Legendary record company Factory Records is celebrating its 40th anniversary with two box-sets and two major exhibitions devoted to the label. The first box-set, ‘Use Hearing Protection’, compiles the ...

The onetime base of Manchester, England label Factory Records is to re-open as a live music venue and club entitled FAC 251 - the Factory. By Richard Smirke The onetime base of Manchester, England ...

An exhibition at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum celebrates the early years of Factory Records, and features rarely seen photographs and works from designers including Peter Saville and Ben ...

Tony Wilson, the cofounder of iconic Manchester label Factory Records (Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, A Certain Ratio, more), died in 2007 after a battle with cancer. He left a final request: ...

On Monday 23rd November 1992, Factory Records – the Manchester home to New Order and Happy Mondays and owners of the Haçienda club – went into administration with debts of over £2m. The downfall of ...

To kick off our day of content, to coincide with the release of a new Factory Records compilation, DiS has this piece from the legendary Jon Savage, who gives us his perspective in the Factory Records ...

After recording 4 tracks for TJM at Arrow Studios in Manchester – somewhere near Bootle Street, in November 1978, we had struck-up a friendship with their house engineer, Brandon Leon. This EP (You’re ...

This year is the 40th anniversary of the launch of Factory Records, an occasion marked with the release of two box sets of rare material and exhibitions in London and Manchester. Use Hearing ...

With its ties to both acid house at the Hacienda and the Madchester scene that followed, it’s easy to forget just how closely linked Factory Records had been with dance music in the years prior to ...

Pre-Madchester and before New Order’s breakout single “Blue Monday”, Manchester’s Factory Records was hard to penetrate. This quartet of reissues does a fine job in both dragging some great music out ...