Afterwards

Artery were a British post-punk band from Sheffield that was founded in 1979 consisting of Mark Goldthorpe (vocals, guitar), Mick Fidler (guitar, vocals), Neil McKenzie (bass) and Garry Wilson (drums), and later Simon Hinkler (who would go on to form The Mission) on keyboards. They were originally known confusingly as just "The". Most songs were composed by Goldthorpe. After several changes in the line-up and four albums they split up in 1985. Two compilation CDs were released in 2006.

Factory Records

24 Hour Party People is a 2002 film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom.

It begins with the punk rock era, and moves through the 1980s into the "Madchester" scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The main character is Tony Wilson, a news reporter for Granada Television and the head of Factory Records (played by comedian Steve Coogan), and the narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the major Factory artists, especially Joy Division and New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, and the Happy Mondays.

The Fall

The Fall are an English post-punk band, formed in Manchester in 1976. The band has existed in some form ever since, and is essentially built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith. Initially associated with the punk movement of the late 1970s, the group's music has gone through several stylistic changes over the years, but is often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, and is always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics.

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The Normal

Daniel Miller, the founder of Mute Records, was at the head of The Normal, a British New Wave band. He would later become the producer of historic bands like Depeche Mode, Wire, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Erasure, Yazoo, and DAF. "Warm leatherette", first title of the catalogue, with its ultra synthetic and robotic sounds, announced the musical aesthetics of the label.

Malaria!

In the depths of January 1981, BETTINA KOESTER and GUDRUN GUT stepped from the smoldering ashes of their previous band Mania D shouldering the yoke of a feverish new project they called Malaria!

Jubilee

In 1982, Adam and The Ants had their last release as a band, "Deutscher Girls" backed by "Plastic Surgery". These were two tracks recorded in 1977 and were released by their record company to capitalize on the band's popularity. Adam Ant, himself, was the only member of the band that made the recording that was still in the current version of the band. The record company guessed right. The single reached the #13 spot on the U.K. singles chart.

Paranoia Paradise

Sex, drugs and punk rock. Add violence and time travel and you have Jubilee.

Queen Elizabeth I travels to late twentieth-century Britain to discover a tawdry and depressing landscape where life mostly seems aimless and is anyway held cheap. Three post-punk girls while away their vacuous existence as best they can, from time-to-time straying into murder to relieve the boredom.