New Order members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and bandmate Phil Cunningham and Blur’s Alex James for a new outfit. The ‘supergroup’ of sorts is called Bad Lieutenant, named after the classic Harvey Keitel film (which is in the midst of Nic Cage remake, sadly), with an album due in October.

Sumner announced his new project to BBC Newsbeat last Friday, confirming that estranged New Order bassist Peter Hook is having no part of it. “I’m very proud of it, it’s a very good album,” the man said. “It’s pretty guitary too because we’ve got three guitarists in the band.”

New Order disbanded in 2007, with Hook vehemently disowning Morris and Sumner in interviews. “We split into two factions, there’s me Steve and Phil,” Sumner told BBC. “The other is Peter Hook. Basically he left the band, that’s all I want to say about it.”

While Hooky is yet to respond to the announcement, we can assume that he’s probably prepping his own supergroup in retaliation, which features himself, Fred Durst, Dennis Hopper and two of The Jonas Brothers. Either that or he’s busy wearing a tin-foil hat and defending us all from martian invaders.