{"podcast":{"title":"The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds","slug":"the-vinyl-guide-artist-interviews-for-record-collectors-and-music-nerds-6805967","podcast_index_feed_id":6805967,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/72989/rss","website_url":"http://vinylguide.libsyn.com/podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/9/7/8/1978dbeaf13e6b45/thevinylguide-1600x1600.jpg","author":"Nate Goyer","episode_count":569,"summary":"Nate is a record collector, music lover and vinyl maniac. Join him on his journey to discuss, share and review all things related to vinyl records. We feature stories about and interviews with musicians, artists and people of knowledge in the area of vinyl records. Additionally we share information on desirable pressings of records, how to tell a $5 pressing from a $500 pressing and care and maintenance for your cratedigging hobby. Subscribe and share with your record-nerd friends. Cheers!","last_synced_at":"2026-06-22T16:19:56.593091+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vinyl-guide-artist-interviews-for-record-collectors-and-music-nerds-6805967"},"episode":{"title":"Ep553: The Ghosts That Haunt Peter Hook","slug":"ep553-the-ghosts-that-haunt-peter-hook","published_at":"2026-06-22T09:11:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vinyl-guide-artist-interviews-for-record-collectors-and-music-nerds-6805967/ep553-the-ghosts-that-haunt-peter-hook","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vinyl-guide-artist-interviews-for-record-collectors-and-music-nerds-6805967","url":"https://vinylguide.libsyn.com/ep553-the-ghosts-that-haunt-peter-hook","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/vinylguide/Ep553_-_Peter_Hook.mp3?dest-id=315004","summary":"Peter Hook reflects on 50 years of music, the emotional weight of performing Joy Division and New Order live, and the many memories and ghosts of his past. Tickets for Peter Hook & The Light, Australia 2026 Topics Include: New Order toured Australia as early as 1982, helped by Factory Australasia's local support. Hooky calls Australia the only place he never wants to leave — he still suffers leaving every time. Peter Hook and the Light played their seventh-ever gig in Melbourne on their first Australian tour. He is now working through every New Order and Joy Division album ever recorded live. Get Ready features songs never played live as New Order, with Steve Morris largely absent during recording. The band's Grammy came from Orgy's heavy metal cover of Blue Monday — Hook loves the weird covers most. He revealed a plan to stage a full New Order classical concert, eyeing the Sydney Opera House. Ian Curtis performed with absolute conviction every single night — something Bernard Sumner couldn't match early on. Hook recalls first seeing Ian smash up a venue at 2:30am, dancing through broken tables — terrifying and electrifying. That chaotic Stiff/Chiswick talent show led directly to Rob Gretton becoming Joy Division's manager. Ian's lyrics, Hook says, are heartbreaking up close — Love Will Tear Us Apart masks devastating words in euphoric music. Singing Ian's words himself has given Hook a profound new insight into what Curtis was actually expressing. Tony Wilson signed them with a handshake — no contracts — while other labels arrived with thick legal documents. Bernard Sumner found the Unknown Pleasures pulsar image in a textbook; nobody planned the iconic sleeve. Hooky was actually sued for bootlegging the Unknown Pleasures artwork — which Factory themselves had origina…","meta_description":"Peter Hook reflects on 50 years of music, the emotional weight of performing Joy Division and New Order live, and the many memories and ghosts of his past…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2786,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-vinyl-guide-artist-interviews-for-record-collectors-and-music-nerds-6805967/episodes/ep553-the-ghosts-that-haunt-peter-hook/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vinyl-guide-artist-interviews-for-record-collectors-and-music-nerds-6805967/ep553-the-ghosts-that-haunt-peter-hook.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}