The Factory

The Factory is an acoustic indie track with splinters in it's fingers. Warm, worn and held together by a minor chord, it leaves space for the creak of a jumbo acoustic guitar and the weight of silence. Nothing too polished, nothing rushed, just two guitars, a soulful vocal, and a feeling that something important once happened there. The song digs into Manchester’s Factory years, from the late 70's through to the 90's and the long shadow cast by the Haçienda nightclub. It’s about opening doors, about how a city handed its youth the keys to something bigger than themselves and how that freedom bred both brilliance and some unbearable egos. This isn’t a tribute wrapped in nostalgia. It’s a song about opportunity colliding with hunger and belief, turning into arrogance and the strange beauty that comes from letting things run wild, which Tony Wilson was a master of. Acoustic, vulnerable, and slightly unsteady.