Martin Hannett

especially Tony Wilson, you know.

And in Tony Wilson's life, you know, he fell out with Martin Hannett, who'd produced Joy Division and the first New Order album.

He fell out with him before the Hacienda opened because Martin Hannett wanted the money that New Order were making and that Joy Division's back catalogue was making.

to go towards a Fairlight synthesizer, which was the state of the art, but at that point very expensive piece of studio equipment because Martin wanted Factory to be a bit more like Motown and to have its own studio so all the bands could come through.

Instead, they spent that money on Hacienda and Martin Hannett walked out of Factory and resigned as a director and got paid off.

And Tony and him obviously had a massive falling out.

Tony fell out with Paul Morley, even though Paul had written so many things about Factory in the early days.

Mm.

A little bit like Martin Hannett was on the Joy Division album.

So there's a few little connecting threads there.

[laughs]

... what he was saying.

The, I think Unknown Pleasures is a more complete album.

It sounds like a complete concept, but that's also enabled by Martin Hannett's production.

Mm.

We mentioned Shirley Henderson in his first wife.

Andy Serkis as Martin Hannett, who is like an audio engineer and producer.

I don't even remember

recognizing him.

Yes, I didn't know who that was.

I saw a review that was like, Andy Serkis plays a human in this, but he doesn't even look like Andy Serkis.

I was like, who? And then I was like, oh my God, he was Martin Hannett.

Danny Cunningham as Sean, like the lead singer of the Happy Mondays was in a lot.