![]() 'Why bother making a record on our own?' Morris told Stuart Maconie in 1991. Morris and Gilbert also bowed to the inevitable. 'Everyone else has got one, so I'm doing mine.' 'It's my solo project,' he quipped to Melody Maker. ![]() Even manager Rob Gretton was distracted, setting up Manchester dance label Rob's Records. ![]() 'We'd done quite a bit of stuff for TV by then and got into a routine of just writing material, so that when someone wanted a bit of music for something we had a stockpile that would at least be a starting point.' Having set solo projects running in 1987, and recorded excellent fifth album Technique the following year, it was intended that New Order would regroup in 1990, but the band found their energies dissipated by Electronic, Revenge, and a novelty football single, World In Motion. 'O2 grew out of a suggestion from Alan Erasmus in mid-1990 that we do a soundtrack album,' says Stephen Morris. In the event, after too much refreshment most of the guests leave their CDs behind, while the cost of The New Factory (though not Loved It) will ultimately contribute to the collapse of the label two years later, and delay the release of the debut album by The Other Two by another twelve months. The musicians responsible for Loved It are none other Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert of New Order, aka The Other Two, pleased to celebrate the opening of the new Factory office, while at the same time delighted not to have contributed a penny towards the runaway build cost of 750,000 pounds. Though the boardroom does not yet feature the infamous floating table, guests at the opening party are treated to a contract signing by Scots band The Wendys, and an exclusive free CD numbered Facd 251, featuring a witty electro track called Loved It (The New Factory), which samples ghosts of Factory past. The mooted glass pyramid is destined never to be installed. There is also a zinc roof, although this can only be seen from the air. Beyond the steel gates and Japanese oak door, the visitor pathway from the ground floor reception and warehousing areas up to the airy boardroom in the roof space is enlivened by brightly coloured walls, exposed brickwork and recycled wood panelling. Spread over three stories, Ben Kelly's third warehouse conversion for Factory is a suitably grand statement of presence in Manchester. ![]() Guests invited to the grand opening of Fac 251, the new Factory headquarters building, pass through steel gates decorated with the new Factory corporate logo, set in a modification of Rotis font which designers Peter Saville and Brett Wickens have christened Factis 90. Their first album The Other Two and You appeared in 1993, following by Super Highways in 1999.Ĭharles Street, Manchester, 29 September 1990. O2 came about in 1990, spurred by Morris and Gilbert's work on television soundtracks. The Other Two are an electronic pop duo comprising Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert of New Order. ![]()
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