Peter Hook and the Light — North American Tour 2026

If you already understand why somebody would drive out to the fairgrounds on a Friday night to hear a bass player from Manchester play an album that came out in 2001, you have your seat. If you do not, here is the case. Those bass lines carry more influence per syllable than most entire genres manage in a lifetime, and the man who wrote them is playing Get Ready front to back, then a second full set of Joy Division and New Order. This is not a tribute act and it is not a covers night. It is the author. The Sound sits outdoors at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, closer in feel to a European festival stage than to an amphitheater, and the ocean is near enough to taste on the air. September carries a set list further than the speakers intend. Go with whoever gave you the record.