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New Order
Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order – An impressive tribute to the bands’ miraculous, affecting art
Podcast review: A sharp and expansive account of the making of music, the forging of friendships and the origin of portentous arbitrary decisions and serendipity
Blue Monday: 10 cheery stories to distract from the gloomiest of days
Take your mind off that new diet, grey weather and dark January evenings
The Specials: Protest Songs 1924-2012 – still railing against injustice
Coventry’s ska heroes are back and taking a stand for Black Lives Matter
Remember the Dominic West-Lily James kiss shock? The show they were making is a shocker too
BBC’s The Pursuit of Love features a histrionic Andrew Scott and ladlefuls of whimsy
Jane Weaver: Flock – Talking ’bout a vision revolution
The Liverpool singer and late bloomer delivers a glossy progressive pop gem
End of an era as landmark Warwick Hotel in Galway is demolished
Salthill venue hosted countless high-profile music acts in recent decades
Bernard Sumner: ‘We made music because we hated work and normality’
New Order’s frontman on Joy Division, Morrissey, Trump and the far right, giving up Pernod (‘alcoholic toothpaste’), and how he finally learned to enjoy touring
New Order + Liam Gillick: So It Goes review – Euphoric Manchester elegy
Ambitious and joyous work to remind us that New Order are best behind the synthesizer
This Album Changed My Life: New Order – Music Complete (2015)
Northern Irish musician Aislinn Logan on an album that helped her through hard times
This Album Changed My Life: The Chemical Brothers – Surrender (1999)
Ruairi Lynch of Bantum on an album that ‘sounded like nothing I’d ever heard before’
Johnny Depp sorry for ‘bad joke’ about Trump assassination
US actor gets rock star welcome at Glastonbury music festival
The 10 best U2 songs, as seen from Britain
The Guardian has selected its 10 favourite songs by ‘the Irish four-piece’
Leonard Cohen captured ‘essence of human life’, President says
Lissadell co-owner says 2010 concerts made up ‘one of most incredible weekends in my life’
Peter Hook says Caroline Aherne was physically abusive during marriage
Musician claims comedian, who died in July, attacked him with knives and bottles
New Order return: forget the rows, play the music
Despite splits and court cases, New Order are playing and recording again – and coming to Electric Picnic
Electric Picnic: exclusive first look at the official site map
With one week to go, here’s a sneak preview of the Stradbally site so you can pick out your camping spot
Ellie Goulding and Disclosure added to Glastonbury line-up
ZZ Top among newly confirmed acts for festival headlined by Adele, Coldplay and Muse
Joy Division focus of University of Limerick conference
Delegates arrive at city’s university from around the world to discuss post-punk act
It’s a mathematical certainty this might be a Blue Monday
It is your destiny to feel rubbish today, unless you’re happy. In that case, stay as you are
Bernard Sumner: ‘I’m happier in myself. Better behaved. Less of a f***ing idiot’
He took a bath on ‘Blue Monday’, lost a pile in the Hacienda and was part of a scene that has become music myth. Bernard Sumner of New Order on living in the present
Kim Wilde spreads Eighties pop cheer
Singer and presenter talks to The Irish Times ahead of her appearance at the Radiodays Europe event in Dublin
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