Johnny Marr joins Bernard Sumner onstage for an Electronic reunion
09 July 2013, 14:27
| Written by
Carris Boast
(News)
New Order’s Bernard Sumner and The Smiths man Johnny Marr have reunited on stage for an impromptu reunion of 90′s super group Electronic.
Sumner’s band New Order hosted a Live From Jodrell Bank evening over the weekend, held at the astronomical research centre of the University of Manchester.
Although past members Neil Tennant or Chris Lowe weren’t present. the New Order frontman and Johnny Marr opened the evening by revisiting their first single together, ‘Getting Away With It’.
Watch fan-filmed footage of that below below:
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