Neither Bernard Sumner nor Peter Hook attended New Order’s last end-of-tour party. Each assumed the other would be present, so they both stayed away and sulked. After 15 years and three incarnations (Warsaw and Joy Division being the others) the former school chums could no longer bear to be in the same room as each other.

Eight years on, they’ve reconciled their differences and are back doing the rounds, joshing about the bad times, plugging their latest opus, Get Ready, and happy that the only thing threatening to go pear-shaped this time around is their bassist. “I’ve had to work out for this tour,” Hooky told one interviewer. “Otherwise people would be leaving the gigs wondering who the fat bastard they got in to replace Peter Hook was.”

Hell, they’re even happy to do encores now, having tried and failed to remember why it was they steadfastly refused to do them in the old days.