Stanton Miranda - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Stanton Miranda's cover of the classic song Love Will Tear Us Apart was recorded in 1995 and appears on the A Means To An End: The Music Of Joy Division album.

Grace Jones - She's Lost Control

Confusion in her eyes that says it all

Section 25 - Looking from a Hilltop (Version 2)

This track had been reworked by Bernard Sumner (New Order) and A Certain Ratio drummer Donald Johnson (aka DoJo) as the single on FAC 108 (Factory Records release). Other releases of this song, the much extended "Restructure" and "Megamix" versions met with considerable success, particularly on import in the US, where Hilltop broke as a club hit in New York. The single also received extensive airplay, and succeeded in crossing over to black and Hot Mix stations in the Chicago area (as well as being a big hit in clubs like Medusa's and Orbit Room). Hilltop was also sampled by both The Shamen (1992) and Orbital (1993).

Confusion 1987

Love will tear us apart (Arthur Baker remix)

Joy Division - Decades

A slim, dark haired woman, dressed in a strapless summer dress and a straw sun hat, wearing high heels, walks towards your grave. She leaves a bunch of bluebells, daffodils and pink carnations and her eyes spill hot tears for the long ago pain that you couldn't bear.

This was the day, that tore all your fans apart 28 years ago.

Quando Quango - Tingle

The Wake - The Drill

FACT 220 Bummed LP

The Return of the Durutti Column poster

Fac 3.11 The Return of the Durutti Column 1967 poster

Minny Pops Biography

Of all the fascinating bands to emerge from the twinned label stable of Factory and Crepuscule in the post-punk era, Dutch electro pioneers Minny Pops are probably the least understood, and least lauded. Which is a great pity, since much of their output still impresses today as powerful and original experimental music. (...)

Thick Pigeon - Fred + Andy

Here's a song from Thick Pigeons album Too Crazy Cowboys, Fred + Andy. It features also a cover of Moon River.

Minny Pops - Dolphin's Spurt

Minimal melodies and murky, crumbling noises

New Order - The Perfect Kiss

New Order - full version of The Perfect Kiss, performed live in the studio March 1985

Durutti Column - Missing Boy

Live 1980 a song about Ian Curtis

Bernard Sumner talks to Peter Saville

Bernard Sumner talks to Peter Saville about the Hacienda and Factory Records. 1984