new order – Rocknerd

New Order, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne 2025

11 March, 202511 March, 2025 Live, Post-Punk 0

It must be said that I am a bit of a fan of New Order and Peter Hook and, of course, their immediate precursor

Links: World In Motion, pirates, kids listen to Swans, Irmin Schmidt.

17 June, 2018 Dance, Links, Post-Punk, Prog, Your rights 0

“If there’s one group who can capture the spirit of bitter infighting that typifies being in a World Cup squad …”

Links: Disney piracy hoax, New Order and Sunkist, wear yer earplugs, more Rocknerd in Hypebot.

25 May, 201725 May, 2017 Audio, Film, Links, Post-Punk, Rocknerd 0

♪ How does it feel
When a new day has begun
When you’re drinking in the sunshine
Rocknerd is the one ♫

Hip-hop and post-punk synthpop: Ich habe der fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn blues.

30 October, 201625 February, 2019 Opinion, Pop, Post-Punk, R'n'B 0

I don’t often see it noted just what was happening with early hip-hop and English and European synthpop in and from the post-punk era. Hip-hop histories gloss over it, and the reconstructed histories of techno somehow jump straight from about 1988 back to Kraftwerk, as if all that stuff from 1978 to 1984 never happened.

New Order, BBC Basement Studios “Saturday Live”, 25 August 1984.

6 October, 2016 Post-Punk 0

New Order live in the studio for the BBC, simulcast on Radio One and BBC Two. Watch for Bernard missing his cue. And his terrible shorts, of course. And Hooky’s famed “gay sperm” bass cabinet.

Synth Britannia: the synthpop surge in ’70s Britain.

2 July, 201625 August, 2016 Pop 2

A wonderful 2010 documentary from BBC Four, covering the late ’70s synthesizer bands. Interviews with the (original) Human League, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres, Vince Clarke, Gary Numan, New Order and the Pet Shop Boys.

New Order: Music Complete (2016).

17 June, 201625 August, 2016 Post-Punk, Record 1

At almost sixty-five minutes, New Order’s tenth studio album Music Complete. On vinyl it is provided as an impressive heavy-grade double album with an abstract cover design by Peter Saville, which reminds one of True Colours by Split Enz or a 1980s L’Oreal advertisement. With no sense of embarrassment, the album also includes a twelve page booklet of blank pages and uncoloured designs. This ill-considered use of the planet’s declining arboreal biomass can possibly amuse children for a couple of hours as they provide a more interesting expression of colours. As is the fashion with albums these days a digital download code is also provided.

New Order and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Opera House, June 4, 2016

10 June, 20161 January, 2017 Classical, Live, Post-Punk 0

The concert hall of the Sydney Opera House is, of course, one of the world’s great venues. Filled to capacity of over two-and-half thousand the audience were displaying an enthusiasm that would continue throughout the night. Although older on average, there was a fair sprinkling of younger faces indicating that the reputation of one of the world’s great electronic and synth-pop bands was still continuing.

Alvin and the Chipmunks at 16rpm.

7 December, 201524 December, 2016 Esoterica 3

Retrospectively obvious, but this is what Alvin and the Chipmunks sound like at 16rpm: normal vocals with GRIND CORE DEATH SLUDGE DRONE music. That being how they were actually recorded. I think we’ve uncovered Sunn O)))’s secret past.