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The Certainty of Machines, Section 25's final studio album, is released 6 November 2026 on 9x9 Records.

It's available on vinyl and CD including limited silver and black vinyl editions, both housed in a deluxe die-cut sleeve.

The limited edition also includes the physical edition of Vin Cassidy’s new companion autobiography: 'fVCk off ...The Parable Of A Post Punk Percussionist'.

The black vinyl comes with a complimentary download of the book.

Pre-order the limited edition album at 9x9 Records.

Meanwhile dates are planned in the coming months which will include live shows and Q&As with Vin around the new book.

81 Renshaw, Liverpool — Saturday 14 November 2026
BUY TICKETS Duffy’s, Leicester — Sunday 13 December 2026
Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh — Friday 8 January 2027

The special guests at these shows will be Kevin Hewick and Libby.

More details and ticket links soon.

Labels: 2026, 9x9_Records, album, gig, gigs

In September 2025, Factory Benelux released a 4-disc box set edition of Section 25's pioneering 1984 electro album 'From The Hip', produced by Bernard Sumner.

The original 1984 album appears on Disc 1 along with bonus tracks including both 12" versions of Looking From A Hilltop, as well as singles Dirty Disco II, Beating Heart and Back To Wonder.

Disc 2 features previously unreleased material, including a 1984 BBC radio session, demos, remixes and new recordings.

Disc 3 collects together various electronic sketches and demo tracks from 1983 and 1984, plus remixes.

Disc 4 compiles mix desk live recordings from the North American tour in 1985,.

The album is available to buy direct via Factory Benelux.

Labels: 2025, album, Factory_Benelux, From_The_Hip

 

Labels: 2024, 9x9_Records, album, Move_On

Limited edition vinyl pressings of four of our albums - Part-Primitiv (FBN 130, 180g heavyweight black vinyl), Nature + Degree (FBN 135, purple vinyl), Retrofit (FBN 140, orange vinyl) and Dark Light (FBN 145, crystal clear vinyl) are being released via Factory Benelux in late August 2023. This will be the first time these albums have been available on vinyl.

Each album includes a digital copy with extra tracks and they can all be purchased individually, or as part of a bundle available from FBN and Burning Shed featuring all four albums as well as a signed postcard and a bonus copy of the FBN 124 Alfresco live package.

All albums are available to buy via Burning Shed.

Labels: 2023, album, Alfresco, Burning_Shed., Dark_Light, Factory_Benelux, LP, Nature_+_Degree, Part_Primitiv, Retrofit

Hymns From The Bardo is a collection of archival concert recordings and is the sister album to Jams From The Bardo released in 2021. A delicacy for all fans of the early days of Section 25 and Factory Records.

Tracklisting

1. Fucked In The Head
2. A Graduate From Boredom
3. Bourgeoise Breakdown
4. Unknown
5. Scary Movie
6. Mirror
7. Babies In The Bardo
8. Inside Out
9. Haunted
10. Open Those Eyes
11. Zone Zero
12. What You’re Waiting For
13. So Low
14. Falling
15. Regions

Available to buy now direct from Klanggalerie priced €18.00 per copy including worldwide shipping.

Labels: 2022, album, Klanggalerie

Jams From The Bardo is an archival collection of previously unreleased rehearsal room recordings from 1979 to 1981 out now via Klanggalerie.

This is a delicacy for all fans of the early days of Section 25 and Factory Records and it's available to buy now on CD direct from Klanggalerie priced €18 including worldwide shipping.

Tracklisting

1. Private Hell
2. CEM
3. Form Is Void
4. In The Attic
5. Rose Apple Island
6. Machine
7. Mirage
8. Alone Pt. 1
9. Pretty Peculiar
10. Pubs, Clubs And Drugs
11. Untitled
12. Up
13. You
14. Human Puppets.

All tracks composed and performed by Lawrence Cassidy, Paul Wiggin and Vincent Cassidy.

Labels: 2021, album, Klanggalerie

Section 25's Vienna show from October 2019 is receiving a release as a live CD album 'Duette' via the Klanggalerie label. Section 25 formed in Blackpool in November 1977 and initially they were a duo, consisting of brothers Larry and Vincent Cassidy. The band are now down to being a duo again consisting of Vincent Cassidy and Steven Stringer.

'Duette' is available to buy direct from Klanggalerie priced €17 including worldwide shipping.

Tracklisting

1. Be Brave 4:52
2. Girls Don't Count 6:30
3. Hit 5:40
4. Melt Close 5:12
5. Beating Heart 5:18
6. You Don't Have To Be Liked To Be Good 4:40
7. Wretch 4:39
8. Dirty Disco 6:30
9. Looking From A Hilltop 6:17

Notes

In 2020 Section 25 "live" are:

Vin Cassidy - vocals and percussion
Steve Stringer - guitar, keyboards, drums and sequencing

All tracks written by L Cassidy / V Cassidy / P Wiggin except:
Beating Heart: L Cassidy / V Cassidy /L Shallcross
Looking From A Hilltop: L Cassidy/ V Cassidy / J Cassidy / A Cassidy / L Shallcross
(LTM Songs)
You Don't Have To Be Liked To Be Good: V Cassidy / B Cassidy / Jo Cassidy / S Stringer
(Klanggalerie)

Duette recorded live in Vienna, Oct 2019
Produced and re-imagined by Steve Stringer
Cover concept by Vin Cassidy
Cover image and layout by Martin Bostock

www.section25.com

Labels: album, Bandcamp, digital, Klanggalerie, live_album

Section 25 features on an 8LP silver vinyl box set reissue of the 'Factory: Communications 1978-1992' compilation album which surveys the entire 15-year history of the iconic label, with a grand total 63 tracks spread over 16 sides of newly remastered vinyl albums. As well as classic cuts from New Order, Joy Division, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Electronic, A Certain Ratio and Section 25, this definitive overview delves deep into Factory's rich and occasionally wayward recorded catalogue, with X-O-Dus, Marcel King, 52nd Street, Quando Quango, Northside, James, The Railway Children and Crawling Chaos also included.

The featured Section 25 tracks are:

Girls Don't Count [Side 3 (1980-81)]
Dirty Disco [Side 4 (1981)]
Looking From A Hilltop (Megamix) [Side 9 (1983-84)]

Originally issued as a 4CD box set in 2009, Communications 1978-92 is curated by Jon Savage, with booklet notes by Paul Morley and James Nice.

Factory: Communications 1978-92 will be released on 8 November 2019.

More information: rhino.co.uk

Labels: album, compilation, Factory40, Rhino

A deluxe 5LP vinyl box set edition of Always Now, the debut album by Section 25, produced by legendary sonic architect Martin Hannett and sleeved by Peter Saville is out 6 September via Factory Benelux.

Recorded as a trio at Pink Floyd's Britannia Row studio in London in January 1981, Always Now combined austere post-punk rhythm and noise with elements of Can, Krautrock and modern psychedelia. Key tracks include Friendly Fires, Dirty Disco and New Horizon, along with C.P. (a collaboration with Hannett) and Hit (extensively sampled by Kanye West for the track F.M.L. on his 2016 album The Life of Pablo).

Those vinyl box contents in full:

LP1 - the original Always Now album (black vinyl)
LP2 - non-album singles from the period 1980-81 including 'Je Veux Ton Amour' and 'Girls Don't Count' (clear vinyl)
LP3 - complete live show recorded at Groningen, NL on 26 October 1980 (yellow vinyl)
LP4 - second studio album 'The Key of Dreams' (red vinyl)
LP5 - further experimental material recorded in 1981 and self-released on 'Illuminus Illumina' cassette plus live encore jam recorded with all four members of New Order at Reading University on 8 May 1981 (silver vinyl)

More information including full tracklisting: Always Now 5LP coloured vinyl box set [FBN 3-045]

The album is available to pre-order now via Factory Benelux Mailorder

Labels: album, Always_Now, Factory_Benelux, vinyl

'Elektra', the new album by Section 25 is out now via Austrian label Klang Galerie on CD and all major download platforms. This is the band's 8th studio album and shows a welcome return to an old S25 work ethic of tracks recorded in one take and plenty of improvisation.

Vin Cassidy: "I am very proud of this project, particularly as Paul Wiggin came down to play guitar on several of the songs and it was great to meet and clear the air after so many years. When Paul was putting totally improvised guitar tracks down, he asked for all instruments/vocals to be turned off except for the bass guitar and drums. It was so moving listening to him play to this bare sound, I was transported back our very first recording session at Cargo Studios in 79 with Larry, Rob and Ian.

"I am also very grateful to Michael Cassidy for the able bass duties he provided on these tracks. I am not one for covers as a rule but we thought we would turn FML around and send it back S25 style".

The CD includes an 8 page booklet called 'Section X Section'. This has a foreword by John Robb and contributions / observations from band members past and present.



Buy it now

'Elektra' is available to buy now via Klang Galerie. Also available to download.

Tracklisting

1. Laid Back
2. Chase The Blue
3. Creatures
4. All I Ask
5. It Don't Get
6. You Want Some
7. You Don't Have To Be Liked To Be Good
8. The Greatest Thing
9. This Is The Love
10. Floating Sun
11. FML*

*track 11 is a cover of a Kanye West song which in turn sampled Section 25's 'Hit' from their Factory Records debut 'Always Now'.


Paul Wiggin in the studio


Paul Wiggin in the studio


Paul Wiggin and Vin Cassidy

Credits

Section 25 are...

Beth Cassidy... Vocals and Keyboards
Vin Cassidy... Drums and additional Percussion
Joanna Cassidy... Backing Vocals and Keyboards
Steve Stringer... Guitar and Keyboards

Thanks to...

Paul Wiggin... Guitar

Michael Cassidy... Bass Guitar
Recorded and Produced at West Orange Studios UK in Jan 2018
Produced by Alan Gregson and Vin Cassidy
Engineered by Alan Gregson
All Songs written by Section 25 except FML written by K West and M Dean

Photos by Holsteph Photography

Labels: album, Klanggalerie, Paul_Wiggin

Factory Benelux presents new live album Alfresco by Section 25 issued in a special limited edition of just 500 copies in clear vinyl to mark Record Store Day on Saturday 16 April 2016.

A digitally recorded festival set mixing SXXV classics old and new, the line-up for the Alfresco event staged in their Blackpool hometown on 24 May 2015 featured Beth Cassidy, Vin Cassidy, Steve Stringer, Jo Cassidy and guest Simon Topping, formerly of A Certain Ratio and Quando Quango. "A revelation," wrote the Guardian. "The best old/new band in Britain."

Vintage dance and electro faves Looking From a Hilltop, Beating Heart and Dirty Disco are matched with more recent songs including Garageland and Inner Drive. Extra tracks on the bonus CD include a version of early Ratio classic All Night Party.

The cover art features live photography by Xavier Marquis and portraits by Martin Bostock.

The group's 1981 track Hit was recently sampled by Kanye West for the track FML on his new album, The Life of Pablo.

Vinyl tracklisting

A1. Wretch
A2. Beating Heart
A3. Garageland
A4. Memento

B5. You Leave Me No Choice
B6. Inner Drive
B7. Dirty Disco
B8. Looking From a Hilltop

CD tracklisting

1. New Horizon
2. Wretch
3. Beating Heart
4. Garageland
5. Memento
6. You Leave Me No Choice
7. Inner Drive
8. Dirty Disco
9. Looking From a Hilltop
10. All Night Party
11. My Outrage

Labels: album, Factory_Benelux, Record_Store_Day

To coincide with our recently-announced Records Store Day single Mirror we are proud that on 6 April 2015 Factory Benelux releases a deluxe 34-track 2CD edition of our Martin Hannett-produced debut album Always Now.

Recorded by the original trio line-up of the band at Pink Floyd's Britannia Row studio in London, Always Now combined austere post-punk rhythms with elements of Can, Krautrock and modern psychedelia.

The second disc features loads of bonus material including a John Peel session from January 1981, a complete live show from Groningen in October 1980, plus various remastered alternate versions of several album tracks.

This new Factory Benelux 2CD edition is housed in a miniature version of the fabulous folding pochette wallet designed by Peter Saville.

Tracklisting

CD1

1. Friendly Fires
2. Dirty Disco
3. C.P.
4. Loose Talk (Costs Lives)
5. Inside Out
6. Melt Close
7. Hit
8. Babies in the Bardo
9. Be Brave
10. New Horizon
11. Haunted
12. Charnel Ground
13. Human Puppets
14. Knew Noise
15. Up To You
16. Girls Don't Count
17. Oyo Achel Ada
18. After Image
19. Red Voice

CD2

1. One True Path (Peel Session)
2. Babies in the Bardo (Peel Session)
3. Hit (Peel Session)
4. Je Veux Ton Amour (7")
5. Loose Talk (Costs Lives) (live)
6. Human Puppets (live)
7. Knew Noise (live)
8. Friendly Fires (live)
9. Girls Don't Count (live)
10. New Horizon (live)
11. Haunted (live)
12. You're On Your Own (live)
13. Floating (demo)
14. Friendly Fires (outtake)
15. One True Path (outtake)

The album is available to pre-order now via Factory Benelux Mailorder.

Labels: album, Always_Now, Factory_Benelux

Section 25 is proud to feature on 'Of Factory New York', a new benefit album for Michael Shamberg presented by Factory Benelux and New Order. Shamberg is a long-time friend of New Order and ran the NYC office of Factory Records during its Eighties heyday.

FBN 55 is out 26 May 2014 on CD and double gatefold vinyl formats, Of Factory New York gathers a selection of classic tracks by artists associated with OFNY including the John Robie remix of Yashar by Cabaret Voltaire, Do the Du by A Certain Ratio, Cool As Ice by 52nd Street, Love Tempo by Quando Quango, an exclusive version of Your Silent Face by New Order, recorded live on tour in America in June 1989. Section 25's contribution is the Megamix version of Looking From A Hilltop.

Homegrown American talent also features with Ike Yard, Thick Pigeon, Konk, Anna Domino and deejay/producer Arthur Baker included. Cover art is based on an original 1983 design by Lawrence Weiner.

Unfortunately in 2006 Michael was struck down with highly debilitating mitochondrial disease. All artists featured on Of Factory New York have donated their work free of charge, Factory Benelux will take no profit, and 100% of net revenues will be paid over to the medical trust which takes care of Michael.

"Michael has been with us from the very start," explain New Order. "Initially he was in charge of Factory New York, then became creative producer for all our early videos. He brought our attention to the early works of directors such as Kathryn Bigelow, Gina Birch, Robert Breer, Peter Care, Phillipe Decouffle, Jonathan Demme, Robert Frank, Paula Greiff, Robert Longo, Bailie Walsh and William Wegman. Michael is very ill and needs constant medical attention. We want to help him, and played two fundraising shows in 2011. This new Factory New York compilation album will contribute further financial support towards Michael’s ongoing care."

Vinyl tracklist

A1. A Certain Ratio - Do the Du
A2. Quando Quango - Love Tempo
A3. 52nd Street - Cool As Ice

B1. Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar (John Robie Remix)
B2. New Order - Your Silent Face (live 1989)
B3. Konk - Baby Dee

C1. Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop (Megamix)
C2. Streetlife - Act On Instinct
C3. Marcel King - Reach For Love (New York Remix)

D1. Thick Pigeon - Subway
D2. Ike Yard - Kino
D3. Arthur Baker - Come On
D4. Anna Domino - Summer (Arthur Baker Remix)

CD tracklisting

1. A Certain Ratio - Do the Du
2. Quando Quango - Love Tempo
3. Konk - Baby Dee
4. 52nd Street - Cool As Ice
5. Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar (John Robie Remix)
6. New Order - Your Silent Face (live 1989)
7. Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop (Megamix)
8. Streetlife - Act On Instinct
9. Marcel King - Reach For Love (New York Remix)
10. Thick Pigeon - Subway
11. Ike Yard - Kino
12. Arthur Baker - Come On
13. Anna Domino - Summer (Arthur Baker Remix)

More info via factorybenelux.com.

Labels: A_Certain_Ratio, album, benefit, Factory_Benelux, Michael_Shamberg, New_Order, Of_Factory_New_York

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