Peter Hook

Peter Hook’s The Light Perform “Closer”

Wednesday May 18th / The Factory Manchester / 8pm
112 – 118 Princess Street Manchester, M1 7EN
In Association With Mind & The Keith Bennett Appeal
Tickets : £20.11 (Includes Charity Donation)
Tickets available from 12 Noon Thursday 10th March 2011 at www.factorymanchester.com

Peter Hook’s The Light return to The Factory on May 18th 20011 for the first ever performance of Joy Division’s starkly passionate, seminal second album, “Closer” live and in its entirety at the club’s  intimate downstairs gig floor, a year to the day since The Light first performed “Unknown Pleasures” at the venue.

As an album, “Closer’s history is forever associated with Ian Curtis’ death, its recording sessions seeing his condition worsen, and was released two months post in July 1980. The Peter Saville chosen cover of a Bernard Pierre Wolf, Appiani Tomb portrait has served to enhance its myth although Saville had never heard Closer when he chose the image prior to Ian’s passing.

With Martin Hannett’s incandescent production permeating the record allied with a band that had developed in stature and confidence since their debut “Unknown Pleasures”, the album came to yield many classic Joy Division tracks, “Atrocity Exhibition, “Heart And Soul” and “Twenty Four Hours”. 

With a much greater use of keyboards than its predecessor, Closer also contained many references to New Order’s future direction, which the Joy Division’s remaining band members were to move on with, almost immediately at the time of the release of “Closer”, studiously ignoring the album at the time. 

The Light’s performance of “Closer” on the evening is also being recorded by Ronnie Lane’s mobile recording studio for a vinyl only release later in 2011.
On Mind & The Keith Bennett Appeals Involvement

The May 18th Closer gig continues the same charities involved in last year’s event, Mind and The Keith Bennett Appeal.

On Mind’s involvement, chief executive Paul Farmer commented  "I am delighted that Peter Hook has decided to once again support Mind following the success of last year's gig which helped fund our work to improve the lives of people with mental distress, and to combat the stigma that still surrounds mental health problems. Our huge thanks goes to Peter and everyone else involved with the concert for their continued support."

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Peter Hook’s The Light feat. Rowetta -  “1102 / 2011” 4 Track EP is released digitally Monday 2nd May 2011 on Hacienda Records.
1 “Pictures In My Mind” (vocals by Peter Hook)
2“Insight”, (vocals by Rowetta)
3.“New Dawn Fades” (vocals by Rowetta)
4.“Atmosphere” (vocals by Rowetta)
www.fac51thehacienda.com

All dates apart from May 18th at The Factory Manchester see The Light perform Unknown Pleasures
09/03/11          La Carene, Brest, France
10/03/11          Le Trabendo, Paris, France
11/03/11          Big Band Cafe, Caen, France
17/03/11          Astro Hall, Tokyo Japan
18/03/11          Zepp, Tokyo, Japan
19/03/11          Creative Centre, Osaka, Japan
25/03/11          Helsinki, Finland
27/03/11          Oslo, Norway
30/03/11          Rosso, Manchester (Nordoff Robins Charity Event)
23/04/11          Scala, London
30/04/11          Liquid, Edinburgh
07/05/11          Festival Donorte, Pontevedra, Spain
18/05/11          The Factory, Manchester (Performing Closer)
28/05/11          Den Haag, Holland
29/05/11          Eindhoven, Holland