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We are officially into the release month for The Durutti Column’s new record Renascent, which drops on the 31st of July, and today brings a second taste of the new record. I’m not reading too much into the song titles of the previews – “Liars” and now “Scammer” – but maybe Vini Reilly has some […]
Vini Reilly’s 2023 interview with The Guardian has stayed with me in a way that not a lot of the entertainment media that I consume has. While it’s not unusual for artists to quietly withdraw from releasing new material as they get older, the details of The Durutti Column’s silence – specifically the stroke he […]
You’ve no idea my excitement when I saw the announcement of a new Blood Orange single a few weeks ago. Not just because I’m a fan – while Dev Hynes doesn’t really fall under the remit of this site, I’ve been a fan since his Lightspeed Champion days – but because listed at the top […]
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 […]
The Durutti Column doesn’t just “turn up” a lot in one’s day to day life so when they do, as this track did in a recent episode of The Bear – awesome show with an awesome soundtrack – a little rabbit holing is in order. Like the rest of the album from whence it comes […]
Anywhere’s a valid place to find good music recommendations, but a tip from Steve Coogan portraying the Lord Almighty is not an especially common one. Said scene came towards the end of 24 Hour Party People, Michael Winterbottom’s brilliant 2002 biopic on Factory Records’ Tony Wilson: “Vini Reilly, by the way, is way overdue a […]
Emma Anderson of Lush and Sing Sing pens an essay for Sonic Cathedral on discovering The Return Of The Durutti Column, the majestic debut album from Vini Reilly and company.
