Cuttings

WORKING CLASS CLASSICS They may be one of the most influential bands of all time, but New Order still have to graft to earn a living. Newsnight presenter Jeremy Vine - who was once a teenage fan - finds out why She sits, she pants, she licks her lips. She jumps up and down as New Order's bassist thumbs an opening bar of their classic Atmosphere. But when the band launch into the funkiest number from their new album, she flounces off the stage and barks at them. Not that Mia, the bass player's cocker spaniel, is any guide to the difference between the music then and now. After so many hours in rehearsal, camped a metre from the amps, the poor animal is probably stone-deaf anyway. But her choosiness says something about the market New Order is resurfacing into: being the sacred remnant of the even more sacred Joy Division doesn't count for much in the land of Boyzone and Atomic Kitten. Make the wrong move, you're dogfood. So when I arrive to see them preparing ...