Tag: hooky
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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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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…
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New Order Western Works demos resurface…
Something I seem to have missed in 2009 is that via an eBay sale of a reel found in a Chorlton charity shop the legendary Western Works demos have now seen the light of day, and are downloadable for free from The Power of Independent Trucking blog – including a never-before heard of Cabaret Voltaire…