Peter Hook and his band The Light have been performing Joy Division albums in full on the road over the last couple of years. Hook is now upping the ante (and stirring the New Order cauldron) with this announcement on Twitter earlier today:
Peter Hook & The Light play New Order's 'Movement' & 'Power Corruption & Lies' live in London & Manchester, Jan 2013. Full details tomorrow.
— peter hook (@peter_hook1) September 20, 2012
Hoo boy! What's Bernard Sumner and the gang going to say about this? Stay tuned for the drama, because you KNOW there will be drama!
Update: Peter Hook has announced details for two shows where he'll play Movement + Power, Corruption & Lies in full. Tickets for both shows will go on sale September 25th:
January 17th @ Koko in London
January 18th @ Manchester Cathedral in Manchester
Meanwhile, Peter Hook is preparing to release his Joy Division memoir Unknown Pleasures - Inside Joy Division in the U.K. on September 27th. The book will be released in North America later this year - Amazon has a December 1st listing for the paperback and January 29th listing for the hardcover edition.
