{"id":2018014,"date":"2026-06-29T17:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2018014"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:39:05","slug":"stephen-morris-and-gillian-gilbert-arent-playing-live-with-new-order-for-the-foreseeable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2018014","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert aren\u2019t playing live with New Order \u201cfor the foreseeable future\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/new_order_2023.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-2749694\" class=\"post-2749694 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>News<\/span><i class=\"tdb-bread-sep td-icon-right\"><\/i><span>Music News<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_72 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_72\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert aren\u2019t playing live with New Order \u201cfor the foreseeable future\u201d<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_73 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_73\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Peter Hook recently said he had heard Bernard Sumner would be playing as &#8220;the only member&#8221; of New Order later this year, which he called &#8220;quite rich&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_75 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_75\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Max Pilley<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-06-29T18:39:05+01:00\">29th June 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- .\/block --><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_77\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_78  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_80  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span8\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_81 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure>\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"442\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/new_order_2023-696x442.jpg\" alt title=\"KEYNOTE: New Order - 2023 SXSW Conference and Festivals\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">Stephen Morris, Bernard Summer, and Gillian Gilbert of New Order at Austin Convention Center on March 15, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Amanda Stronza\/Getty Images for SXSW)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_83 article-content-row vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>New Order\u00a0have\u00a0announced that Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert will not be touring with the band \u201cfor the foreseeable future\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1085\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/b><b>\u201cIt felt like we were changing the world\u201d: inside New Order\u2019s seminal \u2018Power, Corruption &amp; Lies\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Manchester band confirmed the news in a statement on social media today (June 29), in which they said the decision had been made \u201cdue to personal health reasons\u201d, without going into any further detail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Morris was the drummer in\u00a0Joy Division\u00a0alongside\u00a0Bernard Sumner,\u00a0Peter Hook\u00a0and\u00a0Ian Curtis, and the remaining members formed New Order after Curtis\u2019 death in 1980. Gilbert joined shortly afterwards, becoming a defining part of the band\u2019s move from post-punk into electronic music.<\/p>\n<p>The news marks a major change to New Order\u2019s live incarnation, which has been centred around Sumner, Morris and Gilbert since the band returned in 2011 without founding bassist Hook.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Order are very happy to be playing Primavera in Chile in November marking the band\u2019s first performance there in seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Due to personal health reasons, Stephen and Gillian won\u2019t be touring for the foreseeable future and will not be joining for this show. Bernard, Phil\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/3Vo8bB9fl2<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New Order (@neworder) June 29, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hook left New Order in 2007, later becoming involved in\u00a0a long-running legal dispute with Sumner, Morris and Gilbert over ownership of assets and the use of the New Order name. A\u00a0\u201cfull and final settlement\u201d was reached in 2017, but relations have\u00a0remained\u00a0strained.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a recent appearance on\u00a0YouTube show\u00a0<i>Rock Daydream Nation<\/i>, Hook said he had\u00a0already\u00a0heard\u00a0that\u00a0Morris and Gilbert were leaving New Order.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBarney is touring in New Order on his own this year, because Stephen and Gillian have left, that\u2019s what I\u2019ve heard,\u201d he said. \u201cSo now Barney is New Order. Which is quite interesting. He\u2019s actually booked a gig in Chile that he will be playing as the only member of New Order, which is quite rich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New Order are due to perform at Festival Fauna Primavera in Santiago, Chile in November. At the time of writing, they have not confirmed who will play with Sumner in Morris and Gilbert\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>The band\u2019s most recent touring line-up has featured Sumner, Morris, Gilbert, guitarist Phil Cunningham and bassist Tom Chapman.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The line-up change comes during a significant year for New Order and Joy Division,\u00a0who are due to be inducted together into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame later this year. Curtis, Gilbert, Hook, Morris and Sumner have been named as the inducted members, but earlier this year, Hook told <i>Rolling Stone<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>he did not plan to stand alongside his former bandmates at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. No. Not after what they did to me and my family, no,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u00a0won\u2019t\u00a0stand with\u00a0them. No. I\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0give a shit [how it would work].\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0not bothered.\u00a0You\u2019ve\u00a0got to have morals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of bad blood under that very big bridge,\u201d Hook added.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0he\u00a0has\u00a0also joked that Oasis could potentially\u00a0stage peace talks\u00a0between the estranged bandmates, saying: \u201cMaybe Liam and Noel could be the intermediaries that you\u2019re looking for. They might be like, \u2018OK, you two. Let\u2019s shake hands and get up there and play \u2018Transmission,\u2019 \u2018Love Will Tear Us Apart,\u2019 and \u2018Blue Monday\u2019.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert previously stepped away from New Order in the early 2000s to care for her daughter, with Cunningham initially joining as her live replacement. She later returned for the band\u2019s 2011 reunion and appeared on their 2015 album \u2018Music Complete\u2019, their first without Hook.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In 2020,\u00a0Kelly Lee Owens told\u00a0<i>NME\u00a0<\/i>that she wanted to see more recognition for Gilbert, calling her a role model and \u201csynth queen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving Gillian as part of New Order\u2019s line-up in the \u201980s and \u201990s was iconic,\u201d Owens said. \u201cShe was just up there doing her thing, and she looked so cool. She needs to be celebrated as the synth queen she is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris and Gilbert have also released\u00a0music together\u00a0outside New Order as The Other Two. Their debut album, \u2018The Other Two &amp; You\u2019,\u00a0arrived in 1993, followed by \u2018Super Highways\u2019\u00a0in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year,\u00a0New Order announced \u2018The Best &amp; The Rest Of New Order\u2019, a remastered collection featuring classic singles alongside rare and previously unreleased remixes.\u00a0It\u00a0is set for release on July 17.<\/p>\n<p>Joy Division also recently announced \u2018Eternal\u2019, a huge new live\u00a0recordings\u00a0box set featuring 14 CDs and two DVDs. 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class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>New Order\u00a0have\u00a0announced that Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert will not be touring with the band \u201cfor the foreseeable future\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1085\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/b><b>\u201cIt felt like we were changing the world\u201d: inside New Order\u2019s seminal \u2018Power, Corruption &amp; Lies\u2019<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Manchester band confirmed the news in a statement on social media today (June 29), in which they said the decision had been made \u201cdue to personal health reasons\u201d, without going into any further detail.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Morris was the drummer in\u00a0Joy Division\u00a0alongside\u00a0Bernard Sumner,\u00a0Peter Hook\u00a0and\u00a0Ian Curtis, and the remaining members formed New Order after Curtis\u2019 death in 1980. Gilbert joined shortly afterwards, becoming a defining part of the band\u2019s move from post-punk into electronic music.<\/p>\n<p>The news marks a major change to New Order\u2019s live incarnation, which has been centred around Sumner, Morris and Gilbert since the band returned in 2011 without founding bassist Hook.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Order are very happy to be playing Primavera in Chile in November marking the band\u2019s first performance there in seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Due to personal health reasons, Stephen and Gillian won\u2019t be touring for the foreseeable future and will not be joining for this show. Bernard, Phil\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/3Vo8bB9fl2<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New Order (@neworder) June 29, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hook left New Order in 2007, later becoming involved in\u00a0a long-running legal dispute with Sumner, Morris and Gilbert over ownership of assets and the use of the New Order name. A\u00a0\u201cfull and final settlement\u201d was reached in 2017, but relations have\u00a0remained\u00a0strained.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a recent appearance on\u00a0YouTube show\u00a0<i>Rock Daydream Nation<\/i>, Hook said he had\u00a0already\u00a0heard\u00a0that\u00a0Morris and Gilbert were leaving New Order.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBarney is touring in New Order on his own this year, because Stephen and Gillian have left, that\u2019s what I\u2019ve heard,\u201d he said. \u201cSo now Barney is New Order. Which is quite interesting. He\u2019s actually booked a gig in Chile that he will be playing as the only member of New Order, which is quite rich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New Order are due to perform at Festival Fauna Primavera in Santiago, Chile in November. At the time of writing, they have not confirmed who will play with Sumner in Morris and Gilbert\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>The band\u2019s most recent touring line-up has featured Sumner, Morris, Gilbert, guitarist Phil Cunningham and bassist Tom Chapman.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span>  <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-article-2\" class=\"lazy-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The line-up change comes during a significant year for New Order and Joy Division,\u00a0who are due to be inducted together into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame later this year. Curtis, Gilbert, Hook, Morris and Sumner have been named as the inducted members, but earlier this year, Hook told <i>Rolling Stone<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>he did not plan to stand alongside his former bandmates at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. No. Not after what they did to me and my family, no,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u00a0won\u2019t\u00a0stand with\u00a0them. No. I\u00a0couldn\u2019t\u00a0give a shit [how it would work].\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0not bothered.\u00a0You\u2019ve\u00a0got to have morals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of bad blood under that very big bridge,\u201d Hook added.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0he\u00a0has\u00a0also joked that Oasis could potentially\u00a0stage peace talks\u00a0between the estranged bandmates, saying: \u201cMaybe Liam and Noel could be the intermediaries that you\u2019re looking for. They might be like, \u2018OK, you two. Let\u2019s shake hands and get up there and play \u2018Transmission,\u2019 \u2018Love Will Tear Us Apart,\u2019 and \u2018Blue Monday\u2019.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert previously stepped away from New Order in the early 2000s to care for her daughter, with Cunningham initially joining as her live replacement. She later returned for the band\u2019s 2011 reunion and appeared on their 2015 album \u2018Music Complete\u2019, their first without Hook.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In 2020,\u00a0Kelly Lee Owens told\u00a0<i>NME\u00a0<\/i>that she wanted to see more recognition for Gilbert, calling her a role model and \u201csynth queen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving Gillian as part of New Order\u2019s line-up in the \u201980s and \u201990s was iconic,\u201d Owens said. \u201cShe was just up there doing her thing, and she looked so cool. She needs to be celebrated as the synth queen she is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris and Gilbert have also released\u00a0music together\u00a0outside New Order as The Other Two. Their debut album, \u2018The Other Two &amp; You\u2019,\u00a0arrived in 1993, followed by \u2018Super Highways\u2019\u00a0in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year,\u00a0New Order announced \u2018The Best &amp; The Rest Of New Order\u2019, a remastered collection featuring classic singles alongside rare and previously unreleased remixes.\u00a0It\u00a0is set for release on July 17.<\/p>\n<p>Joy Division also recently announced \u2018Eternal\u2019, a huge new live\u00a0recordings\u00a0box set featuring 14 CDs and two DVDs. The set, due out on September 30, collects live material from the band\u2019s short but hugely influential career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/stephen-morris-and-gillian-gilbert-arent-playing-live-with-new-order-for-the-foreseeable-future-3954003&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/new_order_2023.jpg&#8221;] NewsMusic News Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert aren\u2019t playing live with New Order \u201cfor the foreseeable future\u201d Peter Hook recently said he had heard Bernard Sumner would be playing as &#8220;the only member&#8221; of New Order later this year, which he called &#8220;quite rich&#8221; By Max Pilley 29th June 2026 Stephen Morris, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,78],"class_list":["post-2018014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nme-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2018014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2018014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2018014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2018014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}