New Order "Marching Order" tour and album news late 1988

Marching Order

NEW ORDER will be playing their only live UK date of 1988 at Manchester G-Mex on December 17.

Support for the gig will be provided by recent A&M signings A Certain Ratio and Factory labelmates Happy Mondays. The Hacienda's Mike Pickering will be guest DJ for the evening and tickets are £8.50.

The gig will follow the release of the band's 'Fine Time' single which comes out on November 21 - as revealed in NME two weeks ago. 'Fine Time' is backed with 'Don't Do It', with the 12 inch including an extra track, 'Fine Line'.

An album, titled 'Technique', will be released in January, following the group's short tour of Brazil and Argentina.

The band will also be providing theme and incidental music for a new television series, Making Out which starts an eight-week run on BBC1 on January 6. The first four episodes of the programme were directed by Chris Bernard, who was director of Letter to Brezhnev and the series stars Margi Clarke and Keith Allen.