Long derided as Factory also-rans, ACR nevertheless occupy a unique place in musical history. What other band would think about taking disco and funk and passing it through the dour post-punk Manchester filter - or was it the other way around? The results may not always be to everybody's taste - I think we can safely assume that ACR will never be inducted into the Rock n roll Hall of fame - but you have to admire the sheer gall of these five young Mancunians for ploughing their own peculiar musical furrow. While ACR never enjoyed the success of their labelmates New Order and Happy Mondays their contribution to the music is too valuable to ignore, both as a document of Thatcher's Britain in the early 80s and as music in its own right.