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New Order, Smiths And Stone Roses To Collaborate!

added 10 November 2005 at 14.21

Well, sort of. New Order’s Peter Hook has revealed that the three bands’ respective bass player’s ‘Freebass’ project is now in progress. They’re just looking for a singer to fill some sizeable shoes…

Speaking to Filter magazine, Hook has spoken about his supergroup featuring himself, Mani (Stone Roses, Primal Scream) and Andy Rourke (The Smiths) all on bass.

“It’s going to be a ‘live’,” Hook revealed. “The interesting thing about Freebass is that Mani and I are very much live-based. It seems obvious really that we’d get together. Whether that bodes trouble or not, I don’t know.

“It was just one drunken night and I floated the idea. And basically what gave me the most impetus was that everyone laughed. Three bass players on an album - Everyone absolutely pissed themselves.

“All of the songs - and they are songs at the moment minus vocals - they all have three basses. Mani does the low part, Andy Rourke in the middle and I do the high bit…it works out quite well.”

The New Order bass player went on to hint that it may not be long before the fruits of their labours may become public. Just as soon as they find a frontman,

“We have about 19 ideas,” he continued, “Twelve of them are ready for vocals. We’ve had a problem finding a vocalist. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that’s not good we’ll obviously be slated!

“You’ve got Ian Brown, bloody Bobby Gillespie, Ian Curtis, Bernard (Sumner) and Morrissey. Those are big shoes to fill, especially collectively. We want someone young with something to say. Someone new. We don’t to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup.

“Every time I see Pop Idol or X-Factor, I chuckle and think maybe we need to do this. [Call it] Miserable Factor. Let’s see who can get the most miserable single!”

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