Tag: Tony Wilson
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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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Frank Sidebottom RIP
Frank Sidebottom aka Chris Sievey RIP – been following him on Twitter I knew he had cancer but really didn’t think he’d be gone. I got to see him once at the Tate doing his Queen medley. I hope Little Frank can cope. Breaking news: it turns out Chris for all his charity work didn’t…
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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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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)…