The Durutti Column
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The Durutti Column is the ongoing band project of guitarist Vini Reilly (born in Didsbury, Greater Manchester, August 1953), usually accompanied by drummer Bruce Mitchell (and, on the group's debut album, producer Martin Hannett).
The Durutti Column were one of the first bands to be signed to Factory Records; they appeared on the label's first release, A Factory Sampler, and the label's boss, Tony Wilson, was also their manager for many years. The group's often instrumental music encompasses elements of jazz, folk, classical music and rock, always underpinned by the distinctive sound of Vini's guitar playing.
Vini Reilly also played guitar Morrissey's first solo album, Viva Hate.
The Durutti Column's name is derived from that of Buenaventura Durruti, who led a column of anarchists during the Spanish Civil War. Reilly apparently saw a Situationist International poster which included the phrase "The Return of the Durutti Column", mis-spelled, a phrase which eventually became the title of the group's first album.
Album Discography
- The Return of the Durutti Column (1980, Fac 14)
- LC (1981, Fac 44)
- Another Setting (1983, Fac 74)
- Amigos Em Portugal (Fundacão Atlantica)
- Without Mercy (1983, Fac 84)
- Domo Arigato (live) (1985, Fac 144)
- Circuses and Bread (1986, FBN 36)
- The Guitar and Other Machines (1987, Fac 204)
- Vini Reilly (1988, Fac 244)
- The Sporadic Recordings (1990)
- Obey the Time (1991, Fac 274)
- Lips that Would Kiss (1991, FBN 2)
- Red Shoes (1992)
- Dry (1991)
- Sex and Death (1993)
- Time was Gigantic ... When we Were Kids (1998)
- Rebellion (2000)
- Return of the Sporadic Recordings (2002)
- Somebody Else's Party (2003)
- Tempus Fugit (2004)
External links
- Official Site (http://www.column.freeuk.com/)