Bang out of order Indie icons New Order once redefined musical boundaries, but is the old magic still there?

From: The Sunday Herald | Date: March 27, 2005| Author: Leon McDermott | Copyright information

THE BIG EVENT

NEW ORDER WAITING FOR THE SIRENS' CALL

(LONDON) 2/5

WHEN most people think of New Order, it's probably for one of two reasons: Blue Monday being the biggest-selling 12" single of all time, or John Barnes's terrible rapping on their 1990 World Cup song World In Motion.

They're a band forever caricatured by a couple of pop-culture moments in the sun, and not necessarily as the hugely influential colossus that they in fact are. Or at least were; it's be...

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