Factory (Label)

Factory (Label) Manchester-based label founded in 1978 by Tony Wilson (Salford, Lancashire, 1950), who had previously worked as a local TV reporter, and a local (unemployed actor) named Alan Erasmus. Erasmus and Wilson first opened a club by this name, and naturally began to record the acts featured there. Their biggest success came with Joy Division followed by New Order and the Happy Mondays. The label went into receivership in 1992 and its assets were purchased by Polygram. However, by the…