The very first Factory club night was advertised with this poster. Now its designer wants it back to complete a major archive
The Factory poster advertising the first club nights.The hunt is on to locate an object that truly qualifies as “a sign of the times”. In 1977, the first Factory club night in
“I had a romantic view of Britain’s industrial past, afforded to me by my comfortable, middle-class upbringing in leafy Hale, so I felt it had a certain ironic beauty and would suit the name Factory. I took it down one night to trace it for the poster.”The club, a precursor to the Hacienda nightclub, a regular spot for Joy Division and the venue for an early Public Image Ltd gig, was the birthplace of a celebrated moment in British music.
“That poster set the course for the entire Factory aesthetic,” Spinoza said this weekend. “It would be nice to think that whoever took what many fans see as a holy relic was an ardent admirer of the label. Hopefully they can now help complete an archive with perhaps the most personally meaningful item of Peter Saville’s entire design career.”
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