PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT - Celebrate 50 Years in Music With Career-Spanning Set At Manchester Academy Next June - with Special Guests Buzzcocks
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PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS IN MUSIC
WITH A CAREER-SPANNING RETROSPECTIVE SET
MANCHESTER ACADEMY, 4TH JUNE 2026
+ VERY SPECIAL GUESTS BUZZCOCKS
Next summer, Peter Hook & The Light will celebrate 50 years of music with a special set at Manchester Academy, spanning his work with Joy Division, New Order, Monaco and more.
On the 4th June 1976, Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto brought The Sex Pistols to Manchester for the first time for a night at the Lesser Free Trade Hall. The show attracted a modest crowd, with around 40 people in attendance, but amongst them were a disproportionate number of future legends of the Manchester scene. Future members of The Smiths and The Fall, Factory Records’ Tony Wilson, punk poet John Cooper Clarke, genius producer Martin Hannett and somewhere amongst that crowd was a young Peter Hook, with his friend & soon-to-be Joy Division bandmate Bernard Sumner.
Energised by the punk performance, Hook set out to buy a bass guitar the very next day. He went on to play in some of the most influential and iconic bands in British music history, pioneering post-punk with Joy Division before moving into more synth-driven soundscapes with New Order. Now, five decades on, Hook is set to celebrate the anniversary of that pivotal night with a special show in the city that shaped him.
On 4th June 2026, 50 years to the day since The Sex Pistols changed the Manchester music scene forever, Peter Hook & The Light are set to perform a retrospective set spanning his lengthy career at the Academy. Playing choice picks from his time in Warsaw, Joy Division, New Order, Revenge, Monaco, and Freebass, it’s a night not to be missed by fans of Hook and his wide-spanning, widely-influential projects. “On the evening of the 4th June 1976 my life changed forever,” shares Hooky, “I hope on the evening of 4th June 2026 yours will too.”
Hook will be joined by very special guests Buzzcocks, who were instrumental in putting the Sex Pistols on all those years ago. Since that night, the Buzzcocks have carved out their own place in British music history with hits like “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)”, "What Do I Get?’ and “Harmony In My Head”, winning audiences over with their catchy punk songwriting and lovesick lyrics. Next June, they support Hook and celebrate their own 50-year anniversary in the process.
Pre-sale tickets for the show go on sale on Wednesday 3rd December here, while general on-sale kicks off on Friday 5th December. Tickets will be available here.
Live Dates
4th June, 2026 - Manchester Academy (with Buzzcocks)
Tickets available here.
The announcement follows Hook’s ‘Get Ready’ tour, which took him to Bristol, London, Manchester, Liverpool, Cambridge and Leeds playing the 2001 New Order album in full, alongside a selection of seminal tracks from the rich catalogues of both Joy Division and New Order. .
Peter Hook first revisited the seminal Joy Division album ‘Unknown Pleasures’ back in May 2010 for a commemorative charity concert and has followed it each year by performing subsequent albums from the repertoire of his bands, Joy Division and New Order. His dedication to his back catalogue has now seen him move through ‘Unknown Pleasures’, ‘Closer’, ‘Still’, ‘Movement’, ‘Power Corruption & Lies’, ‘Low Life’, ‘Brotherhood’, ‘Technique’, ‘Republic’, and ‘Substance’ to arrive at ‘Get Ready’ this year. Having toured the albums extensively, the band have now amassed over 800 concerts.
Among the many highlights since he reintroduced his early repertoire to a legion of new audiences across the world have been appearances at Benicassim, Primavera Sound, Bestival, Kendal Calling, Victorious and Rebellion, alongside sold out gigs and extensive touring in Europe, North and South America, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand to great acclaim from both fans and critics alike.
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