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Factory's designer, Peter Saville often used industrial iconography for Factory posters, slightly tweaked to create something startling and new. This one is a classic. The movie '24 Hour Party People' tells the rather fictionalised story of Factory Records. If you watch it, bear in mind that in it, some of the mundane is fiction - and the really weird shit -  well, that actually happened.

The nightclub owned and run by New Order. Everything on Factory had a catalogue number - not just records, but dental bills, a writ from genius producer Martin Hannett. And so, The Hacienda Club was number FAC 51.

Sadly, though, no business acumen whatsoever. Nine different sleeves for a record that will only sell a few hundred copies? No problem. New Order's classic 'Blue Monday'. It came in a sleeve with three holes punched in it. Looks great, certainly, but the band lost five pence on every one, as it was so expensive to make. The record sold millions, and therefore, the more they sold, the more money the band lost. You can't make stuff like that up. Of course, they are one of my favourite record labels. This book is astonishingly beautiful - and slightly sad, too.

The Birthday Party, 'Still' by Joy Division, Nick Cave, Bauhaus, the 'Fad' part of 'Fad Gadget, and almost out of shot, Xmaldeutschland. Three guesses what sort of people I hung out with then? Hint: it wasn't the kind of people who were fans of Genesis, Rod Stewart, or Elton John.💀