30 Jul 2005
The Occasional Keepers album on Classic FMYou can hear The Occasional Keepers (featuring ex-members of The Wake and The Field Mice) on the 'Chiller Cabinet' show on Classic FM on weekend mornings from 2 - 4am ! They're playing some tracks from the album during August. Exact times and dates are unknown at present, but they put playlists on the website in advance as there are no presenters (great idea!).
www.classicfm.com
Thanks to Caesar.
Posted via Blackberry from a field in England's green and pleasant land.
Labels: The_Wake
26 Jul 2005
Specialist subject: Manchester Music from 1976 to 1991Mastermind
BBC2
8.00pm BST
25 Jul 2005
Heart and Soul showcase at The RoadhouseLabel boss Martin Moscrop (ACR) was not in attendence due to holiday commitments, leaving A&R men Rob Bright (ex-Hacienda DJ) and Paul Dering (ex-Red Seal) to gladhand the numerous guests - including F4's Tom Clarke, ex-Hacienda / Dry manager Leroy Richardson, ex-Smith Andy Rourke, ex-Mondays Paul Davis, Everton and Gavan Whelan, Jason Boardman and others.
Solo artist 0898 Dave was highly entertaining, despite the obvious sound problems that were rectified (Andy Rourke still has his uses) in time for Kings Have Long Arms. Both acts present electronic cabaret with a humorous twist - 0898 Dave being of the cerebral kind - think electro Albertos - whilst Kings were reminiscent of Fat Truckers (with whom Adrian collaborates) - think funny Tack Head.
Gig over, all that was left was for Paul Dering to point out that some of the tables in The Roadhouse used to belong in Dry, along with some of the high-backed plywood chairs. Leroy confirmed this as the truth. It was that kind of night.
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Thanks to OMMCR.
Labels: A_Certain_Ratio, FAC51_The_Hacienda, Martin_Moscrop
24 Jul 2005
Bez on Pimp My Ride UK Sunday 31 Julymtv.co.uk/pimp
Thursday 4 - The Witchwood, Ashton-under-Lyne
Saturday 6 - D Percussion festival (Key 103 Arena), Manchester
Thursday 18 - Northern Riots @ Night & Day, Manchester
Friday 26 - Leeds Festival, Carling New Bands Tent, 1.30pm
Sunday 28 - Reading Festival, Carling New Bands Tent, 1.30pm
www.youngoffendersinstitute.com
23 Jul 2005
Another gig and a website update for A Certain Ratio1 October 2005
The Cluny
Newcastle
Doors: 8pm
Price: 10 GBP
www.headofsteam.co.uk
The official website, acrmcr.com has also been updated and redesigned and at long last the tracks recorded live at Fac 511 And You Forgotten are available for download, albeit as 30 second clips.
Labels: A_Certain_Ratio
21 Jul 2005
A Certain Ratio live @ Moorfest, Heaton Mersey, Manchester on Saturday 13 AugustMain Stage
A Certain Ratio
Tom Hingley
Easterhouse
The Mighty Wah!
Haven
Mani
Screaming Mini
Dean Bailey
2nd Stage
Mr Scruff
Andy Votel (Twisted Nerve)
Christian Wood (Friends & Family)
Herbie Saccani
Vox Pop 45 DJs
Mark Rowlands
plus very special guest: Howard Marks
Labels: A_Certain_Ratio
The Ritz, Manchester. A Certain Ratio have just finished a showstopping set at an emotional tribute night for the late and legendary Joy Division / New Order manager, Rob Gretton. Martin Moscrop (ACR mainstay, producer of Manchester's first acid house record, amongst many other things), turns to two friends, Rob Bright and Paul Dering:
"I've had something in mind for years... I want to start a label. And I want you two twats to be my A&R men."
One of the highlights of the night had been ACR's cover of Joy Division's 'Heart & Soul', guest-starring Peter Hook.
"That's sorted then. Find me some brilliant music."
August 2005
At Futuresonic, Manchester on Saturday 23 August, Heart and Soul two true originals - 0898 DAVE and KINGS HAVE LONG ARMS. Both have pedigree - 0898 Dave created the seminal 'Rubbish Monkey' single for Manchester's Repap label, his 'Somebody Else's Wife' LP is genius, and the new stuff we've heard is on another level. He is in a field of his own. Adrian Flanegan, better known as Kings Have Long Arms, is known to the righteous few through a series of brilliant singles, such as 'Pigeons Carry My News' and 'Rock & Roll Is Dead', which featured The Human League's Phil Oakey. The KHLA live show is a whole other beast - an electro-pop carnival, which could well feature a Mexican wrestler in a gimp mask, Sherlock Holmes on the stylophone, a lion playing keyboards, and a massive all-in conga dance to the outrageous new single 'All Hail Satan'. Seeing is still not quite believing.
Both these artists combine electronic music, edgy humour and bags of good old-fashioned songwriting craft to fashion music that is quite unlike much else out there. 'Outsider Pop' is the best way we can describe it, vibrant music that owes nothing to style mags, focus groups or PR machinery. They write GREAT TUNES. With heart. And Soul.
Saturday 23 August
Futuresonic
The Roadhouse
Newton Street
Manchester
Doors: 10pm - 3am
FREE [Free Wrist Band available via www.futuresonic.com or in person from The Bridgewater Hall, Cord, Piccadilly Records, Fat City Records, Kro Bar and Kro2. Limited availability.]
'All Hail Satan' by Kings Have Long Arms and 'Somebody Else's Wife' by 0898 Dave will be available soon on Heart & Soul.
Labels: A_Certain_Ratio, Joy_Division, Martin_Moscrop, New_Order, Peter_Hook, Red_Turns_To
Future scheduled 'Punk' events include 'An Evening with Buzzcocks' Howard Devoto & Pete Shelley, featuring Richard Boon' on Friday 12 August, 'Fanzines R Us with Bob Dickinson and Liz Naylor' on Thursday 18 August and 'Hugh Cornwell 'A Multitude of Sins' acoustic performance and readings from his autobiography' on Friday 2 September.
'Punk: Sex, Seditionaries and the Sex Pistols' has been extended until 11 September at Urbis.
20 Jul 2005
Blurt live @ Floating Lotus FestivalFloating Lotus Festival
Woodend Farm
near Bromyard
Herefordshire
Tel: 0781 6630590 / 0780 3000988
info@floatinglotus.org.uk
Thanks to Tino.
Labels: Blurt
19 Jul 2005
The New Nightlife @ Design MuseumThe Ben Kelly Design website has more details and a photo gallery.
Labels: Ben_Kelly, FAC51_The_Hacienda, Peter_Saville, poster
18 Jul 2005
D Percussion detailsIn the Key 103 Arena:
Bez and Domino Bones
The Durutti Column
RAW-T (also in showcase on the Urban stage)
The Young Offenders Institute
plus DJ Greg Wilson on the Canteena Stage and Graham Massey (Biting Tongues, 808 State) on the B Music Stage.
This is a FREE event.
It would seem that Badly Drawn Boy is not playing after all.
Labels: Biting_Tongues, Graham_Massey, Greg_Wilson, RAW-T, The_Durutti_Column, Young_Offenders_Institute
www.gorillaz.com
17 Jul 2005
Peter Saville: perfectionist-iconoclastSaturday 16 July 2005
16 Jul 2005
Ike Yard in Q&A with Cerysmatic FactoryCF: There have been rumours that the Ike Yard album is going to be re-released. What's the latest?
IY: We are considering our options for a label on which to release it, just had a meeting on it yesterday actually. The description of Ike in Simon Reynolds new book Discog 2 seems to be bringing up new interest so we hope to help people discover / rediscover the music sooner as opposed to later. Still sounds pretty good for 20 years ago, and no-one in US was doing anything like it. Early techno? Could be. Electro? Other flavors in there too - Concret, funk .
IN the meantime, there should be 2 Ike cuts on a '1979-1984 NYC no wave proto-electro Collection' we have pulled together over the last 2 years. Currently the plan is for Soul Jazz to release this compilation as part of their "NY Noise Three" in early '06. NY Noise Two is coming in fall 05. We do hope the Comp. will create some more interest in Ike full on rerelease.
CF: By the way, I wonder if you can settle a personal thing for me on the original catalogue number for the album. This was FA 2 and was the second release on Factory America and of course the album's title is A Fact A Second. So, was this just coincidence or planned?
IY: Yea, Factory America stuck us with a cover design that cost them quite a bit of our overall budget. The A Fact A Second catalog number was made so prominent it led everybody to believe the Album is /was called A Fact A Second. The Album was titled simply Ike Yard'. As I recall Fact A 'One' was possibly the Ukrainian National Home show with Ike Yard opening for New Order. Tony Wilson came by the Studio when we were recording the Album and I guess we were 'on Factory America'. We were cut from the New Order At The Ukrainian National Home video (Fact 77 Taras Shevchenko), that night and Peter Hook helped a lot by jumping up to help do our sound that night. I also believe the connections we made / I made with Factory America's M Shamberg in '81/'82's Ike Yard did help (if even in a small way) for the future connection. When I did "Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight" on Arthur Baker's Streetwise in 1983 released in '84 - New Order went on to do their famous tracks with Arthur. It's possible I have the sequence wrong on that, but the scene was so small then , what people saw and liked what one person did - well it wasn't long till they picked it up and did the same thing. I'm not sure exactly HOW those two parties actually hooked up, but I had worked with both.
CF: What else is going on in the World of Ike Yard?
IY: Well, we are all doing different things by now. I am doing lots of other musik going on including a new song for Pac Man's 25th Anniversary and new Dominatrix tracks (originally UPROAR/Streetwise 1984 /rerleeased by DJ Hell on Gigolo '03 with Black Strobe remix). And Death Comet Crew, aka DCC, another 1980's post Ike Yard group I did that included Michael Diekmann, guitarist of Ike Yard, got a sweet re-release last year on Troubleman Unlimited here that has led to a Japanese licensing and now , gigs over there (Tokyo, 30 July) with Toshi Nakanishi's 'Plastics Sex' group , Tosh from the original Plastics (seen in "Downtown '81"). Will be a blast, very hot and humid - but we'll survive. I am also finalizing prep for the Venice Bienalle with the old school MC The Rammellzee who I produced ("Bi-Conicals Of The Rammellzee" '04 Gomma). I will help him with his perf there in the Theatrical section of Bienalle, then we should be doing a 9 date Euro & UK tour after Venice (Sept.21), including swing through London.
:: Ike Yard has some stories ::
>> Stuart Argabright worked for a long time with artist Robert Longo who went on to direct the 'Bizarre Love Triangle' video for New Order. This was edited by Gretchen Bender (RIP) who pretty much pioneered the super fast-editing style that soon became called the 'MTV style'. As artist into science, tech and biology , she was interested in seeing just HOW fast she could cut and have the viewers still percieve it. She then pushed this to an edge in the next video Robert directed for Megadeth.
>> Ike Yard were invited to share rehearsal space in the Music Building (kind of famous NYC music spot in early '80's) with Circus Mort - a band that had a singer named Mike Gira in it. Then when Gira was starting Swans he had our guitarist Michael Diekmann come in and lay it out for them, but didn't join.
>> Kenny Compton , bassist of Ike , became friends with the girl down the hall at the Music Building. She was this loud - then - most, somewhat irritating woman called... Madonna.
More info at: DeMeDo.blogspot.com
Labels: Ike_Yard, New_Order, Peter_Hook, Stuart_Argabright, Tony_Wilson
15 Jul 2005
A Certain Ratio live @ The Big ChillLabels: A_Certain_Ratio, Big_Chill
14 Jul 2005
In the time of the saundcheka"Reilly's Vinni aka Durutti Column - living legend. It from that tusovki itself Factory Records, about which Maykl Uinterbottom removed its 'twenty-four hour party-goers'. Certainly, it is not so known as New Order or Happy Mondays, but its surrounding halo of 'that m3d- chesire cheese itself' attracts as strong magnet. For his fifty with the small, Reilly appears very well, especially in comparison with his drummer, to whom to the form all seventy. Grey-haired old man in the dark glasses and the white suit, however, to silushku has Herculean - in the time of saundcheka he without the shadow of stress dragged on the scene his installation, where one barrel was from it size. It drummed also, it is necessary to say that - a good school of expensive stands for ten young. However, Reilly played on his guitar some strange passages, as a result the music was more similar to progressiv the fate and of belonging with the 'new wave' reminded one only the history."
Labels: Factory_Records, Happy_Mondays, New_Order, The_Durutti_Column
Accompanying excerpts from original Factory acts New Order, ACR, James, Marcel King and (opening night guests) ESG were clips that reflected the true diversity of those largely forgotten or ignored pre-acid house years : Gregory Isaacs, Virgin Prunes, Orange Juice, William Burroughs, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Smiths. Completing the picture were home videos of the Hacienda as construction site, an interview with VJ Claude Bessy and an unseen ikon video christmas card featuring that famous situationist puppeteer combo Harry Corbett and, er, Sooty.
Plans are afoot to take the show on the road to Manchester and Liverpool in the coming months (echoing the original ikon video 'tour' of the early eighties).
Full review to follow.
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Thanks to OMMCR.
Labels: A_Certain_Ratio, ESG, FAC51_The_Hacienda, Marcel_King, New_Order
13 Jul 2005
Paul Morley & Tony Wilson @ UrbisWilson and Morley will be focusing on the Manchester punk scene's DIY aesthetic, reminiscing about regular haunts, recalling unfortunate fashion statements and debating the impact the Sex Pistols' gigs had on a huge array of Manchester bands.
The discussion promises to offer a distinctly acerbic, first hand perspective on one of the most important periods in Manchester’s cultural history, and will conclude with an in-depth question and answer session.
Wednesday 20th July
6.30 - 8.30pm
10.00 / 8.00 GBP
To purchase your tickets please call the Urbis hotline on 0161 605 8264 or visit the punk exhibition ticket desk at Urbis.
www.urbis.org.uk
Labels: Paul_Morley, Tony_Wilson, Urbis
"Yes, there's a gig, this Saturday July 16 at Dry Bar on Oldham St in Manchester.
There are five bands playing and it costs just 5.00 GBP to get in.
The Young Offenders Institute are on at 10pm.
Also, if you never heard the triumphant Radio 1 documentary Pretty Vacant, you can hear edited highlights at www.myspace.com/youngoffendersinstitute - if you want to miss all the pretenders and just hear the bit about the real thing, skip forward 10 minutes."
Labels: Young_Offenders_Institute
Meanwhile the band's summer tour has been continuing with appearances at T in the Park (at which Doves also played) and the Irish festival Oxegen. Strong rumours of the New York and Hyde Park shows being released on dvd also persist.
Labels: New_Order
10 Jul 2005
Bez 'n' Slash 'n' Shaun 'n' Mark E in MOJOLabels: Bez, Shaun_Ryder
Labels: Hey_Asda, Tony_Wilson
9 Jul 2005
Hooky records new Man Utd anthemRead the full story here.
Labels: football, Manchester_United, Peter_Hook
8 Jul 2005
Art and Science meet in StoryRoomsStoryRooms will use modern technology including the Internet to create a unique and challenging art experience for visitors to the new gallery. Seven artists from around the world are contributing to the exhibition, each examining a different aspect of human exchange and social interaction. The large-scale, networked installations invite the audience to actively participate in the exhibition.
The exhibit will sit alongside the Museum's new gallery, which tells the story of human communication from signs and gestures right through to modern mass media applications.
StoryRooms Curator and Artist Andrea Zapp said of the new show: "StoryRooms brings to Manchester a group of international media artists that have produced groundbreaking work in this field. Over the last few years, the Internet has drastically changed the format of human communication and StoryRooms will use art to examine the ways in which we now interact with each other and with technology.
In the exhibition, the computer is mostly invisible to the audience, who are asked to play with various kinds of scenarios, objects and visual experiments. It's a vibrant, striking, even surreal installation environment and I'm sure that visitors to the new Communications Gallery will not only enjoy it, but find it thought-provoking."
The Museum's Head of Galleries and New Developments, Seán Gaffaney, added: "We're excited about the new gallery, which will look at developments in communication from early man right up to the present day. The significant contribution that the people of Manchester and the North West of England have made to the story will be celebrated as well.
"StoryRooms will provide an interesting add-on to the gallery which will offer our visitors something a little bit different."
Artists contributing to the StoryRooms exhibition are: Susan Collins (UK), Paul DeMarinis (USA), Ken Goldberg (USA), Paul Sermon (UK), Cornelia Sollfrank (Germany), Tan Teck Weng (Malaysia), and Andrea Zapp (Germany/UK).
The new gallery will be located in the Museum's grade one listed 1830 warehouse and is due to open in October.
Labels: Andrea_Zapp, StoryRooms, Vini_Reilly
5 Jul 2005
The Durutti Column @ Ronnie Scott'sRonnie Scott's
47 Frith Street
London. W1
Tel: 020 7439 0747
7.30 - 11pm
Tickets 16.50 GBP in advance from Ray's Jazz at Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, WC2 (Mon - Sat 9.30am to 9pm, Sun Midday to 6pm), Sterns, 293 Euston Rd, W1 (next to Warren Street Tube) (Mon to Sat 10.30am to 6.30pm)
Or you can pay by credit card via Ticketweb (08700 600 100 - 24hrs)
Please note that advance tickets are not available from the club and seating is first come first seated.
Labels: The_Durutti_Column
DJs
Fatboy Slim
Armand Van Helden
Snow Patrol
Elbow
Mani
Clint Boon
Carl Barat
Live bands
Stereo MCs
The Farm
Flowered Up
Oceansize
The Infadels
New Rhodes
Amusement Parks on Fire
Apartment
Mohair
Ambershades
Advance tickets are now available priced 25.00 GBP from:
Ticketmaster [Tel: 08700 601801]
Keith Prowse [Tel: 08700 130 705]
See Tickets [Tel: 08712 200260]
Booking fees apply. Tickets are also available in person from selected Virgin Megastores and Tourist Information Centres nationwide.
www.getloadedinthepark.com
Labels: Happy_Mondays, Paul_Oakenfold
3 Jul 2005
Silent Partners 'We're Getting To Know You' TourAugust
Sunday 28 - Camel Rock Festival - Scilly Isles
September
Saturday 3 - Nine Standards Festival - East Cumbria
Saturday 10 - Liquid Lounge - Blackpool
Friday 16 - Middleton Civic Hall - Manchester
www.silent-partners.info
Labels: Northside
Ikon& presents
'The Ghosts of The Hacienda'
Part 1
Visions of Empty
Wednesday 13 July 8pm
5.00 GBP
Barzooka
70 Victoria Street
Blackburn BB1 6DN
Tel: 01254 55607
Labels: A_Certain_Ratio, ESG, FAC51_The_Hacienda, New_Order
Confusion (dir. Charles Sturridge)
The Perfect Kiss (dir. Jonathan Demme)
Shellshock [Version 2] (dir. Rick Elgood)
State of the Nation
Bizarre Love Triangle (dir. Robert Longo)
True Faith (dir. Phillippe DeCouffle)
Touched By The Hand Of God (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Blue Monday '88 (dir. Robert Breer and William Wegman)
Fine Time (dir. Richard Heslop)
Round & Round [Version 1] (dir. Paula Greif)
Run (dir. Robert Frank)
World In Motion (dir. Keith Allen)
Regret (dir. Peter Care)
Ruined In A Day (dir. Keith Allen)
World (dir. Baillie Walsh)
Spooky (dir. Richard Heslop)
1963 (dir. Gina Birch)
Crystal (dir. Johan Renck)
60 Miles An Hour (dir. Rob Leggatt & Leigh Marling)
Here To Stay (dir. Paul Gore)
Krafty (dir. Johan Renck)
Jetstream (dir. Dawn Shadforth)
Waiting For The Sirens' Call
Extras:
Round & Round [Version 2: Patty] (dir. Paula Greif)
Regret (Baywatch)
Crystal (Gina Birch version)
Live:
Temptation (from 3.16)
New:
Ceremony (dir. by Yu Likwai)
Temptation (dir. by Michael H. Shamberg)
Thanks to NOOL/OMNY
Labels: New_Order
1 Jul 2005
Peter Saville's guitar giveawayComing to a London street near you from 21 July to 1 August.
Labels: A_Certain_Ratio
Use Hearing Protection - Factory Records 1978-1979
Use Hearing Protection Factory Records 1978-1979 review
Hacienda How Not to Run a Club TV series
Use Hearing Protection - Fac 1-50 / 40 exhibition
Out of Order - Curating the Factory Catalogue
The Drifting Cowboys Durutti Column T-Shirt
- Electronic Sound magazine [Issue 54] Factory Records
- May 1980 release schedule
- hallowed articles
- FAC 148
- FAC 148 letter from Quarry Bank Mill to Tony Wilson
- FAC 81 stationery source materials
- FAC 81 stationery
- 86 Palatine Road Blue Plaque
- Joy Divison USA Tour Itinerary
- Tony Wilson letter to Ralph Steadman re John Dowie
- IKON stationery
- The Factory stationery
- In the City badge
- Peter Saville Associates stationery and bill
- Movement of the 24th January stationery