I just want to hear something I haven’t heard before,” the late Radio 1 DJ John Peel once said. His love of music would ...

In 1979, for even the most avid NME reader living outside Britain’s big cities, it wasn’t easy to get to see new bands. Sure, you could hear them on John Peel, but that didn’t tell you anything about ...

Listeners to the John Peel show on 25 June 1979 heard something which had not yet arrived at its destination. Central to this flux, these recordings are from the week Gary Numan decided that the ...

Her style is edgy, outrageous but always in control. Jacob Collier has worn her electric-neon pants. Bollywood loves her Chardi Kala T-shirts. Fashionistas cheer her Disney collab. Is KG our new OG?

Recordings by Swell Maps for John Peel’s BBC Radio 1 show are to be made officially available for the first time in 40 years on a new release. Due out on vinyl, CD and in digital formats in September, ...

Peel Lightning has been granted a licence to join the WA Netball League men’s division for the 2026 season.

'Unknown Pleasures' by Joy Division was released on this very day in 1979, pioneering the post-punk movement in the most iconic way.

When Hook performs the music of Joy Division and New Order, he takes great care in playing the songs as close to how they were recorded as possible.

Joy Division left a long comet tail of influence that compares to almost no other band of the era. Sumner, Hook and Morris carried on as New Order, adding keyboardist and guitarist Gillian Gilbert.

What's On Music & Nightlife Salford People are just realising what the band name Joy Division means after 49 years Joy Division formed in Salford nearly 50 years ago, but it has taken decades for ...

Peter Hook is returning to Scarborough for a set of Joy Division and New Order songs. He talks to John Blow about Ian Curtis and the ripple effects of punk.