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 ...

It’s been hailed as an “indie Stairway To Heaven” but such a comparison arguably undermines its greatness. Almost 35 years since it was released in June 1980, Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart ...

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 ...

U2 singer Bono unwittingly changed the sound to iconic Joy Division song Love Will Tear Us Apart in his teenage years when he and his bandmates met producer Martin Hannett with hopes to make an album ...

Julia Adamson has had a long career in the British post-punk world. She's been a sound engineer, a member of various bands (including the Fall), and record label exec. She currently runs Invisiblegirl ...

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 ...

is finally being released - more than 15 years after his death. , whose first single Tainted Love went on to reach No1. But the song has now been made available on Manchester label Invisible Girl ...

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 ...

A few days after the death of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis in May 1980, Jez Kerr and the rest of A Certain Ratio visited the Macclesfield funeral home where the singer’s body lay in repose. Respects paid ...

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 ...