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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. 
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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.
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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.
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Berlin after Bowie: Alexander Hacke, Mick Harvey, Simon Bonney

“It was a fact of life as a little kid,” recalls Alexander Hacke, musician, producer, filmmaker and long-time Einstürzende Neubauten member, born and raised in Berlin and a major participant in the city’s post-punk, pre-rave scene in the 1980s. “I’d go out on the street and play, go around one more corner, and there would be a wall.”
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Barrie: Happy Talking

In a world where it feels like there’s not much to celebrate, the uplifting, thoughtful pop of New York-based five-piece Barrie is sure to put a skip in your step