The New Order singer vocalist has taken to social media to vent his spleen. He sounds like he’d fit right in round here.
Watch out for New Order’s new single, And I’ll Tell You Another Thing… Have I had Me Tea?
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The New Order singer vocalist has taken to social media to vent his spleen. He sounds like he’d fit right in round here.
Watch out for New Order’s new single, And I’ll Tell You Another Thing… Have I had Me Tea?
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dai says
Good for him. And announced their first show in Wales since Swansea 1985, I was at that show.
fitterstoke says
All right, all right, I’ll confess – I was he and he was me, all along – and you fell for it like the suckers you are!!!
Tiggerlion says
I thought you were Hooky!
fitterstoke says
A good point, well made…
deramdaze says
A wonderful statement… and right to hope/ask Labour to really stand up to the plate.
Martin Horsfield says
I will never understand the blind loyalty to musicians when they make a sympathetic political statement. Are we forgetting that Bernard, Steve and Gillian arranged a special band meeting abroad, where only a simple majority was needed, and changed the articles of association of their business, putting Peter Hooj on royalties of only 1.25%. It strikes me that this was deeply conservative and worthy of the actual Tories.
fentonsteve says
I wouldn’t go as far as blind loyalty, Martin. Or even any loyalty. I’ve (especially) read his book and well, let’s just say I don’t think I’d like to meet him.
Add in the fact the newly media-savvy ‘man of the people’ Barney probably wrote his post from his massive yacht…
And I haven’t even mentioned ‘Be A Rebel’. Urgh!
Rigid Digit says
Not read Barney’s book, bout have read both Hooky tomes and both from Morris.
Is it worth a read, or does it just confirm a belief that Barney is a massive plim.
seanioio says
Sticking my nose in here.
It’s my least favourite of all of them @Rigid. Bits of it read like Alan Partridge (needless to say, I had the last laugh etc.) & IIRC he really goes on about happy times spent with a soldering iron.
fentonsteve says
As Sean says, he often comes across sounding like Alan Partridge, but with even less self-awareness.
Barney’s book would be summarised thus: “My childhood was really grim, I am an artist but nobody ever appreciates what a genius I am”.
I was ambivalent about him before I read it, I now think he’s a massive twunt. I totally understand where Hooky gets it from.
Thegp says
I can imagine working with Hooky for 30 years would get tiresome, especially when he was on the booze. He sounds very hard work at times
But he was all about the band, Bernard is just about himself I believe
fentonsteve says
I met Hooky and Mrs Merton when they were on the booze and I didn’t like them. I doubt I’d like him on coke, either.
I agree totally with your second paragraph.
Martin Horsfield says
Sorry, that wasn’t aimed at you. I’ve seen a lot of NO fans post it, and can’t help feeling they feel validated that he’s reinforcing their political values while, at the same time, overlooking how selfishly he and the band have acted. As to the biographies, I listened to Morris’s on audiobook and found it really hard to reconcile that such an enormous geek could ever have been in two of the most influential bands of all time. He makes everything they did sound like an accident or a caper; it must be partly a persona.
Rigid Digit says
I really liked SMs self demeaning character: “I played drums, and we got some success. I’m a lucky sod”.
No airs and graces, or axes to grind.
ernietothecentreoftheearth says
The irony, if that’s the right word, is that a significant number of the people in receipt of PIP that I come across, get it as direct or indirect consequence of decades of substance abuse. A scene that Sumner and chums were very much a part of.
deramdaze says
I have no skin in the game, I just liked the statement.
My only other link with the guy is that at Christmas there was a programme on the radio with slebs picking their favourite Beatles’ song. The only one I can remember (and it was only last Christmas!), and my favourite story by far as it felt the most genuine and random, was a school-age Sumner taking cover from the rain and hearing from a window above him ‘Eleanor Rigby’, and really liking it.