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FAC codes, history, and visual moments
Manchester, 1978–
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FAC 51: The Haçienda — rare walkthrough footage (Ikon Films)

A rare glimpse inside Manchester’s legendary Haçienda nightclub, filmed by Ikon Films.

This footage offers a unique look at the interior of FAC 51, capturing Ben Kelly’s iconic industrial design, the famous yellow and black aesthetic, the dancefloor, bar areas, and the atmosphere of the club before its later transformations.

More than just a venue, The Haçienda was the physical heart of Factory Records — a space where music, art, design, and Manchester’s culture collided to create something completely unique.

A true time capsule of one of the most important clubs in music history.

#FAC51 #TheHacienda #FactoryRecords #Manchester #Madchester by @factoryrecords_

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Factory wasn’t just a record label.

It was a cultural experiment that connected music, graphic design, architecture, nightlife, and art into one vision.

From Joy Division and New Order to The Haçienda and FAC 251, its influence can still be seen across Manchester and far beyond.

This is the story of Factory.

#FactoryRecords #Manchester #TheHacienda #FAC51 #JoyDivision taken in Manchester, England, UK by @factoryrecords_

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“Hallelujah, hallelujah
We’re here to pull ya…”

Happy Mondays Hallelujah the club mix that blew the doors off Factory and dragged indie straight onto the dancefloor. Andrew Weatherall and Paul Oakenfold at the controls, twisting the Mondays into a full‑blown acid‑house riot.

This wasn’t a remix. It was a cultural collision.
Baggy swagger meets rave euphoria the sound of Manchester reinventing itself in real time. The Mondays in their prime. Weatherall and Oakenfold at their most fearless. Factory Records letting chaos become history.

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Pure Madchester energy.

#HappyMondays #Hallelujah #AndrewWeatherall #PaulOakenfold #FactoryRecords #Madchester #ManchesterMusic #AcidHouse #BaggyForever by @factoryrecords_

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Electronic – Feel Every Beat, Cities In The Park, Heaton Park 1991.

Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr onstage, Manchester in the palm of their hands listen to your father, listen to your brother ringing out across Heaton Park like a call to the city itself.

One of the most iconic Madchester moments ever captured. A Factory Records heartbeat. A festival built in honour of Martin Hannett, the architect behind the sound of Joy Division, New Order and the post‑punk world that followed.

The lineup was unreal Hook’s Revenge, OMD, 808 State, Happy Mondays, ACR, De La Soul, Durutti Column, Cabaret Voltaire… Manchester at absolute peak power.

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Full‑on Madchester.
Madchester past, present, future

#Madchester #Electronic #BernardSumner #JohnnyMarr #FactoryRecords #CitiesInThePark #MartinHannett #HeatonPark #ManchesterMusic #FeelEveryBeat by @factoryrecords_

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A Certain Ratio performing live at the WOMAD Festival on Mersea Island, Essex, in July 1985.

WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) brought together artists from different musical backgrounds, and the 1985 festival featured a mix of international performers alongside British acts including New Order, The Fall and A Certain Ratio.

ACR played a set that included “Sounds Like Something Dirty”, “The Fox”, “Si Fermir O Grido”, “Shack Up”, “Life’s a Scream”, “Wild Party”, “Flight”, “Touch”and “Knife Slits Water”.

Here they are performing “Shack Up”captured by Soundsville International. The footage was originally filmed using a large VHS-C camera and tape deck, transferred to VHS, and this version has been mastered from that VHS tape.

#ACertainRatio #FactoryRecords #WOMAD #Manchester #ShackUp taken in Manchester, England, UK by @factoryrecords_

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Joy Division performing ‘Shadowplay’ at Bowdon Vale Youth Club in Altrincham, 14th March 1979.

Filmed by Malcolm Whitehead, this footage captures the band just a few months before the release of Unknown Pleasures. ‘Shadowplay’ was already part of their live set, alongside songs like ‘She’s Lost Control’ and ‘Leaders of Men’, which were also performed that night.

The gig was part of a busy period for the band as they continued playing around Manchester and beyond, developing their sound on stage before the release of their debut album in June 1979.

Bowdon Vale Youth Club, Altrincham, 14/03/79.

#JoyDivision #Shadowplay #IanCurtis #FactoryRecords #postpunk taken in Manchester, England, UK by @factoryrecords_

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TONIGHT! at @dingwallscamden - A Certain Ratio @acr.mcr

Doors open at 19.30
A Certain Ratio set 1 - Sextet at 20.15
A Certain Ratio set 2 - Force at 21.20

ONLY 30 TICKETS LEFT, available now via Dice

It’s 45 years since ACR went into Revolution Studios in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport to record the 1982 album Sextet and it’s 40 years since the release of the 1986 album Force which was also recorded in Stockport but at Yellow 2.

Sextet is ACR’s most critically acclaimed album and it was the first album they produced as ACR, it includes the majestic Lucinda and the live favourite Knife Slits Water.

Force is one of their most commercial albums, produced by ACR and the late Stuart (Jammer) James and is their last album on Factory Records, it includes funky masterpiece Mickey Way and live party favourite Si Firmo O Grido.

Each album is starkly different to each other yet very clearly ACR.

“We’re celebrating these two milestones with this tour to say we are very excited is an understatement. It will be a real challenge, which we’ve already started preparing for, with nine months to go! We will be playing two sets with no support”

Sextet 11 weeks on the UK independent chart and reached No 1

Force spent 9 weeks on the UK independent charts peaking at No. 2.

Sounds 5 star review “SEXTET is an album of the present, killing the past and agreeably ignoring the future. It is an after-Rock Record. This is one of the most strategically tired albums you’ll hear all year. It is also one of the best.”

NME praised Sextet for its "taut, abrasive swagger" and its unique blend of Afro-Brazilian rhythms, dance-funk, and avant-jazz, with tracks like Knife Slits Wate" and Lucinda recognized as masterful, rhythmic post-punk. by @factoryrecords_

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Some people make records. Peter Saville made the things you held in your hands while the records played.

“The Factory Records covers were not about making people buy the records. They didn’t even try to make people buy the record. They existed independently to the music, and therefore people’s relationships with them were quite different. The people who liked the covers or became interested in the covers saw them as possessions - they learnt through them, things they maybe didn’t know before.” Peter Saville

#OTD 9th of October in 1955, Peter Saville was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England. 71 today.

Tony Wilson met him after a bad Patti Smith gig, and two weeks later Saville turned up with a book on Jan Tschichold. “Peter was cleverer than me,” Wilson wrote years later.

Saville never pretended the sleeves were about the bands: “It was about things that I saw and wished were part of my reality,” he told Dezeen. When he said in Berlin in 2012 that he hadn’t thought about the music while designing New Order’s covers, Bernard Sumner shot back: “And we didn’t think about the sleeves when we recorded the music.” Peter Hook has said they’d have been fine releasing the records “if it came in a paper bag.”

Out of that happy disconnect came Closer, with Bernard Pierre Wolff’s photograph of the Appiani family tomb in Genoa’s Staglieno cemetery.

And the kids who grew up staring at those sleeves took notes. Suede’s Brett Anderson, per the Design Museum, was obsessed with Saville’s Factory work as a teenager and later hired him for Coming Up. Jarvis Cocker says Saville and John Currin “probably taught me more about art than I learned in art school.” OMD’s Andy McCluskey called him “a kindred spirit.”

Happy birthday, Peter. Thanks for all the things we got to keep.

Today’s soundtrack: Joy Division, New Order, OMD,Durrutti Column ,Pulp and Suede.

#PeterSaville #Factory #FactoryRecords #JoyDivision NewOrder OMD Pulp Suede OTD albumcover sleevedesign taken in Manchester, United Kingdom by @factoryrecords_

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FAC BN 4 | Crispy Ambulance – The Presence

Crispy Ambulance were a Manchester post-punk band formed in 1977 by Alan Hempsall, Robert Davenport, Keith Darbyshire and Gary Madeley.

The band joined Factory Records in 1980 with the support of Rob Gretton, releasing Unsightly & Serene as FAC 32. In June 1981, The Presence appeared on FAC BN 4, Live on a Hot August Night, released through Factory Benelux.

Produced by Martin Hannett, the 12-inch record featured two tracks: “The Presence” and “Concorde Square”. Factory also shot a video for “The Presence”, bringing the band’s distinctive sound to the screen.

#FactoryRecords #CrispyAmbulance #FactoryBenelux #postpunk #Manchester taken in Manchester, England, UK by @factoryrecords_

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FACT 26 – Durutti in Paris

Planned for 27 April 1980 at the Bataclan in Paris, FAC 26 was a Factory Records event featuring The Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio, Section 25 and A Boy Alone (Eric Random).

The show was cancelled before it took place, but seven posters had already been printed. Designed by Stephen Horsfall, with the concept by Alan Erasmus, the silver-on-black poster is now one of the rarest early Factory artefacts.

Factory later referred to FAC 26 as the “Paris video show”. The reason for the cancellation isn’t clearly documented.

#factoryrecords #manchester #durutticolumn #acertainratio #section25 taken in Manchester, England, UK by @factoryrecords_

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Quando Quango performing “Go Exciting” at The Haçienda in 1983, featured in A Factory Outing (FACT 71).

Featuring Gonnie Rietveld, Mike Pickering, Donald Johnson and Reinier Rietveld.

A Factory Records film documenting the Haçienda and also some of the artists around the label at the time.

#quandoquango #factoryrecords #thehaçienda #manchester #postpunk taken in Manchester, England, UK by @factoryrecords_

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FACT 25, Joy Division’s second and final studio album, released on 18 July 1980.

Recorded with Martin Hannett at Britannia Row Studios in London in March 1980, Closer was released two months after Ian Curtis’ death.

The album contains nine tracks, including “Atrocity Exhibition”, “Isolation”, “Heart and Soul”, “Twenty Four Hours”, “The Eternal” and “Decades”.

The sleeve was designed by Peter Saville and Martyn Atkins, featuring a photograph by Bernard-Pierre Wolff of a tomb in the Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno in Genoa, Italy.

The original Factory pressing came in a distinctive textured sleeve, with later pressings using a different finish. The album was also later issued on cassette as FACT 25C and on CD as FACD 25.

FACT 25 sits right in the middle of one of the most important periods in the Factory catalogue, coming directly after FACT 24, A Factory Quartet, and shortly before the final Joy Division releases and the beginning of New Order.

#FactoryRecords #JoyDivision #Closer #postpunk #iancurtis taken in Manchester, England, UK by @factoryrecords_

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