Tag: Peter Saville
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Shit Robot – Do It (Right)
DFA shows how to do a lyric video, with a nostalgic journey through record covers. Trax, Strictly Rhythm, DJ International (which is the one I usually bought, Jackmaster compilations!), C & C Music Factory, House Sound of… series and Jack Your Body cover, Streetsounds, and even nods to Peter Saville (Happy Mondays Hallelujah cover and…
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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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Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders
For those into Joy Division and New Order, until Friday 23rd Jan, see the 2007 Grant Gee documentary ‘Joy Division‘ online. You know the one were Annik Honnore is interviewed (this is why Deborah Curtis unusually refused to take part) and interviews with all the band members, Peter Saville, Paul Morley and Tony Wilson –…
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Radio Clash 127: Tony Wilson
Tribute to the influential, vociferous, and showmanlike Tony Wilson, who died on Friday. He ran Factory Records, started the Hacienda, Dry Bar and In the City, all in Manchester. I’ve only got record shops left: (70Mb, 88mins) https://www.radioclash.com/show-archive/rc_127.mp3 String Tribute to Joy Division and New Order – Love Will Tear Us Apart (original FAC 23)…
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Parkade Returneth!
Somehow I’ve become co-owner of the Parkade club in Second Life- previously run by Andy Asylum, he decided to resign last week, I played the last night. A group of the DJs got together and decided to keep the place going, rebuild it and redesign it, so DJNoNo Ulysses along with Amanda Shinji and Topher…