From time to time
bands choose awkward names unconsciously. The Salford and Macclesfield new wave
formation New Order was one of them.
The group owes its somewhat disturbing name to a slip
by New Order manager Rob Gretton, who came across the phrase in an article in
British newspaper The Guardian; the headline of that article was The people's
New Order of Kampuchea.
Unfortunately former Cambodia was not the only place where a new order
came up: Hitler's National Socialists also pursued it. Their ‘Neuordnung’ (German
for new order) referred to a new form of government and organisation of Europe.
Obviously fascism and national socialism were to be the foundations of this new
order, considered to be a kind of earthly paradise.
After the members of New Order had
found out that their band name had a rather charged meaning, they stated profusely
that they distanced themselves from Hitler's ideas. Singer Bernard Sumner: 'We
really, really thought it didn't have any connotations, and we thought that it
was a neutral name, it didn't mean much.’
Active: 1980-1993; 1998-2007, GBR
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Since 2011, they are active again.
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