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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.