Factory Floor

Factory Floor has had a fluctuating number of permanent members; initially starting out as a four piece, they quickly became a two-piece owing to a disagreement about who would get the band PA should they split up. G Gurnsey and M Harris remained as Factory Floor and sold the PA.
An extra guitarist was briefly added, but eventually his interest in early Human League records proved too much; he left to live in a squat and order an endless supply of analogue synths from auction websites. Apparently, he has yet to find the perfect keyboard.
The two remaining (and only constant) members swiftly consolidated their position and spent a year in a damp Hackney basement, painting the walls, designing barely working instruments and listening to Can records. When they were finally ready to emerge, they decided to hire a string of bassists to bolster the live experience. Remarkably, all four of those hired over an eight-month long period looked strangely similar. G Gurnsey puts their employment policy succinctly:
“They were all hired because they looked like the kind of person we’d have wanted to have on stage with us. None of them could actually play. I’d say that they were like some sort of superficial Sid Vicious-types, but Sid Vicious was actually vaguely interesting.”
In December 2007 Factory Floor met D Butler, the antithesis of a vacuous Sid Vicious-type, and he was asked to join. The group thus became a permanent three-piece. On D Butler, M Harris says:
"Dominic is interesting. He buys most of his records from the library.”
Factory Floor play violent, serene and electronic experimental music but not necessarily at the same time. When asked what they sounded like, G. Gurnsey once said:
“It sounds like a war at the Birling Gap Hotel.”
Inspired by the works of Joseph Beuys and Christian Boltanski and as fans of Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Stars of the Lid, they combine this with a love of The Fall, Talking Heads, James Chance, early pioneers Public Image Limited, Cabaret Voltaire and Wire, and the sheets-of-white-noise from Bristol group Flying Saucer Attack. German krautrock is something that’s also very close to the collective group’s heart, perhaps best reflected in the repetitive drive of their current single ‘Bipolar’.
'Bipolar' is available on 7" vinyl from Rough Trade (www.roughtrade.com) and other indie retailers or through PayPal mail order from Outside Sound (www.myspace.com/outsidesoundmusic)
Digitally available after release date, more details to follow...