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I was tagged (a very long time ago) by @empiregrotesk to name check my Top 9 Favourite Musicians. A very difficult task but here we go with the memories of my past…
Paul Weller (The Jam/The Style Council), Mick Jones (The Clash/BAD), Jerry Dammers (The Specials), Richard H. Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire), Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), Barney Sumner (Joy Division/New Order), Björk (The Sugarcubes/Solo), PJ Harvey, Autechre (Rob Brown + Sean Booth).
As always, feel free to join in (or pass a comment)…
#TAG TAG TAG#PAUL WELLER#MICK JONES#JERRY DAMMERS#RICHARD H. KIRK#ROBIN GUTHERIE#BARNEY SUMNER#BJORK#PJ HARVEY#AUTECHRE
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Barney Sumner, New Order
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Image: Anton Corbjin
#new order#factory records#rob gretton#hooky#peter hook#barney#bernard sumner#stephen morris#gillian gilbert#movement#power corruption and lies#lowlife#substance#brotherhood#technique#itsgrimupnorth#tony wilson
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happy (late) birthday bernard sumner!! <3
#did u guys know that i actually LOVE barney#like i love his voice#i love how he looks#and i love how he is#idc if he cant sing or whatever bc i love his voice#bernard sumner#joy division#new order#ian curtis#peter hook#stephen morris#gillian gilbert#70s post punk#post punk#new wave#madchester#70s music#70s#80s music#80s
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I hate Electronic so much for going with that band name. What am I supposed to search up? “Electronic band”??? “Electronic group”??????
#barney. johnny. what on earth was going on inside ur heads. answer me.#i mean. I think electronic band works to an extent but breaks whenever someone’s search engine is even slightly shit#I love how you can search up ‘electronic band’ and get depeche mode#also have this problem to a lesser extent when i search up ‘the smiths’ and get will smith#electronic band#johnny marr#bernard sumner
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was going through my screenshots and found these gems
#barney's gig banter is something that can actually be so personal#bernard sumner#fav#yes I'm tagging my own post as fav what about it
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this is my comfort video
#cheeky bastard#i pass away anytime he flashes a smile#bernard sumner#barney#video#Youtube#new order#electronic band#joy division
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new order for the music asks!
OMG THANKS
favourite song: ceremony but SPECIFICALLY the version 2 on substance
least favourite song: all the way
have i ever seen them live: yes!!!
favourite band member: barney sumner <3
least favourite band member: peter hook -_-
how many of their albums i have: i think i have them all on cd actually apart from movement and ive got a couple of 12"s
favourite album: power corruption and lies
favourite lyrics: ill break them down no mercy shown, heaven knows its got to be this time
favourite music video: touched by the hand of god is so funny but i think here to stay just because i love 24 hour party people
ever met any members: no :(
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Bernard Sumner: Cash For Questions, Q Magazine 1999 (article in text below:)
Cash 4 Questions with Barney By David Quantick
© 1999 Q
He is half of Electronic, a quarter of New Order and isn’t he a naughty fellow! You blamed him for Keith Allen and asked him about as many drugs as there are drugs. In return, he denied ever having "touched himself". Meet the people Bernard Sumner.
Bernard Sumner is looking rather well. In rude health, even. This may be because Bernard Sumner has stopped eating pasties, but it’s more likely because the night before Manchester United won a football match against some Germans.
In a West London hotel, the only non-purple star called Barney lounges on a well-stuffed sofa nursing a half-bottle of Chardonnay. In spite of his numerous 43 years -20 of them spent as a member of Joy Division, New Order, Electronic, and, if you want to be pedantic, Englandneworder, the short-lived rock/footie conglomeration that brought you the rapping of John Barnes - he appears younger than he has any right to.
Moreover - bucking his Mr Miseryguts reputation - Summer appears delighted to answer even the readers’ ugliest questions. Some of his replies maybe tongue-in-cheek, and some are, frankly, lies. He may, charmingly, have faith in the beauty of moustaches, he may be eerily loath to reveal the secret of his morphing surname, but the former Bernard Dicken is proving an amenable chap. Just don’t call him Warsaw, that’s all.
Q opens the ceremonial geography project folder of questions, Sumner sips his Chardonnay and off we go.
Words David Quantick
Is True Faith about ecstasy? Trisha Farmer. Hull No. It’s about drug dependency. I don’t touch smack but when I wrote that song I tried to imagine what it’s like to be a smackhead and nothing else matters to you except that day’s hit. There’s a line in the song, “When I was a very young boy, very young boys played with me/Now we’ve grown up together, they’re afraid of what they see." The original was, “Now they’re taking drugs with me,” but Stephen Hague our producer made us change it because he said it wouldn’t be a hit if we kept that line in. He was right. It was a very big hit, but we chickened out. I change it back sometimes live.
Given your chemically excessive past, what is your parental advice to your kids concerning drugs? Anthony Clifford, Taunton Don’t go anywhere near heroin or crack or acid. Taking ecstasy’s like Russian roulette, except you've got 99,000 bullets that are empty and one that’s loaded. I don’t know anyone who’s taken cocaine where it hasn’t become a friend for life. Although you can say the same for cigarettes. I don’t smoke marijuana, but if you’re going to take a drug, that’s the best one. It’s not as bad for you as alcohol and it makes people mellow and friendly, Unfortunately, it just makes me go to sleep.
Do you still have a receiver in your head? Noel Edmunds, via e-mail I think I know what this is about. I think I came out in an interview with some bullshit answer to a question about howl wrote music. I said that I had a television aerial in my head and it picked ideas out ofthe ether and I used to work at night when everyone was asleep. Maybe I did write in a different way in those days. I think now I’ve not got that many problems in my life, I want to write songs about the ones I have got, rather than that kind of... dreamscape. I used to be pretty sort of dreamy and go off on one. I still can do it. I sat in my room for twelve hours just not watching television or anything, just thinking.
What made you piss yourself on Every Little Counts? Jamie BIundell, Rednal The words were so bad, basically (“I think you are a pig/You should be in a zoo”). We kept it on because it was better than the original lyric.
What’s your excuse for having a moustache when you were Warsaw? Ursula Stevenson, Reading It’s a popular misconception that we were called Warsaw. We were never called Warsaw. At our first concert we changed it to Joy Division (He is reminded of the question) The moustach? I’d forgotten all about that. In those days moustaches were really big. The thing I was embarrassed about was it was a bumlluff moustache that didn’t quite join in the middle. Bit like Noel’s eyebrows. No, the opposite of Noel’s eyebrows. It looked like I had Noel’s eyebrows on my lip. I’ll stand by my moustache. If you look at most pop stars, you’ll find some kind of styling error in their past history.
When joy Division started, why did you keep changing your surname, from Dicken to Albrecht to Sumner? Dove Clarke, Salford Family reasons. I’d rather not go into it.
Ian Curtis, 1999 - what would he be up to? Matt Palmer, Worcestershire It’s hard to imagine because Ian was very ill. I can’t imagine him in the ‘90s. He once threatened to go off and leave the group and buy a corner shop in Bournemouth. It was an off-licence that sold books as well, I think that was his idea. These mad, completely illogical thoughts used to come into his head from time to time. So maybe eventually he would have done that. I think he would have been a writer, because he was always reading books and he was always writing anyway. Or maybe he would have retired a millionaire by now, who knows? Silly sod.
Is it true that Touched By The Hand Of God is about whacking off Aidan Vaziri, San Francisco (Long pause followed by wide-eyed response) What’s whacking off mean? (It is explained to him) I would not write a song about masturbating, No, it’s not, most definitely isn’t. And I've never done that in my life ever. Ever. Do people really do that? Masturbate? Do you masturbate? I’ve never done it ever in my life. I’ve certainly never written a song about it. (Confidentially) It’s about bestiality, actually.
Do you regret doing that Prozac documentary? Wasn’t it a rather strange thing to do? Damon Williams, Bromley I regret it but not bitterly. It was interesting tak-ing Prozac because I don’t really suffer from depression but I can be a melancholic sort of person. It was interesting being a different person for seven months. It really agreed with me. I still think it’s a very, very interesting drug. I found when I took it if I had problems, then instead of me crumbling before my problems, I would deal with the problems.
Quote a lyric from the second Electronic album that isn’t from the single, Forbidden City. William Haas, Winchester Um... I honestly can’t be bothered. You tell me. What a trainspotter. All right, here’s one: “Misguided youth/You mix some juice with alcohol." It’s from Liquor.
Finish the sentence, in less than 10 words, “Manchester is great because..." Carl Hedges, Liverpool We’ve got the best football team, we've got the best bands, we’ve got the best gang violence scene anywhere in Britain, It’s always sunny there, it never rains...
You and Michael jackson are the only pop stars who whoop. Discuss. Heather Thompson, London NB Ha ha ha! Well, I get excited. Whoopings a primeval expression of enjoyment, and sometimes if I’m getting into a vocal take, I just get into it. If I’m at a club, I like whistling... I was at a club in Bath and this girl got a bouncer over to stop me (demonstrates incredibly powerful, piercing whistle). I don’t get excited very often but when I do, I get really excited. I’ll stop doing it now, I’ll get self-conscious about it.
When did you last touch Pernod? Steve Heath, Keighley Um... Well, Pernod’s been replaced by Absinthe. There’s this whole ritual where you bake some up on a spoon, a bit like freebasing. That stuff’s like rocket fuel, I had a couple of nights with Alex James out of Blur, a couple of disastrous nights drinking Absinthe, and I don’t even remember drinking it.
Have you ever been down to your last dollar and how did you cope? Adrian Gibbon, Bassetbury Balloons Party Shop, High Wycombe It was on New Order’s first US tour and I didn’t really get the idea of tipping - I’m a bit of a tight bastard and I find the whole idea of tipping abhorrent. We bought a beer in a club and it was 75 cents, So I thought, well, you’ve got to tip here or they'll go fucking mad. I only had a dollar, I didn’t have any more money so I him the dollar and said, Keep the change, and he went, "You fucking Manc bastard," and threw the 25 cents at me.
Do you own a Sainsbury’s reward card? Jill Cash, Amersham I do, but it’s mysteriously gone missing. I probably left it in the toilet somewhere. I keep losing odd credit cards,,, It didn’t have many points on it because I cashed it. I have a special platinum reward card. You get more points than other people, being a celebrity and that.
I saw you purchase a tuna sandwich from Spinks in Wilmslow. It was a cold day - why didn’t you buy a pasty like me? Were you trying to be hard? Andy Parr, Maclesfield Ha ha ha! I’m trying to lose a bit of weight, that’s why! Tuna's much more healthy for you and I'm trying to go on a health kick. I can’t eat pasties any more without affecting my, ah, already fragile waistline.
What’s the most unusual place you’ve had sex? Polly Winterton, London W12 I couldn’t possibly tell you without offending someone. Um... ah... I might get in trouble. I'm trying to think of which particular unusual place out of all the unusual places...
Don’t you feel ashamed for having started Keith Allen out in his pop career? K Allen (thankfully no relation), Bromley Heh heh heh! K. Allen? Um... em... I think Keith’s made a wonderful contribution to pop. I think the Fat Les records are some of the all-time classic songs that’ll go down as... ‘90's classics. I’m very proud of Keith’s contribution to pop music and I’m sure that every time there’s some kind of football event to cash in on... er! help to promote I’m sure Keith’ll be there with one of his wonderful renditions.
What’s your best Shaun Ryder story? Jane Smith, Liverpool Which one? I’ve got about three. He went out in his car to score and he crashed into a vicar in a Lada. He had 500 quid in his pocket and he said to the vicar, "Look, mate, your car’s not worth 500 quid, I’ll give you this ifyou don’t call the cops." He was a vicar and he wouldn’t take it, so Shaun said, "Well, fuck off then," and got in his car and drove off. About ten minutes later, the police knocked at his house and he said, how did you find me so quick? And they just showed him his number plate. He’d left his number plate at the scene of the crime. What else? There’s a few disgusting ones...
Did you really do a version of Blue Monday for a Sunkist ad? If so, how did the lyrics go? Peter Rees, Shrewsbury (Recites) "How does it feel/When you’re drinking in the sun? Something something something/Sunkist is the one/How does it feel/When you’re drinking in the sun/All you’ve got to believe/Is Sunkist is the one" I didn’t write them. We got offered £100,000 to do it. I kept laughing when I was singing it, so Hooky (Peter Hook, New Order bassist) got a piece card and wrote “£100,000” on it, held it up, and I sang it perfectly. But then Rob Gretton (New Order’s late manager) turned up and put the kibosh on it. There’s a remix of Blue Monday by Steve “Silk” Hurley and it’s got the Sunkist lyrics on it.
People who bought the Electronic album probably see it as a substitute for New Order, and primarily use Electronic to fill the gap until the next New Order album What do you think of that? Nicklas Mandahl Enevaldsen, Denmark Well... very pleased. Fucking hell, what do you expect me to say? Um... Thank God not everybody’s like that.
Former Factory Records boss Tony Wilson comes to you with a sure-fire business proposition that “just can’t fail”. What do you do? Kevin Leslie, Oldham Ha ha! Ha ha! Piss myself laughing. In fact that’s what happened when we were recording Every Little Counts... Tony came in with a sure-fire business proposition.
Does Steven (Morris, New Order drummer) let you play with his tank? Lee Hollows, Birmingham I’ve sat in his tank, yeah. Steve’s got a tank that he has permanently pointed at my house. Me and Steve play with it and we’re in training for Kosovo. When the troops go in, we hope be in the vanguard of operations. We’re keeping the gun well-oiled and we’re going to shove it right up Slobodan’s arse. In fact, someone up the road from Steve’s had the same tank, and they’ve got a slight design fault which means that you’re driving along and swerve, it’s uncontrollable, and this guy’s tank did this and decapitated his wife. It was because it was on the news and there was a picture of Steve’s tank - we were “Steve’s crashed the tank and Gillian’s been decapitated”. So I don’t think I’ll be going in it again.
What’s your favorite memory of Rob Gretton? Ruth Quest, Gloucester (long pause) um.,. Rob used to say to everyone, “What are you doing?” nothing, Rob, nothing: “What should you be doing? Skin up!” I’ll remember those words.
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“You never knew Kraftwerk individually. I know that they’ve had their problems as a group, in the way that all of us have, but I like the way they always seemed to this one tight, closed unit. Ian always modelled what he wanted Joy Division like from an attitude point of view on Kraftwerk, without a shadow of a doubt. When everyone was trying to turn us into ‘Ian Curtis And Joy Division’, he would say, ‘No no, we need to be like Kraftwerk – it’s all of us, together’. That was the image that I bought into. I still don’t know which of them did what. I think there’s a strength, an honesty and a respect in that.
#peter hook#florian schneider#kraftwerk#ian curtis#joy division#trans europe express#barney sumner#new order#free trade hall#autobahn#the doors#can#acid house#snoop dogg#dave greenfield#the stranglers#andrew trendell
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Born January 4, 1956
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Photo @KCMANC
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In Bernard Sumner’s memoir, he writes about Electronic, your band together. He says you were completely obsessive in the way you talked about music, that it was hard to get you to talk about anything else. He mentioned something about trying to broaden your horizons.
Well, Bernard, he’s someone who doesn’t like to hear about music when he’s sailing in his boat! He would put an embargo on me whenever we went pretty much anywhere. The poor thing, trying to put up with me being inspired.
He also wrote a funny anecdote from when you guys were on a press tour together: that you went running and you accidentally ran into a pole while you were checking yourself out in the reflection of a store window.
That is such a crock, by the way.
It’s in the book.
Bernard Sumner got off very, very lightly in my book. I’ve got so many more anecdotes about him than he does about me. If you ever interview Seal, ask him about the time that we took a ride into Harlem on the back of a pickup truck at 4:30 a.m., and we had no idea who was driving it. That’s an interesting story. I guarantee the Pet Shop Boys have some pretty hot stuff on Bernard Sumner. Bernard better watch out. If I ever write a sequel, I might not be so kind to him next time.
There’s another bit of folklore about your time in Electronic I wanted to ask about. Is it true that you almost fell into a volcano while shooting the “Get the Message” video in the Maldives?
That’s absolutely true, yeah. The helicopter would shoot down so low when it was shooting us, it took a whole load of stone and dust and rock. So I got it in my eyes and just ran in the wrong direction towards the volcano. Bernard actually chased me and grabbed me, and pulled me down, and he’s never let me forget that. He saved my life.
https://www.spin.com/2018/09/johnny-marr-solo-album-the-smiths-interview/
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why do people comment on newer new order videos like peter hook is personally going to come into the youtube comments section to shake their hand for calling barney sumner a bad singer
#yes ive made this comment before but it bears repeating#I also said that this was possibly the worst example to give bc well. he would do this#hmm should I go see hooky next year lmao#if there are still tickets#on one hand I’ve never been particularly fond of him. tho he IS of course very very very talented#on the other hand…I love Substance especially the new order one…
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#joy division#peter hook#ian curtis#stephen morris#bernard sumner#new order#post punk#70s#80s#just imagining their interaction and I- (explodes)#it's barney x hooky supremacy#I have part 2 and 3 on my drafts#okay but WHERE IS JOY DIVISION FANDOM??? Y'ALL????#joy division incorrect quotes
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