AN EVENING WITH PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT “JOY DIVISION : A CELEBRATION”NORTH AMERICAN TOUR LAUNCHING AUGUST 11 IN TORONTO26 DATES SEE THE LIGHT TOUR BOTH JOY DIVISION LPs ‘UNKNOWN PLEASURES’ & ‘CLOSER’ IN FULL WITH OPENING SET OF NEW ORDER MATERIAL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE UNITED STATES & CANADAEL TEN ELEVEN TO JOIN AS SPECIAL GUESTS IN CHICAGO, BOSTON, SILVER SPRING, MD, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, SAN DIEGO, LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCOOFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY Falcon Publicity A massive cross cross-continental journey, taking them across the United States and Canada in August and September 2022 for their biggest and most extensive trek to date, Peter Hook & The Light’s “Joy Division: A Celebration” North American tour launches August 11 in Toronto. Since announcing the tour last summer both Chicago shows at Metro are sold-out and joining as special guests will be El Ten Eleven in Chicago (both shows), Boston, Silver Springs, MD, Philadelphia, New York, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. For details and ticket links go to www.peterhookandthelight.live At some twenty-six dates overall, the tour takes place across five weeks as the band return to some venues and debut at others to perform Joy Division’s seminal two albums Unknown Pleasures and Closer in full with additional Joy Division rarities and an opening set of New Order material. The tour follows the debut UK dates for “Joy Division: A Celebration” which commemorate the 40th anniversary of Joy Division and Ian Curtis’ continuing influence. A new clip of The Light performing “Ceremony” (one of the final two tracks Joy Division wrote) at the May 2015 Christ Church Macclesfield concert has been released here: bit.ly/TheLightCeremonyMacclesfieldYouTube About the reaction on returning to live concerts, Hooky added; “The gigs so far have all been wonderful and the fans and the band have been wonderful too! It does nothing for my imposter syndrome;( “ With double concerts at the same venue announced for the opening nights in Toronto and then in Chicago, Austin, and Los Angeles the tour also takes in Montreal, Royal Oak, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Boston, Silver Spring, Philadelphia, New York, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Denver, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver. These Joy Division album shows have become much less common for The Light as they moved through their progression of touring the New Order albums in succession in the twelve years since Hooky began his odyssey through both his bands’ back catalogues. That journey has seen them now perform his bands’ albums all round the world including numerous tours of North and South America, Australia, Europe, New Zealand, and Asia. The influence of Joy Division and their music remains strong in popular culture, holding a sincere reverence. The albums are played sequentially in track order, respecting the inspiration and impact of the stunning debut album Unknown Pleasures and the immaculately produced second Closer. In addition to the albums, the concerts span the entirety of Joy Division’s rich but short career including early Warsaw material, tracks from the compilation LP Still to the final songs “Ceremony” and “In a Lonely Place” written by Joy Division which were to form New Order’s first single.
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July 12, 2022 7:41pm ET by Falcon Publicity |