★★★★☆Bernard Sumner looked up at the cheap seats. “It’s very high up there,” said the singer-guitarist. Comedy pause. “I’ve been pretty high.” Stephen Morris played a “boom-tish” on the drums. A dad joke about drugs? That rather sums up the phase New Order are at in their career. The Manchester icons have made some of the most thrilling, dancefloor-geared music of the last 50 years but they – and many of their fans – are now well into their sixties.
When some of us stood up to dance during a frisky Be a Rebel, we were told to “Get out of here” by a man in the row behind for whom throwing shapes was less feasible. We moved out of his eye line
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