A one-page "mission statement" by Tony Wilson for Red Cellars¹ which, following a name change, became F4 Records:

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"WHAT IS RED CELLAR?
red cellars???

1. THE NEW FACTORY RECORDS

"I try to open up the freedom within the artist himself, to help him discover what he believed his message to be.... to bring out that curiosity, to encourage that area of creative difference, to stifle not even the smallest element of exploration." Sam Philips

2. WE ARE AN INDEPENDENT RECORD COMPANY BASED IN MANCHESTER, ENGLAND

"I just put some records out with me mates" Rob Gretton

Factory after all is merely about people, about the way people work, the way Red Cellar works.

3. WE MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTE OUT OF MANCHESTER

"The mode of production determines the mode of consciousness" Hegel

Sign - one major band per annum for the first two years and up to six "interesting bands" per year released through "Sticky Paw", Red Cellar underground imprint.

Business Plan

"A merchant is he who buys cheap and sells dear be he Gentile or Jew" James Joyce

Nothing is as cheap as great art when it's fresh, cause no-one wants it.

We sign bands for £80,000 not £180,000. Some we sign for £30,000. No bidding wars because no-one else will bid when it's that early. "I hear a hit single" - "No you fucking don't - they haven't written it yet." Cf 'Love will tear us apart",

We sign bands without hit singles, cause they haven't written them yet."

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¹ - the provisional title of F4, "Red Cellars" was derived from the following famous extract from Ivan Chtcheglov's Formula For A New Urbanism (1953): "... And you, forgotten, your memories ravaged by all the consternations of two hemispheres, stranded in the Red Cellars of Pali-Kao, without music and without geography, no longer setting out for the hacienda where the roots think of the child and where the wine is finished off with fables from an old almanac. That's all over. You'll never see the hacienda. It doesn’t exist. The hacienda must be built."

See also: FAC 51 The Hacienda and FAC 511 And you forgotten

Labels: back_in_the_cellar, F4_Records, Red_Cellars, Rob_Gretton, Tony_Wilson

The Young Offenders Institute play Club Fandango at the Dublin Castle in London this Tuesday 17 May, onstage 9.45pm. Go to www.clubfandango.co.uk and click on the "need a flyer? print them here" button in the top left - this will get you in for 5 quid.

Club Fandango
The Dublin Castle
94 Parkway
London, NW1 7AN
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The debut single We're The Young Offenders is released on 30 May on F4 Records on CD. It's available for download now from www.f4records.co.uk

The single features three tracks:
We're The Young Offenders (Cleaned Up Version)
We're The Young Offenders (Fucked Up Version)
Having A Party (Live in London)

To buy a copy, send a cheque or postal order for 4.00 GBP (including post & packing), with your name and address, to:

Acid Management & Productions
12 Stoney St
London SE1 9AD

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Thanks to the Young Offenders Institute newsletter
www.youngoffendersinstitute.com

Labels: F4_Records, labels, Young_Offenders_Institute

How to follow the legendary system of Fac numbers used by Factory Communications, Factory Too and (albeit minimally) Factory Records Limited? That was the task facing F4 Records when launching late last year.

The first release, 'Switch / Ego' by RAW-T, was given the number R1 M15. And this is why:

'R' is the generic prefix for releases, so items will be numbered consecutively R1, R2, etc. The suffix M15 is an artist identifier which is derived from postcode associated with the artist in question. With RAW-T, it's M15 which covers part of the inner city including Hulme.

The first release by The Young Offenders Institute has been assigned the catalogue number R6 M40 with the M40 suffix relating to the Collyhurst area of Manchester from where the band hail.

At the moment there are no plans to assign catalogue numbers to other items such as the F4 badge and the digital releases from the F4 Download Shop but doing this retrospectively has not been ruled out.

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Thanks to Tom @ F4 for info and OMNY for instigation.

Labels: artefacts, badges, F4_Records, Factory_Records, labels, RAW-T

The glitches in the aforementioned faulty mp3s have been fixed (apparently a corrupted disc was to blame) and the Durutti Column downloads are once again available from F4 Records.

Labels: F4_Records, labels, The_Durutti_Column

As announced yesterday, the new six-track collection by The Durutti Column entitled 'Heaven Sent (It Was Called Digital. It Was Heaven Sent)' which was specially recorded for F4 Records (and which is excellent by the way) was launched at the F4 Records Download Shop via www.f4records.co.uk. Unfortunately tracks 4-6 had audible and noticeable glitches. The tracks have been temporarily taken down whilst F4 Records and The Durutti Column work together to fix the problem.

Labels: F4_Records, labels, The_Durutti_Column

Cerysmatic Factory is proud to present an exclusive webcast of The Durutti Column's first live show of 2005 from The North Star, Lerwick, Shetland on Wednesday 16 February. This is to celebrate the launch of The Durutti Column brand new download only deal with Tony Wilson's new label F4 Records. The webcast will feature the last hour of the show and starts at 22:00 GMT.

The broadcast will be available in Windows Media format only in a choice of 56K and 256K streams.

Labels: F4_Records, labels, The_Durutti_Column, Tony_Wilson

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