So long as you bring your own headphones, you can play a big-shot record producer as they have a mixing desk and synthesizer from that era that allows you to experiment with your version of a Factory Records track. Treasures like Ian Curtis’s teardrop guitar are on display, as well as notebooks, photographs, and various other pieces of ephemera from the label’s early days. The exhibition was curated by the museum, alongside artist Jon Savage, archivist Mat Bancroft, and Stuart Wheeley from Warner Music UK.
On display, you’ll find many of the concert posters they designed from those years, in addition to album covers from the previously mentioned Peter Saville, Ben Kelly, Mark Farrow, Martyn Atkins, Ann Quigley, and Trevor Johnson. You’ll find that same cover from Saville and many more at the Manchester Science + Industry Museum's latest exhibit, “Use Hearing Protection: The Early Years of Factory Records.” Documenting the salad days of the iconic music label, viewers witness just what made the label and its design so ahead of its time from 1978-1982, when the industrial city was rocked by the likes of Joy Division, New Order, and The Durutti Column (though no disrespect to Vini Reilly, Durutti wasn’t one for melting faces).
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Thankfully, designers at Factory Records-Joy Division’s Manchester label run by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus-had free reign, and Saville chose a darker, “sexier” black as he was worried it would look “cheap.” Saville and the band decided not to put the band’s name or the album title (because, no, you don’t really need to) on the cover, and, voila, the rest was history.
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The now-ubiquitous image (it really is almost everywhere you are, and I recently spotted one shaped like the state of Vermont at a gift shop) of a series of pulse waves was almost in black with a white background as the band wanted. “So I did a record cover the way I wanted-not just the way I wanted a record cover to be, but the way I wanted everything to be.” “At that age, no one was asking me to redesign the transit system, but somebody asked me to do a record cover,” designer Peter Saville said to the Washington Post in 2019 about his cover for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures.
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