List of Factory Records Recording Artists

Following is a comprehensive list of Factory Records recording artists compiled by the FAC numbers attributed to their work. Factory Records issued FAC numbers for more than musical releases so that this list does not account for Factory production not attributable to specific artists. Material appearing on various artist compilations is also not included — Factory produced many such compilations throughout its history.

For Factory Benelux artists, see Factory Benelux discography.

  • 52nd Street
    • FAC 59 "Look into My Eyes" (single)
    • FAC 118 "Can't Afford (to Let You Go)" (single)
  • A Certain Ratio
    • FAC 5 "All Night Party" (single)
    • FAC 16 The Graveyard And The Ballroom (cassette)
    • FAC 20 Too Young to Know, Too Wild to Care (film that was never made)
    • FAC 22 "Flight" (single)
    • FAC 35 To Each... (album)
    • FAC 38 Below the Canal Video (video that was never completed)
    • FAC 42 The Double 12" (two singles)
    • FAC 52 "Waterline" (single)
    • FAC 55 Sextet (album)
    • FAC 62 "Knife Slits Water" (single)
    • FAC 65 I'd Like To See You Again (album)
    • FAC 72 "I Need Someone Tonight" (single)
    • FAC 112 "Life's A Scream" (single)
    • FAC 128 "Wild Party" (single)
    • FAC 135 The Old And The New (compilation)
    • FAC 166 "Bootsy" (single)
    • FAC 166 Force (album)
    • FAC 168 "Mickey Way (The Candy Bar)" (single)
  • Abecedarians
    • FAC 117 "Smiling Monarchs" (single)
  • Ad Infinitum
    • FAC 96 "Telstar" (single)
  • Piers Adams
    • FAC 376 Handel Recorder Sonatas (album)
  • Adventure Babies
    • FAC 319 Camper Van EP (EP)
    • FAC 335 Laugh (album)
    • FAC 347 "Barking Mad" (single)
    • FAC 357 "Laugh" (single)
  • Biting Tongues
    • FAC 105 Feverhouse (album)
    • FAC 134 Troublehand (EP)
    • FAC 188 "Compressor" (single)
  • Blurt
    • FAC 24 A Factory Quartet (album)
  • Cabaret Voltaire
    • FAC 82 "Yashar" (single)
  • Cath Carroll
    • FAC 210 England Made Me (album)
    • FAC 255 "Beast" (single)
    • FAC 307 "Moves Like You" (single)
    • FAC 315 (promo package containing videos, photographs)
  • Crawling Chaos
    • FAC 17 "Sex Machine" (single)
  • Crispy Ambulance
    • FAC 32 "Unsightly and Serene" (single)
  • Karl Denver
    • FAC 228 "Wimoweh" (single)
    • FAC 278 "Indambinigi: Zimba" (single)
  • The Distractions
    • FAC 12 "Time Goes By So Slow" (single)
  • Anna Domino
    • FAC 158 "Summer" (single)
    • FAC 165 Anna Domino (album)
  • John Dowie
    • FAC 19 "It's Hard to be an Egg" (single)
    • FAC 89 Dowie (live performance)
  • Duke String Quartet
    • FAC 246 Duke String Quartet (album)
  • Durutti Column
    • FAC 14 The Return Of The Durutti Column (album)
    • FAC 44 A Factory Quartet (album)
    • FAC 44 LC (album)
    • FAC 64 "I Get Along Without You Very Well" (single)
    • FAC 74 Another Setting (album)
    • FAC 84 Without Mercy (album)
    • FAC 114 Say What You Mean (EP)
    • FAC 144 Domo Arigato (album)
    • FAC 154 Circuses and Bread (album)
    • FAC 164 Valuable Passages (album)
    • FAC 184 "The City of Our Lady" (single)
    • FAC 194 "When the World" (single)
    • FAC 204 The Guitar and Other Machines (album)
    • FAC 214 The Guitar and Other Marketing Devices (single)
    • FAC 224 The First Four Albums (compilation)
    • FAC 234 Womad Live (EP)
    • FAC 244 "Vini Reilly" (album)
    • FAC 254 Guitar One - House (aborted project)
    • FAC 264 Guitar Two - Acoustic (aborted project)
    • FAC 274 Obey the Time (album)
    • FAC 284 "The Together Mix" (single)
  • Electronic
    • FAC 257 "Getting Away With It" (single)
    • FAC 287 "Get The Message" (single)
    • FAC 290 Electronic (album)
    • FAC 328 "Feel Every Beat" (single)
  • ESG
    • FAC 34 "You're No Good" (single)
  • Fadela
    • FAC 197 "N'Sel Fik" (single)
  • Graham Fitkin
    • FACT 346 Flak (album)
  • Happy Mondays
    • FAC 129 "Delightful" (single)
    • FAC 142 "Freaky Dancing" (single)
    • FAC 170c Squirrel & G-Man Twenty-Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carn't Smile (White Out) (album)
    • FAC 176 "Tart Tart" (single)
    • FAC 192 "24 Hour Party People" (single)
    • FAC 209 (aborted film shoot)
    • FAC 212 "Wrote for Luck" (single)
    • FAC 220 Bummed (album)
    • FAC 222 "Lazyitis" (single)
    • FAC 232 "W.F.L." (single)
    • FAC 242 "Rave On" (single)
    • FAC 252 "Rave On" (radio-only cd, same material as FAC 242)
    • FAC 260 Hallelujah (EP)
    • FAC 262 Madchester - Rave On (video)
    • FAC 272 "Step On" (single)
    • FAC 302 "Kinky Afro" (single)
    • FAC 312 "Loose Fit" (single)
    • FAC 320 Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches (album)
    • FAC 322 Happy Mondays Live (album)
    • FAC 332 "Judge Fudge" (single)
    • FAC 352 "Staying Alive" (unreleased single)
    • FAC 362 "Stinkin Thinkin" (single)
    • FAC 372 "Sunshine & Love" (single)
    • FAC 420 Yes Please (album)
  • Kevin Hewick
    • FAC 24 "A Factory Quartet" (album)
    • FAC 48 "Ophelia's Drinking Song" (single)
  • Rolf Hind
    • FAC 256 Rolf Hind (album)
    • FAC 326 Country Music (album)
  • Walter Hus
    • FAC 386 Muurwerk (album)
  • I Fagiolini
    • FAC 316 The Art of Monteverdi (album)
  • James
    • FAC 78 "Jimone" (single)
    • FAC 119 "Hymn From A Village" (single)
    • FAC 138 "Village Fire" (EP)
  • Jazz Defektors
    • FAC 76 Jazz Defektors: The Movie (video that was never released)
    • FAC 205 The Jazz Defektors (EP)
  • Joy Division
    • FAC 10 Unknown Pleasures (album)
    • FAC 13 "Transmission" (single)
    • FAC 23 "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (single)
    • FAC 25 Closer (album)
    • FAC 28 "Komakino" (single)
    • FAC 37 Here Are The Young Men (video)
    • FAC 40 Still (album)
    • FAC 213 "Atmosphere" (single)
    • FAC 225 Substance (video)
    • FAC 250 Substance (album)
    • FAC 277 Substance (aborted video project)
    • FAC 313 Transmission Film (video)
  • Kalima
    • FAC 87 "The Smiling Hour" (single)
    • FAC 127 Four Songs (EP)
    • FAC 147 "Whispered Words"
    • FAC 155 Night Time Shadows (album)
    • FAC 187 "Weird Feelings / The Dance" (single)
    • FAC 206 Kalima! (album)
    • FAC 219 Flyaway (album)
    • FAC 249 Feeling Fine (album)
    • FAC 269 "Shine" (single)
  • Marcel King
    • FAC 92 "Reach For Love" (single)
  • Kreisler String Orchestra
    • FAC 226 Kreisler String Orchestra (album)
  • Life
    • FAC 106 "Tell Me" (single)
    • FAC 122 "Optimism" (single)
  • Little Big Band
    • FAC 149 (aborted project by Little Big Band)
    • FAC 207 Little Big Band (album)
  • Steve Martland
    • FAC 266 Steve Martland (album)
    • FAC 306 Glad Day (album)
    • FAC 366 Crossing The Border (album)
    • FAC 406 Wolfgang (album)
  • Meat Mouth
    • FAC 196 "Meat Mouth is Murder" (single)
  • Wim Mertens
    • FAC 190 Educes Me (album)
    • FAC 195 The Belly of an Architect Original Soundtrack (soundtrack album)
  • Miaow
    • FAC 179 "When It All Comes Down" (single)
    • FAC 189 "Break the Code" (single)
  • Minny Pops
    • FAC 31 "Dolphin Spurt" (single)
    • FAC 57 "Secret Story" (single)
  • The Names
    • FAC 29 "Night Shift" (single)
  • New Order
    • FAC 33 "Ceremony" (single)
    • FAC 50 Movement (album)
    • FAC 51b "Merry Christmas from the Haçienda" (single)
    • FAC 53 "Procession" (single)
    • FAC 63 "Temptation" (single)
    • FAC 73 "Blue Monday" (single)
    • FAC 75 Power, Corruption & Lies (album)
    • FAC 77 Taras Shevchenco (video)
    • FAC 93 "Confusion" (single)
    • FAC 100 Low Life (album)
    • FAC 103 "Thieves Like Us" (single)
    • FAC 123 "The Perfect Kiss" (single)
    • FAC 133 "Sub-culture" (single)
    • FAC 143 "Shellshock" (single)
    • FAC 150 Brotherhood (album)
    • FAC 153 "State of the Nation" (single)
    • FAC 163 "Bizarre Love Triangle" (single)
    • FAC 173 "Bizarre Love Triangle" (video)
    • FAC 177 Pumped Full of Drugs (video)
    • FAC 183 "True Faith" (single)
    • FAC 193 "Touched by the Hand of God" (single)
    • FAC 200 Substance (album)
    • FAC 223 "Fine Time" (single)
    • FAC 225 Substance (video)
    • FAC 237 Here Are the Old Men (aborted video concept)
    • FAC 263 "Round & Round" (single)
    • FAC 273 "Run 2" (single)
    • FAC 275 Technique (album)
    • FAC 293 "World in Motion" (single)
    • FAC 300 (unreleased pre-mix listening cassette)
  • Northside
    • FAC 268 "Shall We Take a Trip" (single)
    • FAC 298 "My Rising Star" (single)
    • FAC 308 "Take 5" (single)
    • FAC 310 Chicken Rhythms (album)
  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
    • FAC 6 "Electricity" (single)
  • The Other Two
    • FAC 251 "Loved It" (single)
    • FAC 329 "Tasty Fish" (single)
    • FAC 330 The Other Two (album)
  • Pleasure Crew
    • FAC 169 "So Good" (single)
  • Quando Quango
    • FAC 67 "Go Exciting" (single)
    • FAC 79 "Love Tempo" (single)
    • FAC 102 "Atom Rock" (single)
    • FAC 110 Pigs & Battleships (album)
    • FAC 137 "Genius" (single)
    • FAC 156 "Bad Blood" (single that was never released)
  • Railway Children
    • FAC 162 "A Gentle Sound" (single)
    • FAC 172 The Railway Children Overseas Singles Collection (aborted project)
    • FAC 167 "Brighter" (single)
    • FAC 185 Reunion Wilderness (album)
  • Red Byrd
    • FAC 336 Songs of Love and Death (album)
  • Red Turns To
    • FAC 116 "Deep Sleep" (single)
  • Revenge
    • FAC 230 One True Passion (album)
    • FAC 247 "Revenge" (single)
    • FAC 267 "Pineapple Face" (single)
    • FAC 279 "I'm Not Your Slave / Slave" (single)
    • FAC 327 Gun World Porn (EP)
  • The Royal Family and the Poor
    • FAC 24 "A Factory Quartet" (album)
    • FAC 43 "Art Dream Dominion" (single)
    • FAC 95 The Project - Phase 1 The Temple of the 13th Tribe (album)
    • FAC 139 "We Love the Moon" (single)
    • FAC 140 The Project - Phase 2 We Love the Moon' (album)
  • Section 25
    • FAC 18 "Girls Don't Count" (single)
    • FAC 45c Always Now (album)
    • FAC 66 "The Beast" (single)
    • FAC 68 "Back To Wonder" (single)
    • FAC 90 From The Hip (album)
    • FAC 108 "Looking From A Hilltop" (single)
    • FAC 132 "Crazy Dancing" (single that was never released)
    • FAC 157 "Bad News Week" (single)
    • FAC 160 Love and Hate (album)
  • Sex Pistols
    • FAC 30 The Heydey (interview)
  • Shark Vegas
    • FAC 111 "You Hurt Me" (single)
  • Stockholm Monsters
    • FAC 41 "Fairy Tales" (single)
    • FAC 58 "Happy Ever After" (single)
    • FAC 80 "Alma Mater" (single)
    • FAC 107 "National Pastime" (single)
    • FAC 146 "Party Line" (single)
  • Streetlife
    • FAC 97 Act On Instinct (album)
    • FAC 124 "Silence" (single)
  • Swamp Children
    • FAC 49 "Little Voices" (album)
    • FAC 70 "So Hot" (single)
  • Thick Pigeon
    • FAC 85 Too Crazy Cowboys (album)
  • To Hell with Burgundy
    • FAC 217 Earthbound (album)
    • FAC 218 "Who Wants To Change The World?" (single)
  • Tunnelvision
    • FAC 39 "Watching The Hydroplanes" (single)
  • Vermorel
    • FAC 198 "Stereo/Porno" (single)
  • The Wake
    • FAC 60 Harmony (album)
    • FAC 88 "Talk About The Past" (single)
    • FAC 113 "Of The Matter" (single)
    • FAC 130 "Here Comes Everybody" (single)
    • FAC 178 "Something That No One Else Could Bring" (single)
  • The Wendys
    • FAC 280 "More Than Enough" (promo single)
    • FAC 285 Gobbledygook (album)
    • FAC 289 "The Sun's Going To Shine For Me Soon" (single)
    • FAC 297 "Pulling My Fingers Off" (single)
    • FAC 337 I Instruct EP (EP)
  • Robin Williams
    • FAC 236 Oboe and Piano (album)
  • X-o-dus
    • FAC 11 "English Black Boys" (single)

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