A most wonderful, enjoyable night, even better than I had expected.
Towards the end of his set he played a Johnny Cash song and I wondered where Matt was.
Mostly it was all about dancing though. He even played the Killers! TWO SONGS by the Killers! One of which it sounded like he ADDED HIS OWN BASS PART TO! For fuck's sake!
But the highlight was the transition from Sex Pistols' "Anarchy In The UK" (I just happened to watch the Sex Pistols film Filth & The Fury on DVD only a few days ago of course) into Happy Mondays "24 Hour Party People". I mean that was one hell of a transition as far as I'm concerned, that might have just been the highlight of the evening, those two songs together. Even though I also fucking loved it when I found myself thinking "I bet he's going to lay a reggae beat on us any minute now" and sure enough the next song was some reggae thing with gorgeous Horace Andy vocals. I kept fantasizing that Stephen Morris' drumsticks were playing along and that the next New Order album would be some big pompous double album stretching the boundaries with endless reggae dub electro dance tracks...You know, give Radiohead's daring grandeur a run for it's cheek and grandiosity.
Good god is that even a word? Grandiosity?
Cheers all. Hooky made me feel like a kid again tonight.
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Well I figured it must have been something major, Tommy, like maybe you were out of town or something. Sorry to hear you got sick, that's no fun. No FUN as in the Stooges song that the Sex Pistols covered etc etc etc. RAWK AND ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did I mention he played Transmission? That was when I finally got over my shyness and got up near the front. There were no disco lights at all like I expected, despite the lovely unused disco ball in the middle of the ceiling. There were not even that many people there towards the end, just the die-hards who made sure they didn't have to go to work in the morning. There were a few guys who looked to be in their twenties with the most freaky fuzzy colourful mohawk hairdos. No, there were no lights, just the ones on Hooky on the stage at the decks. He faced us out in the open the whole time, and I expected he'd be hidden like DJ's often are. That room was smaller than my elementary school gym. It was an intimate affair.
But I knew at the end that I had been outdone. For despite my wearing my dark green New Order Ceremony T-shirt faithfully, there appeared a punter on the stage at the end who wore a white Movement shirt with a black long sleeved shirt underneath and I knew I'd been outdone. I suddenly realized the devastating fact that I'd never owned a single Movement T-shirt in my life despite having had many New Order/Joy Division T-shirts. And to wear a black long sleeved shirt underneath was perfect. I was moritifed. Shamed. Why had such an outfit not occured to me? I'll never live it down, I'm doomed to hell now. *cries*
hahahah
He also played some really really wild disco version of She's Lost Control. I mean I know that sounds daft but this wasn't at all. Some female soul singer singing the words, really fascinating.
I took the day off work today. It's a religious holiday as far as I'm concerned.
Fuck! Also he played this great ska/rap thing where the guy kept saying Rude Boys, Rude Boy or whatever and it reminded me of Two Tone records, the style of it and it made me happy. Oh I could go on and on. But no one cares. Sometimes I did actually wish I was in England for some of the songs cause I knew there'd be more people and more of them dancing...
Did I mention he played Transmission? That was when I finally got over my shyness and got up near the front. There were no disco lights at all like I expected, despite the lovely unused disco ball in the middle of the ceiling. There were not even that many people there towards the end, just the die-hards who made sure they didn't have to go to work in the morning. There were a few guys who looked to be in their twenties with the most freaky fuzzy colourful mohawk hairdos. No, there were no lights, just the ones on Hooky on the stage at the decks. He faced us out in the open the whole time, and I expected he'd be hidden like DJ's often are. That room was smaller than my elementary school gym. It was an intimate affair.
But I knew at the end that I had been outdone. For despite my wearing my dark green New Order Ceremony T-shirt faithfully, there appeared a punter on the stage at the end who wore a white Movement shirt with a black long sleeved shirt underneath and I knew I'd been outdone. I suddenly realized the devastating fact that I'd never owned a single Movement T-shirt in my life despite having had many New Order/Joy Division T-shirts. And to wear a black long sleeved shirt underneath was perfect. I was moritifed. Shamed. Why had such an outfit not occured to me? I'll never live it down, I'm doomed to hell now. *cries*
hahahah
He also played some really really wild disco version of She's Lost Control. I mean I know that sounds daft but this wasn't at all. Some female soul singer singing the words, really fascinating.
I took the day off work today. It's a religious holiday as far as I'm concerned.
Fuck! Also he played this great ska/rap thing where the guy kept saying Rude Boys, Rude Boy or whatever and it reminded me of Two Tone records, the style of it and it made me happy. Oh I could go on and on. But no one cares. Sometimes I did actually wish I was in England for some of the songs cause I knew there'd be more people and more of them dancing...
"Oh I could go on and on. But no one cares. Sometimes I did actually wish I was in England for some of the songs cause I knew there'd be more people and more of them dancing..."
no, i mean i don't care about half the music you post about, but i do think it's really neat. when i'm bored, and this is not to say your posts are boring, but this time of year it's cold outside, and i've got deadlines to meet, so when i'm bored i'll come read your music posts. i have no idea what you're talking about half the time, but it is just nice to see someone love music with such abandon. i mean it's definitely a good thing i think.
no, i mean i don't care about half the music you post about, but i do think it's really neat. when i'm bored, and this is not to say your posts are boring, but this time of year it's cold outside, and i've got deadlines to meet, so when i'm bored i'll come read your music posts. i have no idea what you're talking about half the time, but it is just nice to see someone love music with such abandon. i mean it's definitely a good thing i think.
"And to wear a black long sleeved shirt underneath was perfect. I was moritifed. Shamed. Why had such an outfit not occured to me? I'll never live it down, I'm doomed to hell now."
this made me laugh out loud -- like snoopy falling off the dog house.
okay, i've been sitting here typing then deleting this question for ten minutes. enough
did you go out by yourself and is it fun?
this made me laugh out loud -- like snoopy falling off the dog house.
okay, i've been sitting here typing then deleting this question for ten minutes. enough
did you go out by yourself and is it fun?
Well I felt bad later because I figured I should have explained that Peter Hook is the bassist of New Order/Joy Division. I mean I can't assume everyone here knows that. Maybe that way it would have made more sense to some folks here (especially with the knowledge that New Order is my favourite band). But I've said it before and I'll say it once more: 9 times out of 10, if Marky is on about something that sounds like greek to you, just watch the movie "24 Hour Party People" a few times and you'll be surprised how much more of Marky's nonsense will cause a few lightbulbs in the brain to go on. Do you know the film Sarah? It's not really very obscure, thankfully, although it occurs to me I can't verify that every Blockbuster in bumfuck U.S.A. carries it.
Anyway, did I go alone? Yes, and the odd thing was that I always pictured myself being there alone as I looked forward to it. But I wasn't supposed to be because I called Stuart (yet another English ex-pat in Seattle with an American wife - he never posts here, but McC, Tommy, and Sloth know who he is) and Stuart said he would go to the Peter Hook night and that he was going to bring me all these juicy John Peel CD's he'd made of his old 80's cassette tapes off the radio. But it turned out Stuart didn't go cause he's moving soon and has been working round the clock on some things that are wrong with their current house.
I did see two ladies there that I remembered from Brit Pop days when Stuart & I used to DJ at a club here in town, but I didn't particularly want to see either of these ladies - I never slept with either of them but one of them was supposed to be my friend and suddenly decided to quit contact with me years back for no real reason at all except she's fake and the other well...she's a bit full of herself (it was Linda, McC knows who I mean). But it didn't bother me to be alone at all, really. I just felt like a little kid and Peter Hook was the teacher and we'd been let off the hook for recess! "off the hook" hahah that's funny.
Anyway thanks for asking Sarah, and well I can't say god bless you because of course there isn't one...but maybe Kate Bush will bless you in her unconscious on my behalf, and hey, that's good enough for me.
Anyway, did I go alone? Yes, and the odd thing was that I always pictured myself being there alone as I looked forward to it. But I wasn't supposed to be because I called Stuart (yet another English ex-pat in Seattle with an American wife - he never posts here, but McC, Tommy, and Sloth know who he is) and Stuart said he would go to the Peter Hook night and that he was going to bring me all these juicy John Peel CD's he'd made of his old 80's cassette tapes off the radio. But it turned out Stuart didn't go cause he's moving soon and has been working round the clock on some things that are wrong with their current house.
I did see two ladies there that I remembered from Brit Pop days when Stuart & I used to DJ at a club here in town, but I didn't particularly want to see either of these ladies - I never slept with either of them but one of them was supposed to be my friend and suddenly decided to quit contact with me years back for no real reason at all except she's fake and the other well...she's a bit full of herself (it was Linda, McC knows who I mean). But it didn't bother me to be alone at all, really. I just felt like a little kid and Peter Hook was the teacher and we'd been let off the hook for recess! "off the hook" hahah that's funny.
Anyway thanks for asking Sarah, and well I can't say god bless you because of course there isn't one...but maybe Kate Bush will bless you in her unconscious on my behalf, and hey, that's good enough for me.
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Marky this is the best stuff you have ever written. I read this thread 20 times. It is as good as the sounds you write about.
How do I find out if he is coming to NYC? I'd love to go. And also hand out fliers for RESURRECTION.
How do I find out if he is coming to NYC? I'd love to go. And also hand out fliers for RESURRECTION.
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Some fella from Manchester just posted on Tony Fletcher's site that Peter Hook is playing in NYC tonight.
Why does it always work like this?
(Westword) "I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs," says Peter Hook. "It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blasé about it. I can only apologize."
Holding DJs in disregard is one thing. But such an attitude coming from a man who's partly responsible for the best-selling twelve-inch single of all time? It's downright ironic. And yet New Order's "Blue Monday," the 1983 slab of wax that remains a surefire floor-filler at any club in the world, counts Hook as a creator. As the bassist of New Order and, before that, the majestically doomed Joy Division, he's considered an architect of modern electronic music. And deservedly so: In the late '70s, Joy Division helped pioneer the fusion of punk force and dance beats that continues to inspire legit artists and copycats alike.
Why does it always work like this?
(Westword) "I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs," says Peter Hook. "It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blasé about it. I can only apologize."
Holding DJs in disregard is one thing. But such an attitude coming from a man who's partly responsible for the best-selling twelve-inch single of all time? It's downright ironic. And yet New Order's "Blue Monday," the 1983 slab of wax that remains a surefire floor-filler at any club in the world, counts Hook as a creator. As the bassist of New Order and, before that, the majestically doomed Joy Division, he's considered an architect of modern electronic music. And deservedly so: In the late '70s, Joy Division helped pioneer the fusion of punk force and dance beats that continues to inspire legit artists and copycats alike.
Oh goody here I am about to post a link to that article and you're here already. I'm sorry I didn't get back to this thread last night. I was so drunk and Style Council obsesssed by that point that I think I just couldn't be bothered to find out about Hooky in NYC. I kept starting to do things and not finishing. Argh.
Yeah you wouldn't believe the coincidences that happened to me on the way to the Hooky gig, either! I'm telling you when he brings his aura to town everything just gets weird.
I would love to meet that Tony Fletcher guy someday.
Thanks for your compliments about this thread, McC.
Yeah you wouldn't believe the coincidences that happened to me on the way to the Hooky gig, either! I'm telling you when he brings his aura to town everything just gets weird.
I would love to meet that Tony Fletcher guy someday.
Thanks for your compliments about this thread, McC.
Another thing that it's kindof hard to explain to people is whereas in a lot of bands, the bassist just helps the rhythm chug along, in New Order/JD it's actually Hooky's bass lines that propel the melody along. I mean he really does play a larger role in what's special about them than your normal bassist.
The 2002 film 24 Hour Party People celebrated that scene, which included legendary acts such as the Fall, Oasis, Happy Mondays, the Smiths and the Stone Roses. The bassists of the latter two -- Andy Rourke and Mani, now of Primal Scream -- have recently joined Hook in a side project called Freebass, which is still in its embryonic stage.
Wait - Oasis weren't in 24 Hour Party People were they?
Wait - Oasis weren't in 24 Hour Party People were they?