When routine bites hard and ambitions are low

Thursday music corner: Formed in New Orleans in 1996, the Hot 8 Brass Band have released six albums of funky brass between 2005 and 2017. Joy Division's June 1980 single Love Will Tear Us Apart reached number 13 in the UK charts in June 1980 and returned again to the charts in 1983 and 1995, illustrating the wide-reaching influence and legacy of the band and its ill-starred lead singer Ian Curtis (1956-80). (The single also topped the charts in New Zealand). Hot 8's version was released online in 2018 and featured on the band's 2019 five-track covers EP Take Cover, which also included versions of the Jackson 5's Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground), Michael Jackson's Remember The Time and Baby Be Mine, and George Benson's Give Me The Night.

Other noteworthy covers of Love Will Tear Us Apart include those by Nouvelle Vague, Nerina Pallot, Mary Coughlan and, of course, New Order.

Hot 8 Brass Band - Love Will Tear Us Apart (2018)