The news has been announced by the band itself. Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert they get off tours New Order.
Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert will stop playing live with New Order, at least for a season and without a clear date for their return to the line-up. The reasons are health issues that have not been specified, but that would prevent the couple from continuing to tour with the British group.
Morris was a drummer already in Joy Divisionmaking him one of the two original members who remained in New Order, while Gilbert would join some time later, becoming a fundamental piece of the group and also fifty percent of The Other Twotogether with his partner, Morris, a project with which both would record two albums in 1993 and 1999 respectively.
In this way, Bernard Sumner will be the only original member of New Order who will continue to tour under the group’s name, although with new musicians, some of whom have been in the band for years.
The fourth original member, Peter Hook, left the group in 2007 and since then has maintained a tense relationship with his former colleagues, even taking the possibility of using the name to court. Obviously, he also did not miss the opportunity to attack Sumner once the news became known – since the war seems to be mainly against him – and discredited him by pointing out that he is only interested in money.
New Order are very happy to be playing Primavera in Chile in November marking the band’s first performance there in seven years.
Due to personal health reasons, Stephen and Gillian won’t be touring for the foreseeable future and will not be joining for this show. Bernard, Phil… pic.twitter.com/3Vo8bB9fl2
— New Order (@neworder) June 29, 2026
