WITH this year’s Bestival festival fast approaching, this is a timely reminder of last year’s headline turn.
New Order, one of Manchester’s glorious musical wonders, have retained their power to entice an audience of all generations with their unbeatable live set at one of the UK’s most popular music festivals.
Despite the absence of the band’s original bassist, Peter Hook, the nostalgia remains within New Order’s original epics, such as Blue Monday and Bizarre Love Triangle.
Without Joy Division, New Order would never have been born, and the spirit of Ian Curtis, the deceased singer of the former, is surely resurrected with dignity by the stunning performance of Love Will Tear Us Apart; perhaps frontman Bernard Sumner may not possess the hauntingly beautiful vocals such as Curtis, but the devotion to both Joy Division and New Order is undoubted. Effortlessly performed.
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