Peter Hook
Peter Hook
Peter Hookis an English bass player, co-founder of the post-punk band Joy Division along with Bernard Sumner in the mid-1970s...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth13 February 1956
thinking finding-the-one lucky
We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!
media world digital
When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.
special chemistry made
The chemistry involved made everything Factory did quite special.
hate ironic groups
It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.
sarcastic sarcasm manchester
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
hate like-love lines
There's a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead - it's like love and hate.
texas differences scary
The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
should-have looks done
I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.