New Order: Morris and Gilbert out of the tour for "health reasons"

Bernard Sumner will be the only original member of New Order to take the stage at Primavera in Santiago, Chile, scheduled for November 26-28. Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert, in fact, will not take part in the concert or in the band's upcoming live engagements due to "personal health reasons." The announcement came from New Order themselves via a message posted on social media. "Circumstances make it impossible," the band explained, without providing further details. It has not been made clear whether the health issues concern Morris, Gilbert, or both. The two musicians, aged 68 and 65 respectively, have been married since 1994.

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The band clarified that the absence of the two will not be limited to the Chilean date, but will also affect the tour "for the foreseeable future."
Before the concert in Chile, on November 14, New Order will be among the artists inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame during a ceremony to be held in Los Angeles.
The prospect of a reunion on that occasion between Peter Hook and his former New Order bandmates also remains, for now, rather distant. Following the announcement of the band's induction — alongside Joy Division — into the 2026 class of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Hook made his position clear in an interview with Rolling Stone. Asked whether he would take the stage with Bernard Sumner and the other members, Hook answered without hesitation: "No. No. Not after what they did to me and my family, no… I won't be getting up on stage with them." With a joke, Hook then brought up brothers Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher, also among this year's honorees and protagonists of an unpredictable reunion: "Maybe Liam and Noel could be the mediators you're looking for. They could say: 'OK, you two. Shake hands and get up on stage to play 'Transmission', 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and 'Blue Monday'.'"

The induction ceremony is set for November 14 in Los Angeles and will also see the induction of Phil Collins, Billy Idol, Iron Maiden, Oasis, Sade, Luther Vandross and Wu-Tang Clan.

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