| BBC 6 Music's New Order Day | BBC 6 Music have declared Sat 26 Mar New Order Day and will be paying tribute in the following ways: - Natasha (7am-10am) looks at the rarer tracks in Killer B-side, featuring 1963, the flip of True Faith. She’ll also play Senses, recorded in 1981 for their first session for John Peel, and Isolation, from a later Peel session in 1998.
- Liz Kershaw (10am-1pm) continues raiding the archive to play classic tracks 5-8-6 from 1990, and Slow Jam from 2001. In It’s Alive, listeners choose which of 3 live New Order tracks recorded at Glastonbury in 1987 they want to hear at the end of the show.
- In Rocket Science with Marc Riley (1pm-4pm), the day culminates with an interview with Stephen Morris and Peter Hook, discussing the band’s past, present, and future and previewing tracks from Waiting for the Sirens' Call.
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| "Hooky’s bass is fantastic on it. It made me crap it a bit, because I thought, If I don’t get the vocals right, I’m going to destroy a classic song." | | Bernard Sumner on Waiting For The Sirens' Call |
Waiting For The Sirens' Call, the band's much awaited follow-up to 2001's Get Ready, is officially released on Monday 28 March, but those who can't wait can take advantage of the download (available until the date of release) by following the link on the right. New Order have been talking to their old mate Miranda Sawyer about the album, which sees them offer up their usual combination of rock and dancefloor to great effect. The chat revealed some interesting titbits including: - Bernard Sumner was apparently surprised by the performance of Scissor Sister's Ana Matronic on Jetstream, as he was "a bit dubious when Ana was suggested as a singer, but she did a fantastic job".
- Sumner and Peter Hook revealing that the tune Morning Night And Day is about new recruit Phil Cunningham's life as "when you get to our age, the hangovers are so massive, they last for about a week!" (as Hooky puts it)
- Stephen Morris describing the writing process for the single Krafty as starting "as a jam, a bit like Lonnie Donegan. But then we put electronic noises in there."
- Sumner stating that the title track is "my favourite track. The backing track’s brilliant, Hooky’s bass is fantastic on it. It made me crap it a bit, because I thought, If I don’t get the vocals right, I’m going to destroy a classic song."
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New Order are also offering fans the chance to win their entire back catalogue of albums (and that includes Joy Division ones). All you have to do to enter is go to the page linked on the right.
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