Peter Hook

Peter Hook and his backing band, The Light, is the latest in a long line of beloved artists basing tours around playing through classic albums. The catch, this time around, is that Hook will be playing through Joy Division’s Closer and other classic tracks without the other 75 percent of the band that wrote the material. Regardless of questionable personal and band politic implications that are inescapable for a faux-reunion/karaoke tour like this, Closer remains a very popular and influential album among fans of post-punk and indie rock. This series of shows is, in part, in promotion of the latest album by Hook’s other band, Freebass, an overly punny supergroup featuring bassists from The Smiths, The Stone Roses, and Primal Scream.  

Updated 08/30/2011