British music legend headlining festival in North Yorkshire

Peter Hook and the Light will be coming to Interzone festival at Scarborough Spa, on May 10 this year. The former Joy Division and New Order bassist will be followed by The Wedding Present, The Farm and Spear of Destiny.

Peter Hook and The Light have now moved through each of the albums from his former bands, and recently finished a world tour. In just a decade, they have performed around 600 shows.


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Leeds pop-rockers The Wedding Present has charted a total of eighteen singles in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, including a run of twelve singles – one for each month – in 1992, which tied Elvis Presley’s record for most top 40 hits in a single year.

From Liverpool, The Farm’s first song to reach the top part of the UK singles chart was “Groovy Train” in 1990. In late November that year, they released their most memorable song, “All Together Now” which instantly became a hit and peaked at number three in the charts in December.=

Spear of Destiny is a British post-punk band formed in London, England, led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Kirk Brandon.

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