Please note that the site is now on hiatus (again) and will not be updated for the foreseeable future.

The News archive 2003-2019 and c. 1500 pages are available for your reference.

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Time Goes By So Slow
I Get Along Without You Very Well
I'd Like To See You Again
Back To Wonder
Talk About The Past
Deep Sleep
Bad News Week
Something That No One Else Could Bring
Reunion Wilderness
More Than Enough

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OK, where were we before we were so rudely interrupted?

We are back and we have a new home - cerysmatic.factoryrecords.org - which should be familiar to you as the home of the Factory Records Catalogue. However, rest assured that the sites will remain separate although they share the same domain name and hosting.

One mega-site might've been possible to construct but it would have been a nightmare to navigate and maintain. But please do check out our sister site because lots of new work has been completed in recent months and there will be plenty more.

There'll be improvements around these parts too and a few have already happened in the background. It'll be a little bit longer (you mean a lot longer, Ed.) before Scream City fanzine makes a return. However, some work was done quite a while now on what might've eventually become Scream City 6 and some of that may see the light here instead.

I hope the site is all in good working order but if you spot anything awry please let me know. As ever, thank you for your continued forbearance.

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Today we are sixteen years young. Thank you for your support. Thank you Anthony, Peter, Rob, Alan and Martin. Thank you Steven.

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Many thanks to Paul Pledger for minding the shop whilst I was on holiday. I am sure that won't be the last we'll hear from Paul round these parts what with the impending Part 4 of Facs in the Attic and a few more other treats.

Apologies for a few image glitches which arose as a result of remote working. These have now been resolved (as have a few teething template problems).

Anyway, whaddya say!? Let's boogie!

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Cerysmatic is off on holiday but Paul Pledger who you may know from the excellent Flipside Reviews is going to mind the shop for a while. Paul is a long-time associate of ours and has contributed in the past, most recently on the Wim Mertens discography. He also wrote some of the band profiles for the Factory Records Catalogue.

Over to you Paul.

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Apologies for general radio silence round these parts. This has been due to yet more rebuilding work, this time over at factoryrecords.org following on from recent enhancements here.

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We are proud to launch today our new template which brings compatibility with a wide range of mobile electronic devices (e.g. iPhone, Android, BlackBerry) and other fringe benefits such as a permanent footer on every page, individual Facebook "Like" buttons and custom error pages.

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"Having no party, sending no cards, and giving no presents."

(15th) Anniversary greetings to Factory workers worldwide!

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There's a great history of Factory Records football connections (see CF passim) so this off-topic posting can be justified.

Well done to Aston Villa, the chosen team of a certain Phil Kooky (no him neither), who beat the mighty Superhoops in a close fought relegation dogfight this afternoon thanks to a late Benteke goal.

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Sorry for lack of activity round these parts in recent times. I've been working on another project and it kinda took over things for a while. Hoping to catch up over the next few days. Thanks for your forebearance.

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It's a big welcome back for the Cerysmatic Factory Forum (formerly the Message Board).

The Forum has been given a facelift so that it works within the structure of the new site launched last month. However, the underpinning technology remains resolutely manually moderated.

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Merry Christmas from Cerysmatic Factory and a Happy New Year. May it bring all that you wish for (including maybe a new Scream City).

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Welcome to the new Cerysmatic Factory, the culmination of a 2-year design and programming project to expand and improve the site.

The Forum is suspended due to technical reasons (mainly because reprogramming it for the new site while the old site was live was a step too far).

My thanks to Iain Ashworth for technogeekery, Steven Hankinson for original design inspiration and Mark Holt for confirming that it's ok to design occasionally using Excel.

A more detailed rundown of the enhancements and changes will follow on the Updates channel on the News page.

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There was a major outage at our ISP yesterday which took down the site for nearly 12 hours. This was due to a hardware failure. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

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Check out our new companion site on Tumblr for Cerysmatic and Scream City artefacts such as used and unused images and other snippets we like the look of.

For starters, My cat's Eric has a full set of Scream City covers.

When's the next Scream City coming out we hear you ask? Well, that's a good question but be we don't quite know the answer yet. But it will be soon(ish).

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A warm welcome back to the Cerysmatic Factory Message Board which has been away for a while. Subject to the level of usage (and the level of spamming) this will hopefully be a permanent return. Thank you for your forebearance.

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Please note that posting on the Cerysmatic Factory Message Board is temporarily suspended.

The Message Board archives are still open to view.

Thank you for your forebearance.

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Thank you for your support.

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It's that time of year again. Kick out the old and welcome the new.

Yes, I'll be on holiday for a few weeks and moist will be minding the shop. Remember to stop by and say hi.

Please note that Scream City will not be on sale again until late October.

Ever been to Utah?

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