Peter Hook & The Light have shared some new UK live shows for 2025, which will see them perform New Order’s ‘Get Ready’ in its entirety.
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Taking place next spring, the run of live shows will comprise three dates across the UK, and will see the former New Order and Joy Division bassist revisit the band’s somewhat overlooked seventh studio album, which arrived in 2001.
The shows will kick off at the Marble Factory in Bristol on April 17, before continuing the following night (18) with their first show in London since last October, taking place at the Troxy. The final of the three scheduled dates will be held on April 19 at the 3,500-capacity O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester. This will mark their biggest headline gig to date in the city and first time back there in two years.
At each of the shows, Hook and Co. will break out the full tracklist for the 2001 album, as well as deliver a selection of the most seminal tracks from both Joy Division and New Order.
Tickets go on sale this Friday (September 13) at 10am BST and can be found here. Pre-sale options will also be available from tomorrow (September 11) at 10am BST.
Peter Hook & The Light’s 2025 ‘Get Ready’ shows are:
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17 – Bristol, Marble Factory
18 – London, Troxy
19 – Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse
“‘Get Ready was a honeymoon record’ Looking back now it was very enjoyable to make, and I think is massively underrated,” Hook said in a new statement. “It did sort the wheat from the chaff and led to a New Order mk2 which played better but had lost a naivety whilst gaining a maturity.”
He continued: “Barney [Bernard Sumner] and I became a ‘power couple’ in Manchester during the making of the record but, sadly, the old problems recurred when we came to play live. The writing was on the wall from then on. The two of us worked very hard to make this a great record and I think we succeeded. I am looking forward to playing all the tracks, many of which have never been played live before. The Light will shine through … Get Ready!”
Upon its original release, ‘Get Ready’ reached Number Six in the UK chart and was dedicated by the band to Rob Gretton, the manager of both Joy Division and New Order who had died in 1999.
Before the ‘Get Ready’ shows kick off, Peter Hook & The Light are set to continue their ongoing 2024 world tour, which will see them play the ‘Substance’ albums from Joy Division and New Order in full.
It started on August 31, and the North American run continues with shows in Boston, Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and more.
They will conclude with one final stretch across the UK and Ireland that starts in York’s Barbican Hall on October 10, followed by cities including Glasgow, Nottingham, Oxford, Birmingham, Belfast, Dublin and more. Visit here for remaining tickets.
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