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  The Durutti Column - History
The Durutti Column would strongly begin the nineties by releasing the album 'Obey The Time' on Factory Records, yet by the end of 1992 Factory Records would go bust and there would be little or no output from the group.
A key event in the history of The Durutti Column was the arrival of Keir Stewart as producer.
The vacant ‘post’ of Durutti Column manager was filled by Phil Jones, a friend of the group who had known Bruce Mitchell since the late Seventies.
www.column.freeuk.com /pages/history.htm   (3224 words)

  
  The Durutti Column - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Durutti Column is the ongoing band project of guitarist (and occasional pianist) Vini Reilly (born in Didsbury, Greater Manchester, August 1953), often accompanied by drummer Bruce Mitchell.
The Durutti Column effectively became Reilly's solo project from then on - drummer Bruce Mitchell and other musicians have occasionally contributed to recordings and live performances, and Wilson managed the group throughout their career on Factory and for many years afterwards.
The first album The Return of the Durutti Column (1980) was a collaboration between Reilly and producer Martin Hannett.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Durutti_Column   (1234 words)

  
 The Durutti Column - History
The Durutti Column would strongly begin the nineties by releasing the album 'Obey The Time' on Factory Records, yet by the end of 1992 Factory Records would go bust and there would be little or no output from the group.
A key event in the history of The Durutti Column was the arrival of Keir Stewart as producer.
The vacant ‘post’ of Durutti Column manager was filled by Phil Jones, a friend of the group who had known Bruce Mitchell since the late Seventies.
home.freeuk.net /column/pages/history.htm   (3224 words)

  
 The Durutti Column Biography - AOL Music
In 1978, Factory Records founder Tony Wilson invited Reilly to join a group dubbed the Durutti Column, the name inspired by the Spanish Civil War anarchist Buenaventura Durruti and a Situationists Internationale comic strip of the 1960s.
Recorded with the aid of a few session musicians and released in a sandpaper sleeve, the debut The Return of the Durutti Column, a collection of atmospheric instrumentals, appeared in 1980.
After a long layoff, the Durutti Column returned in 1995 with Sex and Death, followed a year later by Fidelity, which fused dance beats with Reilly's guitar lines.
music.aol.com /artist/the-durutti-column/4145/biography   (393 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Durutti Column
Durutti Column — the historical name comes from the Spanish Civil War — is essentially guitarist Manchester Vini Reilly (who began his career as a punk, in the late-'70s Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds), although he has used other musicians in the studio and tours with other players.
Producer Martin Hannett deserves equal credit on The Return of the Durutti Column, a perversely titled debut of evocative guitar instrumentals, many multi-tracked and accented with environmental, synthetic and studio-created percussive effects.
For the complete review of the Durutti Column's early work, The First Four Albums is a four-CD repackage (in one jewelbox) of The Return, LC, Another Setting, Without Mercy and Say What You Mean.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=durutti_column   (690 words)

  
 Weeping Angels: The Music of the Durutti Column by Robert Jarrell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The first LP, the ironically titled The Return of the Durutti Column was released over twenty years earlier in 1980 and was the first album released on the notorious Brit label, Factory Records, which introduced some of the best experimental music during its inception (Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, New Order, A Certain Ratio).
Factory, as well as the Durutti Column, demonstrated that basement King Crimson, vacuous 70s melancholy, and introspective lyricism could coexist alongside the angst ridden anarchy of late 70s Britpunk.
Because I was suicidal, and I was seriously and dangerously ill.” Vini Reilly has been ill most of his life, and this may have impacted the Durutti Column’s lack of commercial success, as Reilly for the most part has been unable to tour on a large scale.
www.headlightjournal.com /print-issues/issue-01/content/durutti-column/weeping-angels.html   (1064 words)

  
 The Durutti Column - Keep Breathing : album review
The Clash sit on the junction of reggae and rock, Bjork sits in what is normally Kings Cross, as her work transgresses pop, electronica, jazz and the avant-garde.
The Durutti Column are not on the redrawn map, and I'm not really surprised.
Vini Reilly - for he is The Durutti Column - has spent best part of 30 years blending, breaking and reforming musical genres that it would be impossible to place them.
www.musicomh.com /albums/durutti-column-2_0206.htm   (801 words)

  
 Edinburgh Festivals - The Durutti Column
Vini Reilly's pared-down Durutti Column returned to Edinburgh for the first time in almost three years to play the Queen's Hall.
THE string of albums released by the Durutti Column in the 1980s were, for a whole generation, pretty much the be-all-and-end-all of relaxed alternative home listening.
Famously, one of the first acts, and some would argue the most representative, on the Factory records roster, the Durutti Column, alongside labelmates Joy Division, heralded a new type of minimalism based on atmospherics and texture.
www.edinburgh-festivals.com /reviews.cfm?id=858152003   (310 words)

  
 durutti: TrouserPress: Durutti Column   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
While the term may be silly because it is a label for bands that cannot be catagorized, the artist's often associated with the genre are some of the most creative and purely honest bands.
The Durutti Column :: discography, live, interviews & articles, line-up and more :: Discography Live Interviews & articles Line-up - - The Durutti Column - colour promotional photo Fac 3.11.
THE DURUTTI COLUMN A NIGHT IN NEW YORK RUSCD 8255 Genre: PUNK *INCLUDES BONUS TRACK The Durutti Column formed at the height of the punk explosion in the middle of 1978 in Manchester,.
www.newkidhomevideo.com /durutti.html   (263 words)

  
 durutti column   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
DURUTTI COLUMN A Night In New York -- (CD album)...
DURUTTI COLUMN Another Setting -- (18 track CD album incl.
DURUTTI COLUMN Live At Venue -- (UK CD album reissue - digitally remastered from vinyl.
www.opalmusic.com /a_to_z/durutticolumn.htm   (82 words)

  
 Browse by Artist: DURUTTI COLUMN
1996 CD reissue of the 1st Durutti Column album, originally issued by Factory in 1979.
Durutti Column were technically the first artist signed to Factory and defined as: 'Vini Reilly on guitar and Martin Hannett on switches' at the time.
As an LP this was first issued in the famous sandpaper sleeve (the CD is a conventional jewel case).
www.forcedexposure.com /artists/durutti.column.html   (930 words)

  
 Kirkville: Essential Music: The Return of The Durutti Column
In January 1980, when The Return of the Durutti Column, the first album by The Durutti Column, was released, it was not only a breakthrough record but a surprising sound amidst the angst and anger of the punk years.
A photo used on the cover of a special album for fans who are members of the Durutti Column Subscription Group shows Vini in a large living room, sitting on the floor, a guitar in his lap, listening to something he's just recorded on a small recording device.
This photo sums up The Durutti Column: one man who writes the music he wants to, plays it his way, and releases it without the music industry getting in the way.
www.mcelhearn.com /article.php?story=20060430185258966&mode=print   (620 words)

  
 Vini Reilly - The Durutti Column, Music Downloads - Online
Review: Less of an intentionally confusing title than might be thought, Reilly for all intents and purposes is Durutti no matter the changes through the years -- Vini Reilly does signal another new phase of the band's work, moving into a full embrace of technological possibilities via an Akai sampler.
With Reilly and Mitchell joined by a slew of guests -- Swing Out Sister keyboardist Andy Connell; singers Pol, Rob Gray, and Liu Sola; and even former member John Metcalfe on the epic surge "Finding the Sea" -- Durutti this time around pursued the organic/machine combination to even more successful conclusions than on The Guitar.
Reilly's singing has often come in for criticism (unwarranted, really, considering how his soft approach effortlessly suits the general atmosphere of Durutti's work), so the slew of sampled and borrowed snippets from other vocalists and musicians that pepper the album makes for an intriguing change.
musicstore.connect.com /album/804/The-Durutti-Column/Vini-Reilly/500000000000020320588.html   (432 words)

  
 Cerysmatic Factory :: Factory Records, Manchester, England :: :: :: blog, history, archive ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
There's a new CD out on 27 March (or 3 April according to Amazon) called 'Zero: A Martin Hannett Story 1979-1991' which is "an all-encompassing tribute to one of the highest-profile UK record producers of the Punk era.
Another date has been added to the 9 already scheduled for 2006 by The Durutti Column and, like the previously announced one in Falmouth, it is in the south west of England, Great Torrington to be precise.
With their new album now in the shops and receiving rave reviews, The Durutti Column have confirmed two more dates for 2006.
www.cerysmaticfactory.info   (1267 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Best of the Durutti Column: Music: Durutti Column   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Durutti Column have been furrowing their/his own furrow for two and a half decades now.
Untroubled by the pressures of fame (as he says on his web site, he is unlikely to ever be seen on Top of the Pops) he has gone his own sweet way across a score or so of albums.
When I first heard the Durutti Column in 1989, I assumed that as a Factory Band they would be a Joy Division soundalike and was rather pleased that they were not!
www.amazon.co.uk /Best-Durutti-Column/dp/B0002XOZY2   (1134 words)

  
 The Durutti Column
Ever since the first Durutti Column album was released in 1979, Vinni Reilly has been delivering masterful folk-pop music that is stylistically firmly rooted in modern technology, with a bevy of effects and mechanical embellishments.
His music has hardly broken pop charts, but it has won him international renown for his distinctive sound and his unique approach.
The Durutti Column is Vinni Reilly, with technical assistance by Lauri Laptop on a few tracks, and vocals by Eley Rudge on one track.
www.soniccuriosity.com /sc127.htm   (359 words)

  
 Rebellion - The Durutti Column, Music Downloads - Online
Twenty years-plus since Vini Reilly "returned" with his debut effort and though he's looking pretty grey on the back cover, there's no question that he's still got both the drive and sheer sense of beauty in his guitar playing fully in place.
One" a reggae-flavored rap from Bic add more modern flavor, Reilly and company demonstrate that variety rather than reworking one approach is the key to the Durutti Column's relevance in a new century.
One of the most inspired moments is grounded in far earlier days, though -- a version of Irish folk standard "The Fields of Athenry," which deserves attention as much for Wood's bravura vocal turn as for Reilly's entrancing arrangement.
musicstore.connect.com /album/804/The-Durutti-Column/Rebellion/500000000000003089762.html   (339 words)

  
 Durutti Column @ Bridgewater Hall
For Reilly may now be 50 years old, ghostly thin with grey hair sprouting all over, but he is currently enjoying what may be the most vibrant purple patch of his 26-year career.
Last night's gig served to unveil Durutti's forthcoming greatest hits CD - the album which could finally help to usher them in from the music scene's margins.
And while the home of the Hallé might have seemed an unlikely venue for a band born in the punk era, it wasn't as odd as last year's decision to launch Someone Else's Party, a hugely poignant LP, chronicling the death of Vini's mother, at The Comedy Store.
www.manchesteronline.co.uk /entertainment/music/livereviews/s/130/130750_durutti_column__bridgewater_hall.html   (418 words)

  
 The Durutti Column
"The Durutti Column" is the ongoing band project of gifted Manchester guitarist Vini Reilly (born August ?, 1953), usually accompanied by the talents of drummer Bruce Mitchell.
Forever to be associated with Factory Records and its mercurial boss, Tony Wilson (also their manager for many years), their style encompasses elements of jazz, folk, classical music and rock, always underpinned by the distinctive sound of Vini's guitar playing.
The name The Durutti Column column is both a reference to an anarchist militia, led by Buenaventura Durruti, involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as the French organization Situationist International, who were known for including the phrase "The Return of the Durutti [notice the change in spelling] Column" on their manifestoes.
www.artistopia.com /the-durutti-column   (189 words)

  
 Cerysmatic Factory > The Durutti Column > Discography
The Durutti Column >>> Discography >>> Live >>> Interviews and articles >>> Line-up
Fac 2.26 Unofficial Durutti Column Internet Activities [external link]
For the definitive listing of all Durutti Column releases visit Rob Stanzel's excellent site (Fac 2.26) [external link] and also check out the mighty Dennis Remmer Unofficial Factory Discography
www.cerysmaticfactory.info /duruttidiscog.html   (215 words)

  
 The Durutti Column Tour Dates & Tickets
Quirky UK popsters, originally signed to Manchester's legendary Factory label, return with influences as diverse as Fats Waller, ambient and heavy metal, enhanced with samplers and chamber music.
Sorry - we don't have any The Durutti Column tour dates listed in the UK at the moment.
Don't miss out: Add The Durutti Column to My Artists, and we'll send you an email as soon as we hear about tour dates.
www.ents24.com /web/artist/47621/The_Durutti_Column.html   (109 words)

  
 The Durutti Column: Someone Else's Party: Pitchfork Record Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Someone much more famous than Vini Reilly once said "I just wasn't made for these times." It's not true in his case, but two slight turns of the phrase make equal sense: as the Durutti Column, Vini Reilly as much made these times as he was made for them.
Delay-pedaled bedroom dream pop has come to dominate the underground music scene over the last five to ten years-- especially in America-- and while the genre isn't egregiously indebted to the Durutti Column, Vini Reilly's work since the very late 70s predicted its compact, often timid atmospheres.
While it works beautifully, Reilly reveals the simplicity of his approach too honestly: he could turn just about any existing melody into a Durutti Column song by soloing over it-- and that's an effortless proposition at this point.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/17183/The_Durutti_Column_Someone_Elses_Party   (990 words)

  
 YouTube - Durutti Column - Prayer
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 The Durutti Column - Someone Else's Party : album review
You can't move for the hordes of Pap Idol/Lame Academy wannabes foisting their earnest but fundamentally tiresome records on us, all trying to make a fast buck before their four month life cycle runs out.
Music for the masses it ain't, but if you like songs that are heartfelt, creative and sometimes inspired then this may just be worth a listen.
First formed in the late 70's by Granada TV's Tony Wilson, the driving force behind The Durutti Column over the years has been fellow Mancunian Vini Reilly.
www.musicomh.com /albums/durutti-column.htm   (608 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Return of the Durutti Column: Music: Durutti Column   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I first came into contact with this amazing, instantly recognisable sound on the soundtrack to 24 hour party people (a great movie by the way) in the form of the fantastic "Otis".
The opening guitar note played on The Return of the Durutti Column is not unlike that of the first piano chord from Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata.
It has, in it's complex brevity, all the beauty, sadness, sense of loss, and yet all the passion and hope, of the history and future of the world.
www.amazon.co.uk /Return-Durutti-Column/dp/B000006YDO   (1289 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/durutticolumn
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Still loving the music - have added "Kind of Love" to my player - Happy V Day to all the Durutti Column fans out there...cheers!
Thank you for added me. Your songs are more important for me. Last disc it's incredible.
www.myspace.com /durutticolumn   (423 words)

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