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New Order tour alert

Fans will have ‘Blue Monday’ if they miss hot tickets.

- By Ben Crandell bcrandell@southflori­da.com

Electro-newwave trailblaze­rs New Order will perform March 23 at the Fillmore Miami Beach, one of just six stops on a U.S. tour supporting the album “Music Complete.”

Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Friday at $68.50 for advance general admission, with a limited number of reserved seats available at a cost of $86.50. Get them at the Fillmore box office (1700Washin­gton Ave.), at LiveNation.com and by calling 800-745-3000.

New Order, whose influence can be found everywhere from Madonna to Radiohead, consists of founding members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert, with longtime keyboardis­t Phil Cunningham and bassist Tom Chapman. Among the band’s eternally popular synth-rock club hits are “Blue Monday,” “The Perfect Kiss” and “Age of Consent.”

Sumner, Morris and Peter Hook created New Order fromthe remnants of post-punk deities Joy Division after the 1980 suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis. Hook, whose bass gave New Order its extraordin­ary propulsion, remains estranged fromthe band.

Along with the U.S. tour, which occurs in March and closes in Miami Beach, New Order will play a handful of summer festivals in Europe, among them Sonar in Spain June18, Roskilde in Denmark July 2 and Oya in Norway Aug.12.

“Music Complete” is New Order’s ninth studio album, its first in more than a decade (London’s Guardian calls it a “fresh, danceable album with intriguing diversions”). The band recently released a new single, the pulsating and densely layered “Singularit­y,” which will be the basis for “a host of exclusive remixes.” With the release, the band announced a creative fan competitio­n on awebsite created for the song: Singularit­y-NewOrder.com

The five most interestin­g fan contributi­ons will be featured on the “Singularit­y” website permanentl­y. To enter (all creative formats are welcome, the band says), email your contributi­on to new com before March 11.

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