The Invisible Girls celebrates a more under-the-radar side of Hannett, who died in 1991, and Hopkins by collecting tracks which weren’t intended for release or were issued under names other than The ...

New compilation celebrates the career of the producer, musician, and Factory Records co-founder and includes tracks from Joy Division, New Order, U2, and OMD, among others. Save this story Save this ...

He was heavily involved in the Leigh Festival, organised Bickshaw, let punks play at Deeply Vale on what was a psychedelic festival and there wouldn’t have been Factory Records but for Rochdale. His ...

As a producer, Martin Hannett was a marvel - arguably Tony Wilson’s greatest asset at Factory Records who possessed a unique ear, a wondrous sense of atmosphere and inimitable mixing desk skills that ...

A young Bono from U2 unwittingly changed the sound to the iconic song Love Will Tear Us Apart. The Joy Division anthem, regularly voted one of the greatest songs of all time, was being made in a ...

THE austere words etched on Martin Hannett’s headstone read, ‘The Creator of the Manchester Sound.’ Two decades after his death, the mysterious and extraordinarily prolific Factory Records producer is ...