This month's musical offerings include a slate of familiar names as well as first-time headliners.
Peter Hook can’t help it. Wherever he goes, his legend precedes him. As a founding member of Mancunian post-punk outfit Joy Division — whose bright future was cut short by the tragic 1980 suicide of its charismatic baritone frontman Ian Curtis — he and the other survivors soldiered on and found huge chart success as New Order. There, he created a singular melodic bass-playing style that’s often been copied but never equaled.
He never bothered with vocal lessons — he just kept touring, growing richer and more resonant from year to year. Now, he’s brave enough to perform both Joy Division albums “Unknown Pleasures” and “Closer” back to back. The task, he adds, is still incredibly difficult. “Since you so desperately want to do them justice, not for me, but for Ian and for the audience, because without them, I’m nothing,” says Hook, who’s been amassing an album of new Light originals during the pandemic.
“So we had a couple of months of feeling like, ‘OK — what are we gonna do? How are we gonna get through this? What is happening right now?’ And no one really knew what was happening.” Oddly enough, Netflix had an idea. Unbeknownst to the group, the popular streaming service selected Cannons’ slithery “Fire For You” for inclusion in the soundtrack to its hit series ”Never Have I Ever.
Currently, the group is on its first headlining tour, which plays The Warfield on Thursday, September 22. Will the photogenic star and her spouse team up on actual films some day? Joy considers this for a minute. “Maybe one day, if the right thing comes along,” she decides. “But right now, I’m just focusing on everything I’m doing with Cannons, so my mind hasn’t jumped outside of just performing and writing and recording — that kind of stuff.
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