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Thread about the way everything connects. So in the mid 1990s I left university with a love of indie music and a degree in English. Through a series of lucky chances I ended up working with Tony Wilson at Factory too, the successor to Factory Records.
Factory Records had gone bust amidst some spectacularly brilliant creative decisions that were just not that brilliant financially ( eg the packaging for Blue Monday was handmade and they lost money on every copy sold. It was a massive hit) Anyway London Records bought the back
catalogue and set him up in an office on Little Peter Street in Manchester. Just behind Deansgate Station. It was Tony and me in the office with drop-in appearances from Manchester music alumni such as Peter Hook and Vini Reilly.
It seems aong time ago now and sometimes feels like another life. A nice journalist called @mickmiddles wrote a book about Factory Records in which I get a mention and every so often I look at it and think, yes that really did happen!
Anyway around the time I joined Factory too a band called @ADFofficial formed and they were great. I mean really brilliant. They mixed musical genres faultlessly and had great politics. I saw them play a few times including at Glastonbury in, I think, 2000.
After Factory too I spent a while in the music industry (working for Polydor, V2, Warner Music and EMI in that order) before retraining for my second career as a teacher. I was doing my PGCE at the Institute of Education in London when @ADFofficial brought out Enemy of the Enemy
which became their best-selling album and contained the track "Fortress Europe", an attack on European immigration policy. Which was YESSSS!!! So by this stage I was working with refugee young people and they were the most amazing bunch. Totally inspiring and brilliant.
So when I was priced out of London I moved to Kent and was lucky enough to get a job working for Kent Refugee Action Network. I've been there 6 years now and I love it. Around 2 years ago I took over dealing with the media, including social media. So think just how excited I was
To get a message from Steve of @ADFofficial asking about donating money from @CominOverHere to KRAN. Honestly, you don't really get better days at work than that. And somehow everything feels wonderfully connected. So basically this is a very long way of saying...
Please help to get this amazing pro-migrantion track to Number One for the new year. Not only is a fantastic tune, you're raising money for @_KRAN_. And it's only 99p! https://smarturl.it/cominoverhere
*migration* stupid fat fingers 
