HE was the co-founder of one of the most important bands of recent music, and Joy Division bass player Peter Hook comes to Chinnerys this week where he’ll be performing their entire debut album Untold Pleasures.

Playing with his band the Light, the bass player, producer and writer will play a set that includes a precise recreation of the classic album, designed to perfectly capture the experience and atmos-phere created by the record’s producer, Martin Hannett.

Fresh off the release of his latest book – Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division – the tour will remind music fans just why the band, fronted by Ian Curtis and formed in the wake of the frantic punk movement, are so important.

As well as the full and precise rendering of the album, the band will dip into Hooky’s early catalogue, playing songs that haven’t had a live airing before the tour. There’ll be familiar classics from Joy Division – and from their early days when they were known as Warsaw, as well as lesser known songs.

Pioneers of the post punk scene, the band formed in Salford in the mid-Seventies, and leapt to prominence following the release of their debut EP An Ideal for Living.

Still recognised as one of the most important and influential bands of recent years, it’s a great chance for music fans to hear the songs recreated by Hooky along with Jack Bates on bass, Nat Wason on guitar, Andy Poole on keyboards and Paul Kehoe on drums.

Peter Hook and the Light play at Chinnerys, Marine Parade, Southend, on Sunday from 7.30pm. Tickets are £20 in advance, call 01702 467305.