Manchester music legend Peter Hook is thinking back to the first ever gig that Joy Division played. It was in Manchester, at the former Pips club, on January 25, 1978. "It was just this maze of all different rooms," Hooky recalls. "We were still playing punk back then and that gig was the first time Joy Division performed as a group." Underground club Pips, next to Manchester Cathedral, would go on to become Konspiracy - that Hooky mostly remembers for the infamous Damian Noonan running the door.
He laughs: "He would charge you more to go out than he charged on the way in!" Try MEN Premium now for FREE... just click here to give it a go. The reason we're talking about that seminal Joy Division gig now 46 years on, is because Hooky is about to get reappraised with the music from that night in the very finest of detail.
He will play the full setlist from the Pips gig at a special, intimate charity gig at another iconic Manchester venue - the Star & Garter pub on Fairfield Street on April 12.
Some of the songs from that night he's never played since. Others, like Day of the Lords, would go on to become part of Joy Division's most cherished anthems.