Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
SOMETIMES the best club nights are the ones held in random places. Just look at the Warehouse Project, which in its time has been housed up in Boddies’ brewery, the former home of Factory Records and now a disused arch under the streets of Piccadilly.
Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
As Dig Out Your Soul hits the physical and digital racks of the nation's record shops what better time to check out #2 in the 20 Greatest Oasis Tracks as chosen by Peter Hook as told to Q Magazine (#267, October 2008): "Roll With It is rocky, and it plays down the Beatles influence. A lot of Oasis's overtly Beatles-influenced songs piss me off because they're just a rip-off. Roll With It is a balls-in-your-hands,...
The Northern Light (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
rob gretton Originally uploaded by Maddie Yervant I am looking forward to reading the notebooks of the late Rob Gretton, manager of Joy Division, co-founder of Factory Records and the Hacienda. The notebooks, recovered from a secret lock-up in Manchester are published by by Rob Gretton’s widow, Lesley Gilbert, with a foreword by Jon Savage, the book [...]
Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
As part of a tribute on Sunday 5 October to In The City founder and Factory Records head Tony Wilson, singer/songwriter Karl Eland and new Preston band, Stephen Buckley and the Feverdreamers join 22 other artists at the 24 Busk for Tony outside M19 Bar, Stockport Road, Levenshulme. More In The City info can be found here and there .
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
...but it does have the artwork. Peter Saville: Estate 1-127 is a new book from the Factory Records cofounder, who also served as the label's in-house image guru and, most famously, is responsible for the sleeve art on Joy Division's...
Sound Bites (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
You may not know his name, but you know his work. Peter Saville was Factory Records in-house graphic artist, designing some of the most famous record sleeves of the last 20 years, including Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, Pulp's This is...
The Fader Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Peter Saville is the eccentric mind behind some of the most iconic album covers of the '70s and '80s, including a portion of the Factory Records output, Joy Division, New Order, Roxy Music and even East Village Radio instant party staple Wham! His graphics have prompted commissions from the likes of Yohji Yamamoto and an entire fall season at Raf Simons. This Thursday, the Burberry store on 57th street...
Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
It seems that some of our fashion critics were lazy enough to all use the same press release quotes as a review of designer Giles Deacon during London Fashion Week. Financial Times : "Deacon's collection riffed the bold colour palette associated with designer Peter Saville's album covers for 1980s Manchester bands such as New Order." The Independent : "His inspirations this time around were the art...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Photo: Getty Images 1. Vampire Weekend, "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (The Teenagers Remix)" The Teenagers remix of this track emphasizes the vampire in the band's name, making them sound more like a pasty Factory Records band than fresh-scrubbed Ivy Leaguers. [ Hipster Runoff ] 2. Flo-Rida feat. Akon, "Guarantee" We don't know if this new song (off his forthcoming sophomore release) is going to get Flo-Rida...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
The designer Peter Saville, whose Factory Records artwork included Joy Division and New Order album covers, knows more about the art of record sleeve design than most. Along with Dylan Jones, the editor of British GQ, and Faris Rotter, the lead singer of The Horrors, who recently created album artwork for The Charlatans, Saville has chosen some of the best LP cover art of the past 40 years for this...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
The designer Peter Saville, whose Factory Records artwork included Joy Division and New Order album covers, knows more about the art of record sleeve design than most. Along with Dylan Jones, the editor of British GQ, and Faris Rotter, the lead singer of The Horrors, who recently created album artwork for The Charlatans, Saville has chosen some of the best LP cover art of the past 40 years for this...
The New Pink (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
This weekend I watched ‘Control’, a film based on the life of the late Ian Curtis lead singer of Joy Division. If you’re interested in Factory Records, Joy Division, beautifully made films or just tragic love stories then you need to give this a watch. Filmed completely in black and white, the film charts Ian Curtis’ [...]
The Northern Light (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Tony Wilson RIP. Manchester. So much to answer for… Originally uploaded by Jason Slack It’s a year since Tony Wilson, the cofounder of Factory Records, died of cancer in Manchester. Fellow Mancunian Mike Garry has written this poem dedicated to him. An ode to St Tony of Manchester. I won’t republish the whole thing here - [...]
FT.com (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Signed in blood, the contract between Britain's Factory Records and its artists was worth nothing to the label. The Manchester music label gave artists like Joy...
Cerysmatic Factory (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
"DECASIA'S TONY WILSON/FACTORY RECORDS TRIBUTE ON SUNDAY AUGUST 10TH AT THE GEORGE TAVERN - a retrospective on Factory bands plus Decasian Records' very own Jon Jones and the Beatniks Movement EP launch party!! BANDS WILL PLAY SETS THAT INCLUDE A FACTORY COVER SONG OF THEIR CHOICE AND DJs WILL SPIN FROM FACTORY'S EXTENSIVE BACK CATALOGUE AS WELL AS FACTORY-INFLUENCED POST-PUNK SUCCESSORS. ALL proceeds...
