The Durutti Column
The Durutti Column are an English post-punk band formed in 1978 in Manchester, England. The band is a project of guitarist and occasional pianist Vini Reilly who is often accompanied by Bruce Mitchell on drums and Keir Stewart on bass, keyboards and harmonica.
History
Early line-ups
In 1978 Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, later partners in Factory Records, assembled a band around the remnants of local punk rock band Fast Breeder: drummer Chris Joyce and guitarist Dave Rowbotham. The name was derived from a misspelling of the Durruti Column, an anarchist military unit in the Spanish Civil War, named after Buenaventura Durruti. The name was also taken from a four-page comic strip entitled "Le Retour de la Colonne Durruti" ("The Return Of The Durruti Column") by André Bertrand, which was handed out amidst student protests in October 1966 at Strasbourg University.
On 25 January, Vini Reilly, former guitarist for local punk rock band Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds, joined, followed some weeks later by co-member vocalist Phil Rainford and, by the end of February, bassist Tony Bowers arrived from Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias. The line-up was short-lived as Rainford was sacked in July, and replaced by actor Colin Sharp, who also became one of the songwriters. Rainford went on to produce for Nico and Suns of Arqa.
The Durutti Column
ALBUMS
- The Return of the Durutti Column released: 2013
- LC released: 2013
- Short Stories for Pauline released: 2012
- Chronicle released: 2011
- Vini Reilly released: 2011
- A Paean to Wilson released: 2010
- Four Factory Records released: 2009
- Love in the Time of Recession released: 2009
- Treatise on the Steppenwolf released: 2008
- Sunlight to Blue...Blue to Blackness released: 2008
- Live in Bruxelles 13.8.1981 released: 2008
- Idiot Savants released: 2007
- Sporadic Three released: 2007
- Keep Breathing released: 2006
- Heaven Sent (It was called digital. It was Heaven sent) released: 2005
- Faith released: 2004
- Tempus Fugit released: 2004
- The Best of The Durutti Column released: 2004
- Someone Else's Party released: 2003
- Return of the Sporadic Recordings released: 2002
- Rebellion released: 2001
- A Night in New York released: 1999
- Time Was Gigantic... When We Were Kids released: 1998
- Fidelity released: 1996
- Sex and Death released: 1994
- Live at the Bottom Line New York released: 1993
- Red Shoes / Greetings Three released: 1992
- Lips That Would Kiss / Madeleine released: 1991
- Dry released: 1991
- Obey the Time released: 1990
- Without Mercy released: 1988
- The Guitar and Other Machines released: 1987
- Valuable Passages released: 1986
- Domo Arigato released: 1985
- Circuses and Bread released: 1985
- Without Mercy released: 1984
- Amigos em Portugal released: 1983
- Another Setting released: 1983
Lips That Would Kiss / Madeleine
Released 1991- Douleur
- Madeleine
- Lips That Would Kiss
- Danny
- The Sea Wall
- All That Love and Maths Can Do
- Snowflakes
- Little Horses of Tarquina
- Experiment in Fifth
- Take Some Time Out
- At First Sight
- Journeys by Vespa
- Destroy, She Said
- The Square
- Enigma
- Hommage to Martinu
- Piece for an Ideal
- Zinni
- Piece for an Out of Tune Grand Piano
Paradise Passage Road
And when I look out my window
What do I see
The old grinder selling
Sawdust balls with a moth-eaten parrot
And he plays
Watch the children play on Paradise Passage Road
I see the best things aren't free
Despite everything
This old grinder still in love
With a shiny-scaled mermaid
Quick-tailed
Some... Some place between him and a myth
And he plays
What is forever
Are there things we can change
And the parrot
He says
I... I believe in the sun and the sky