Festival Fever: A Look at Manchester’s Annual Festivals
Manchester, famous for its big impact on music worldwide, is home to many different festivals every year. These festivals show...
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Inspiral Carpets to release ‘The Complete Singles’ in March – UK tour starts spring 2023
Out 17 March on Mute / BMG is Inspiral Carpets' "The Complete Singles" compiling all of the Manchester band’s 24...
The bands that caused the bankruptcy of Factory Records: New Order and Happy Mondays
Factory Records was a Manchester-based British independent record label founded in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus. The label...
Artefacts of the early days of Factory Records put on exhibition in London
(Photos and text by our UK correspondent Simon Helm) Original posters from The Factory club, along with the first steps...