Peter Hook and The Light at Manchester Albert Hall: tickets, dates and setlist

Fans of the Madchester scene are in for a treat when Peter Hook and The Light return to Manchester for a hometown residency next year which includes playing full albums by both Joy Division and New Order.

The bassist and his group have announced three dates at the city’s Albert Hall over the Easter weekend in 2023, their first shows in their home city since a sold-out concert at the Apollo in July.

The setlists promise to be a feast for fans of the music scene created at the legendary Hacienda club, with both of Joy Division and New Order’s first two albums and both bands’ Substances LP being performed.

Tickets are about to go on sale, so here’s what you need to know if you want to snap up a place at these special gigs.

How do I get tickets for Peter Hook and The Light?

Peter Hook and The Light are playing their Easter Homecoming 2023 shows at Manchester’s Albert Hall on Easter Thursday 6 April, Good Friday 7 April and Easter Saturday 8 April next year.

Tickets for the shows go on sale on Friday 14 October at 10am and you can get them at Ticketweb here. As well as the individual gigs you can pick up a season ticket covering all three shows, though only 300 of those are going on sale.

All season ticket holders will also receive a commemorative lanyard and laminate unique to the three concerts.

What is being played at the shows?

The trio of live dates in the atmospheric surroundings of the Albert Hall begins on Thursday 6 April when the band will play Joy Division’s debut album Unknown Pleasures, which features the likes of Disorder, Insight, New Dawn Fades and She’s Lost Control as well as New Order’s Movement, the last album the group made with producer Martin Hannett and one which makes the band’s links to Joy Division clear.

On Good Friday the show will include Joy Division album Closer, which features Atrocity Exhibition, Heart And Soul and Twenty Four Hours, and New Order’s Power, Corruption and Lies which marks the beginning of the band’s trademark sound and has fan favourites like Age Of Consent and Your Silent Face.

The three dates finish on Saturday 8 April with the two Substance albums. New Order’s Substance was originally conceived as a way for Factory Records boss Tony Wilson to play the band’s singles on the CD player of his new Jaguar car and takes audiences through the high points of the group’s career from 1981 to 1987 with songs like Temptation, Thieves Like Us, The Perfect Kiss and Bizarre Love Triangle.

Joy Division’s substance came out a year later in 1988 and features all the singles which did not appear on the albums such as Transmission, Komakino, Love Will Tear Us Apart and Atmosphere as well as their B-sides, tracks from their EP An Ideal For Living and the Factory Records sampler.

The Light have now toured for a dozen years and have played 11 albums in full from Peter Hook’s bands. The group has a repertoire of over 130 songs which means their live sets take in celebrated album tracks and fan favourites.

The Manchester dates for next year have been announced as the group returns from its biggest North American tour and dates in Europe.