With Mancunians New Order about to play their first gig since 2006 (and their first ever without bassist Peter Hook), and news from back home announcing the reformation of another seminal Manchester band, the Stone Roses, it's only fitting that, on arrival in Paris, clouds are gathering and rain is beginning to fall.
New Order, the band that formed from the remains of Joy Division following the death of singer Ian Curtis in 1980, have been estranged before. The five-year absence that followed 1993's Republic was because, in their own words, "we were getting on each other's nerves" – and although a triumphant homecoming gig at the Manchester Apollo arrived in 1998, Hook eventually left the band in 2007. Sadly, it seems that too much murky water has passed under the bridge since for a full reunion to happen any time soon. This summer they gave separate interviews to promote a new compilation, Total: From Joy Division to New Order, but one thing was agreed: there was no way back for the original lineup. "Too many things have been said and done," said frontman Bernard Sumner.
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