Out now with those lovely EP-bound Picture This boys on the cover, the new issue of Hot Press includes an in-depth interview with New Order’s Gillian Gilbert who’ll be taking to the Stradbally Main Stage on Sunday night with her bandmates.
Talking about the impressive roll-call of guests on their much-acclaimed Music Complete album, she says: “The first person we asked was Elly Jackson who’d done a few support gigs with us as La Roux. I thought she was amazing. Next was Iggy Pop. Stephen and Bern had met him years ago in New York, and then we all met him in 2014 when he did the John Peel Interview on the music industry for BBC Radio 6. He was so on the money with what he said. Iggy’s got this ‘wild man of rock’ persona but is actually a pussycat.”
Barney’s duet partner on ‘Superheated’ is Brandon Flowers who recently joined New Order for the live premiere of the song in Las Vegas’ ritzy Cosmopolitan @ the Chelsea venue.
“As you probably know, The Killers named themselves after the fictional band in our ‘Crystal’ video,” Gillian beams. “We bumped into him years ago when they were playing on a really little stage at Glastonbury. I’m rubbish at being able to tell who’s going to be big or not, but he just oozed charisma.”
Also up for discussion are tanks, hair transplants, Stranger Things, posh New York and Sydney gigs and Tony Wilson.

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