Peter Hook’s fake DJing exposed

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Tue 18th Dec, 2007 in International News

After his less-than-competent sets on the 2006 Parklife tour, we weren’t holding very high hopes for the DJ career of former New Order bassist Peter Hook. Now a video has turned up that reveals the ol’ boy has been pretend-DJing all along.

The clip, taken during Hook’s ‘performance’ on the MTV Free Your Mind stage at 2006’s Exit Festival, seems like a legit DJ set (without headphones, mind you!) – until the camera zooms in on the man’s hands during a mix. It’s blatantly obvious he’s just twiddling away to a pre-recorded set. Full marks for looking busy, though!

Check out the clip below, and prepare to have a little cringe…

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i_have_ADD said on the 18th Dec, 2007

the milli vanilli of djing!

KEEK said on the 18th Dec, 2007

this guy!! lol thats the best.

mofunk said on the 18th Dec, 2007

man thats awful, what a douche

Amelie said on the 18th Dec, 2007

haha! Like that is any surpise. He was my highlight of the day at Parklife. The sound was so bad at every stage and less than stella performances from others. As well as the dust and the beginnings of the fluoro brigade! At least we could have a laugh at

cybergenic said on the 18th Dec, 2007

and real DJ's play live music?

mjbrennan said on the 18th Dec, 2007

what an embarrassment

angy said on the 18th Dec, 2007

Look at that looooser LOL

tufftwin said on the 18th Dec, 2007

did he even change the cd? or vinyl? man if your going to pretend at least have some cd's to fake changing over.

aries said on the 18th Dec, 2007

Wat a goose!! He could at least put some headphones round his neck. How much do u recon he gets payed for these phony sets??

keely said on the 18th Dec, 2007

Even with it pre-recorded the mixing is still awful...

johan_elgstrom said on the 18th Dec, 2007

Hahaha....what a tool man, talk about time to retire, I thought DJ's was supposed to get better with age. He did that exact headbanging move on Parklife. Funny shit, I wish I could rock like that, if only I wasent concentrating on mixing! Hahahahahaha

aguilare said on the 18th Dec, 2007

wow, that's soooo sad... this guy is a drop kick

DJ_Ange said on the 18th Dec, 2007

Oh my. Seriously, no DJ 'twiddles' that much. Especially considering not once does he actually touch a turntable to go between the tracks even though the track changes and like the statement above says - he's not even got any headphones (unless they are i

em_bee2 said on the 18th Dec, 2007

classic...absolutely classic

Chach said on the 18th Dec, 2007

Who cares, theres plenty of dj's who can mix and are still shit, its Peter Hook, thats why he's getting booked not on the back of anything else.

JayP said on the 18th Dec, 2007

it was pretty obvious watching him at parklife he was faking it. but you know what? i didnt care one bit. they were great tunes being played, his antics were funny as, and after all, it is peter hook.

Schillaci said on the 18th Dec, 2007

Its like watching a slow moving car wreck accept more painful for the ears! LOL shocking!!

winstonuk said on the 18th Dec, 2007

even when he's twiddling around he's not actually doing anything, im guessing its on an empty channel... I've been on this guy's back since he took up DJing, he's completely useless at it and im sure he's just having some kind of mid life crisis. since th

rabithead said on the 18th Dec, 2007

whats the song called please ?

rabithead said on the 18th Dec, 2007

wahts the first song plz ?

Mylkdup said on the 18th Dec, 2007

Wow that is just... gay? Guess he will never get a gig again?

DJ GeRmAn said on the 18th Dec, 2007

Even if he could DJ, this guy looks so retarded

andrew john said on the 18th Dec, 2007

hey Rabithead. the first tune is "just f**k" by Tom Neville.... released in 2004 on UMM(nukleuz)

nojman said on the 18th Dec, 2007

Despite how amazingly bad he was at parklife this is way too suss.Why would you play a shit pre-recorded set? Either MTV have shafted him with dodgy editing or someone else has done the dodge with this posting on youtube. who knows but i doubt this perfor

JDxx said on the 18th Dec, 2007

LOL !!!

Junk Science said on the 18th Dec, 2007

fuck this thread is funny and I haven't even watched the clip yet.

smudger said on the 19th Dec, 2007

new order bass player or not....thats soooo piss weak....where is the fake coke snorting?

ayampanggang said on the 19th Dec, 2007

should be on loldjs.com no should be on omgwtflololdjs.com

petebb22 said on the 19th Dec, 2007

still better than any dj out of melbourne

rayjay said on the 19th Dec, 2007

it gets worse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecyuBs3WotI go mixmag!

daftnerd said on the 19th Dec, 2007

anyone can be a dj this days.

kinky disco said on the 19th Dec, 2007

"money money money money... MONEY"

Hooli said on the 19th Dec, 2007

rofl... Move over Ashlee Simpson. I hope family guy do a parody of this too ;)

jimmyundies said on the 19th Dec, 2007

maybe he forgot his records? and only had the mix he was listening to on the plane?

adamski007 said on the 19th Dec, 2007

i think its fucking hilarious, ive never seen anyone jump around like that when they are mixing (and with headphones on) just goes to show you its who you know - but at least he got to play there or should i say be on stage at a big event - ha ha but no

Spitchen said on the 19th Dec, 2007

The funny thing is that DJing isn't exactly rocket science, so i don't know why he feels he has to pre-record stuff. Assuming of course he is the one that pre-records it.

Duvdev said on the 19th Dec, 2007

this is a guy who bagged out DJs before he become one!! TOOL!

MrSchnitzel said on the 19th Dec, 2007

Well it just goes to show that a name can attract numbers, or can it? This will be a good experiment in what media attention influences the act. I am glad I didn't dish out money for park life to see this guy, and I am glad that he didn't play at earthcor

djbricksta said on the 19th Dec, 2007

Thats the thing about deejaying, when your not mixing your fiddling around if your anything like i am, but i mean, if you dont have headphones and dont know how to mix your going to get caught out straight away

teletubby said on the 20th Dec, 2007

how embarassment

DastardlyD said on the 20th Dec, 2007

This clips been circulating for awhile but never ceases to put a smile on my dile. I hope that he at least pre recorded HIS own mix. Mofunk said it best "what a douche"

adybear said on the 20th Dec, 2007

The only guy I have seen who puts half as much effort into doing what this guy does is Norman Cook! But at least Norman can actually mix

Acecactus said on the 20th Dec, 2007

It's the "It's all gone Pete Tong" movie.

EgosXII said on the 20th Dec, 2007

this vid's been floating around for months now...

untitled-1 said on the 20th Dec, 2007

nice one hookey>>>>>> the boys got style

MoRpH said on the 20th Dec, 2007

Who really cares alot of DJs are shit and still get gigs, atleast Hooky already has a name to trade on... sif ppl go for the music. Mind you even with this average pre-recorded mix is better than some of the celeb clone DJs out there.

zaim said on the 20th Dec, 2007

its like oz style on the decks

petebb22 said on the 21st Dec, 2007

i love this clip cant get enough of it and who really cares what he does hes having fun the most important thing plus lots of djs are just standing behing a mac and they dont even look half interested inthe music

rabithead said on the 22nd Dec, 2007

thanks andrew

Casey Steele said on the 23rd Dec, 2007

what a homo. Prob the single reason ian curtis isnt alive anymore

Spiro said on the 24th Dec, 2007

Gold

Jenskies said on the 1st Jan, 2008

What a fucking retard. That's shameful.

Experience said on the 8th Jan, 2008

im still not over this, this is the best video ever.

nfluke said on the 28th Jan, 2008

who's a dick? it always amazes me that when people don't know what they're talking about it rarely stops them from saying something anyway. he's simply playing with the eq to pull stuff from the tracks - i can't stand the music and i find this the most in

Rockstar70 said on the 28th Jan, 2008

Silly DJs. Learn how to play a real musical instrument. ; )

Andrew Wowk said on the 29th Jan, 2008

MoRpH - are you serious?! This guy cheapens the whole profession. Anyone who is a DJ would care that he's a hack and a phony.

miami_jim said on the 2nd Feb, 2008

Hello all, I have joined up just so I can join in what is going on here... I would like you all to please feel free to follow the link at the bottom of my post so you can all have your say on Peter Hooks Myspace page... he seems to be defending himself by