What gear does New Order use?

“It was just after ‘Closer’ that I got the first affordable programmable drum machine, the Boss Dr Rhythm DR55”

“I have two Voyetras that are getting mended at the moment; I remember them very fondly.”

“Fantastic, really great-sounding drum kit.”

“That guitar is great for the studio, but it’s not so great live because it howls like mad!”

“So I started using Vox AC30s, and I’ve grown to love them.”

“We had our pick of about six Vox AC30s and an old Fender Princeton.”

“It’s like the anti-Transformer; I see it as the antithesis of that record, and I definitely have more love for Paris 1919.”

“It’s still great today; as soon as I put it on and hear those first few bars of ‘See No Evil’, it reminds me of when it first came out and I played it non-stop.”

“A lot of Krautrock was trying to plough its own furrow, but there were other bits that were trying to Germanize Western things.”

“Going down the motorway listening to Drumming is absolutely brilliant.”

“They were fantastic; Tago Mago is another record like Neu!, because there’s nothing else that sounds like it.”

“I see a connection between what we did as New Order and what he does.”

“Joy Division used to play Trans-Europe Express before we went on stage, to get us into the zone.”

“Then I saw The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and I was blown away by Morricone's music.”

“It was really weird, like a 'Road to Damascus' moment.”

“At the time it sounded like nothing you had ever heard before.”

“Another album they played at Pips was Lou Reed's Transformer, which has got a great track on it called 'Vicious.'”

“When we went around to his house to pick up his PA system, he had 'China Girl' playing.”