MARK LINDORES
Given the negative connotations surrounding the term ‘Supergroup’ and its conjuring up of images of past-it rockers eager to top up their pension funds, it’s understandable that fans were intrigued, if not wary, at what Electronic – a 1989 summit of New Order’s Bernard Sumner and The Smiths’ Johnny Marr would result in. After all, pop pedigree aside, they appeared to have little in common apart from both being key figures from two of the most important bands of that decade.