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The British music industry would have been dramatically different had it not been for one Tony Wilson.

Factory Records not only bore Joy Division/New Order and the Happy Mondays, but – thanks to Peter Saville’s design aesthetic – set a template for numerous UK independent labels to ape. In 1982, Wilson and friends opened The Haçienda. The rest, as they say, is history – one chartered most memorably in Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 film, 24 Hour Party People.

This October, Wilson will be curating a “fantasy” night showcasing his favourite new bands [ed note: Tim Booth of James, Crank and The Music] at London’s ICA called DJ Saved My Life, part of Amnesty’s campaign to force proper control of the arms trade right to the top of the political agenda.

Here FACT interviews him via the Internet. Want to know the bands he wished he’d signed, but didn’t? What’s his favourite record of 2003? How much money would make him stop working? His biggest fashion faux pas and the last time he went out and wasn’t on the guest list? Then read on…
  

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“Can’t stand queuing and can’t stand using my minor celebrity to get in. Either straight in or fuck off is my motto.”

  What can you expect from your night at the ICA? Sell it to us…

My theme is ‘the one who got away’. It seemed like a nice idea to put on a few bands I have fallen in love with in the last few years and failed to sign – a way of being contemporary and also self-depreciating. Maybe it would be nicer to offer people a slice of what it feels like to be me going to a gig… every time I descend the grimy stairs of some hip basement, it is the same as doing an examination, except that my life depends on it. It’s an exam ‘cause it’s an exercise in art criticism; “Is this band good or bad?”. And life or death, ‘cause if I ever saw a band and thought they were poor and they turned out to be life-enhancing geniuses, I would have to slit my fucking throat. So that’s what it feels like every time I do this. And for my night for the ICA, here are two bands that I adore and one young bunch I respect enormously but I wouldn’t sign ‘cause they don’t fulfil my criteria of being unable to play their instruments.

You’ve experienced armed violence at clubs and scenes you’ve been integral over the years. How important to you is it to be involved in this campaign?

I hate bullies and in the end that’s all gangs are. The glorification of self-assertive violence is in fact the glorification of those people in the school playground who deal with their inadequacies by terrorising children who are weaker than themselves.

Any effort to disengage from the bling quotient of firearms is to be cheered. It’s not cool to threaten violence or indulge in it. It’s great to be doing some little thing like curating a gig even (oh so fucking arty) to add even a little to this message.

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How optimistic are you about a time when clubs can prevent such violence?

Not very. The club problem is, in my experience, an ego problem. The better your club – and you want it to be the greatest – the more the heads and their minions will want to come in and show off and preen themselves by getting free drinks and hitting your staff if they don’t give them free drinks. Always found the sheer helplessness of being unable to defend one’s bar staff from violence, the most unbearable aspect of it all. The decision taken on a Thursday afternoon to bar some tossers, becomes a potential death sentence to your door staff who will have to implement those exclusions. Fucking nightmare. If there is a solution somewhere, it is for schools to become more aware of bullying and more open to dealing with it instead of sweeping it under the carpet. Stop it early. Explain the sad weakness of glorifying that kind of physical strength.

What’s the most exciting thing about music right now?

The bands playing my night at the ICA of course…no. Not fair. But slightly true. Otherwise I wouldn’t have asked them…

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What CD is in your car stereo at the moment?

Evanescence. I know, it’s just Meatloaf for kids, but it’s such good Meatloaf and I love the girl’s lyrics… I carry the CD liner notes in my car to follow the text…The best thing about music in a period when the industry is in self-pity mode is the kids. Our kids. My kids. We should be worried if the present generation were slightly less absorbed in music than the children of the 60’s and 70’s and 80’s. Considering the garbage on offer from successful UK TV formats, they would be forgiven. But they don’t need to be. UK kids are obsessed with music as ever and that’s all that matters.

What do you think is the best record of 2003 so far?

That one…Evanescence.

You’re in charge of your own radio station for a day. What DJs would you book to play-and why?

I would book any gold station DJ from the US. Why the fuck can America do gold and we can’t? US gold means classic rock and pop songs from 1956 to yesterday. In the UK, gold means middle-of-the-road shite. Wake up for heaven’s sake… gimme a good gold DJ. Now.

If you could spend a day with anyone in the world, who would it be, and why?

The late Cardinal Arns, Archbishop of Sao Paolo. Mr. Liberation theology. I need to understand my Catholicism better. Plus I blame him for my bad business sense. “But Cardinal, are you saying that…just to be rich…of itself…is a sin”? “Exactly my boy” …arms opening wide, big grin on his face.

What would make you stop working?

A guaranteed income of £100,000 per year. Death.

When was the last time you cried?

Recently. Probably a chick flick. Normally cry for dead friends five years after they die…delayed reaction stuff.

What’s your favourite smell?

Grey flannel – me. Cassini – her

Which item have you lost that you most want back?

A Musst de Cartier travel clock given me as a present by my beloved many years ago. Much missed. And now a palm tree which I got in 1975. My fucking cat, Madison, has pissed on it so often, it’s dying and I want it back…should be repotting it if I didn’t have to do this fucking interview with you lot, expect your mag looks cool. My colleague Saville thinks it’s great so there. Fuck the palm tree.

What do you consider your biggest fashion faux pas?

Wearing sarongs throughout the ‘90’s. Pre-Beckham even. Actually my kids think it’s a faux pas. I love them. Particularly in South East Asia.

When was the last time you went out and weren’t on the guest list?

I only go out in Manchester and as a minor local celebrity I’m always on the guest list. But as soon as there’s a pause in entry, as in someone checking invites or something, I just walk away and go home. Can’t stand queuing and can’t stand using my minor celebrity to get in. Either straight in or fuck off is my motto.

It’s your 100^th birthday. You’re in dreamland. What five bands/DJs/artists are playing at your party?

Stockholm Monsters, Happy Mondays, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, The Hollies (well it is a party)

What animal do you identify most with?

A rhino coming out of a thicket (how legendary drummer Bruce Mitchell describes my dominant behavioural mode)

What was the first record you bought? And when was the last time you listened to it?

Peter Paul and Mary’s In Concert Volume One 1964, probably. But I think about it. Did you know that Warner Brothers Records (whom I later spent a great part of the ‘80s and early ‘90s working for – God Bless Mo Ostin and all the rest of the greatest label in history) was about to fold and cease in 1961-62, until the success of that very record? Not such a joke after all.

Do you think you’ve already had the ‘best sex of your life’?

No, there’s always something new, another shore to reach…and Pfizer science helps me say that. And isn’t Pele brave?

What band do you wish you had signed to your record label?

The Music and Cat on Form. Thank God I missed The Smiths ‘cause Gretton, my late partner who hailed them as the new Beatles, told Johnny the demo was shit and he wouldn’t sign them till they gave him a good demo. Fuck Morrissey. Great talent, but treats other human beings like shit, which isn’t right.

What’s in your pocket right now?

Antacid tablets. (Is it age or the drugs?) and ten

 pounds.

What would you come back as in your next life?

Me. Kinda enjoyed it so far…

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Dear Auxiliarist readers,

I’m going to press pause on this blog for a few weeks this summer just like last year so I can catch up on a backlog of work, transition to other projects, and spend time with my family.

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A bunch of you people on Facebook and Twitter keep sharing a Huff Po stick-figure thing about how Gen Y is unhappy because they’re unrealistic delusional ingrates.

You know, this thing.
If you wrote that, or you liked that, carefully consider these thoughts:
1) These are weirdly contrived generational categories, too weird for such black-and-white reasoning. I’ve always thought myself more tail-end-of-Gen-X in temperament, age, and outlook. But '77-'79 is a sociologically ambiguous no-man's land, and we typically get lumped in with the millennials, especially when it comes to money matters.
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Last weekend my baby had a fever, and we contemplated taking him to the ER, and my first thought was - had to be - “Oh God, that could wipe out our bank account! Maybe he can just ride it out?” Our status in this Big Financial Game had sucked my basic humanity towards my child away for a minute. If I wish for something better, is that me simply being entitled and delusional?
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2) This is AMERICA. Suck it up and quit bitching that you're not as well-off as your parents!
The latter maxim lurks in the heart of every critique of millennials. It assumes that if we're worse off than previous generations, the fault is ours, and our complaints are so much white whine. We should shut up and be content, because we do work less than our forebears, and spend more time enraptured by our own navels, trying to divine some life-affirming creative direction in them.

But there's nothing for us to suck up, really. As a rule, our parents did end up much more dedicated to their careers than we have. But as a rule, they were laid off less. They didn't intern or work as independent contractors. They got full medical. They were occasionally permitted to adopt magical unicorn-like money-granting creatures called "pensions." Or, barring that, they accumulated a huger 401K to cash out before the Great Recession, because they saved more. And they saved more because the costs of college, of kid care, of health care, of doing business and staying alive and buying groceries and staying connected, were far less than they are today. They could raise a family on one salary if necessary.

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stened to a professor, who is in his sixties, read us the first published piece he'd been paid for, in the late 1970s. A thousand words or so. The rate, he says, was something like two bucks a word. That's four times what the Village Voice pays today, even for an award-winning investigative cover story. It's geometrically greater than what most writers can earn today writing daily brilliance for nationally renowned publications online. And writing daily brilliance, which many of them do, is hard goddamned work.If I had a dollar for every older writer or editor who confided to me that "I don't know how young writers do it today; I certainly couldn't," I could buy every property that publishes them.
So no, we shan't be doing as well as our parents, and no, we shan't be shutting up about it. If anything, those of us who have been cowed into silence because college-educated poor problems aren't real poor problems should shed our fears and start talking about just how hard it really is out there, man.
This state of affairs does not exist because we're entitled and have simply declined to work as hard as the people that birthed us. American workers have changed from generation to generation: Since 1979, the alleged Dawn of the Millennial, the average U.S. worker has endured a 75 percent increase in productivity...while real wages stayed flat.

Those changes are blips on a timeline compared to the massive, psyche-altering vicissitudes of American Industry, its self-Taylorization to the point where profit-making and shareholder value have been maximized in ways that Morgans and Carnegies and Vanderbilts couldn't even have conceived — in ways that have stiffed workers and the families they can no longer afford. Since '79, the top 1 percent of earners in America has seen their income quadruple.

So take your “revise your expectations! check your ego!” Horatio Alger bullshit, and stuff it. While you’re at it, stuff this economy. Not this GDP, not this unemployment level: this economy, this financial system that establishes complete social and political control over us, that conditions us to believe that we don’t deserve basic shelter and clothing and food and education and existence-sustaining medical care unless we throw our lives into vassalage and hope, pray, that the lords don’t fuck with our retirements or our coverages. (Maybe if we’re extra productive, someday they’ll do a 4o1K match again, like our ancestors used to talk about!)

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The first clue that things are done very differently on Bastoy prison island, which lies a couple of miles off the coast in the Oslo fjord, 46 miles south-east of Norway's capital, comes shortly after I board the prison ferry.

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There are big differences between the two countries, of course. Norway has a population of slightly less than five million, a 12th of the UK's. It has fewer than 4,000 prisoners; there are around 84,000 in the UK. But what really sets us apart is the Norwegian attitude towards prisoners. 

Four years ago I was invited intoSkien maximum security prison, 20 miles north of Oslo. I had heard stories about Norway's liberal attitude. In fact, Skien is a concrete fortress as daunting as any prison I have ever experienced and houses some of the most serious law-breakers in the country. Recently it was the temporary residence of Anders Breivik, the man who massacred 77 people in July 2011.

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The teacher explained that all prisons in Norway worked on the same principle, which he believed was the reason the country had, at less than 30%, the lowest reoffending figures in Europe and less than half the rate in the UK.

As the ferry powers through the freezing early-morning fog, Petter tells me he is appealing against his conviction. If it fails he will be on Bastoy until his release date in two years' time. I ask him what life is like on the island. "You'll see," he says. "It's like living in a village, a community. 

Everybody has to work. But we have free time so we can do some fishing, or in summer we can swim off the beach. We know we are prisoners but here we feel like people."

I wasn't sure what to expect on Bastoy. A number of wide-eyed commentators before me have variously described conditions under which the island's 115 prisoners live as "cushy", "luxurious" and, the old chestnut, "like a holiday camp". I'm sceptical of such media reports.

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As a life prisoner, I spent the first eight years of the 20 I served in a cell with a bed, a chair, a table and a bucket for my toilet. In that time I was caught up in a major riot, trapped in a siege and witnessed regular acts of serious violence. Across the prison estate, several hundred prisoners took their own lives, half a dozen of whom I knew personally – and a number were murdered. Yet the constant refrain from the popular press was that I, too, was living in a "holiday camp".

 When in-cell toilets were installed, and a few years later we were given small televisions, the "luxury prison" headlines intensified and for the rest of the time I was in prison, it never really abated.

It always seemed to me while I was in jail that the real prison scandal was the horrendous rate of reoffending among released prisoners. In 2007, 14 prisons in England and Wales had reconvictions rates of more than 70%.

 At an average cost of £40,000 a year for each prisoner, this amounts to a huge investment in failure – and a total lack of consideration for potential future victims of released prisoners. That's the reason I'm keen to have a look at what has been hailed as the world's first "human ecological prison".

Thorbjorn, a 58-year-old guard who has worked on Bastoy for 17 years, gives me a warm welcome as I step on to dry land. As we walk along the icy, snowbound track that leads to the admin block, he tells me how the prison operates. There are 70 members of staff on the 2.6 sq km island during the day, 35 of whom are uniformed guards.
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Thorbjorn points out the small, brightly painted wooden bungalows dotted around the wintry landscape. "These are the houses for the prisoners," he says. They accommodate up to six people. Every man has his own room and they share kitchen and other facilities. "The idea is they get used to living as they will live when they are released."

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I can see why some people might think such conditions controversial. The common understanding of prison is that it is a place of deprivation and penance rather than domestic comfort.
Prisoners in Norway can apply for a transfer to Bastoy when they have up to five years left of their sentence to serve. Every type of offender, including men convicted of murder or rape, may be accepted, so long as they fit the criteria, the main one being a determination to live a crime-free life on release.
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Other jobs are available in the laundry; in the stables looking after the horses that pull the island's cart transport; in the bicycle repair shop, (many of the prisoners have their own bikes, bought with their own money); on ground maintenance or in the timber workshop. The working day begins at 8.30am and already I can hear the buzz of chainsaws and heavy-duty strimmers. We walk past a group of red phone boxes from where prisoners can call family and friends. A large building to our left is where weekly visits take place, in private family rooms where conjugal relations are allowed.
After the security officer signs me in and takes my mobile, Thorbjorn delivers me to governor Arne Nilsen's office. "Let me tell you something," Thorbjorn says before leaving me. "You know, on this island I feel safer than when I walk on the streets in Oslo."
Through Nilsen's window I can see the church, the school and the library. Life for the prisoners is as normal as it is possible to be in a prison. It feels rather like a religious commune; there is a sense of peace about the place, although the absence of women (apart from some uniformed guards) and children is noticeable. Nilsen has coined a phrase for his prison: "an arena of developing responsibility." He pours me a cup of tea.
"In closed prisons we keep them locked up for some years and then let them back out, not having had any real responsibility for working or cooking. In the law, being sent to prison is nothing to do with putting you in a terrible prison to make you suffer. The punishment is that you lose your freedom. If we treat people like animals when they are in prison they are likely to behave like animals. Here we pay attention to you as human beings."
A clinical psychologist by profession, Nilsen shrugs off any notion that he is running a holiday camp. I sense his frustration. "You don't change people by power," he says. "For the victim, the offender is in prison. That is justice. I'm not stupid. I'm a realist. Here I give prisoners respect; this way we teach them to respect others. But we are watching them all the time. It is important that when they are released they are less likely to commit more crimes. That is justice for society."
The reoffending rate for those released from Bastoy speaks for itself. At just 16%, it is the lowest in Europe. But who are the prisoners on Bastoy? Are they the goodie-goodies of the system?
Hessle is 23 years old and serving 11 years for murder. "It was a revenge killing," he says. "I wish I had not done it, but now I must pay for my crime." Slight and fair-haired, he says he has been in and out of penal institutions since he was 15. Drugs have blighted his life and driven his criminality. There are three golden rules on Bastoy: no violence, no alcohol and no drugs. Here, he works in the stables tending the horses and has nearly four years left to serve. How does he see the future? "Now I have no desire for drugs. When I get out I want to live and have a family. Here I am learning to be able to do that."
A convict works on Bastoy prison farm. Photograph: Marco Di Lauro
Hessle plays the guitar and is rehearsing with other prisoners in the Bastoy Blues Band. Last year they were given permission to attend a music festival as a support act that ZZ Top headlined. Bjorn is the band's teacher. Once a Bastoy prisoner who served five years for attacking his wife in a "moment of madness", he now returns once a week to teach guitar. "I know the potential for people here to change," he says.
Formerly a social researcher, he has formed links with construction companies he previously worked for that have promised to consider employing band members if they can demonstrate reliability and commitment. "This is not just about the music," he says, "it's about giving people a chance to prove their worth."
Sven, another band member, was also convicted of murder, and sentenced to eight years. The 29-year-old was an unemployed labourer before his conviction. He works in the timber yard and is waiting to see if his application to be "house father" in his five-man bungalow is successful. "I like the responsibility," he says. "Before coming here I never really cared for other people."
The female guard who introduces me to the band is called Rutchie. "I'm very proud to be a guard here, and my family are very proud of me," she says. It takes three years to train to be a prison guard in Norway. She looks at me with disbelief when I tell her that in the UK prison officer training is just six weeks. "There is so much to learn about the people who come to prison," she says. "We need to try to understand how they became criminals, and then help them to change. I'm still learning."

Finally, I'm introduced to Vidor, who at 72 is the oldest prisoner on the island. He works in the laundry and is the house father of his four-man bungalow. I haven't asked any of the prisoners about their crimes. The information has been offered voluntarily. Vidor does the same. He tells me he is serving 15 years for double manslaughter. There is a deep sadness in his eyes, even when he smiles. "Killers like me have nowhere to hide," he says. He tells me that in the aftermath of his crimes he was "on the floor". He cried a lot at first. "If there was the death penalty I would have said, yes please, take me." He says he was helped in prison. "They helped me to understand why I did what I did and helped me to live again." Now he studies philosophy, in particular Nietzsche. "I'm glad they let me come here. It is a healthy place to be. I'll be 74 when I get out," he says. "I'll be happy if I can get to 84, and then just say: 'Bye-bye.'"

On the ferry back to the mainland I think about what I have seen and heard. Bastoy is no holiday camp. In some ways I feel as if I've seen a vision of the future – a penal institution designed to heal rather than harm and to generate hope instead of despair. I believe all societies will always need high-security prisons. But there needs to be a robust filtering procedure along the lines of the Norwegian model, in order that the process is not more damaging than necessary. As Nilsen asserts, justice for society demands that people we release from prison should be less likely to cause further harm or distress to others, and better equipped to live as law-abiding citizens.
It would take much political courage and social confidence to spread the penal philosophy of Bastoy outside Norway, however. In the meantime, I hope the decision-makers of the world take note of the revolution in rehabilitation that is occurring on that tiny island.
From:http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-prison-inmates-treated-like-people