
I am not going to write a full fledge review of the show because honestly I left after the second-third song, but I am going to make a few comments on it. The first is Peter Hook is no Ian Curtis, now granted he wasn’t trying to do an Ian impersonation, but if you ever heard any Joy Division song you would no how important Ian’s lyrical style and voice was to the band, but apparently Peter Hook doesn’t. Hook was confident and cocky with his delivery which would be a fine for almost any other band, but not Joy Division. I see it as the equivalent as coming of shy and awkward as the front man of a Sex Pistols tribute band, it just doesn’t work. Honestly the whole thing sounded like a Joy Division themed karaoke night. Secondly and more importantly, when the bassist of Joy Division goes on tour to play Joy Division songs, I expect him to play bass guitar. As it turns out Peter wasn’t even acting as lead bassist, his son was. Besides the nepotism and everything wrong with that, there is a major issue here; Peter Hook thought it was appropriate to play Joy Division in not only a six piece band, but one that included two bassist. I don’t know if he lost touch with his own music or if he was just trying to make a buck, but the end result was just a mess. At the end of the day I am not sure what I was expecting but Peter, I am sorry I went, sorry I wasted my money on a ticket, and most of all sorry for what you did to the memory of a once great band on that night. Now if you don’t mind I am going to listen to some Joy Division, the way it was meant to be played, with a melancholy lead singer and one bassist.