From its figurehead Tony Wilson through to the male-dominated bands that found fame on the label, Factory Records is sometimes seen as the epitome of a muso lad fest. But a new exhibition at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum is having a go at changing all that, casting welcome light on the women who were integral not only to Factory’s birth but its three decade-long survival.
Use Hearing Protection displays the first 50 items to receive the label’s famed FAC catalogue numbers, starting with a 1978 Peter Saville-designed poster for the first Factory club night and finishing with New Order’s debut album, 1981’s Movement. But rather than simply letting attendees
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