Hence this first of five Manchester international festival keynote shows, also called So It Goes — which have the rather arty, very Factory Records subtitle ∑ (No, 12 k, Lg, 17 Mif) and pair the band with a 12 -
piece synthesiser orchestra from the Royal Northern College Of Music and a «responsive» stage set designed by visual artist Liam Gillick.
At the time I was really into music and he helped a friend and I build a little
piece of electronics that we wanted to use in order to make music — it allowed us to interface a drum machine to a
synthesiser, which was very difficult to do in the 80s!