Watch Smashing Pumpkins Cover Joy Division’s ‘No Love Lost’ With Peter Hook

The Smashing Pumpkins headlined Saturday night at their own The World Is a Vampire fest in Mexico City, a celebration that likewise included Peter Hook and the Light on the lineup. Both of those bands share the exact same bassist — Jack Bates, Hook’s kid — so it was just natural that “Hooky” sign up with Billy Corgan and business for a set-ending efficiency of Joy Division’s “No Love Lost.”

Hook and the Pumpkins previously partially collaborated in 2021 when Hook, Bates and guitar player Jeff Schroeder re-recorded Joy Division’s “Ceremony” to raise funds for Sweet Relief. Hook likewise signed up with the Smashing Pumpkins onstage in 2018 to carry out Joy Division’s “Transmission.”

The Pumpkins’ The World Is a Vampire fest will next avoid to Australia for 10 dates with Jane’s Addiction, Amyl & The Sniffers and Corgan’s National Wrestling Alliance in tow. After that travel, the Smashing Pumpkins will launch the last installation of their massive Atum three-part rock opera on April 21, followed by a headlining gig at Napa Valley’s BottleRock celebration in May.