27 Jan 2012
Download Ike Yard's new Virtual 7-inchLabels: Ike_Yard
23 Jan 2012
The Factory Records CatalogueIt's taken 3 years to get this far so it won't be completed overnight (and there are no images at all yet) but it should be worth waiting for.
16 Jan 2012
Minny Pops Standstill to Motion competitionIn order to get your hands on one of these album all you have to do is answer the following question. What was the first 7" single release on the LTM label in 1984?
Normal Cerysmatic competition rules apply: one entry per person by email with the winner being picked at random out of the Cerysmatic hat. Closing date for entries is Friday 27 January 2012.
Don't forget that the UK tour starts this Thursday 19 January in Sheffield, continuing to Leeds, Manchester and London. There are also a couple of other dates in March and April in Amsterdam. The full itinerary is:
January
19 - Sheffield, The Plug (only six quid + £1 booking fee)
20 - Leeds, The Brudenell Social Club (only six quid + £1 booking fee)
21 - Manchester, Gulliver's
23 - London, Upstairs at the Garage / DJ set by Tim Burgess; very special guest Viv Albertine
Buy tickets at MusicGlue.net
Beyond
11 Mar - Amsterdam, Dansmakers / suite performance of Drastic Measures, Drastic Movement
7 Apr - Amsterdam, Melkweg / ULTRA2012-EINDE: Minny Pops, The Tapes, Truus de Groot & Liesbeth Esselink (Plus Instruments) and Toon Bressers (ex-Nasmak). Buy tickets
Labels: competition, events, Minny_Pops
Kieran Byrne
George Overton
James Williams
... were the first 3 with correct answers.
Sean Connors
Anthony Kay
Andy Scarlett
... had their correct answers picked from a lucky draw on 15/01/2012. One of Vin's old Premier Tom Toms used to record the original songs was used for the draw. The prizes will be posted out next week. Thanks to all those who entered.
Labels: competition, Section_25
13 Jan 2012
Section 25 live Wroclaw Industrial FestivalMore info: Facebook Group / Event | Last.fm Poland
Labels: events, gigs, Section_25
- 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
In the grey days of late 1970s post-punk Manchester, youth culture was a serious affair: every musical performance was measured mostly by the conviction of its delivery. The term 'New Wave' opened up free vistas where acquired skills could once again be exercised after punk's monochrome blur. It could be applied to anything from a James 'Blood' Ulmer record to the latest Throbbing Gristle release, Magazine to Swell Maps. Move outside that terrain into Sun Ra, Parliament, Frank Sinatra and Martin Denny, and your options were suddenly without limit...
Then came Tony Wilson's Factory Club (at the Russell Club in Hulme) offering an open invitation to experiment that was taken up when Ken Hollings, Howard Walmsley, Eddie Sherwood and a few others decided to make some noise to accompany their 16mm silent epic Biting Tongues. A further performance followed a few weeks later, when Colin Seddon and Graham Massey disbanded their Post Natals project and joined up. The film itself, a flashing series of negative images, became a memory; the name remained.
- extract from the LTM Biting Tongues biography
FAC 134 Trouble Hand
FAC 188 Compressor
IKON 26 Wall Of Surf
IKON 31 'Wall of Surf' T-SHIRT
IKON 45 'Wall of Surf' POSTER