Tag: section 25
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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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New Order 6Music playlist help
Looks like Now Playing on Friday is doing a New Order special and via Friend of Radio Clash (I should make Tshirts saying that) Jeb 50PoundNote I’ve heard they want input from New Order fans what to play…links in quite nicely with their recent Kraftwerk specials too, I bet – and New Order have some…
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Looking from a Hilltop – RIP Larry Cassidy
Word has got through via the NoRecordShopsLeft blog that Larry Cassidy of Section 25 has died. Who you might say? Well Section 25 was part of the Factory Records roster, formed in Blackpool in 1977, and one of those few electro/dance acts that prefigured and prescribed acid house, linking electro to it’s future Detroit home.…
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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)…