December 01 2007 |  |  |
 | Gig/Club Audiosushi Winter Ball Having weathered the suicide of their singer, name changes, arguments, labels going bankrupt, acid house and gun toting gangsters, the good ship New Order finally hit the rocks earlier this year when Peter Hook, the band’s iconic bass player decided he could no longer bare to be in the same room as the other two and announced the band’s demise. Having spent 30 years hunched over his bass in 2 of the most influential British bands of the late twentieth century he could have been forgiven for hanging up the leather chaps and retiring to the countryside to raise trout. Obviously though, the sedentary life doesn’t hold too much appeal as this Saturday as he’s playing some of his favourite records at The Dogstar in Brixton alongside the likes of rising flouro popstars The RGBs, Sonic Mook’s Sean Mclusky and Audiosushi host Disastronaut – about as far from a quiet life as it’s possible to imagine. With the venue itself all tarted up and back at the forefront of Brixton life this is a good chance to catch two venerable musical institutions enjoying a second lease of life. / John Power | where The Dogstar, 389 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, SW9 8LQ 0207 733 7515 when 7pm - 4am how much £5 before 10pm / £10 after |
