From movies to music, food to fashion, our critics pick the best on offer this autumn.

MUSIC NEWS: Is it really eight years since the last New Order album? The Manc electronica outfit have announced a new release, Music Complete, for September 25, complete with keyboard player Gillian Gilbert, albeit without bass player Bernard Sumner who has been estranged from the band since 2007.

What is immediately apparent on Johnny Marr’s new record is that there are elements of all the stages of his career dictating proceedings.

PETER HOOK emits a blokey chuckle. "Ian Curtis had very big shoes to fill," says the former Joy Division and New Order bassist. "Bernard Sumner’s shoes aren’t that big actually — about the same size as mine. So that worked out okay."

Blur left Sir Elton John confused with a song about his penis.

Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

Bernard Sumner is "glad" Peter Hook left New Order.

When I gave up my job on the docks to be a musician, my mum thought I was making the biggest mistake of my life.

New Order were the festival circuit veterans at Forbidden Fruit in Kilmainham.

Manchester legends New Order are heading to Ibiza to play their first gig on the island more than 20 years after they adopted its Balearic sound for one of their most successful records.

New Order are to team with Dizzee Rascal and Tinie Tempah for a re-working of 'World in Motion'.

The pioneering indie-dance band New Order have reformed without bass player Peter Hook for a series of live shows across the world and singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner hopes they eventually get to record new material.

Peter Hook wants to "bury the hatchet" with his New Order bandmates.

THE CURTAIN came down on this year’s Electric Picnic early this morning after British trip hop legends Massive Attack were cheered off the stage after their 10.30pm gig.

The lineup for this year’s Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally, Co Laois has been announced this afternoon.

This is a terrific documentary on the life and hard rock times of the Manchester band that manages to be more than a mere tribute but a solid examination of what makes them, their music and their fans, tick.

Pop singer Robbie Williams apologised to former Joy Division rockers Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner when his song Angels beat classic Joy Division track Love Will Tear US Apart to a Brit Award earlier this year.

New Order have recruited Scissor Sisters singer Ana Matronic to sing on their new album.

It's been a fantastic 18 months for New Order. Not only did they return to the charts after a lengthy break with a critically and commercially successful album, but they’ve also been immortalised on film, sampled by Kylie and played some of the most well-received gigs of their career.

The Chemical Brothers are planning to help produce Blur's new album.