Erin Broadley: Joy Division's Peter Hook

ERIN BROADLEY: Joy Division's Peter Hook

“Every other band was on stage because they wanted to be rock stars, this band was on stage because they had no fucking choice,” sums up Tony Wilson’s narrative. A camera pans across stark landscape of decrepit factories and abandoned warehouses. Wilson says, “I don’t see this as the story of a group, but of a city.” The group was Joy Division and the city was Manchester, England. It was 1976 and the group was about to change music, and their city, forever.

Joy Division, the true story of the...

Wow..... good fucking job. Hanging out with Hooky is a challenge enough let alone interviewing him properly. *applause*

thanks. it was fascinating to talk with him. plus, after the interview we spent a bit comparing ink and laughing about our tattoo stories. good times. one for the books indeed.

Terrific interview. Thank you.

I love that guy. Probably my favorite bassist ever. Great interview!

Closer is such a fucking brilliant record. And it's interesting to hear Hooky's thoughts on what JD would've been like if Ian lived. I always imagined they'd become NO more or less.


And I guess NO ain't getting back together anytime soon...

hooky = god. nice one!

cool interview.

i used to worship that guy.

i can't wait for Freebase. that's either going to be the best band ever or the worst band ever.

Im always amazed at how the Bowie kids formed their own bands which became a music movement itself.....Sex Pistols which in turn made its crowd create their own bands like ,Siouxsie,Morrissey,Joy Division....etc...etc....

Totally agree with Gibby on this one, Hooky hardly talks, like ever... so much applause.
Brill interview too. It's good to see his insight into it all.
x

I recently filmed Hooky at his Unknown Pleasures book tour - great guy and was happy to get some pictures of him too

Thanks, reading this interview, that I hadn't discovered until now, really made my day!