Because sometimes, it’s just the right time for some Durutti Column, and that time is now. This here is a quite good live set circa The Return Of/LC – aka at their very best – at a mini-festival in Finland in the Summer of 1981 featuring a number of Factory Records bands, including Vini Reilly and company.

Labelmate Kevin Hewick recollected the show at Cerysmatic Factory, along with some photos and clippings from the event:

Oh heck – Finland! Yes, very nice how you’ve presented it. It all looks quite impressive as if it was a great event. It was actually. You couldn’t have done it in England because they’d have thrown bottles and stuff. Everybody thought it was the punk thing to do and by 1980 that side of things had lapsed into self parody.

The Finns were lovely people, great fans of the UK music scene and very pleased to have us playing there. The Kaviopuisto Park concerts were held every Sunday – Paul Jones and The Blues Band had done the one before.

22 minutes and 7 songs of well-lit, live Durutti.