“The New Orders? Are they no longer them. Ian Curtis? We haven't suffered enough.” Peter Cook confides in an interview

Peter Hook, a new Order's ex-basist, has not yet disposed of bitterness for breakage with the historic Manchester band. In an interview with The I Paper, the musician – who left the group in 2007 due to worn -down relationships with the other members, then being replaced by Tom Chapman – spoke to the open heart of his difficult detachment, revealing that he still receives messages from fans concerning the band. Referring to the current New Order, Hook did not use the least terms: “I don't think they are new Order. They don't play at all as it once was. I saw some of their online performances and have completely removed the bass lines. They look like strange and ugly versions of the original songs”.
To the question if he considered the removal of his parts of bass intentional, Hook replied with a vein of irony: “Well, do you think the songs play better?”. Then he added: “Fans continue to write to me: 'You don't hear the bass!' I could try a certain complacency for this, but – of course – I am superior to all this “.

During the interview, Hook also recalled a painful moment of his career: the suicide of Ian Curtis, frontman of the Joy Division, in 1980, at just 23 years old. “We didn't suffer enough,” he admitted bitterly. “I wish we had done it. But we were allowed to ignore everything, because we were really very young.” When asked about how they had faced the loss of Curtis, Hook said: “Literally, we simply found ourselves in a pub. Then we threw ourselves in the New Order, almost deleting the past. It was how to get rid of the photos of your ex: 'No, I never had anything to do with that story!'”.
The tenth and latest studio album of the New Order, “Music Complete” of 2015, is the first complete project of the group A not containing Hook's contributions. The bass player continues to perform live material of the New Order and Joy Division with the Peter Hook & The Light project.