Electronic Sound Magazine - Fact 1 -100

Electronic Sound Magazine 54, is out with an article about fact 1-100

Its sold out though : https://electronicsound.co.uk/product/issue-54-print-edition/

You can get a digital version though.

Issue 54

This month’s Electronic Sound is a Factory Records special, with the focus on the first 100 Factory catalogue numbers.

We’ve built this issue around an in-depth analysis of the Factory catalogue from FAC 1 (a poster for the opening month of the Factory Club) to FACT 100 (New Order’s ‘Low-Life’ album). We also have a previously unpublished and hugely entertaining interview with label supremo Tony Wilson conducted by Factory archivist James Nice in 2005, two years before Wilson’s death at the age of just 57.

Issue 54 has lots more great interviews too, including A Certain Ratio, Minny Pops, Section 25, and Stephen Morris from Joy Division and New Order, plus additional eye witness accounts from a range of other early Factory artists, such as Cabaret Voltaire, OMD, Crispy Ambulance, John Dowie, Quando Quango, Kevin Hewick and Stockholm Monsters. We also have an archive piece on Vini Reilly of The Durutti Column which originally appeared in NME in 1980.

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Fac 33 - Ceremony;

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fac 51b - christmas flexi:

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fac 53 : procession

fac 63 : temptation

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Fact 50 : Movement

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fac 73 : Blue Monday

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fact75, PCL:

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That PC&L review is ridiculous.

‘Underwhelming’ at the time? I certainly don’t recall reviews being like that. And even if it was, why don’t they mention how important the LP turned out to be?

Along with the mention of Saville’s ‘swipe’, it reads a little like the person writing it has a bit of grudge against the LP.

Fact 77: Taras Shevchenko

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fac 93: confusion

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Fact 100: low-life

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Although these are pretty brief, they are quite interesting. Thanks for posting -1.

a brief q and a with kevin hewick:

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4 part Stephen Morris Interview:

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