The New Order / Factory Thread

[big screen satellite]

i know new order are basically dead... and well we know about Tony H, but their memory lives on for sure...

i'm sure we had an official thread for NO but I couldn't find one, so i've started this one... what with 'Control' coming out imminently...

Anyway, most pressing news is tonight's show on BBC4 for those in teh UK who have satellite or those who can access it via the interweb

http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/factory/

its a full documentary about Factory Records

if its on the beeb (and esepcially BBC4) it is likely to be very good

get there - if you love everything N'Order / Factory obviously

post here any other related comments or New Order / JD related snippets

cheers

Matt

[spacejunk]

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[Scott Warner]

Mmmm... yeah, the Factory/NewOrder/Peter Saville/Joy Division/Rob Gretton/Tony Wilson/etc. creative force were easily the most formative thing present in my childhood. Until the early 90's there was little else I paid attention to other than girls.

I mean just take one New Order 12". Let's say, "Fine Time". The WHOLE OBJECT is a carefully constructed work of art. The cover. The high quality inner sleeve. The hidden inscriptions on the inner side of the vinyl. The enigmatic "no name, no marketing" policy still in full-effect. And then the MUSIC: 909s, 303s, the acid house experience mutated and filtered through the New Order perspective all culminating in a big fuck off ending like all of their classic records during the 80s.

I don't expect most people to really understand but for me it's still untouchable stuff. luvluvluluvv

[BrotherLovesDub]

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/all...-people--18267

if you're in london. you're a lucky bastard.

[joethelion]

has anyone bought this?

Factory Records Graphic Album

I keep meaning to pick it up...

and I'd totally agree with Scott about the "whole object" being a piece of art... I've even bought 12"-es of New Order's where I didn't really even like the song, or I already had the tracks on the vinyl -> just b/c of the cover

[BrotherLovesDub]

i bought it in hardcover and softcover

worth every penny.

[joethelion]

so - do you get nice full-page presentations of the album covers?

or is it like most of the books/magazines about album covers - where the majority of the images are scaled down tiny?

[BrotherLovesDub]

loads and loads of full page stuff. it's truly beautiful. i recommend the Hardcover. worth the extra money. i bought the softcover so i could cut out some images for framing, it's that nice!

[joethelion]

ok good... I've had it in my 'wish list' (or whatever) on like amazon for aaaages b/c I could never actually see what it looked like on the inside

[big screen satellite]

definitely buy it

its one of my fav books


factory records were something that will never be bettered, their whole ethos, and management sadly have died with one man...

long live factory