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Tony Wilson

November 2023

  • The Hacienda main dancefloor, Manchester, 1989.

    Book of the day
    Manchester Unspun: How a City Got High on Music by Andy Spinoza – from Cottonopolis to Manc-hattan

    A hugely entertaining account of the city’s resurrection over four decades, relayed by a well-connected former journalist, focuses on the catalytic role of Factory Records and the Haçienda

July 2023

  • Reilly on his music: ‘It’s done. I’ve already expressed everything I needed to when I was playing it.’

    ‘I’ve played for 60 years. That’s long enough’: guitar hero Vini Reilly on PTSD, life on the streets and the little girl who saved him

    In his first interview in a decade, the Durutti Column’s hermit-like leader, once described as ‘the best guitarist in the world’, relives his extraordinary life from Manchester gangs to Factory Records

February 2023

  • ‘We couldn’t get New Order out of the DJ booth’ … the recreated Haçienda in 24 Hour Party People

    How we made
    ‘I did my climactic speech – then took half an E’: Steve Coogan on making 24 Hour Party People

    ‘We re-created the Haçienda nightclub in a Manchester warehouse,’ says the film’s director, Michael Winterbottom. ‘It was chaos – people were crying because they were so nostalgic’

January 2023

  • The Factory poster advertising the first club nights.

    Factory flaw: hunt for stolen 1977 sign that put Manchester on pop music map

    The very first Factory club night was advertised with this poster. Now its designer wants it back to complete a major archive

October 2021

  • TONY WILSON - MAY 1992

    From Manchester With Love by Paul Morley review – an epic life of Tony Wilson

    The music journalist’s celebration of the TV presenter turned Factory Records kingpin captures the energy and intelligence of a complex but inspiring man

June 2021

  • FAC checking

    Unknown treasures: the forgotten women of Manchester’s Factory Records

    A new exhibition shines a light on the female creatives and managers who helped turn the home of Joy Division and New Order into a three decade-long powerhouse

November 2020

  • Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and daughters Jenny, Eleanor and Laura Marx, 1864.

    Engels comes of age: the socialist who wanted a joyous life for everyone

    Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx’s ‘second fiddle’ is at last being recognised as the visionary he was, writes his biographer

August 2020

  • Tony Wilson.

    'You've been smoking too much!': the chaos of Tony Wilson's digital music revolution

    The Factory impresario’s company Music33 sold individual songs as MP3s three years before Apple. But with a baffling interface and dial-up connections he was doomed

March 2019

  • Ian Curtis performing live in Rotterdam, 16 January 1980.

    ‘Ian Curtis wanted to make extreme music, no half measures’

    Forty years after Joy Division’s seminal debut album, Jon Savage’s oral history sheds new light on the band

August 2016

  • Photo of Fleetwood Mac<br>UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of Fleetwood Mac Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

    Pop quiz: from funeral songs to Fleetwood Mac – do you know this week in music history?

    We’re talking loved ones, Led pollution and new livers – test your knowledge

September 2015

  • New New Order: Stephen Morris, Tom Chapman, Bernard Sumner, Phil Cunningham and Gillian Gilbert.

    New Order: ‘There’s no point in just staying together for the kids’

    Manchester’s synth-pop veterans are back with a new album, a new lineup and a newfound joy in the electronic sound they made their own with 1989’s era-defining Technique

August 2015

  • Tony Wilson in 1992

    Listen up
    Happy Mondays' Rowetta on Tony Wilson: 'He made you love Manchester'

    As the single St Anthony: An ode to Anthony H Wilson, a celebration of the late legend debuts, the Happy Mondays’ Rowetta Idah, New Order’s Bernard Sumner and more remember the Factory Records pioneer

April 2014

  • New order … Section 25

    A Factory Night review – 'Section 25: the best new/old band in Britain?'

    Former Factory acts Crispy Ambulance and Minny Pops are reformed and re-energised, while Bethany Cassidy gives the family group a brilliant makeover, writes Dave Simpson

June 2013

  • Alex Ferguson of Manchester United

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best Mancunians – in pictures

    As the city prepares for its international festival, we celebrate the people who put the great into Greater Manchester

January 2013

  • Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty

    Trailer trash
    Trailer Trash

    Jason Solomons: Madchester inches towards the West End, Ken Loach demonstrates the wonder of socialism, and Kathryn Bigelow can't tell one London bus from another

December 2012

  • Singer Ellery Roberts

    Are Britain's bands overexposed in a YouTube universe?

    Wu Lyf among growing number of UK rock acts unable to bear intense pressure of social media scrutiny

September 2012

  • New Order in 2012

    New Order: a marvellously unexpected rebirth

    Bernard Sumner and Gillian Gilbert reflect on Joy Division, Peter Hook and 30 years of chaos

July 2012

  • Hacienda nightclub was at the heart of Manchester's infamous Madchester scene, 1989

    How we made
    How we made: Ben Kelly and Peter Hook on the Haçienda club

    ‘We even had an inflatable pool in there one night – and it burst’

May 2012

  • First Street, Manchester, new home of the merged Cornerhouse cinema and Library Theatre Company

    Cornerhouse and Library Theatre Company in £25m arts merger

    Contemporary arts venue for Manchester under construction and due to open in 2014 opposite former Hacienda club

April 2012

  • Hot At The Hacienda

    Madchester remembered: 'There was amazing creative energy at the time'

    Shaun Ryder, Peter Hook, Tim Burgess and other key figures in the Madchester scene share their memories of the sounds, the clothes and atmosphere with Luke Bainbridge

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