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Factory Records

Madchester: The Beautiful Accident That Changed Everything

There are moments in cultural history that, when you try to explain them after the fact, sound completely made up. Sixty-year-old psychedelia colliding with...

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culture

How Rave Culture Escaped Manchester and Took Over Everything

There is a version of British musical history that gets told with a very narrow lens: Manchester, the Hacienda, a warehouse somewhere off a motorway, a...

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