There has always been plenty of material surrounding the band and Factory Records in general, with 24 Hour Party People preceding Control, a recent documentary and copious books of Factory artwork and the like. I even have some 'Madchester' coasters in the style of the album covers from seminal LPs like Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures.
Rob Gretton, brilliantly portrayed by Toby Kebbell in Control (Kebbell plays the title role in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla too - he's going places), isn't seen as the sort of figure to keep a comprehensive notebook, but apparently he did. Twenty of them have been combined and are now being released as a very limited edition of 1,500.
The book, called 1 Top Class Manager, is available from the site of the same name and is apparently going on sale at Manchester's Vinyl Exchange from tomorrow. I shall almost certainly be trying to get hold of one for my girlfriend's dad who, like Molly Sugden's bridesmaid in Little Britain, likes to remind us that he used to live next door to Ian Curtis.
As a complete aside, a mate of mine went into Vinyl Exchange when we were young teenagers and saw that on every copy of R Kelly's You've got that Vibe, someone had Tipp-Exed a speech bubble and written the word 'Viiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiibe'. Which still makes me laugh.
Nod to SLAMXHYPE
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