The Leigh Rock and Music Festival was a 3-day mini-festival co-hosted by Zoo Records and Factory Records, held in Leigh on 25, 26 & 27 August 1979. Factory gave the event the catalogue number Fac 15 and the title ‘Zoo Meets Factory Half-way’. The Line-Up included, A Certain Ratio, Joy Division, Crawling Chaos, The Teardrop Explodes, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, and Echo and the Bunnymen. The event was so-titled because the town Leigh is Half-way between Liverpool (the home of Zoo) and Factory.
Joy Division Setlist: 1. Disorder 2. Leaders Of Men 3. Colony 4. Insight 5. Digital 6. Dead Souls 7. Shadowplay 8. She’s Lost Control 9. Transmission 10. Interzone 11. Sound of Music