Talk:Factory Records
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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark released just one single on Factory; they may have become 'prominent' later on, but I think it's misleading to imply that they were during their very brief time there.Silver plane
Does anyone know the dates for when Factory Records started business? For when they stopped? -- Infrogmation 20:34, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- 1978-1992, I think. Someone needs to turn up the NME article from 1992 on the death of Factory. - David Gerard 12:56, May 3, 2004 (UTC)
- Off the top of my head, I think Factory went into liquidation on November 23, 1992. Bonalaw 11:20, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"Against the commercially controlling attitudes of contempory record labels, Wilson wrote a contract, written in his own blood, which was displayed on the wall of the Factory Records office stating "The label owns nothing, the band owns everything, the bands have the freedom to fuck off whenever they want"."
This is a tall tale from 24 Hour Party People. Factory did actually have a similar piece of paper for New Order/Joy Division - which is why they couldn't leverage those works when they were going bust - but did own the recordings of the other bands (except where excluded by deal) in the normal fashion, as I understand it. - David Gerard 12:56, May 3, 2004 (UTC)
- Weren't Happy Mondays the first band Factory actually had under contract? Bonalaw 11:20, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)