Joy Division live again

Peter Hook and guests will play <i>Unknown Pleasures</i> at the Powerstation on October 2nd. Photo / Supplied

Joy Division founding member and bass player Peter Hook is coming to New Zealand to play the band's 1979 debut album, Unknown Pleasures, live.

The concert, on October 2 at the Powerstation, is to commemorate 30 years since post-punk's most influential album was released and the death of the band's lead singer Ian Curtis in May 1980.

Unknown Pleasures Live is being dubbed a live celebration of Joy Division with Hook and friends, and the band will also include Hook's son, Jack Bates, on bass, rhythm guitarist Nat Wason, Andy Poole on keyboards and Paul Kehoe on drums.

The special show will feature all of the songs off Unknown Pleasures in sequence, so that means tracks like Disorder, She's Lost Control, and Shadowplay, as well as selected early Warsaw/Joy Division tracks including non-album singles Transmission and Love Will Tear Us Apart.

Tickets on sale now at Ticketmaster, Real Groovy and Marbecks.

- TimeOut