Further facts available at:

Factory Records and related

Unofficial Factory Records Website Discography (v7.0)

The Crepuscule and Factory Pages

Factory Image Banque

Factory Records Limited

F4 Records [site down, permanently]

A Factory Overseas Unofficial Discography [Canadian and Australian releases]

www.factoryrecords.net [Fac 421]

LTM

littleBIGMAN Records ["hosting account expired"; Archived versions possibly available]

Cerysmatic on MySpace

www.myspace.com/cerysmatic

Control - The Movie

The launch press conference

BBC News
The Guardian
The Independent
ManchesterOnline.co.uk
NME
Aidan O'Rourke

FAC 51 The Haçienda

www.thehaciendamustbebuilt.co.uk [Official site to accompany the release of The Haçienda Classics in 2006]
www.thehaciendamustbebuilt.com [David Manning's site selling reprints of FAC 351 The Haçienda Must Be Built]

24 Hour Party People movie

Official site
More 24 Hour Party People links

Design

Central Station Design [under construction - still]

Farrow Design [Mark Farrow]

Ben Kelly Design

8vo
Hamish Muir: Graphic Designer/Founding Principal 8vo/Editor Octavo [official site]
HND Typographic Design Lecture Series notes [pdf, 10.5Kb]
Mark Holt Design
Simon Johnston Design
8vo dedicated site [unofficial]

Peter Saville
Saville Associates [requires Flash]
Paul Stolper [official Peter Saville artwork for sale]
Sleeve Designed By Peter Saville [fan site by Tosq]
Peter Saville Graphic Design [fan site by David Costello]
Factory Graphics [fan site by Oliver Wood - new url]
Peter Saville [fan site by Lieve]
Imon: Peter Saville
Design Museum page
Perfect Stylistic Attitude [interview with James Nice]
Showstudio biography
More links

One of the most frequently asked questions ever on Cerysmatic Factory is "Where can I buy original / reproduction Peter Saville prints / posters?"

For repro and original works try searching for "Peter Saville" on eBay. Also, try Vinyl Revival (eBay seller id = northatitsheight).

Try Paul Stolper for official Saville limited edition prints and other works.

Photography

New Wave Photos by Phillippe Carly [many photos of Factory artists]
Aidan O'Rourke [many Factory/Haçienda/Manchester photos]
Ian Tilton [inc many Haçienda and Madchester photos]
Peter Walsh [FAC, Haç, Manchester, Film and TV]
Stephen Wright [The Smiths]

Booking Agency

www.brave-music-agency.co.uk [taking bookings for DJ sets by Mani, Peter Hook, Mike Joyce, Clint Boon, Leo B Stanley and Tom Hingley plus bands including Re:Order (New Order tribute), The Complete Stone Roses (Stone Roses tribute), Vinny Peculiar and Tom Hingley & The Lovers. Also agent for music photographers Ian Tilton (Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Fac 51) and Stephen Wright (The Smiths, James, The Fall)]

Manchester and all things related

Manchester District Music Archive
100 Percent Cotton
Manchester International Festival [coming in 2007]
Pride of Manchester
Manchester Online
BBC - Manchester - Entertainment
Mancubist
Manchester Community Forum [forum for discussing all aspects of Manchester life, local issues, history, nightlife, events, activities, etc]
24HourPartyPeople.com - Madchester Music

Record shops and online stores

Vinyl Revival, 5 Hilton Street, Manchester, M4 1LP; [great record shop with some Factory specialities including T-shirts]
Vinyl Exchange, 18 Oldham Street, Manchester [second hand shop]
Piccadilly Records, Smithfield Buildings, 51 Oldham St [new and used records]

www.ab-cd.com
www.gemm.com
www.esprit.com
www.ebay.com

All Star Collectibles [UK online retailers of collectible memorabilia & classic old school retro fashion clothing]

Factory-esque blogs

A New Order Fan Blog [Mick A New Order Fan]
Fact 244's Journal
Shadowplay [the atrocity exhibition: a joy division community]
factorybenelux
DenseMedia Domain [Stuart Argabright's blog]
Unknown Pleasures

Forced Laugh [devoted to Factory Records and Factory Benelux]

Other blogs

Irk The Purists
Jude Calvert-Toulmin
Angry Robot [closed, but open] and MinimalRobot
halvorsen.org - halvard halvorsen's weblog
DJ Martian
Shallow Rewards [by Chris Ott, author of '33 1/3: Unknown Pleasures']
DJ Zozo
los amigos de durutti

(Ex-)Factory artists

52nd Street
52nd Street / Cool Down Zone

The 6ths / Sixths
Biography on The House of Tomorrow [official Magnetic Fields / Future Bible Heroes / Gothic Archies site]
Review of Hyacinths and Thistles

Abecedarians
Discography on clearfour.com site
Adam J Short's brief description

A Certain Ratio
Official site
MySpace
ACR Gigography [Official]


ACR Yahoo Groups Discussion Forum
Twenty Four Hours [Official Site, currently down but archived versions may be available]
Urbanite.co.uk

Adventure Babies
adbabs.com [official site]
MySpace [official site]
PopNews.com site (French/English)

Anna Domino
Official site [Internet Archive accessible only]

Biting Tongues
Official site
MySpace
Graham Massey's MySpace
Discography from official 808 State site
Tool Shed [official site of Graham Massey's band]

Blurt (Ted Milton)
Official site

Cabaret Voltaire
www.brainwashed.com/cv/

Cath Carroll
Official site
LTM Publishing's Cath Carroll / Miaow catalogue and biography

Crawling Chaos
www.crawlingchaos.co.uk
Frank Brinkhuis's discography

Crispy Ambulance
Official site
The Aural Drug
MySpace
LTM Publishing catalogue and biography

Karl Denver
Obituary from The Guardian newspaper

The Distractions
Biography on Acute Records Web site [Internet Archive accessible only]

John Dowie
Official site
Biography page on John Eley site

The Duke Quartet
The Duke Quartet [official]
John Metcalfe [official]

The Durutti Column
thedurutticolumn.com [Official site]
Official MySpace site
Michael Mitchell's Durutti Column Gigography [Official Gigography]
(FAC 2.26) The Durutti Column - Vini Reilly [unofficial site by Rob Stanzel]
Yahoo! Groups : durutticolumn [Yahoo! Discussion Group]

Kooky Records Official site [relaunched Feb 2007]
Kooky Records on MySpace
Materiali Sonori catalogue page
Artful Records Durutti Column page
Weeping Angels: The Music of The Durutti Column
Inch Studio (Keir Stewart)
Inch Studio MySpace
John Metcalfe [official]
suddi.com [Official website of Suddi Raval, remixer of Fac 284 The Together Mix]

Electronic
World In Motion

ESG
Biography on Soul Jazz Records site

Graham Fitkin
Official site
Biography on Chamber Music 2000 site
Biography on New Art Saxaphone Quartet site

Martin Hannett (legendary Factory producer)
The Martin Hannett Biography Project

Happy Mondays
A Happy Mondays Discography
HappyMondays.info
The Happy Mondays and the Madchester Movement
The Best of Happy Mondays

One Louder [Internet Archive accessible only]
Happy Mondays [Internet Archive accessible only]
"State of the Mondays"
Happy Mondays DJ (Kav) MySpace
Domino Bones [official site of Bez's band]

Kevin Hewick
www.kevinhewick.co.uk - Kevin Hewick - The official web site
Kevin Hewick's Wikipedia entry

Rolf Hind
rolfhind.com [Official site]
Biography on Arhus Sinfonietta site
Biography on Clarion Seven Muses site

Ike Yard
DenseMedia Domain [Stuart Argabright's blog]
Cerysmatic Factory Q&A with Stuart Argabright

James
Official site
OneOfTheThree.co.uk

Joy Division
Joy Division: The Eternal
Joy Division Central
Joy Division Shadowplay
Shadowplay [on LiveJournal]
Atrocity Exhibition
Ceremony [Internet Archive accessible only]

Incubation
World in Motion
IanCurtis.org - Ian Curtis and Joy Division Fans Club
Unknown Pleasures

Kalima
Official site at Kin Records including biography [Internet Archive accessible only]

Kreisler String Orchestra
Listing of orchestra members

Caroline Lavelle
Official site

Steve Martland
Official site [site down but possibly accessible via the Internet Archive]
Biography on Hazard Chase site

Miaow
History included on official Cath Carroll site
LTM Publishing's Cath Carroll / Miaow catalogue and biography

Wim Mertens
Official site

Minny Pops
Official site
Frank Brinkhuis's history and discography

The Names
Frank Brinkhuis's biography
Rob Stanzel's discography
LTM Publishing catalogue and biography

New Order
www.neworder.cc Official site for the US market
www.neworder.mu Official mini-site for the release of 12 X 12" singles
neworderweb.com [old official site] [Internet Archive accessible only]
Mick A New Order Fan's site
New Order Vikings MySpace


NOOL [New Order Online]
World In Motion [Fac 441]
Ceremony [Internet Archive accessible only]
Dennis Remmer's discography

Northside
Wikipedia
Opalmusic product list
Dermo on Myspace
Northside on Facebook

OMD
Official site

The Other Two
World In Motion

Pleasure Crew
Adam J Short's brief description [Internet Archive accessible only]

Quando Quango
Spasmodique site (features ex-Quando member)
Hillegonda Rietveld's MySpace
Interview with Hillegonda Rietveld on Pitch Adjust
Hillegonda Rietveld profile on UK-Dance
Quando Quango [MySpace fansite]

The Railway Children
Official site

RAW-T
Official site [site not working: "The website declined to show this webpage"; Archived versions may be available.

Revenge
World In Motion

Rowetta (Happy Mondays)
Rowetta.com

The Royal Family and the Poor
Official site

Section 25
Official site
Alternate official site
MySpace
LTM Publishing catalogue and biography

Shark Vegas
MySpace

Space Monkeys
United Manchester
The Sn@kebite Fanzine Interview

Stockholm Monsters
www.stockholm-monsters.freeserve.co.uk [official site, no longer functioning but archived versions may be available]
LTM Publishing catalogue and biography

To Hell With Burgundy
Official site

Tunnelvision
Official site
MySpace
4M MySpace
LTM Publishing catalogue and biography

Vermorel
OpenlyClassist.org.uk [lengthy article mentioning Vermorel]

The Wake
www.thewake.freeserve.co.uk [official site, no longer functioning but archived versions may be available]
MySpace
LTM Publishing catalogue and biography

The Wendys
Official site [site taken down except for holding page]
MySpace
ArtPlastic MySpace
Original pages available via Internet Archive

The Young Offenders Institute
Official site


Factory-esque

23 Skidoo
LTM biography and catalogue

Autumn Thieves
Official site

The Blue Orchids
LTM biography and catalogue

Doves
Official site
www.dovesmusic.com [fan site - no longer regularly updated]

Dif Juz
Discography
Biography on theiceberg.com

Gabrielle's Wish
GABRIELLES WISH :: official site :: gabrielleswish.com

Gnac (Mark Tranmer)
Official site

Paul Haig
LTM biography and catalogue

Heart and Soul Recordings [label run by Martin Moscrop of ACR]
Official site MySpace 0898 Dave [MySpace] Kings Have Long Arms [MySpace]

Interpol
Official site

Josef K
LTM biography and catalogue

Interview with Mahogany's Andrew Prinz on inkoma.com

Marion
United Manchester page

Montgolfier Brothers
Official site
Official page on Poptones website

New Fast Automatic Daffodils
Fan site

Blaine Reininger
LTM biography and catalogue
Official site - MundoBlaineo

Silent Partners [featuring Dermo ex-Northside]
Silent Partners on MySpace

Sub Sub
Discogs.com page
Pride of Manchester page

Superqueens
MySpace

Swing Out Sister
Official site

Tuxedomoon
LTM biography and catalogue

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Miscellaneous

Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Post-Punk.com
Discogs.com
Ultimate Band List

Off-topic

Dodgers Cricket Club
Dog Chewed The Handle - the official site
Hank and Dollys - Design Classic & Original Babies / Childrenswear with a Twist! ... Made in England
Herneweb Cycling