hook recalls. “That's why he didn’t give it to me, because he didn’t want me to know we sounded like the Doors.”
“We are giving quite a long show,” he says with a chuckle. But it’s not the longest show he’s played as the Light: In 2012, the band played a charity gig for a church in Curtis's hometown of Macclesfield that had fallen into disrepair. He’d been told Curtis was a choir boy at the church. He thought,"Fuck it, let’s do every Joy Division song." It took more than three hours, but the crowd in the church seemed to love it.
Hook says that a live Joy Division show sounded quite different from the band's studio work, in part because producer Martin Hannett overdubbed tracks and Sumner played guitars and keys on recordings that he obviously couldn’t play simultaneously in a live setting. With that in mind, Hook is focusing on making the performances closer to Joy Division’s recorded output.
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