Peter Hook will discuss Joy Division and New Order at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on Friday, November 13, one day before the two bands are inducted together into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The 3:30 p.m. conversation is in the museum’s 200-seat Clive Davis Theater. The museum lists it as sold out and has a waitlist. Rock Hall education vice president Jason Hanley is due to moderate. The museum requires physical ID at check-in and asks attendees to leave vinyl and memorabilia outside.

Peter Hook plays a red bass under red and white stage lights.
Peter Hook onstage. Photograph by Adam Kennedy, supplied with the Rock Hall event announcement.

Saturday’s induction takes place separately, at the Peacock Theater. The ceremony will be taped November 14, with a December debut on ABC and Disney+. Last year the same theater hosted the induction, which streamed live on Disney+. If you watched that one from home on the night, the date on the calendar serves a different purpose this year. November 14 is the taping date. December is when the broadcast is due.

The single that connects the two bands

The Hall lists Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert under a single performer entry. Curtis sang in Joy Division. Sumner, Hook and Morris went on to form New Order after his death in 1980, and Gilbert joined the new band. The combined entry follows a thread that listeners can trace without going straight from “Love Will Tear Us Apart” to “Blue Monday.”

Put on “Ceremony” in between. Joy Division wrote the song, and New Order made it their first single in 1981. Later that year they issued another recording, this time with Gilbert in the lineup. The two versions make a compact introduction to the transition. There’s a song carried over from Joy Division, an early New Order recording by the three surviving members and a second recording that takes the band into its four-member lineup. It’s a small piece of the discography that helps explain why five names sit under two band names in the Hall’s listing.

Hook has approached the same history at greater length with his own band. In May 2010 he revisited Unknown Pleasures for a charity concert. His subsequent live projects moved through records by both bands, including New Order’s Movement and Power, Corruption & Lies, and reached Get Ready in 2025 and 2026. Friday’s museum program is billed as a conversation about both bands, Hook’s bass playing and the induction. For listeners following the weekend from afar, “Ceremony” offers one place to start while waiting for the ceremony broadcast.