What with New Order on hiatus and Blur, er, incredibly busy, the members of New Order who aren't Peter Hook have hired Blur bassist Alex James to form a new band, Bad Lieutenant. Hook, of course, left New Order last year and announced that the band had split up, all much to the surprise of his bandmates, Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Phil Cunningham. Speaking about the new project, who are working on an album to be released later this year, Sumner told the BBC: "I'm very proud of it, it's a very good album. It's pretty guitar-y too because we've got three guitarists in the band". Asked about the split from Hooky, Sumner said: "Basically he left the band, that's all I want to say about it. We split into two factions. There's me, Steve and Phil. The other is Peter"
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