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And You Forgotten
A Memorial Event for Rob Gretton

23 05 04

A Certain Ratio
Anthony Wilson
Dave Rofe
Doves (acoustic set)

Graeme Park
Jon Dasilva
Mike Pickering
Mr. Scruff

The Ritz, Whitworth Street West, Manchester
Seven Thirty till One am
Tickets £12.50 Plus Booking Fee
Available from Piccadilly Box Office 0161 832 1111
www.ticketline.co.uk
easyInternetcafé, St Ann's Square, Manchester

All proceeds from this event will go to Manchester Kids for distribution to local charities

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This event was given the Factory catalogue number Fac 511 by Tony Wilson because Rob would have been 51 this year.

Posters and flyers

Large format (60" x 40") posters, A3 posters and flyers for the event, all bearing the Factory catalogue number Fac 511, were produced for the event. Flyers were freely distributed to promote the event and is reproduced here. About 100 of the large posters were fly-posted around Manchester with the remainder sold through Colin White at Vinyl Revival and at the gig itself.

Running order

BBC Manchester
Mick Middles (ThisIsCheshire.co.uk)
The Guardian review
Manchester Online

The Observer Music Monthly Fac 511

This was a free booklet distributed at Fac 511: And You Forgotten - A Memorial Event for Rob Gretton. Edited by Luke Bainbridge who, in an item called True Faith, interviews the artists involved in the gig and other Manchester music people to find out what Rob Gretton meant to them. Miranda Sawyer also writes about Rob. Paddy Considine explains how he approached playing Rob in 24 Hour Party People. Tony Wilson and Peter Saville recall a lifetime of working with Rob. The inside cover features an advertisement for The Observer Music Monthly itself using a 'mini pops' cartoon of New Order.

True Faith: Rob's artists and colleagues

Bruce Mitchell: "The Durutti Column were recording 'Another Setting' in Strawberry Studios. Rob quietly entered, sat behind the desk, and settled into a smoking reverie. Thirty minutes passed before 'Are you still being managed by Wilson and Erasmus?' he asked. 'You need to get yourself better than that pair of monkeys.' He smiled, beaming around the room waiting for a reaction. But before we could offer him the job, he took a Jimmy Page drag on his cigarette, shouted 'Sorry, I'm busy', pushed his glasses up his nose and walked out gurgling happily."

Vini Reilly: "Two things stick in my mind about Rob. The first was an occasion when a dodgy friend of mine needed bail money to get out of Strangeways. The money couldn't appear to come from me. Rob passed no judgmental advice - he simply raised what was a large cash deposit, in about 20 minutes. I think his Catholic upbringing and his awareness of Manchester's underworld were somehow not at odds. The second thing I remember is his genuine concern for anyone slightly lost. If he spotted anyone not joining in - through shyness or whatever - Rob would gently but firmly ensure they became included. His care and almost parental affection for Nat Curtis after her father, Ian, had gone, is something Nat still remembers to this day. It's very telling that when Nat visited the set of 24 Hour Party People her favourite character was the actor playing Rob. Rob Gretton was a good and true man, a paradox - tough guy, sensitive and caring gentleman. A visionary who is very much missed."

New Order: "He was a part of us, without him we would be like a piece of banoffee pie with a slice missing."

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Part of the advertising campaign for the burgeoning Observer Music Monthly supplement with the Observer Sunday newspaper.

New Order - 'Fac 511' Observer Music Monthly 'Mini Pops'