Factory Records: Appendix

This page contains details of items of significance not afforded a formal Factory catalogue number. See also the separate Of Factory New York Appendix.

Appendix listing

Factory Christmas
POSTER/CARD
1983

Design: PHILL PENNINGTON

Notes: Printed in black, yellow and red. FAC 120 logo and matching "Christmas tree" (both on 45-degree rotated angles). Poster: 13" x 21"; card 3.5" x 7.5".

Factory Game Plan
STICKER
(81)

Design: n/a

Notes: Release schedule sticker; printed black and metallic silver, 140mm x 110mm, includes FAC 47 'Anvil' logo (first appearance?).

Reads as follows (reformatted in portrait style for ease of viewing):
F C L (FACTORY RECORDS DIVISION), GAME PLAN, Second Half of '81.

DAVID MACH; Haçienda
INSTALLATION/POSTER/LEAFLET
(86)

Design: n/a

Notes: Factory Records and New Order commissioned artist David Mach to create an installation in the Haçienda. It consisted of thousands (?) of New Order 'Confusion' 12" singles stacked around some of the central steel pillars. There was also a limited edition poster, along with an advertising leaflet.

Poster: 9" x 24"; leaflet: 4" x 11.75".

FAC 51 & FAC 251 Flags
FLAG
85, 88

Design: n/a

Notes: Two flags for use on the Whitworth Street building roof. made by a local flag company, both use the FAC 51 number; one flag is pale blue and cream, the other is dark blue and cream.

ADDITIONAL FLAGS:
FAC 120 logo (black on white background); flew at FAC 251. 51 / 201 (black on white background); flew at FAC 51.

Factory Postmark
LOGO
(??)

Design: n/a

Notes: Postage meter cancellation mark ("Factory Communications Limited" and logo) for envelopes/mailings.

Haçienda Postmark
LOGO
(??)

Design: n/a

Notes: Postage meter cancellation mark ('FAC 51, The Haçienda' logo) for envelopes/mailings.

'Digital Factory Product'
ADVERTISEMENT
10/86

Design: n/a

Notes: A full-page (grid-layout) advertisement in the Nov/Dec '86 isssue of 'The Catalogue' listing 1986 CD releases (FACD 10, 25, 75, 100, 144, 150, 154, 164. 166, 200) and planned (matching the CD issue) DAT format (FACT 'D') releases for 1987; only one of the DAT format releases listed (FACT 200D) was actually manufactured.

It contains the only use of a "bar code-style" ('digital') Factory Records logo.

Thanks to The Factory Records Project [->] for imagery.

'Release Dates'
T-SHIRT
87

Design: n/a

Notes: Upcoming Factory releases and their corresponding (proposed) dates. White t-shirt with grey printing.

"13th july: fac 157 section 25 - bad news week fac 184 durutti column - our lady of the angels 20th july: fac 183 new order - true faith 17th august: fact 200 new order - substance 31st august: stockholm monsters - partyline fac 821 the hood & jumpin' jesus - salvation fac 178 the wake - something that no one else could bring 14th september: fac 189 miaow - breaking the code fac 188 biting tongues - compressor fac 190 wim mertens - educes me..."

'Factory'
CLOTHING TAG
89

Design: PETER SAVILLE

Notes: White nylon with black embroidered logo, for use in Factory clothing sold at FAC 281.

The tag was designed to be stitched at one end only and to hang off the garment; used on the FAC 299 T-shirt.

'An endless adventure...an endless passion...and endless banquet': A Situationalist Handbook
CATALOGUE/BOOK
89

Design: JOHN MITCHELL & JANE HARPER

Notes: 100 pgs (incl. cover); A4; published by Verso/ICA; ISBN 0 86091 983 8; sandpaper cover donated by English Abrasives and Chemical Limited; Edited by Iwona Blazwick.

Situationist International selected documents from 1957 to 1972; documents tracing the impact on British culture from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Factory-sponsored catalogue to the ICA 'On the Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Period of Time' Situationalist exhibitions held at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and ICA (London and Boston) during 1989-1990.

'Revenge'
BADGES
??

Design: n/a

Notes: Set of 4 Revenge enamel badges ("R", "R w/cross", "Revenge Oval", "Revenge Shield").

Thanks to The Factory Image Banque for imagery.

'Manchester United'
T-SHIRT
91

Design: n/a

Notes: Red t-shirt with "Factory" (white) and "Manchester United Football Club" (white & yellow) logos. (Commemorating the 1991 European Cup Winners' Cup win?). AHW was a Man Utd fan.

Thanks to The Factory Image Banque for imagery.

'02'
T-SHIRT
92

Design: n/a

Notes: The Other Two t-shirt; dark blue (w/silver) using the 12" inner sleeve graphics from the "Tasty Fish" (FAC 329) single.

'Cities in the Park': Manchester Music Festival
EVENT/ALBUM/VIDEO
8/4/91

VHS: UK 1992 (Palace Video 2268S) [PAL] *

Notes: {82 mins.}

?:?? A CERTAIN RATIO: Wonder Y
?:?? NEW FAST AUTOMATIC DAFFODILS: Fishes Eyes
?:?? THE DURUTTI COLUMN: Fado
?:?? ASHLEY AND JACKSON: Come Alive
?:?? RUTHLESS RAP ASSASSINS: Why Me?
?:?? CABARET VOLTAIRE: Don't Walk Away
?:?? NATURAL LIFE: Strange World
?:?? BUZZCOCKS: Ever Fallen In Love....
?:?? ADVENTURE BABIES: My Only Way **
?:?? REVENGE: Bleachman
?:?? THE WENDYS: Suckling
?:?? ELECTRONIC: Feel Every Beat
?:?? HAPPY MONDAYS: Kinky Afro (excerpt)
?:?? HAPPY MONDAYS: God's Cop (excerpt)
?:?? HAPPY MONDAYS: Dennis & Lois (excerpt)
?:?? HAPPY MONDAYS: Wrote For Luck (excerpt)

* Directed by Terry Zoakipny.
** The "Live At Heaton Park 4.8.91" promo video for FACT 335 contains the full set.

Music festival held at Heaton Park, Manchester, August 4, 1991. Factory intended to release 'Cities In The Park' as an LP in early 1992, which was then given up in favour of a video, which was then given up as well. The video was then released in 1992 by Palace Video.

The event was subtitled: "In Memoriam Martin Hannett". (A week later, Factory released FACT 325 'Martin, The Work of Martin Hannett'.) Posters and t-shirts were made for this event.

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