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Manchester
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Manchester's other bands: The Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio and The Passage
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Guitarist Vini Reilly had gone AWOL from normal life. He suffered from anorexia nervosa, and his music sounded as translucent as you'd e...
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures & Closer
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Released at the height of British summertime - June 1979 - the album caught the eye as well as the ear: the cover, designed by Factory's...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The Fall's peculiar brand of social surrealism
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It's hard to imagine The Fall and Joy Division coming from anywhere other than 1970s Manchester. Something about the city's gloom an...
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Factory Records
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The label's first release, A Factory Sample , was a double EP packaged in glistening silver. "It just seemed so special", says...
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