Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
... home town with Edinburgh-based customers most likely to watch Trainspotting, Mancunians renting Tony Wilson biopic 24 Hour Party People most often and The Full Monty most popular with those in Sheffield, researchers found.Abba's hit musical Mamma Mia! seems to be the film most people want to watch again and again as it topped the chart for the most popular film purchase of 2009.Advertisement...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
... home town with Edinburgh-based customers most likely to watch Trainspotting, Mancunians renting Tony Wilson biopic 24 Hour Party People most often and The Full Monty most popular with those in Sheffield, researchers found.Abba's hit musical Mamma Mia! seems to be the film most people want to watch again and again as it topped the chart for the most popular film purchase of 2009.But...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
This summer, Vini Reilly appeared at his home city's Manchester International Festival to unveil Paean to Tony Wilson, a suite of mainly instrumental pieces dedicated to the founder of Factory Records, who died in 2007. Wilson enjoyed a high profile as broadcaster, news reader and music impresario and gained yet more notoriety when he was affectionately sent up by Steve Coogan...
Igor : Premature Souperhero (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Mick Middles - Factory: The Story Of The Record Label Factory Records are, to those who don't know, the brainchild and record label of Tony Wilson, the man who was behind the Hacienda in Manchester which was the forefront of the introduction of house music and rave culture to Britain, and the "Madchester" phenomenon of the 80s and early 90s. This era was just before my time...
Buzzin Music Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
A Factory Night (and then again)… Factory Records, founded in Manchester in 1978 by Tony Wilson, Peter Saville and Alan Erasmus, was one of the most important independent record labels. With collaborators as talented as Rob Gretton, Martin Hannett and Mike Pickering, Factory Records launched such famous bands as Joy Division, New Order, The Durutti Column [...]
The Reader Online (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... Boyce , this is the unbelievable true story of one man – the inimitable and very sadly missed Tony Wilson – one movement and the music and madness that was Madchester. It was also the winner of British Independent Film Award for Best Achievement in Production. The Liverpool born writer started as a critic for Living Marxism Magazine and then went on to write episodes for Coronation...
