Martin Bramah *September 18, 1957

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Martin Bramah *September 18, 1957

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11/22/15.
Factory Star is a band headed by Martin Bramah (The Fall). I can definitely hear some of The Fall, but with more easy-listening-tendencies. I can actually hear the vocals of Sean McGowan of The Pogues crossed with The Damned, and some of the keyboards of Able Tasmans (actually, you can hear this even more on their first release “Enter Castle Perilous”). I’ll throw a very obscure comparison - this sounds a bit like The Dark Beaks (if you ask me, this is one of Fishrider’s more under appreciated releases).
This Factory Star release is a cooperative release between Occultation Records in the UK and Fishrider in New Zealand. I found this on the Pop Lib blog.
Stress Jingle/Station ID #24: Martin Bramah Martin Bramah is a British musician best known as a founder member of The Fall, Blue Orchids and Factory Star. Bramah met Mark E. Smith and original keyboard player Una Baines towards the end of 1975. Originally, he was slated to be the group's vocalist and Smith was going to be the guitarist, but then they swapped roles. Apart from The Fall's early singles, Bramah also plays guitar on the band's debut, Live at the Witch Trials, most of which he co-wrote with Smith. In 1979, he left the band and alongside Una Baines formed Blue Orchids (Mancunian poet and recording artist John Cooper Clarke came up with the group's name). They signed with Rough Trade Records in 1980 and their first singles (produced by Mayo Thompson of The Red Krayola) drew comparisons to the Velvet Underground's sound. Ironically, a year later the Blue Orchids would become the backing band for former Velvets singer Nico during her tour of Europe. The group's debut LP, The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain), was released in 1981 to excellent reviews. The Blue Orchids' uncompromising sound - half-sung or spoken lyrics, drugged-out keyboards, jagged guitars - made them favorites on the UK independent charts. The band split up in 1982, briefly reforming in 1985 for a further single. After this Bramah formed a new group named The Thirst with ex-Fall drummer Karl Burns. In 1989, Bramah unexpectedly returned to The Fall, taking the place of Brix Smith who had recently left, to participate in the recording of Extricate. Following this he formed a fresh incarnation of Blue Orchids, releasing new albums and EPs, as well as overseeing reissues of the group's earliest material before becoming a solo artist in 2008, releasing the folk-influenced The Battle of Twisted Heel. In early 2009, he formed a new group, Factory Star, featuring fellow ex-Fall members Steve Hanley on bass and Paul Hanley on drums. Bramah reformed Blue Orchids in 2012. A second Factory Star album New Sacral was released in 2012. "Post-punk has been many things, but rarely beautiful. The Blue Orchids, out of Manchester, turned its thrift shop formula of damaged guitars, stuttering rhythms, badly-tuned keyboards and corrosive visions into something as rare and unlikely and delicately gorgeous as the band's name-sake." Jennifer Kelly, DUSTED Magazine
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Factory Star: Weird World by OccultationUK http://ift.tt/1kB44nK This is my new summer jam!
Eternal Christmas Love: Factory Star's "Lucybel"
Eternal Christmas Love: Factory Star’s “Lucybel”
An unabashed love song wrapped thematically in warm holiday garb, Factory Star’s new single, “Lucybel” (B-sided by labelmate Granite Shore’s take on ‘When Sleep Won’t Come,” from the FS album Enter Castle Perilous) is a lovely, loping addition to any- and everyone’s Christmas morning playlist, slotted somewhere between, say, “Fairytale of New York” and Bowie and Bing’s “Little Drummer Boy.”
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Factory Star's New Sacral is one of the albums of 2012 as chosen by the Porky's Prime Cuts blog.
More end of year lists
Bob Osborne, of Salford City Radio, has just published his end-of-year lists, with more Occultation interest. First Bob's albums of the year:
Kill Pretty – Dark Heart
Easter – Innocence Man
Rapid Pig – Wildlife
Factory Star – New Sacral
As Able As Kane – Totalitarian Tip Toe
Mr Heart – The Unspeakable Mr Heart
West Coast Sick Line – I hope everyone has nightmares except Kirsty
Mummy Short Arms – Old Jacks Windowless Playhouse
Moff Skellington – Thorny Conduits
Kill Pretty – In 80 Days
Monster Island – The Retaining Wall
Dead Sea Apes – Lupus
Salford Media City – @Futureworks
Bacchanal Party – You Can Be As Orange As You Like But There’s Nothing Sweet About You
Danny Short – Sunset Kicks In
Dead Sea Apes/Black Tempest – The Sun Behind The Sun
The Loose Hearts – Here We Are Now
Peter Hammill – Consequences
Dave Graney and the MistLY – You’ve Been In My Mind
Moff Skellington – Pukes of a Hot Cloister
Flies on You – Nothing To Write Home About
John Herring – It Starts Again
So Shush – A Mirror Gaze
Kingdom Lost – Desire Lines
Toska Wilde and Luis Drayton – Glamoflage
Moff Skellington – The Guild Of Distant Relatives
Danny Short – Remnants
Led Er Est – The Diver
Andy T – Life at Tethers End
The Distractions – The End of the Pier
Then his gigs of the year:
The Mob/Kill Pretty/Andy T/The System/The Autonomads/Evil Eye – Hebden Bridge Trades Club
Kill Pretty/Corned Beef/Sanity Clause/Addictive Philosophy – Sir Charles Napier, Blackburn
The Distractions/Factory Star/The June Brides – The Kings Arms, Salford
The Necks – Band on the Wall, Manchester
The Mob/Andy T/Kill Pretty/Nu Pogodi – The Trades Club, Bradford
Kill Pretty/Taser Puppets/Monkeys In Love/The Boom Da Da Booms – The Verge, Hyde
Hamsters/Velocets/Mama Roux – The Verge, Hyde
Mr Heart/Kill for Company – The Castle, Manchester
Vic Godard and the Subway Sect/Kill Pretty – The Oakwood, Glossop
AAAK – Salford Music Festival
Kill Pretty/Taser Puppets/Mark Of A 1000 Evils – Gullivers, Manchester
Positronik/Miss Lucid/Midnight Mafia – Salford Music Festival
Kill Pretty/Cactus Knife/Luis Drayton/Sinister Chuckles/Dusty Moonan – The Railway, Chorley
Kill Pretty/Factory Star/Sandells – Kings Arms, Salford
Factory Acts – Salford Music Festival
The Hamsters – Ape and Apple, Manchester
Rapid Pig – Salford Against the Cuts
Blue Orchids – Night and Day Cafe, Manchester
Kill Pretty/Pico the Puppeteer – Shangri- la at the Carlton Club, Prestwich
The Blimp/Positronik – Blue Cat Cafe
Factory Star also came third in "artist/band of the year".
On the "Unpopular" website, Alistair Fitchett writes:
Unpopular Advent 2012 - Day 15: The Distractions, Factory Star & The June Brides
The Distractions - ‘Wise’ from ‘The End Of The Pier’ (Occultation) Factory Star - ‘Olympian’ from ‘New Sacral’ (Occultation) The June Brides- ‘A January Moon’ from ‘Between The Moon And The Clouds’ 7” (Occultation / Slumberland)
If you were to make a list of contemporary record labels that have consistently delivered remarkable quality over the past few years you would be hard pushed to find anyone more worthy of the top slot than Occultation. Their commitment to Wild Swans alone would ensure their place in any right minded heart, but in 2012 they released a trio of discs that demanded attention.
Firstly, former Factory Funsters The Distractions returned with their second album after more than a quarter of a century and it was worth its wait in gold. ‘The End of The Pier’ was filled with suitably rounded and reflective middle-aged melancholia mixed with sharply observed and deftly coloured stabs of passion. Guitarist Steve Perrin laced razor blades through daisy chains whilst Mike Finney cemented his position as a Reggie King for our generation. A bittersweet soul sensation.
Martin Bramah’s latest set meanwhile resonated with the spirit and sound of the best of his earlier Blue Orchids offering ‘The Greatest Hit’. ‘New Sacral’ offered six sharply refined, avuncular and angular ripostes to the modern world. A glowering triumph of burbling, magical-realist urban psychedelia.
And what of The June Brides? Phil Wilson and his band of merry pranksters proved they still have the moves to charm a weary soul. There is surely an argument to be made that says The June Brides are the sound of a modern English Country music - by turns brittle, gritty and full of comforting warmth. A national treasure and no mistake.