New Order's Bernard Sumner has been speaking to the NME about their experience working with Gwen Stefani on her solo album.
He reveals that when Stefani first approached them about writing a song for her album they declined the offer - "She asked us (to write a song) but we told her that because we were in the middle of writing our own album, we wanted to keep the good songs for ourselves". But Stefani was so keen to work with the New Order boys she wasn't put off - she wrote a New Order-style song herself and invited them to record it with her - the result being the track 'The Real Thing'.
'The
Real Thing' isn't the only Stefani track with a New Order sound
- Jacques Lu Cont remix of Stefani's single 'What You Waiting
For?' has a definite New Order feel to it - but Sumner isn't too bothered: "I was really knocked out by it. And I know it sounds like New Order, but it's like seeing yourself in a mirror and someone's re-interpreted. That's the most recent thing I've heard that I've been impressed by. Loved it, absolutely loved it."
Which is just as well, because Jacques Lu Cont is now remixing tracks from the new New Order album, which is due out in Mar.