Factory Records: Tony Wilson
My conversation with Tony Wilson took place on Saturday 29 October 2005 at his loft apartment on Little Peter Street in Manchester.
Factory Records: A Certain Ratio
One of the first bands signed to Factory, A Certain Ratio helped to define the label’s distinctive look and sound, from their Peter Saville-designed record sleeves to their individualistic output.
Jane Weaver
Synth wrangler extraordinaire, Jane Weaver fills us in the first and last records she bought and the one she always turns to in an emergency
John Fahey ‘Requia’ (Vanguard, 1968)
“If you’re very good I’ll invite you for tea and play ‘The Death Of The Clayton Peacock’, which would be the nicest thing that could possibly happen, and then we’ll go and feed the ducks.”
Jack Dangers
Meat Beat Manifesto’s Jack Dangers takes our probing line of quick-fire questioning in his stride.
Croc’s Glamour Club
The Essex-based antidote to exclusivity of London’s futurist club scene, Rayleigh nightclub Croc’s is best remembered as the birthplace of Depeche Mode.
Sport Sport Sport
Pop it in the goal, mate. That was easily a hole in one, ref. He’s got a googly in the bunker. Sport!
Tangerine Dream – In Search Of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979 (UMC/Virgin EMI)
Virgin Record’s run on German electronic and avant-garde talent in the 1970s kept the UK supplied with a soundtrack of electronic manifestations of mood.
Dave Ball
Perry Como, Ken Dodd, Status Quo. Not names you’d expect to see on the same page, or come to that, on these pages at all. Soft Cell’s Dave Ball reveals the early influences that shaped him.