Back in May, Peter Hook announced that New Order was breaking up during an interview with radio station XFM in the UK. Later that day (or week), he posted the same thing on his MySpace page.
It seems that he might have jumped the gun a bit. This story, posted today on the BBC’s website, says that although Peter Hook may have left the band, Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris have every intention of carrying on as New Order without Hook.
Why it took that Sumner and Morris two months to make this information public is a mystery.