Factory Records: Factory Australasia
Official Australasian licensee of the Factory Records international empire by way of a liaison with Australia's GAP Records (Gardiner and Penhallow).
ANDREW PENHALLOW: "Imports were the hottest things coming into the record stores and we had to match them. Everything that Factory dropped came into these stores and went out the same day. The record stores were selling shed loads. Soon we got in touch with them all and told them we where doing the label here. We explained that we'd keep as close to the release schedule as possible and they should deal directly with us from now on. It was crucial that the packaging was good too.
"So I got onto Factory and told them we planned to release everything at the same time as them. We did not want to lose sales to imports that came out months ahead of us. Once the stores saw what we were doing they agreed to wait for our release instead of selling parallel imports. Then we changed our deal from EMI to CBS and they saw me coming. I had arguments with their printing division about the covers. They where resistant but I showed them what Factory had done in the UK. They finally got the message and realised they could do quality work if they put their minds to it. We even did Low-life (Fact 100) with the tracing-paper.
"Most labels would just send over film negatives with a colour proof for printing. But Factory sometimes sent over the proper artwork from their designers. I remember receiving the original marked-up artwork for New Order's 1981-82 (Factus 8) with transparencies. It was fantastic for me coming from a graphics background.
- interview by MATTHEW ROBERTSON with ANDREW PENHALLOW for Scream City fanzine #5.
Factory Australasia
- SFA 406 JOY DIVISION Love Will Tear Us Apart
- SFA 490 JOY DIVISION Transmission
- SFA 491 THE DURUTTI COLUMN The Durutti Column Single
- SFA 541 NEW ORDER Ceremony
- FACOZ 1001 JOY DIVISION Closer
- FACOZ 1002 THE DURUTTI COLUMN The Return Of The Durutti Column
- FACOZ 1003 JOY DIVISION Unknown Pleasures
- FACDP 1004 A CERTAIN RATIO The Double EP
- FACDM 1005/6 JOY DIVISION Still (x2)
- FACOZ 1007 NEW ORDER Movement
- FAC 53 NEW ORDER Procession
- FAC 72 A CERTAIN RATIO I Need Someone Tonight
- FAC 73 NEW ORDER Blue Monday
- FAC 73R NEW ORDER Blue Monday 1988
- FACT 75 NEW ORDER Power, Corruption & Lies
- FAC 93 NEW ORDER Confusion
- FACT 100 NEW ORDER Low-life
- FAC 103 NEW ORDER Thieves Like Us
- FACT 110 QUANDO QUANGO Pigs And Battleships
- FAC 123 NEW ORDER The Perfect Kiss
- FAC 133 NEW ORDER Sub-Culture
- FACT 135 A CERTAIN RATIO The Old & The New
- FAC 143 NEW ORDER Shellshock
- FACD 144 THE DURUTTI COLUMN Domo Arigato
- FACT 150 NEW ORDER Brotherhood
- FAC 153 NEW ORDER State Of The Nation
- FACD 154 THE DURUTTI COLUMN Circuses & Bread
- FAC 163 NEW ORDER Bizarre Love Triangle
- FACT 164 THE DURUTTI COLUMN Valuable Passages (x2)
- FACT 166 A CERTAIN RATIO Force
- FAC 166 A CERTAIN RATIO Bootsy
- FAC 167 THE RAILWAY CHILDREN Brighter
- FACT 170 HAPPY MONDAYS Squirrel And G-Man...
- FACT 182 VARIOUS ARTISTS Salvation!
- FAC 182/7 VARIOUS ARTISTS Salvation!
- FAC 183 NEW ORDER True Faith
- FAC 183R NEW ORDER True Faith Remix
- FACT 185 THE RAILWAY CHILDREN Reunion Wilderness
- FAC 192 HAPPY MONDAYS Twenty Four Hour Party People
- FAC 193 NEW ORDER Touched by The Hand Of God
- FACD 194 THE DURUTTI COLUMN When the World
- FAC 197 FADELA N'Sel Fik
- FACT 200 NEW ORDER Substance 1987 (x2)
- FACT 204 THE DURUTTI COLUMN The Guitar And Other Machines
- FAC 212 HAPPY MONDAYS Wrote For Luck
- FAC 213 JOY DIVISION Atmosphere
- FACT 220 HAPPY MONDAYS Bummed
- FAC 223 NEW ORDER Fine Time
- FAC 223R NEW ORDER Fine Time Remix
- FACD 224 THE DURUTTI COLUMN The First Four Albums (x4)
- FACT 244 THE DURUTTI COLUMN Vini Reilly
- FACT 250 JOY DIVISION Substance 1977-1980
- FAC 263 NEW ORDER Round & Round
- FAC 263R NEW ORDER Round & Round Remix
- FACT 275 NEW ORDER Technique
- FACUS 2 JOY DIVISION Atmosphere
- FACTUS 8 NEW ORDER 1981-1982 EP
- FACTUS 17 VARIOUS ARTISTS Young Popular & Sexy
- Factory Australasia Appendix
- The Gap Catalogue Numbering System