“If something I do now sounds like something I did in the past, it's because I played it. I can't help sounding like myself. That's going to happen. The things that I play on guitar that resonate with me are probably the same things that resonated with me when I started playing in Joy Division.”

English musician

Bernard Sumner is an English musician and a founding member of Joy Division, New Order, Electronic, and Bad Lieutenant. Born in 1956, he helped shape the post-punk and synth-pop eras and became an important figure in the Manchester music scene. He is best known for his work with Joy Division and New Order, where he has remained one of the group’s two continuous members and appeared on every album. His influence also extends into techno and related electronic styles, and into the wider Manchester movement associated with Factory Records and The Haçienda in the late 1980s.