Tag: 24 Hour Party People
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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…
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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…
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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…