SHADOWPLAYERS / VARIOUS

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Condition: New, UPC: 50245454090930, Publication Date: 06/13/2006, Type: DIGITAL VIDEO DISC, Style: POP/ROCK,

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tracks

Untitled
Use Hearing Protection
A Factory Sample
Factory Foremen
Unknown Pleasures
Zero
Situationist Group
The Thin Boys
Larry And Vinny
Get In The Van
Rue De Manchester
The Rainbow
Factory Benelux
Disorder
In A Lonely Place
Beneath The Pavement
Of Factory America
Futurists
Choir Boys
Like Punk Never Happened
11:28

NOTES

Region 0. Track durations are not printed on the release. © & ? 2006 LTM Recordings

Introduction unlisted. End credits include:
Dedicated to Ian Curtis, Rob Gretton & Martin Hannett
All designs by Peter Saville appear by kind permission

"In June and July 1976 the Sex Pistols played two historic shows at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester. In September their first television appearance was booked by Tony Wilson, the presenter of So It Goes on Granada TV.

Punk and the Pistols inspired several new Manchester groups, including Buzzcocks, Magazine and Joy Division. Soon the Electric Circus was established as the city's main punk venue in 1977, while Wilson continued to promote new wave music on Granada. Manchester also spawned two independent record labels, New Hormones and Rabid.

After the Electric Circus closed its doors in October 1977, Tony Wilson and friend Alan Erasmus devised a club of their own. The Factory opened in May 1978 with a series of shows featuring Joy Division, The Durutti Column and Cabaret Voltaire. Six months later these bands would form the basis of a radical new label, Factory Records.

Shadowplayers explores the facts and fictions of their first four years, 1978 to 1981"