Factory was a band from
Stockholm in
Sweden, active between 1978 and 1982, scoring chart successes in Sweden during the late 1970s and 1980s.
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Factory broke through in Sweden with the 1978 single '' Efter plugget'' 1978. The single was followed up by the album ''Factory
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''. The band toured the Nordic Region
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in the late 1970s and early 1980s and also released the 1980 album ''Factory II
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''.
After Factory broke up, bassist Siewertson joined the Swedish hair metal band Treat and played on their early albums before leaving in 1989.
During the 1990s, the band was reunited temporary touring with, among others, Magnum Bonum, Attack and Snowstorm
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.
Members
* Mats Carinder, vocals
* Ted Leinsköld, guitar
* Lars-Olof Larsson, keyboard
* Ken Siewertson
Ken or KEN may refer to:
Entertainment
* ''Ken'' (album), a 2017 album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer.
* ''Ken'' (film), 1964 Japanese film.
* ''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine.
* Ken Masters, a main character in t ...
, bass
* Mats Söderberg, drums
Discography
Studio albums
* ''Factory
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'' (1979)
* ''Factory II
A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. The ...
'' (1980)
Compilation albums
* '' Best of Factory'' (1989)
Singles
* '' Lumpna funderingar'' (1978)
* '' Efter plugget'' (1978)
* '' Kuddsnack'' (1979)
* ''Face to Face'' (1981)
* ''Jag ställer inte upp'' (1981)
* ''Hårt mot hårt'' (1982)
* '' Ooa hela natten'' (with Attack och Magnum Bonum) (1992)
Maxisingles 12"
* '' Efter plugget'' (1989)
References
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1978 establishments in Sweden
1982 disestablishments in Sweden
Musical groups established in 1982
Musical groups disestablished in 1982
Musical groups from Stockholm