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  • Unknown treasures: the forgotten women of Manchester’s Factory Records
    https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/22/unknown-treasures-the-forgotten-women-of-manchesters-factory-records

    Lindsay Reade also plays a vital part in the story. “I really am a co-founder, because it was our household savings that we used to make the first record,” explains Tony Wilson’s ex-wife of A Factory Sample, a 1978 EP (FAC 2) that featured songs by Cabaret Voltaire, Joy Division and the Durutti Column. It was Reade, too, who stumbled upon a demo by the unknown band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark while going through the stacks of cassettes sent to Wilson. “It wasn’t his thing, but I told him: ‘I really think this is going to get somewhere.’” On Reade’s advice, the band released their hugely influential debut single, Electricity (FAC 6), with Factory. “He subsequently got rid of them without discussing it with me!” says Reade.