Up, down, turn around. New Order kicked off their new U.S. tour last night with a celebratory sold-out show at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The Manchester goth-disco kingpins are in cocky form these days, after releasing their sparkling new Music Complete in the wake of their nasty split with bassist Peter Hook. Indeed, the tour poster shows the replacement bass guy standing way out in front of the other four, to really rub in the point that nobody misses Hooky, whose signature basslines aren't tough for the new guy to duplicate. Yet after all these years, it remains profoundly weird to see the geeks in New Order enjoy themselves onstage. Nobody but Bernard Sumner could...
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