Forget about having a second act in your life. Peter Hook has already has several along with several sub-chapters along the way.
First, he was a founding member of Joy Division. Then came New Order. Then came Monaco, club DJ and soon, Freebass. His current thing is pushing a book he’s written about the legendary and infamous Hacienda nightclub in Manchester. Tellingly, it’s called How Not to Run a Nightclub.
Sadly, the book isn’t available in Canada due to some short-sighted publisher telling Hook’s agent that “it’s too British” to sell to Canadians (!!!) This explains why you haven’t seen this book…
…at Chapters or Indigo or anywhere else.
Attention Simon and Schuster: Is this true? If so, are you on crack?
I hung out with Peter for a while after his hilarious Q&A interview about life at the Hacienda. Here, for example, is what happened the day the tax man came to visit.
I’ll have more from Peter very soon. Great bloke, by the way.
FYI: Hooky told me that the largest gig New Order ever played was at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto with Echo and the Bunnymen and the Sugarcubes in 1987. More than 30,000 people were there. No crowd was ever bigger.
And Simon and Schuster won’t publish this book in Canada? Hello?