SCREAMING PROFIT - Live at The Crescent (5 Dec 2014)

1.	AWG
2.	Stock Exchange
3.	Thirst

Factory Acts are:
Susan O’Shea – vocals, synths, gadgets
Matt Davies – bass guitar, drum rhythms

Thanks to:
German Shepherd Records and Tony Thornborough for hosting and organising the event at the Crescent, Salford
Jim Watts for mixing and recording

Artwork by SOS.

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Stock Exchange

Thirst

An SoS track of experimental lo-fi techno-tinged influences. Played live with the Korg Monotribe and Monotron Delay. 
Feel free to download. 

Swarm

FA out of our comfort zone but aiming to bring colour to a black and white world. This is a cover as part of a special collection in tribute to a great band and in particular to the memory of a very special drummer Kelvin Knight.
All Delta-5 covers will be available to download via Esper Scout - link to follow.  
Check out the original Delta-5 track 'Colour' here: https://youtu.be/7s0s1ug5njQ
You can find them on Bandcamp and Spotify etc.

Colour (Delta-5 cover)

A special remix by our good friends #Bedroom-Legends of our original tune, Animal Spirits. This will be available on the epic free sampler CD by #AnalogueTrash - go check our  label out.  

Factory Acts - Animal Spirits (Bedroom Legends Remix)

Clocking On

If Factory Acts did James Bond theme tunes this would be it - in fact 007 saves the day to 'Leave the world to us'. Orchestral hits, brass and beats with melodic overdrive, this is the lead track from the new EP 'Second Amendment' (released 21/04/2017).
Out now via AnalogueTrash: http://bandcamp.analoguetrash.com/album/second-amendment

Second Amendment

Leave the world to us

CD & Download

Factory Acts-Leave The World To Us

From the Second Amendment EP 21 April 2017

Factory Acts-Ants

Full 15 mins track available here: https://factoryacts.bandcamp.com/album/are-you-the-singer

“With their bracing and genre-busting take on post-punk and electronica, Anglo-Irish act Factory Acts marry Lancashire grit and gumption with Corkonian flair and fire to create a unique musical vision that had its live debut at the legendary Salford Lads Club.

The spiky duo - SoS (aka Susan O’Shea) on vocals, synths and analogue digital devices, and Matt Davies on bass, beats and magic mixes - add an experimental side to their wonderful melange of influences on their new single, Are You the Singer?

With classic 808 epoch defining sounds in the nexus of rhythms and basslines where Detroit gay clubs met the back-street bacchanal of Manchester, the track is given a sprinkling of feminist finesse, an attitude reminiscent of The Slits and the raw, repetitive beats of 20 Jazz Funk Greats era Throbbing Gristle.

With its cutups and spoken word samples of phrases and statements that female musicians have had to endure since the day Sister Rosetta Tharpe picked up a guitar – and probably before - Are You the Singer? takes a righteous and rightful source of female anger from the streets to the dancefloor in blistering fashion.”

Released October 13, 2018

Susan O’Shea: concept, composition and production
Matt Davies: composition and production

Mixing and mastering by John Tatlock
Leave the World to Us remixed by John Tatlock

Factory Acts would like to say a big thank you to the following musicians for sharing their experiences:

- Una Baines—Poppycock (The Fall), Manchester
- Lynn Breedlove—The Homobiles (Tribe 8), San Francisco
- Whitney Bluzma—iLL & Diagonal Science, Manchester/Riga
- Carolyn "Honeychild" Coleman, New York
- Waritsara Karlberg (Yui) - Ethereal, Dorset
- Rose Niland—Rose & the Diamond Hand, Manchester
- Margaret O’Sullivan—Femmepop, London/Cork
- Mandy Wigby—Musician/Producer (Sisters of Transistors and much more), Manchester
- Faye Williams—Berlyn Trilogy, Wakefield
- Stella Zine—(Pagan Holiday), Athens, Georgia

Are You the Singer?

Are You the Singer? Radio Edit

Factory Acts-Are You the Singer? RadioEdit

“We’re a Salford based post-punk dark-electro duo. We exist at the edge of the analogue-digital divide, sometimes dreaming, always dancing. Cork at heart.”

Factory Acts are a Salford-based post-punk dark-electro duo. They exist at the edge of the analogue-digital divide, sometimes dreaming, always dancing. 

They are SoS (aka Susan O'Shea) on vocals, synths and analogue digital devices, and Matt Davies covering bass, beats and magic mixes. Factory Acts was born following the accidental creation of a new sound, and a hastily written two song instrumental debut at Salford Lad's Club. They hit the local gig circuit in 2012 self-releasing two singles, 'Senseless' and 'Fantasy', both of which have received repeated air play on BBC Introducing Manchester, Ireland's 2FM, Salford City Radio and numerous internet stations worldwide. Since then they have performed live from Manchester to Doncaster, from Leeds to London, taking in Cork on the way. Factory Acts has played the Salford Music Festival, headlined the 'Pussy-Whipped' festival in Edinburgh, and played alongside bands such as Salford legends Kill Pretty, plus Vile Electrodes, Tom Hingley, Ste McCabe, Naevus, The Witch Hunt, and the Jan Doyle Band to name but a few. 

Two years after their live debut, Factory Acts release their first EP, Thirst, on 4th July 2014 via Manchester-based independent label AnalogueTrash Records. Featuring four stand-out tracks of analogue-electronics that combine SoS's esoteric and haunting vocals with the pulsating, otherworldly beats and rhythms of Matt Davies. If you have a thirst, Factory Acts will leave you wanting more

Contact: factoryacts [at] gmail [dot] com

Video up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvp6xO1Hgkw

Singed with AnalogueTrash Records - http://www.analoguetrash.co.uk/

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