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A Certain Ratio - Wild Party & Inside, The Tube, 1985

While Joy Division and New Order were always the most popular and most commercially successful bands on Tony Wilson’s Manchester based FactoryRecords label, I always loved the white funk of A Certain Ratio (ACR), so it was with great anticipation and excitement that I watched them perform live on The Tube on Channel 4 in 1985.

How Wild Party was not a big hit for them, I shall never know.

ACR are still together and you can listen to other classic tracks like The Fox, Do The Du and Shack Up on the official ACR MySpace page.

httpv://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8-ijfZA2w