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* ARK Music Factory, a record label based in Los Angeles, California
New Order never had a formal contract with their label Factory Records, which is unusual for any major group.
Both New Order and Joy Division were portrayed in the Michael Winterbottom film 24 Hour Party People, depicting the rise and fall of Factory Records as seen through the eyes of label founder Tony Wilson.
Both New Order and Joy Division were among the most successful artists on the Factory Records label, run by Granada television personality Tony Wilson, and partnered with Factory in the financing of the Manchester club The Haçienda.
On June 5, she recorded the single " Hey Joe "/" Piss Factory ", featuring Television guitarist Tom Verlaine ; released on her own Mer Records label, it heralded the scene's do it yourself ( DIY ) ethic and has often been cited as the first punk rock record.
Magid, promoting the concert through Electric Factory Concerts, argued that the band was hugely popular in Philadelphia, despite their first major label album Nervous Night being released less than three months beforehand.
Finding themselves on the cusp of an electronic new wave in British pop-music, they released a one-off single, " Electricity ", with celebrated independent label Factory Records.
Factory 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 ) James and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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 building is still residential accommodation. The Factory label set up an office in Erasmus's home on Palatine Road, and the EP was released in early 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 ).
Factory branched out, with Factory Benelux being run as an independent label in conjunction with Les Disques du Crepuscule, and Factory US organising distribution for the UK label's releases in America.
London Records were interested in taking over Factory, but the deal fell through when it emerged that due to Factory's early practice of eschewing contracts, New Order's back catalogue was owned by the band rather than the label.
Written by James Nice, owner of LTM, the book charts the rise and fall of Factory and offers detailed accounts and information about many key figures involved with the label.
The first release was by Factory stalwarts The Durutti Column, the other main acts on the label were Hopper and Space Monkeys, and the label also gave a UK release to the first album by Stephin Merritt's side project The 6ths, Wasps ' Nests.
The label was active until the late 1990s, as was " Factory Once ", which organised reissues of Factory material.
For the first few years after the demise of Factory, the only Durutti Column album releases were Lips That Would Kiss ( a 1991 collection of early singles, compilation contributions and unreleased material on the separate label Factory Benelux ), and Dry ( 1991 ) and Red Shoes ( 1992 ), Italian collections of alternate versions and unreleased outtakes.
Originally conceived by Rob Gretton, it was largely financed by the record label Factory Records and the band New Order along with label boss Tony Wilson.

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degli Antoni, Doughty, Boston-based upright bass player Sebastian Steinberg, and Israeli drummer Yuval Gabay ( a collaborator with Zorn, and David Linton ) played their first gig, as " M. Doughty's Soul Coughing ", at the Knitting Factory on June 15, 1992, a late-Monday night slot that Doughty cadged from his boss because nobody else wanted it.
The level's bosses are Army Dillo ( a heavily-armoured armadillo who is the boss of Jungle Japes and Crystal Caves ), Dogadon ( a giant dragonfly who is the boss of Angry Aztec and Fungi Forest ), Mad Jack ( a gigantic jack-in-the-box who is the boss of Frantic Factory ), Pufftoss ( a large Blowfish who is the boss of Gloomy Galleon ), King Kut-Out ( a cardboard cut-out of K. Rool who is operated by two Kritters and is the boss of Creepy Castle ), and the final boss, King K. Rool ( in a boxing match where each Kong must fight ).
Notable film roles include Factory Records boss Tony Wilson in the film 24 Hour Party People, Mole in Terry Jones ' The Wind in the Willows, Phileas Fogg in a comical version of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days from Disney, with Jackie Chan, Ambassador Mercy in Marie Antoinette, Bruce Tick in Sweet Revenge, and Octavius in Night at the Museum.
Former BBC Radio Manchester host, Granada presenter and Factory Records boss Tony Wilson was due to present a Friday evening music and entertainment show called The New Friday, produced by former Granada producer and BBC Radio Manchester host Eamonn O ' Neill.
Those characters included T ' Toot, a retired Indian fighter ; the Crazy Professor, an inventor and graduate emeritus of UPI ( University of Pecan Island ); Tante Baseline, owner of the Anse La Butte Swamp Gumbo Factory ; Joycie, a female filling station attendant " who's the world's champion dual-wheel semi-trailer flat-tire fixer "; The Headless Man, who " sent his head out to be cleaned and it was accidentally sent to the Avery Island Pickle Factory instead " and lived in the locked cabin of Polycarp's boat ; Doctor Rollingstone, " the hipster swamp doctor who has a transistor radio stuck in his stethoscope "; King Simon, " the duly elected boss of the swamp.
Factory boss Tony Wilson also promoted acid house culture on his weekly TV show.
They included Inspiral Carpets ' keyboard player Clint Boon, Elbow's frontman Guy Garvey, The Smiths ' bass player Andy Rourke, Factory Records boss Tony Wilson, and The Haçienda's Dave Haslam.

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Post-punk brought together a new fraternity of musicians, journalists, managers, and entrepreneurs ; the latter, notably Geoff Travis of Rough Trade and Tony Wilson of Factory, helped to develop the production and distribution infrastructure of the indie music scene that blossomed in the mid-1980s.
Factory Records owner Tony Wilson was influenced by Situationist urbanism and Factory Records band The Durutti Column took its name from Andre Bertrand's collage Le Retour de la Colonne Durutti.
With a lot of discussion, Tony Wilson, Rob Gretton and Alan Erasmus set up Factory Records, stealing Martin Hannett from Rabid.
Many of the people associated with Factory, including Tony Wilson, have minor parts in 24 Hour Party People.
A Factory catalogue number ( FAC 501 ) was given to Tony Wilson's coffin, as reported on the site ' Cerysmatic Factory '.
In 1978 Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, later partners in Factory Records, assembled a band around the remnants of local punk rock band Fast Breeder: drummer Chris Joyce and guitarist Dave Rowbotham.
In 1993 Tony Wilson attempted to revive Factory Records, and Sex and Death was the first release on Factory Too ( a subdivision of London Records ).
Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film 24 Hour Party People follows the story of Tony Wilson and Factory Records, including the Madchester period and the Happy Mondays ' success.
It included the phrase " the hacienda must be built ", which influenced Tony Wilson of Factory Records in naming his Manchester night-club, The Haçienda.
Several restaurants and clubs are located here including Boston Pizza with BP's Lounge, Hooters, Tony Roma's Ribhouse, The Old Spaghetti Factory, Albert's Family Restaurant, Moxie's, Earls, Jungle Jim's and the Comedy Club.
The main character is Tony Wilson, a news reporter for Granada Television and the head of Factory Records ( played by Steve Coogan ), and the narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the major Factory artists, especially Joy Division and New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, and the Happy Mondays.
The album begins with " Anarchy in the U. K ." by the Sex Pistols, the band credited in the film with inspiring Factory Records co-founder Tony Wilson to devote himself to promoting music.
A gig at The Haçienda caught the attention of Tony Wilson of Factory Records.
* Tony Kent Holloway Road Hit Factory ( Radio Interview, 2007 )
Matthew Robertson ’ s Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album, notes that “ ue to the use of die-cutting and specified colours, the production cost of this sleeve was so high that the single sold at a loss .” Tony Wilson noted that it lost 5p per sleeve " due to our strange accounting system "; Saville noted that nobody expected " Blue Monday " to be a commercially successful record at all, so nobody expected the cost to be an issue.

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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.
Thus Factory Records was born, with Wilson, Erasmus, Saville and producer Hannett as partners in the enterprise.
Wilson, Erasmus and Gretton formed Factory Communications Ltd.
Anthony Wilson, the founder of Factory records, died on 10 August 2007 at age 57, due to complications arising from renal cancer.
FACT was reserved for full-length albums, while FAC was used for both single song releases, and many other Factory " productions ", including: posters ( FAC 1 advertised a club night ), The Haçienda ( FAC 51 ), a hairdressing salon ( FAC 98 ), a broadcast of Channel 4's The Tube ( FAC 104 ), customised packing tape ( FAC 136 ), a bucket on a restored watermill ( FAC 148 ), the Haçienda cat ( FAC 191 ), a bet between Wilson and Gretton ( FAC 253 ), a lawsuit filed against Factory Records by Martin Hannett ( FAC 61 ), and a radio advertisement ( FAC 294 ).
In 1994, Wilson attempted to revive Factory Records, in collaboration with London Records, as " Factory Too ".
Wilson got frustrated with the lack of freedom and the need of London Records to show profits and he left the venture with London Records to set up the short lived Factory Records LTD with only one band remaining-Space Monkeys who shortly after released an album " the daddy of them all ".
Hopper and The Durutti Column had already left Factory Too when Wilson left the company of London Records.
Former Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias drummer Bruce Mitchell doubled as co-manager with Wilson throughout their career on Factory and for many years afterwards.
Bell and Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson, collaborated on a cover of the Velvet Underground song " Heroin ", for the 2006 film Factory Girl.

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