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- Gillian Lesley Gilbert (born 27 January 1961) is an English musician and singer best known as the keyboardist and guitarist of the band New Order.
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Gillian Lesley Gilbert (born 27 January 1961) [1] is an English musician and singer best known as the keyboardist and guitarist of the band New Order. Early life. Gilbert's family moved from her birthplace, Manchester, to the nearby market town of Macclesfield when she was young.
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Initially enlisted to help Bernard Sumner with guitar and keyboard duties when Joy Division morphed into New Order following the death of Ian Curtis, Gilbert deserves considerably more kudos than she receives for her contributions to their sound. Barring 2005’s Waiting For The Siren’s Call, she’s been heavily involved in all New Order’s albums, and...
In a 2020 NMEinterview, rising electronic musician Kelly Lee Owens enthusiastically sang Gillian Gilbert’s praises, saying, “Having Gillian as the synth queen was fucking amazing, speaking as a woman in music.” She added, “To have a woman be a part of something like this and own her part was really inspiring… Women are often underrated, or their pa...
Born in Manchester, on 27 January 1961, Gillian Gilbert’s uncle initially taught her to play guitar; but in the same way Sex Pistols galvanised Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hookand Gilbert’s future husband, Stephen Morris, into founding the embryonic Joy Division (initially as Warsaw), Gilbert cites punk as the catalyst for her involvement wit...
After Curtis’ death, however, manager Rob Gretton proposed that Gilbert join New Order when the band’s initial spate of low-key gigs in the UK and US revealed they needed a fourth member to enrich their sound – and to encourage Sumner when he took over the lion’s share of vocal duties. “Rob just rang up one day and went, ‘I’ve got an idea – we shou...
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Jan 27, 2021 · Before joining New Order, Gilbert used to play in a punk girl-band called The Inadequates. The rehearsal venues of Inadequates and Joy Division being adjacent to each other, the band members knew one another back in the day.
Sep 11, 2015 · It’s the first album without bassist Peter Hook, and their first for new label, Mute Records. It’s also the first album in 14 years to feature original member Gillian Gilbert.
Jan 27, 2022 · Five songs to prove Gillian Gilbert was vital to New Order’s success: ‘ Everything’s Gone Green’ (1981) One of the earliest and most impressive examples of the group’s seamless blending of traditional rock arrangements with electronic music influences was ‘Everything’s Gone Green’.
In 1990, Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris formed their own band, The Other Two. The Other Two released its first single "Tasty Fish" in 1991 and released two albums, The Other Two & You in 1993 and Super Highways in 1999.
In 1993, after the release of what was widely presumed to be the last ever New Order album, ‘Republic,’ Gillian and Stephen ‘left’ New Order to form their own band, ‘The Other Two,’ – a side-swipe at the music press, who would often refer to Gillian and Stephen as ‘The other two in New Order’.
