Section 25
This is an informal offshoot of the main Section 25 website. It's main purpose is to allow the band to document various things relating to their ongoing work in the field of "Industrial Psychedelia". This being the case you will probably find that most items are something of a "work in progress".
May 2008 sees the release of the "A Factory Night (Once Again) Plan K 15.12.2007" a 29 track DVD which will be released by LTM on 19th May 2008. Catalogue number: LTMDVD 2519, Format: NTSC (Region 0), Barcode: 502 4545 5038 90. Or as the LTM press release puts it:
"LTM is pleased to present a DVD souvenir of A Factory Night (Once Again), the memorable live event staged at Plan K in Brussels on 15 December 2007 featuring live performances by Section 25, Crispy Ambulance, The Names, Kevin Hewick and Peter Hook.
Shot in High Definition with five cameras and a digital stereo soundtrack, the live section of the DVD features more than 2 hours of in-concert highlights (29 tracks) from all four bands, as well as the encore of the New Order classic Temptation by Section 25 and Peter Hook.
Bonus features on the NTSC format Region 0 DVD include poster and photo galleries, as well as a rare 1981 television interview with Annik Honore exploring the early history of Plan K, Factory Benelux and Les Disques du Crepuscule.
The 2007 event marked a return of these several original Factory Records artists to the legendary Plan K venue in Brussels after a gap of more than 25 years, during which the venue (a former sugar refinery) had ceased staging live gigs. The event was also a tribute to the late Anthony H. Wilson, the Factory founder who died a few months earlier."
March 2008 sees the release of the "Dirty Disco", (Best Of) Album which will be released by LTM on 31st March 2008 (Catalogue Number LTMCD 2515). This CD celebrates 30 years of Section 25 - the band that puts the FUN back into dysfunction.
The album features eight key album tracks spanning three decades as well as selected versions of many of the singles with the full tracklist comprising:
The CD booklet features new and archive images, choice comments plus a detailed band chronology right up to the present lineup. For further information, and ordering details, please see the LTM recordings website.
May 2007 saw the releases of two new pieces of work. Firstly Part Primitiv a new studio album recorded at West Orange Studios in Preston, Lancashire. So far it's received some a favourable response and the reviews have been very encouraging with a selection being:
This is accompanied by the release of the Communicants DVD. A collection of live footage assembled and collected from various gigs during 2006. For all the eager beavers out there we've been making a few (low quality) "taster" clips from the DVD available on You Tube.
This being the case we've also linked to some of the videos here on the site but I'm afraid you'll need both Macromedia Flash installed and Javascript enabled to play them. So if you see what looks like a block of missing content it's probably an embedded video clip.
Additionally users of Microsoft's wretched Internet Explorer may get a warning about "unsafe Active-X controls" when loading this page. This isn't due to us trying to place malicious code on your machine it's simply due to the embedded video content (check the page source if you don't believe us !)