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  • Back to the Factory’s floor

    Back to the Factory’s floor

    8th February 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this

    Much excitement in Manchester this weekend as a fabled name returns to the city’s music scene. Factory is a club/venue complex fronted by Peter Hook, New Order’s former bassist and co-funder of another Manc icon, The Hacienda.

    Its site is the same premises that became home in 1990 to Factory Records, the label set up by Tony Wilson in the late seventies that signed up, among many others, Hooky’s band, their...

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  • Delphic and the Nerdchester sound

    Delphic and the Nerdchester sound

    21st January 2010 | 5 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Anyone who tipped Delphic as hot for 2010 can pat themselves on the back, as the Manc trio have burst out of the traps with indecent haste. Released last week, their debut album Acolyte slam dunked into the album charts top 10.

    They are obviously indebted to Manchester predecessors New Order, something I found off putting on the first couple of listens, though gradually the group’s futurist sheen and fizzing positivity...

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  • We love you Kevin, we do

    We love you Kevin, we do

    27th November 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Ouch. The party season started with a bang last night and I am still feeling the after effects. The occasion was the annual Record Of The Day Awards for Music Journalism & PR, when a motley crew of scribes and PR officers gossip, drink copiously and ignore the speeches.

    A helpful invention in its own right, Record Of The Day is both daily music news digest and talking shop. Now in...

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