It is almost exactly 45 years to the day that I first saw Peter Hook wielding a bass on stage. It was Buzzcocks‘ Different Kind Of Tension Tour, Oxford New Theatre 30/10/1979 and Joy Division were the support. This punk-adjacent adolescent was already smitten by Buzzcocks‘ spiky, lovelorn melodies. Joy Division were a name, a curiosity that October night – jerky, angular and full of angst. I couldn’t wait for them to get off the stage. The next intersection of these three lines happened a few months later when BBC Radio 1 broadcast of the then-slowly-disintegrating Buzzcocks‘ set from Manchester Polytechnic on 22nd May 1980. Pete Shelley announced ‘Strange Thing‘ (a particularly doom-laden and sonorous instalment of what was at that point the band...