I've been rereading parts of Substance: Inside New Order, recently, and just connected Hook's hypocrisy in the writing of Republic and Get Ready in a way I never appreciated on the initial reading. His huge objection to Republic is that Steve and Gillian were written out of the album and his bass playing minimised by Stephen Hague/Sumner. Early work on the album was put down by Hook, Steve and Gillian at their farm. When these songs got passed to Bernard, he reworked them in such way that they became unrecognisable. According to to Hook, Steve and Gillian was so affected by the outcome that they never tried very hard again; "they never got over it."

Seven years later, the writing of Get Ready, again, starts at Steve and Gillian's farm. During the later recording at the studio, Hook informs us the album was written pretty much as a duo, between his new best friend (me mate, Barney) and himself. Steve and Gillian had family priorities at the time. He critically claims Steve and Gillian got into the habit of turning up on a Thursday evening, "poncing around for a bit", and going home again. However here's the punchline: Hook also recalls Steve and Gillian sent tracks that they had worked on at their farm (maybe compensatory?), but he and his bestest buddy (one Barney Sumner), decided to bin them, and write from scratch, as they sounded too much like The Other Two. Bear in mind, Crystal started life as an Electronic track (and another Hooky criticism of Republic is it sounds too much like Electronic).

On my rereading of these chapters, I noticed Hook said a couple of times that with Barney, 'it's do as I say rather than what I do.' How about him? It sounds to me like Hook's unwittingly telling us poor Steve and Gillian got written out of Republic and Get Ready! If anything, with Get Ready they were treated even worse, as their tracks weren't reworked, but left unused. What Hook is really telling us (even if he doesn't know it) is Republic sinned because his work got cut, but Get Ready is just fine for his hand was all over it - and screw Steve and Gillian!

The line "we're like crystal, we break easy" is in a B side to the Vivid single (about 25 seconds in )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW6GTgO8boI

I writted all of song on Republic in Stoke in 1997 but stephen and Bernard too, Gillian speaked in her book but not Ian, he did Johnny Marred and Other Three with Jack Evans for Mute, me too.

You can hear what he's doing while watching Spice Girls videos?!

I just found it an interesting double-standard, which I thought I'd share with you guys. To put it in your terms, imagine if Mel C wrote some music for the Spice Girls come back. After hearing the material, Geri Horny says to Big Baby and Scary Spender, "These songs are too much like Holland's solo career, lets write our own songs by going to a publishing company and picking them ourselves..."

Peter Hook recently talked about Republic, Get Ready and Sirens.

https://youtu.be/JLNFYIo85kc

There's quite a few of these videos on different album eras - quite interesting...