From: http://www.ausoug.org/working/dennis/factory/faq96.html New Order ...the band's official story is that Rob Gretton had spotted a news article in the daily paper which spoke of the "The people's New Order of Kampuchea", taken from from a piece in the UK paper, The Guardian(according to Select 9/93), and the phrase "new order" caught his attention. The reality may be a mixture of this and the following (from NME, 28 Feb 81). The name New Order, which was obviously appropriate considering the circumstances, had been used before. At 08:48 AM 4/19/02 +0700, Jinja wrote: This is too weird. I enjoyed New Order's 'deeply shallow' music back in the day, alongside the Dead Kennedys. It seems every band I like has written some song about Cambodia. Way before I even decided to make it my academic focus. best - J From: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Butler" To: "jinja" Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 10:07 AM Subject: Re: New Order It's probably true - the band are a bookish lot. It's interesting that people in bands seemed to be a lot more aware Of what was going on in Cambodia than the public at large - I wonder why?

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