Product Description

Factory Records was the most successful independent record company to come out of Manchester and its reputation and fortune were founded on two bands - Joy Divison and New Order. Factory's founder, Tony Wilson, established an identity and design style which was internationally admired. At the height of its success, in the late 1980s, the company was at the core of the rave scene, running its own club - the Hacienda. But by the 1990s success had gone sour and in 1992 Factory went into receivership. This book tells the inside story of Factory and contains interviews with all the key figures, including Tony Wilson and the remaining members of New Order.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1884289 in Books
• Published on: 1996-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 310 pages

Customer Reviews

Only for those interested in the Joy Division mythos.
A book that might be interesting for the Joy Division/New Order fan obsessed with collecting anything even remotely related to the esoteric and arty band. A book that most likely would be incredibly boring to anyone else. The book gives some details about other Factory Records bands like the Duritti Column and James, but essentially, it always drifts back to the subject of Ian Curtis and Joy Division/New Order. There is some interesting anecdotes about New Order's times in America, and there are some great pictures, but other than that, perhaps not worth all the money...

This is the story of a scene, not a simple rock biography.
It's true that if you go in expecting just another Joy Division story you'll be disappointed, but this is about the evolution of the Manchester scene centering on Factory Records and spiralling outwards.I thought the author was very astute and I would place the book alongside "England's Dreaming" and "Lipstick Traces" as a good example of the richness of music journalism. Definitely not the worst book you've ever read in your life.

Don't buy this one: it's boring.
This book is simply the worst book I have ever read. period.

Save your money & buy Brian Edge's book on the same topic or even better buy a Joy Division or New Order CD.

This book is too long by about 300 pages; full of irrelvancy; incredibly self-indulgent; poorly written, almost to the point of incomprehension; full of in-jokes and references that mean little to anyone not living in Manchester; and very very dull.

Your time and money can be better spent. And the worst thing about it is that I stuck through it, in the hope that as I read more it might get better. It didn't.