Bernard Sumner

THE KILLERS’ Frontman BRANDON FLOWERS About His Heroes NEW ORDER

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20 October 2026

“We met New Order for the first time at the NME Awards
in 2005. We were starstruck. And then I was in the bathroom,
I was at the urinal and their singer Bernard Sumner steps up
next to me and he started singing our song ‘Somebody Told Me’ in my ear. I was 23, it was surreal. That’s so out of this world to have that happen. It was incredible.”

The Killers actually got their name from a fictional band called The Killers, with their
name emblazoned on the drum kit in the video clip of New Order‘s song Chrystal from 2001. When a young Brandon Flowers saw the clip, he decided to baptize his new band The Killers.

35 Years Ago Today – JOHNNY MARR + BERNARD SUMNER = ELECTRONIC

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Significant longplayers from the past

27 May 2026

Former The Smiths legend Johnny Marr and New Order voice Bernard Sumner
teamed up as ELECTRONIC for a total of 3 longplayers (between 1989 and 1998)
with their eponymous debut LP as their best (to my ears). Synth-pop at its brisky
best.

It was released on 27 May 1991, today 35 years ago.
It peaked at #2 in the UK and sold more than 1 million
copies worldwide.

Vox (English music monthly) said: “Electronic is simply a 100 per cent pure
distillation of Marr and Sumner’s respective talents. Hit single ‘Get the Message’
has it in a nutshell: it breaks no new ground; it simply achieves perfection”

SINGLE

ALBUM


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Album Tracks That Should Have Been Singles – ‘YOUR SILENT FACE’ by NEW ORDER (1983)

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27 November 2024

Band: NEW ORDER

Album: POWER CORRUPTION AND LIES (1983)
Their second one. Released in 1983. Along
with Low-Life my favourite NO LP.

Track: YOUR SILENT FACE

The melodramatic synths, Bernard Sumner‘s dreamy vocals
and melodic melodica, Hooky‘s atmospheric bass moments.
All ingredients for a single are present here in this glistening
pearl of a tune.

NO: Linktree – All Albums

Happy 63 To NO’s Frontman BERNARD SUMNER…

Posted on by JL

4 January 2019

Co-founder of legendary band Joy Division and afterward New Order‘s singer/guitarist and co-songwriter BERNARD SUMNER (real name: Bernard Edward Dicken) was born in Salford, Greater Manchester on 4 January 1956. Let’s celebrate his 63rd birthday with an intimate acoustic version of BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE (from the 1986 ‘Brotherhood‘ LP)