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Factory Records Becomes Peter Hook's New Club

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Published Jan. 14, 2010 at 1:44 a.m.

The low-slung New Order bassist is set to open a new live music venue. Has he learnt nothing from the Hacienda? ...

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The Charlatans' Tim Burgess gets Factory Records New Order tattoo

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Published Sept. 18, 2009 at 5:21 p.m.

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Singer gets 'FAC.33' in homage to their single 'Ceremony' ...

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Bat for Lashes: she's not wicked, nor kooky. And don't tell her she's like Tori Amos

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Published Sept. 5, 2009 at 6:06 p.m.

Follow Natasha Khan, the artist known as Bat for Lashes, across a series of revealing interviews in New York and Britain as the cult artist hits the mainstream with her album Two Suns and a Mercury nomination ... Natasha Khan does not feel herself. She is standing in the living room of a cramped Brooklyn apartment on a frosty January morning. If first impressions count, then the 29-year-old performer is not sure that she is making the right one. She is wearing a blonde bob wig and scarlet

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Will Hodgkinson meets the indie bands and folk singers of the Faroe Islands

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Published June 14, 2009 at 5:15 a.m.

The Faroe Islands, halfway to Iceland, has a tiny population with a huge appetite for fish, whale hunting and astonishing music. Will Hodgkinson meets the indie bands and folk singers - and the group that plays cement mixers ... Audio slideshow: Hear Faroese music and see more photographs by Murdo Macleod ... On a rain-soaked beach in the Faroese village of Gøta, Jón Tyril, founder of the G! Festival, is telling me about this summer's event. I've expressed concern that a stage, an audience and

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Various Artists: Factory Records: Communications 1978-92

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Published Feb. 10, 2009 at 4:00 a.m.

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This 4xCD box set covering 15 years of music from Manchester's legendary Factory imprint-- Joy Division, New Order, OMD, A Certain Ratio, Happy Mondays, and many more are represented-- has the difficult task of summarizing a famously wayward label ... read more ...

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