Peter Hook & the Light perform at The Bluestone on Wednesday, May 28. Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 8pm. Peter and the band will be performing New Order’s ‘Get Ready’ album in its entirety followed by a set of Joy Division and New Order greatest hits. Tickets are available on Ticketmaster for $46.75 + tax.
Going off of Setlist.fm, it appears as if the last time Peter Hook & the Light performed in Ohio was a decade ago at Bogart’s in Cincinnati. It’s the reason there was a caravan of cars headed from Ohio’s capital city to Detroit, Michigan last September as, at the time, that was the closest show in driving distance. While last fall’s tour was a fairly even split between Joy Division and New Order songs, Hooky’s current tour find the bassist giving some attention to New Order’s 2001 album, Get Ready, the last with the band’s original lineup and featuring the single “Crystal”. While New Order is still an actively touring band (Hook left in 2011), a recent glance at their set list finds that band only playing “Crystal” off Get Ready so if that album (or CD, if we’re being historically accurate to that time period) was your jam, you’ll get to hear it in the cozy confines of The Bluestone on Wednesday night.
But, fret not. If you were a college student between the late 1970s and early 1990s, and spent any time dancing to Joy Division or early New Order songs at a campus club, you’ll be rewarded at The Bluestone. After Get Ready is performed in full and the band takes a short break, Hooky and his band will play all the hits. Even for someone like myself, who spent my formative years consuming ’80s hair metal and early ’90s grunge, songs like “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” “Transmission,” “Age of Consent,” “Bizarre Love Triangle,” and “Blue Monday” are alternative rock classics. With no opener and a 30-ish song set, this is going to be as close as you can get without finding a time machine.
