They had come together sometime around 1982, coalescing from the splinters of bands such as The Things and Formation, footnotes of footnotes in Manchester's musical history, and rehearsing in a room in Robert Adam Crescent in Hulme - I think that was the red one although my memory's not what it was. There had been a meeting with Tony Wilson and Rob Gretton in a stairwell by the fire escape in the Hacienda basement, a session booked with Steve Morris producing, and thus was born Red Turns To's only single "Deep Sleep", FAC116, a twelve inch released in March 1985 but labelled 1984. There are supposedly around 2000 in existence.

The fascinating thing about Red Turns To is how utterly contemporary they sound. A glacial drum machine, stark bass, brooding vocals and swathes of very Factory keyboard, they're an illustration of the influence that era still has on music today. Play them back to back with, say, Young British Artists and you'd be hard pushed to say which band comprises people who probably weren't born when the other last played. The emphasis is on long, almost motorik tracts of near monotone whose excellence lies in its use of space, occasionally filled by Tim Lyons' bleak trumpet notes. I have no idea if this reunion was a one-off but I rather hope not; it seems a hidden treasure has been unearthed here and it would be a shame for it to be buried again just yet.
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