It’s been a rough few years for New Order fans, after the patchy Waiting For The Siren’s Call in 2005, devotees of the Manchester dance-rock icons have been forced to watch the pioneering group dissolve in a mess of bitterness and walk-outs, with its two creative figureheads Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner trading verbal blows.

While both parties have moved on to undertake some new creative endeavours, with Sumner starting a new band, Bad Lieutenant, with remaining New Order members, and Hooky taking up the pen for a tell-all book about the band’s doomed superclub The Hacienda, fans have been hoping and praying that the core of New Order might reunite for another slog at New Order. Sadly, it looks like the split is permanent with Sumner recently confirming that a reconciliation is unlikely.

“I think too many bad things have been said and done, so I don’t think so,” Sumner recently told Rolling Stone. “It was a different situation 10 years ago. This one’s turned a bit nasty.”

His comments were seemingly echoed in an interview with Pitchfork in which he said the birth of Bad Lieutenant after New Order’s breakdown was very “liberating”, describing working with his former band like “running through water”.

Whilst Sumner’s words may officially be the time-of-death pronouncement for New Order, there’s a lot to look forward to from the splintered group, including Hooky’s new Freebass group and Sumner’s other prject after Bad Lieutenant, which he’s been working on with the one and only Stuart Price/Jacques Lu Cont.