New Order have denied reports that they are splitting up - reports spawned by comments recently attributed to drummer Stephen Morris, who was quoted by Buenos Aires based newspaper Pagina/12 as saying "We should stop for a while." More recently, however, asked if the band were in fact planning a split, Morris told fansite Worldinmotion.net: "It's the first I've heard of it... We've got an album to finish and a movie coming out".
Morris went on to say that the soundtrack for upcoming Joy Division film 'Control' would feature musical contributions from The Killers, explaining: "The Killers have already done a version of 'Shadowplay' for the album, and there will be lots more great stuff on there hopefully."
Elsewhere, the director of the film, Anton Corbijn, has denied the report in Pagina/12 that there is a conflict between himself and the band, which quoted Peter Hook as saying that Corbijn had too much, er, control over 'Control', and that the director's authoritative style of working bothers him.
Corbijn writes: "There is no argument whatsoever between New Order and myself or Hooky and me. I am in control of 'Control' as any director worth his celluloid should be in charge of his film, but I am not telling the band that I moved to the UK for in 1979 how to write songs. Please. I wouldn't dare".