On the heels of the success of his recent Joy Division memoir, bassist Peter Hook’s first book — 2009’s ‘The Haçienda: How Not To Run a Club” — was just published in the U.S. for the first time this week, and we’ve got copies of the brand-new paperback to award to two very lucky, U.S.-based Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.
The 368-page memoir, published by It Books, finds Hook recounting the story of New Order’s infamous Manchester club, where acts including The Stone Roses, Bauhaus, Grandmaster Flash, The Smiths, Run DMC and Happy Mondays all took the stage, and where rock and dance met as the Madchester scene was born in the late ’80s and early ’90s.
In the book’s publicity materials, Hook says: “We once worked out that, from the time it opened in 1982 to when it closed in 1997, each punter through the door cost us £10. We wasted that much through bad management and sheer stupidity. As far as we were concerned it was history we were making, not money.”
TO ENTER: In the comments section below, please name your absolute favorite Peter Hook bassline — Joy Division, New Order, anything . If you’re using the Slicing Up Eyeballs app, please email your entry to info@slicingupeyeballs.com with the subject line “I’d love to know how not to run a club.”
RULES: Contest is open only to U.S. residents. Sorry, publisher’s rules. We’ll take entries until 5 p.m. EDT Friday, May 2. After that point, we’ll select two winners at random and contact them via their provided e-mail addresses. One entry per person.
UPDATE: OK, contest is now closed. Thank you all for entering and sharing your favorite basslines. The two winners have been emailed.
“She’s Lost Control” Joy Division
Shadowplay
Age of Consent
Run
simple, beautiful
I’m going with Ceremony.
I love Peter Hook’s basslines in “Perfect Kiss.” More specifically, the final minutes of the 12” version.
Joy Division’s “Heart and Soul”
Regret, powerful stuff.
Transmission
New Order – Perfect Kiss
Age of Consent!
“She’s Lost Control”
Probably have to say “Regret” still love it.
JD – “Isolation”
Mr. Disco
“She’s Lost Control” – JD
age of consent
Love the bassline in Perfect Kiss. (And the frogs.)
New Order – Touched by the Hand of God
Komakino
“Leave Me Alone” – New Order. Absolutely brilliant.
Regret
Shadowplay for sure!
I always loved “Leave Me Alone” from Power Corruption and Lies.
Sunrise
This is super hard, but I gotta go with the first one I fell in love with… Shadowplay!
Age of Consent. Also, “What Do You Want From Me” by Monaco.
new order- hurt
Twenty Four Hours – Joy Division
Def Perfect Kiss!
i just want to add that this was really tough to pick just one..
“Isolation” by Joy Division
Ceremony = bliss.
Age of Consent.
Off the top of my head, Regret comes to mind. But also Everything’s Gone Green.
Joy Division – Transmission
Ceremony… Hands down.
Ceremony
Blue Monday
“Lonesome Tonight” – simple, yet wonderful.
It’s hard to choose, but I’m going to say “Round and Round” from Technique
Must be Age of Consent
“Ceremony”
“Digital”
I’d have to say “Blue Monday” just because when stripped down it isn’t in sync, but when layered is masterful.
Playing the wild card. How about the electronic drum pads on Blue Monday live?
My favorite bassline is Leave Me Alone by New Order!
Heart and soul
Sunrise
Age of Consent
New Order “60 Miles and Hour”
Tough call, but ill go with ceremony.
Transmission – Joy Division
“Leave Me Alone” New Order
Dreams Never End
Joy Division– Transmission
Leaders of men. All the way!
oh so many choices, but I would have to say “Shadowplay”
“Black Rain” – Monaco
Transmission-Joy Division
“She’s Lost Control”
Warsaw, ~The Drawback~. Joy Division, ~Love Will Tear Us Apart~. New Order, ~Blue Monday~.!!!
Blue Monday
The bassline in “Perfect Kiss” is amazing!!!
Transmission.
disorder – joy division
Twenty-Four Hours
Ceremony. The baseline through the entire song gives me goosebumps every time.
Transmission – joy division
Regret- absolutely
The Perfect Kiss- New Order
12″ version gives me chills, one of the most powerful songs ever.
Joy Division’s “Digital”.
Transmission
the bass in ”Interzone” kills it , hmmm …
Transmission definitely
Transmission!
Age of Consent
Every little counts
I think it’s got to be “Sunrise.”
That bassline IS the song.
And it’s an angry song. And Hooky seems really angry these days. So, feels appropriate.
Joy Division’s “Digital.”
She’s Lost Control
Age of Consent.
Love will tear us apart.
Age of Consent. Very hard to beat that one.
Regret.
24 hours
Shadowplay
Transmission
Love Vigilantes.
“She’s Lost Control” Joy Division
Age of Consent
Yeah, I’ll have to go with Ceremony as well.
Really tough call. Think ill go with “Procession”.
JD – “Isolation”
New Dawn Fades
Love Will Tear Us Apart
“The Perfect Kiss” (12″) – New Order
Disorder
PERFECT KISS!!!!!! THE LONG VERSION!!!
Not only smokin’ on that Yamaha, but ALSO SIMMONS DRUMS to boot!
“Transmission” by Joy Division
Age of Consent- though near impossible to pick just one
Yeah, Age of Consent wins out in a long list of greats. Weirdo comes in second, followed by New Dawn Fades.
She’s Lost Control
New Order – Round and Round
Love the bassline from transmission.
Ceremony
NEW DAWN FADES
What do you want from me? by Monaco.
She’s Lost Control — JD
Perfect Kiss!
Disorder
“Perfect Kiss”, especially the 12 inch or the video version
‘ceremony ‘
New Order’s “Age of Consent”.
Age of Consent (again)
Age of Consent…
DIGITAL – joy division…. go listen this one again and again… enjoy!
Disorder
Isolation
Procession
“Ceremony” New Order.
Although there are lots of others, this one comes to mind because it’s been imitated by so many bassists in the shoegaze and goth genres. Good stuff.
Ceremony.
Everything’s Gone Green. So he knows it’s me when I call it’s my personal ringtone on my bosses cell phone…
Atmosphere
Ceremony or Disorder. I really can’t pick just one.
Temptation. Hooky completes this song with his brilliant bass! The present New Order just does not have that sound without Hooky.
Requested this book for my birthday, as I am finishing up Unknown Pleasures-Inside Joy Division.
Blue Monday
“Decades” by Joy Division
Age of consent
Vanishing Point
Disorder – Joy Division
Favorite Joy Division bass line is Disorder, and my favorite New Order bassline is the entire 9 minutes on The Perfect Kiss
She’s Lost Control- Joy Division
Blue Monday (kind of cliche but what a great song)
“Everything’s Gone Green”.
So hard……..The Kill …Joy Division!
24 Hours!
Dreams Never End.
Transmission
Bizarre Love Triangle (Album mix when his bass comes in at 3.25 mark)
She’s Lost Control and Ceremony.
New Order – Perfect Kiss
The Perfect Kiss
Damn, this was hard, but I finally went with “Perfect Kiss”
She’s Lost Control- Joy Division
New Order – Perfect Kiss
Impossible to choose only one. Better to ask, is there any Peter Hook bassline that isn’t MONEY?! Dude’s a genius. If forced to pick one, I’d have to say Ceremony. Doesn’t everyone’s hair stand on end when hearing Peter’s opening bassline on that track?
Ceremony
The jam at the end of Perfect Kiss
Love will tear us apart always give me goose bumps.
“She’s Lost Control.”
transmission! it’s so hard to choose.
She’s lost control
Ceremony (but so hard to choose)!
Ceremony.
TRANSMISSION
Transmission!
New Order – Perfect Kiss
My favorite baseline by Peter Hook. …That’s hard, I’ve 2, ceremony and the perfect kiss.
Perfect Kiss….
Heart and Soul
She’s lost control.
Guilty partner
Temptation.
JD New Dawn Fades
Joy Division- She’s Lost Control
To me, from one of the strongest albums from the period and much more involving than many of their later works …. “The Him” from Movement.
Perfect Kiss!
Regret
Insight
Blue Monday
Ceremony…. or anything you play -“)
Temptation
She’s Lost Control
Blue Monday, though it’s hard to choose only one.
Hard to choose… but today i’m going with True to Form.. really like that track and mixes.
This time of night
Age of Consent
Transmission
This Time of Night
Age of Consent
From safety to where
That is a tough one. I’m going with a more obscure one “All Day Long” from Brotherhood.
Age of Consent…I learned to play bass because of that song and that bass line. Thanks Hooky!
She’s lost control- Joy Division!
Novelty
She’s Lost Control
The Perfect Kiss.
Love Will Tear Us Apart
The song BLUE MONDAY has been following me around since I was in 8th grade. It appears on the radio just when things are going well. It’s playing now in fact on a spray painted boom box in Manchester.
I’ll change my mind in the next five minutes, but I’ve got to go with Age of Consent for now.
New Order-Temptation
Joy Division-Transmission
Face Up
Atmosphere…ethereal!
Age of Consent
Perfect Kiss!
Has to be ‘Ceremony’
She Lost Control – live on something else (BBC)
Love Vigilantes.
She’s lost control.
Video version of “Perfect Kiss.” Hands down favourite!
Joy Division, “Digital”. It’s so much fun.
Dead Souls
‘She’s lost control’
So hard to pick. My favorites are Temptation and Ceremony.
Leave Me Alone
She’s lost control
PERFECT KISS!!! 💋
She’s Lost Control.
Here’s a treat, though: http://youtu.be/yOsL16fcBXs
Hooky schooling someone on how to play LWTUA. I love it.
I love Ceremony because it was kind of the crossover song between Joy Division and New Order
“Twenty Four Hours”
I’ll say “Soon Than You Think.” The band were so totally dialed in during that period, Hooky’s bass line is indelible, and this is one of NO’s very best, most under-appreciated songs. I’ll never get tired of it, and it will always be on my “best of NO” mix tape.
* “Sooner” – I’m asleep at the keyboard.
The Perfect Kiss
For the best bassline it has to be Joy Division – Atmosphere. Its all about the bassline and one of the best songs ever produced. So emotional.
transmission
Ceremony is the best.
She’s Lost Control
Ceremony
Ceremony
Everything’s Gone Green. It’s in, out, all over the place.
She’s Lost Control
Takes me back every time
New Dawn Fades – Joy Division/Peter Hook
New Order – The Perfect Kiss
She’s Lost Control
Transmission.
Regret
Gotta be Ceremony.
New Dawn Fades…Joy Division
Isolation is my vote, one of Hookies best.
Dessau did a cover of that song and although Hook did not do the base line for that particular version it still sounded awesome.
how do u pick one? I’ll say SHADOWPLAY but SHE LOST CONTROL is also great!!!!!!
For me, it’s The Perfect Kiss. He tears that song up, especially the live video take version.
New Order, “Let’s Go (Nothing for Me)”
‘Transmission’ is the best, classic propulsive Joy Division.
Atmosphere.
Hard to pick one, but have to go with age of consent. Even enjoyed it when it was played in Wayne’s world 2!
so many to chose from….
today I am going with Thieves Like Us.
Hookys bass in that track always puts me on cloud 9.
The Perfect Kiss
age of consent
Transmission
Isolation
Blue Monday
Ceremony or Blue Monday. Or all of them!
Thieves Like Us
Ceremony
Don’t laugh, but I like “What Do You Want From Me?” by Monaco. That counts, right? :)
ICB from New Order
Perfect Kiss, Ceremony, Vanishing Point, Regret… too many to choose.
“What Do You Want from Me” by Monaco. Was just listening to it this morning.
New Order – “The Perfect Kiss”. 12″ version, obviously.
Transmission (JD)
Sunrise. It gets me every time. And, as others have said, this was hard. Very hard.
True Faith
Perfect Kiss
Bizarre Love Triangle. hands down ;]
“Dead Souls” – no doubt in my mind.
Age of Consent may be the nest line ever. Right up there with Tax Man
“Colony”, Joy Divison. Simple. Mechanical. Powerful.
Ceremony! Krafty! Love Vigilantes! Everything’s Gone Green! Damn it, I’m not going to go with just one!
The Perfect Kiss
Twenty Four Hours
High-end on The Perfect Kiss
Shadow play
Dead Souls
Joy Division – Interzone
Transmission-Joy Division is my favorite.
Sunrise!!! All time Fav..
Sunrise
Ceremony
NewOrder: The Perfect Kiss
Murder – N.O.
My favorite Peter Hook bassline for the win is:
The Village
Transmission.
Ceremony
“Shadowplay” – Joy Division
Pineapple Face
“Disorder”
Transmission.
‘Decades’ from Joy Divisions Closer.
Freaking love this song.
ceremony is my favorite
New Order – Regret
Ceremony or She’s Lost Control
It’s a threeway tie between New Order’s Age of Consent, because it’s just a fucking classic, Temptation, both for being a classic and infinitely danceable, and Love Less because its the highlight of one of the best tracks on Technique.
AGE OF CONSENT
Ceremony
Leave me alone …
New Order’s “Ceremony” is my favorite.
Age of Consent!
Joy Division’s “Transmission”
Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours
Perfect Kiss
OK, contest is now closed. Thank you all for entering and sharing your favorite basslines. The two winners have been emailed.
Age of Consent
Transmission
Leave Me Alone
The Perfect Kiss! Not even in my top 5 New Order signs but the bassline is all time.
love vigilantes
Age of Consent
The Perfect Kiss, no doubt. The the progressions in the final minutes are amazing, and even better heard on live recordings, where they are much more audible than the studio version.
She’s Lost Control
Ceremony
Transmission
Transmission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1tdTS_Jr8s
She’s lost control
Ceremony
Age of Consent
Ceremony with New Order and Transmission with Joy Division:)