Factory Records' 40th birthday presents - box sets and exhibitions

Influential and famous British record company Factory Records - home to Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, James - is celebrating its 40th anniversary with two box-sets and two major exhibitions, NME reports. Box-set ‘Use Hearing Protection’ compiles the first 10 records and memorabilia to receive a Factory Records catalogue number - including Joy Division’s classic album ‘Unknown Pleasures’ and three posters - and the second box, ‘Factory: Communications 1978-1992’, features 63 songs from Factory’s 15-year history - including hits ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ by Joy Division, New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’, Electronic’s ‘Getting Away With It’ and Happy Mondays’ ’24 Hour Party People’. This year's exhibition 'Use Hearing Protection' includes works by Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio and The Durutti Column. The second comes next year.