Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson

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One of the great things about the band was how they changed perceptions of Manchester. Those of us that aren’t part of a London scene, ie: the majority of the population, we know how hard it is to be noticed. We know how London-centric the media and industry is, so to have the Roses come through really turned all of that on its head and that is a very valuable part of what they did. Golden, Audrey (4 May 2023). I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records. Orion. ISBN 978-1-3996-0620-2. Founded by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, the label played an influential part in the city’s transformation from an industrial powerhouse to a beacon of art and culture by reclaiming its past and leading a new wave of creative industries, a move that continues to influence the city’s culture today. Nice, James (2010). Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records. Aurum. ISBN 978-1-84513-540-9. It was alright, but it didn’t have the vibe or the atmosphere or the simplicity of the first record. A lot of these records you hear them once and they sound sensational, and everyone gives them a five star review, but you don’t want to hear them again. It’s like a fairground ride – you go on it and it’s really exciting and fantastic, but you don’t want to go round it again.

a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.199. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. In the book, there’s an interview with Lindsay Reade, Wilson’s first wife, who felt that Factory Records should have shut down right after Joy Division singer Ian Curtis’ suicide in 1980. And in the movie 24 Hour Party People, Wilson is portrayed as somewhat insenstive and indifferent over the death of Curtis. But in your book, that wasn’t the case: Wilson was truly distraught upon first hearing the tragic news. Um... so feelings are mixed with this one. I definitely expected to like it way more than I actually did. Paul Morley, author of 'From Manchester With Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson.' credit: Photo courtesy of the author.The early years were vitally important in setting the scene for everything that followed with Factory, the way that the label and the bands were talked about, how it and they talked about themselves, the ethos and the look of what was produced … nobody at the start would have, in their wildest dreams, believed that we’d still be here talking about it today…” I always think it’s important when something new happens in music. I think it’s always important that there is some kind of stylistic statement that is in some way offensive to the generation that has gone before. Whether that is wearing straight trousers when everyone is wearing flares, or wearing huge flares at a time when that was considered anathema. It was really quite amazing going to the Ally Pally show and seeing really young kids wearing these huge Joe Bloggs flares. I felt like I was dressed like an accountant compared to these kids. I definitely felt the generation gap. The band limped on for another six months before their final, disastrous appearance at Reading Festival in August 1996, when the emotionless guitar-playing, sub-standard vocals and overall poor sound was met with boos from the disappointed crowd. It was the Roses’ last stand. Osuh, Chris (24 March 2008). "Tony Wilson Will Revealed". Manchester Evening News . Retrieved 24 March 2008.

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I got a call from the NME saying, “The Stone Roses are appearing in court in Wolverhampton today. Get down there and do a report on it”. So we went down and there was no one else there; no one else knew about it. They had done this ridiculous thing with paint, which was a very sort of artistic gesture of vandalism, and they were appearing in court and nobody was there. We watched them as they came in. Basically the charges were read out and they lead them out again. They didn’t say anything. While we were standing there, because I’d been to art school, I drew a court picture of them, which NME ran the next week, cos there was no photographer there.

The early years of Factory Records did so much to influence the city and the UK’s contemporary creative industries, and this exhibition explores why its unique development could only have happened in Manchester at this time and involving this group of people. The guy who managed the Hacienda, Howard Jones, was their manager briefly. I think most people in Manchester’s initial introduction to the Roses was when we saw their name graffitied all over the place. This heartfelt and searingly honest memoir details the relationship between legendary music impresario Tony Wilson and his first wife, Lindsay Reade. Wilson was a partner in the annual In the City [11] and Interactive City [12] music festivals and industry conferences, and also F4 Records, the fourth version of Factory Records, which was set up to be an online distributor for Wilson's long term protégé Vini Reilly, of the Durutti Column. [ citation needed] Politics [ edit ] Ian Brown, John Squire, Mani and Reni had become household names. They’d even appeared on the national institution that is Top Of The Pops – sharing the stage with brothers-in-arms The Happy Mondays, and performing ‘Fools Gold’ in all its loved-up glory.In 1990, Charlemagne and Bowry re-emerged under the name Cool Down Zone. They invited 52nd Street's live drummer Mike Wilson to join, and they released the album New Direction. They released two singles from the album; "Heaven Knows" and "Waiting For Love". "Heaven Knows" reached No. 52 on the UK Singles Chart. [12] They released two more singles, "Lonely Hearts" in 1992 and "Essential Love" in 1993, before disbanding. Tony Henry went on to form FR'Mystery, releasing music on the imprint Gwarn Records between 1991 and 1994. In music you tend to have people who imitate and you have people that innovate and the Roses set themselves apart instantly by the way that they looked. I know that sounds quite shallow but the Roses had their own universe. It wasn’t about, ‘is our music different?’ It was about, ‘are we different?’, ‘do we have something new to say?’ and ‘how are we going to be noted?’ I’d go down to the studio and they’d be playing ghetto blasters with all this different music. It was like hanging out at someone’s flat for an old fashioned record session. Dub reggae, obscure hip-hop, deep Chicago house music, and interspersed with that, The Clash and Zeppelin. It was a cacophony of wonderfulness.

a b "52nd Street – Chart History: Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016 . Retrieved 11 July 2014. a b Taylor, Paul (10 August 2007). "Wilson put city on the map". Manchester Evening News . Retrieved 17 January 2010. Nevertheless, his love and need for Annik was unarguable. He continued in his letters to tell her that he loved her and wanted to be with her. It's not difficult to see how he saw no way out of his dilemma. McDonald was replaced by Diane Charlemagne (later lead vocalist with Moby and would go on to bigger UK success with the Urban Cookie Collective). [5]

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Use Hearing Protection: The early years of Factory Records tells the story of the four-year period at the very beginning of Manchester’s iconic independent record label. Factory’s history has been described by Dave Haslam as ‘lad heavy’. One of the amplified stories we tell in the exhibition looks at five key women involved in the Factory story at the start. The story questions whether Factory Records was inclusive of women deliberately or coincidentally. Lesley Gilbert photographed by Alison Surtees, courtesy of the Manchester Digital Music Archive Trust