Tag: 24 Hour Party People

  • St Anthony

    St Anthony

    Somehow missed this tribute to Tony Wilson by Mike Garry & Joe Duddell released last month, but Your Silent Face never sounded better…I heard it via the excellent Lloydbrary 72 which you should listen to. In the rain today I felt rather homesick for Manchester… Echoes of Big Hard Excellent Fish (RIP Josie) although about…

  • Factory Records – a business, a partnership, a joke

    Factory Records – a business, a partnership, a joke

    I’d never seen this – New Order making a documentary about themselves for Channel 4 in 1984 about Factory Records. Interesting interviews, and highlights that the story of Factory Records and Tony Wilson was as much a construct as anything, e.g. evil label boss vs disaffected band members which although constantly moaning still stayed with…

  • I really love New Order but…

    I really love New Order but…

    …these two videos have to be the most (un?)intentionally funny live performances they ever did, in a history of idiosyncratic live performances (remember this is the band that insisted on going onto Top of the Pops to perform the biggest selling 12″ of all time, live, and played so badly and out of tune that…

  • Acid House will NEVER DIE!

    Acid House will NEVER DIE!

    Hacienda as pictured in ’24 Hour Party People’ – great film btw …and the Hacienda, and piano house in general. I’m sure at some point acid house devotees will become annoying as punk bores, but with piano house on the rebound a and late 80’s house references on the come back (see Hercules and Love…

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