New Order’s career has been pockmarked with such dramatic highs, lows and happenings that it seemed a complete anathema to everything they’d done and been through when it looked like they were petering out of exist as the 2000s were coming to an end.
Musically, it was hardly a decade to write home about given what had gone before, with two middling records to show for their efforts (2000’s guitar-heavy, Billy Corgan-featuring Get Ready and the equally rock-based 2005 follow-up Waiting For The Sirens’ Call) but the main takeaway was age-old tensions coming to the fore. To that end, totemic bassist Peter Hook left in 2007. Soon after, he went on XFM to tell the world that New Order was no more.
