Fiction Factory

Scottish new wave band
Organization musical_group Q664789
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Fiction Factory

Summary

Fiction Factory is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (466 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Fiction Factory's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Fiction Factory's genre is new wave[4].
  • Fiction Factory's record label is recorded as Columbia Records[5].
  • Fiction Factory's record label is recorded as Virgin EMI Records[6].
  • Fiction Factory's discography is recorded as Fiction Factory discography[7].
  • Fiction Factory's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[8].
  • Fiction Factory comprises Eddie Jordan[9].
  • Fiction Factory comprises Mike Ogletree[10].
  • Fiction Factory comprises Kevin Patterson[11].
  • 1983 marks the founding of Fiction Factory[12].
  • Fiction Factory's location of formation is recorded as Perth[13].
  • Fiction Factory's start of work period is recorded as 1982[14].
  • Fiction Factory's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Fiction Factory'}[15].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[16]

  • Country: GB[17]

  • Began / founded: 1983[18]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1987[19]

  • Genre(s): new wave, synth-pop[20]

  • Community tags: classic pop and rock, new wave, synth-pop[21]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 379811c5-4db9-4a78-b5ff-06ebe8723e39[22]

Body

Founding

1983 marks the founding of Fiction Factory[12]. Its location of formation is recorded as Perth[13].

Why It Matters

Fiction Factory ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (466 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [16] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [17] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [18] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [19] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [20] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [21] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [22] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Fiction Factory. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/fiction-factory
MLA “Fiction Factory.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/fiction-factory.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_fiction-factory_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Fiction Factory}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/fiction-factory}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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