VA "A Factory Sample" 2x 7" NM Joy Division The Durutti Column Cabaret Voltaire
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Various Artists "A Factory Sample" Poster Cover 2x7" Factory Records FAC-2 (UK)
Vinyl is NM, Jacket is EX
Pressed on Clear and Clear Green Wax!!
Out of Print!
Track Listing:
Aside A1 –Joy Division Digital Engineer – Chris Nagle, John BrierleyProducer – Laurie Latham, Martin ZeroWritten-By – Joy Division 2:50 A2 –Joy Division Glass Engineer – Chris Nagle, John BrierleyProducer – Laurie Latham, Martin ZeroWritten-By – Joy Division 3:51 Beside B1 –The Durutti Column No Communication Guitar [Lead] – Vini ReillyKeyboards – Stephen Hopkins*Lead Vocals – Colin SharpWritten-By – The Durutti Column 4:57 B2 –The Durutti Column Thin Ice (Detail) Guitar [Lead] – Vini ReillyKeyboards – Stephen Hopkins*Lead Vocals – Colin SharpWritten-By – The Durutti Column 3:16 Seaside C1 –John Dowie Acne Backing Vocals – Vince Scream & The PipersBass – Ged GreenDrums – Bruce MitchellEngineer – John BrierleyGuitar [Rhythm], Guitar [Lead] – Simon "Immobility" White*Producer – C.P.LeeVocals, Written-By – John Dowie 1:43 C2 –John Dowie Idiot Backing Vocals – Vince Scream & The PipersBass – Ged GreenDrums – Bruce MitchellEngineer – John BrierleyGuitar [Rhythm], Guitar [Lead] – Simon "Immobility" White*Producer – C.P.LeeVocals, Written-By – John Dowie 1:53 C3 –John Dowie Hitler's Liver Backing Vocals – Vince Scream & The PipersBass – Ged GreenDrums – Bruce MitchellEngineer – John BrierleyGuitar [Rhythm], Guitar [Lead] – Simon "Immobility" White*Producer – C.P.LeeVocals, Written-By – John Dowie 2:27 Decide D1 –Cabaret Voltaire Baader Meinhof Producer, Written-By – Cabaret Voltaire 3:15 D2 –Cabaret Voltaire Sex In Secret Producer, Written-By – Cabaret Voltaire 3:28Factory Records was a Manchester based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio,The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Northside, and (briefly) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and James. Like the label 4AD Records, Factory Records used a creative team (most notably record producer Martin Hannett and graphic designer Peter Saville) which gave the label and the artists recording for it, a particular sound and image. The label employed a unique cataloguing system that gave a number not just to its musical releases, but to artwork and other objects, as well.
1978–1979
Factory's genesis was in January 1978, when Wilson, a TV presenter on Granada Television, formed a partnership with Erasmus, an unemployed actor and band manager. The Factory name was first used for a club in May of that year, which featured local bands including The Durutti Column (managed at the time by Erasmus and Wilson), Cabaret Voltaire from Sheffield, and Joy Division. Peter Saville designed advertising for the club, and in September the trio decided to release an EP of music by acts who had played at the club (The Durutti Column, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, and comedian John Dowie) called A Factory Sample.
Rob Gretton, Joy Division's manager, decided he did not want the band to sign to a London record label, preferring to do it all in Manchester. At that time there was a fairly successful punk label in Manchester called Rabid Records, run by Tosh Ryan (formerly of music collective Music Force) with Martin Hannett. They had had several successful acts, including Slaughter & The Dogs (whose tour manager was Rob Gretton), John Cooper Clarke, and Jilted John. Rabid would build artists up with a few punk singles, and then license them to bigger labels (Jilted John to EMI, Slaughter & The Dogs to Decca, John Cooper Clarke to CBS). Tony Wilson was often around the Rabid offices, and Rob Gretton was friends with Tosh Ryan, Martin Hannett, and others in the setup as they were all from the same council estate in Wythenshawe. After his seminal TV series So It Goes, which gave TV debuts to the likes of Iggy Pop, the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, etc., Tony Wilson was interested in the way Rabid Records ran, and was convinced that the real money and power were in album sales. With a lot of discussion, Tony Wilson, Rob Gretton and Alan Erasmus set up Factory Records, stealing Martin Hannett from Rabid. Thus Factory Records was born, with Wilson, Erasmus, Saville and producer Hannett as partners in the enterprise.
In 1978, Wilson compered the new wave afternoon at Deeply Vale Festival. This was actually the fourth live appearance by the fledgling Durutti Column and that afternoon Wilson also introduced an appearance (very early in their career) by The Fall, featuring Mark E. Smith and Marc "Lard" Riley on bass guitar.
The original Factory Records HQ was in a flat on the first floor of 86 Palatine Road in suburban Manchester. Factory moved out in 1990. The building is still residential accommodation.The Factory label set up an office in Erasmus' home on Palatine Road, and the EP was released in early 1979. Singles followed by A Certain Ratio (who would stay with the label) and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (who left for Virgin Records shortly afterwards). The first Factory LP, Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, was released in June.
Joy Division made a notable appearance at the Leigh Rock Festival in August 1979. Gretton became the fifth partner in the label towards the end of the year, and the Factory club closed down (it would reopen briefly the following year).[citation needed]
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