Tried to edit my post, but can't:

Edit - Looking at the DVD contents, there's 45 tracks (they've numbered two tracks as number '32'). The two missing due to camera problems appear to be 'A Means To An End' and 'These Days'. It appears that they only performed one of the 'Warsaw' demos ('At A Later Date) and missed the other four (can't say I blamed them).

Ah, yes. That makes sense.

I seem to remember a radio show that Hooky was hosting, around Christmas / New Year, probably 1993/4. He mentioned the KJ project then and played 'Love Like Blood', IIRC.

Born To Kill / Under The Stars was also the Mrs Merton theme, I think.

Re: Mrs Merton. Was Hooky & The Boys Revenge or Monaco or what? It was all New Order-lite anyway although Pottsy seemed alright.

And just remembered he couldnt let it go without having a dig when she died and making it all about him. Hooky Me-Me..always the victim.

Is this 40th anniversary lark turning us all into 'look back bores' as MES said or is it just lockdown fever.

Hooky's bass on Aries is magical. Best riff since? New Order certainly

Having a look at this now. Craig Parkinson reading out the lyrics to 24 Hours was quite something, kind of strange.

Steve on now , pre recorded chat with Haslam

Did anybody else think that Bernard didn't seem particularly happy?

I guess lockdown is getting to him a bit.

Just thinking, perhaps he had just seen this headline and was worried that a crowd of angry Welshmen were heading towards his moored vessel.

https://www.walesonline....mner-boat-wales-18272834

I read peoples comments below the article yesterday but can't find them now.They were mostly "aww diddumms" and "Never heard of him" and such.I can kind of understand their reactions but i guess those of us more familiar with Bernard's sense of humour we would just think it was just Bernard being Bernard.I'm sure he's got nothing against the Welsh. Also in another way, you could say it was yet another sad example of people falling for a newspaper's sensationalism and clickbait.But that's all just my take on it.


Yeah Bernard did seem to have a slight undercurrent of irritability in the Headstock interview.I guess because of lockdown.He seemed to say at one point when an email came in that "Your set up appointment with Sky has been confirmed" which seem to indicate he had an appointment for something with Sky News? Or maybe he's getting a new Sky broadband router


I watched all the Headstock evening in the end.Yes some good stuff like Craig Parkinson and then Maxine Peake reading out JD lyrics, Steve and Bernard interviews and one or two other parts like the band doing the cover of Isolation but other parts didn't really float my boat (the Irish band Codaline weren't my thing)

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Just thinking about the interview with Bernard and Steve yesterday, I kind of wonder why Hooky wasn't present.

I was expecting Bernard and Steve, although obviously not in the same room, to be in the same discussion.
Instead, Dave Haslam interviewed them separately, an hour or so apart. I think they were also pre-recorded interviews. Going by those rules, it would've been simple to have a separate interview with Hooky too.

Maybe Hooky declined; he was quite busy with interviews yesterday. I suppose there's also a possibility that he and Haslam have fallen out. Can't remember if I've seen the two of them in any interviews post-Hooky.


I should point out that, although Bernard seemed to be a bit annoyed, I enjoyed the interview with him and, especially, Steve (he's always good fun and interesting).
I haven't had the chance to watch the Mark Reeder interview yet, but am looking forward to that too.

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I think Bernard just gets a bit sick answering the same questions about JD. Seemed a bit happier once he was talking about other things such as mixing Zachs recent songs and the unheard future new order classic. There’s not a lot more he can say about stuff that was 40 years ago. Play the records they will never age.

Can’t believe his jokey throw away comments about the welsh made their news, people just can’t take a joke any more

You're probably right but, to be fair, he could've turned Haslam down, if he didn't want to answer questions of this nature. The whole point of the programme was to talk about Joy Division and mental health with, presumably, Bernard and Stephen focussing on the former.
The fact that Steve was there, happy as Larry, meant that the band were represented on the big day and, if Bernard was uncomfortable about answering JD questions, he should, perhaps, have declined.

I did think that Bernard seemed to side-step a couple of questions about JD and start talking about he was doing instead. Which probably wasn't what Haslam was after.

What I also thought was quite pointed, is that Bernard seemed to make no reference to Hooky and the rest of the band, i.e. two or three occasions he said things like 'when I met Ian', rather than 'when we met Ian' (Bernard and Hooky apparently met him together).
I might be reading far too much into this, but it certainly seemed to me that the way he was answering questions was in a 'deliberate' manner, rather than just naturally.

I did worry a little about Bernard. He just didn't seem his normal self. Well, his normal 'interview' self, as I don't know him personally.

I guess it's the cursed lockdown. Bad times.

Yes but it was a JD night. In the words of Jimmy Carr, the clue there is in the name.
The Light are a live experience. Stripped of that thrill, recordings are Karaoke piss takes and not worth hunting down.