Factory Records

Factory Records was a Manchester, England based record label, started in 1978 which featured several prominent musical acts, such as Joy Division, New Order, The Durutti Column, The Happy Mondays, and (briefly) James and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Like the label 4AD, Factory Records used a creative team (most notably record producer Martin Hannett and graphic designer Peter Saville) which gave the label, and the artists recording for it, a particular sound and image. The label employed a unique cataloguing process that saw every album, piece of art or item of property (including their famous nightclub The Haçienda and its resident cat) labelled with 'FAC' and an appropriate number (the nightclub was FAC 51; the cat was FAC 191).

Bands on Factory Records:

• Artists who have recorded for Factory Records
• 52nd Street
• A Certain Ratio
• Abecedarians
• Ad Infinitum
• Adventure Babies
• Anna Domino
• Biting Tongues
• Cabaret Voltaire
• Cath Carroll
• Crawling Chaos
• Crispy Ambulance
• Distractions
• The Durutti Column
• Electronic
• ESG
• Fadela
• Happy Mondays
• James
• Jazz Defektors
• John Dowie
• Joy Division
• Kalima
• Kevin Hewick
• Life
• Little Big Band
• Marcel King
• Miaow
• Minny Pops
• New Order
• Northside
• Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
• The Other Two
• The Pleasure Crew
• Quando Quango
• Railway Children
• Red Turns To
• Revenge
• Royal Family And The Poor
• Section 25
• Shark Vegas
• Stockholm Monsters
• Streetlife
• Swamp Children
• The Wake
• Tunnel Vision
• X-o-dus