New Order Joins Future Music Festival

Future have added a second round of acts to their impressive 2011 lineup. Joining the likes of James Murphy, Aphex Twin and The Rapture are perennial UK tourists Friendly Fires, Mr. Dapper himself Mark Ronson and dance music stalwarts New Order.

After a decade long absence from our shores, the Manchester outfit will field a near classic lineup including founding Joy Division/New Order members Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris. In a weird twist of fate, Peter Hook will visit Australia a month after to tour Joy Division opus Closer in full with his band The Lights. It’s fair to assume they won’t strategically cross paths for a reunion. Hooky told us last year: “I mean, I don’t speak to Bernard. I haven’t seen him for years and I don’t speak to Stephen either. Because of the acrimony over the New Order split you have no relationship which is a great shame but that’s just the way of the world and I think it’s what most groups go through anyway, which is quite a normal thing with groups, they do get very, very childish.”

This could get awkward.

Future Festival Director Brett Robinson said of the coup: “It’s always a difficult task trying to top the year before, and in the case of 2010 and its success, it’s a massive undertaking. The Chemical Brothers have played Future Music Festival twice now and each year we discuss with them how hard it will be to find acts that will top their phenomenal stage show. When Ed Chemical and his manager Alex went to Paris to see New Order’s first show back from their hiatus they called me the instant they left the show to say ‘if you know what’s good for you, book them straight away, the show was every bit as good as it ever has been’. Next day we went and did just that!”

2ND LINE-UP ANNOUNCEMENT
NEW ORDER (UK)
FRIENDLY FIRES (UK)
GYM CLASS HEROES (USA)
MARK RONSON vs ZANE LOWE (UK)
KNIFE PARTY (AUS/UK)
PROFESSOR GREEN (UK)
DUBFIRE (USA)
JOHN O’CALLAGHAN (IRE)
OLIVER HUNTEMANN (GER)
FLUX PAVILION (UK)
ORJAN NILSEN (NOR)
PORTER ROBINSON (USA)
KILL THE NOISE (USA)
TyDi (AUS)
RUBY ROSE (AUS)
TIMMY TRUMPET (AUS)

JOIN ALREADY ANNOUNCED:
SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA (SWE)
FATBOY SLIM (UK)
PAUL VAN DYK (GER)
TINIE TEMPAH (UK)
THE WOMBATS (UK/NOR)
CHASE & STATUS – LIVE (UK)
SKRILLEX (US)
JESSIE J (UK)
THE RAPTURE (US)
SVEN VATH (GER)
DIE ANTWOORD (SA)
APHEX TWIN – LIVE (UK)
THE NAKED AND FAMOUS (NZ)
GARETH EMERY (UK)
JAMIE JONES (UK)
JAMES MURPHY & PAT MAHONEY (LCD SOUNDSYSTEM/ DFA) (US)
HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR (US)
AZARI & III (CAN)
FRANK OCEAN (US)
ALEX METRIC (UK)
HOLY GHOST! (US)
JUAN MACLEAN (UK)
BENOIT & SERGIO (GER)
HORSE MEAT DISCO (UK)
STAFFORD BROTHERS (AUS)

National Tour Dates 2012
Brisbane – Saturday 3rd March – Doomben Racecourse
Perth – Sunday 4th March – Arena Joondalup
Sydney – Saturday 10th March – Royal Randwick Racecourse
Melbourne – Sunday 11th March – Flemington Racecourse
Adelaide – Monday 12th March – Ellis Park

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