Who, or what, is The Durutti Column, I hear you ask?
The story starts in Manchester in 1978, when guitarist Vini Reilly was doing what every young punk with an attitude was doing…forming a band.
Eventually The Durutti Column came into existence, and thanks to the keen ear of one Tony Wilson, they were among the first acts to be signed to Factory Records. In fact, they were one of four nascent acts to be featured on the very first Factory release…the 4-sided E.P., A Facory Sample, alongside Cabaret Voltaire, John Dowie and Joy Division.
Not bad company to keep.
But The Durutti Column Mach 1 promptly split up before they could record their debut album.
And so, The Durutti Column became essentially the Vini Reilly project and the first album, The Return Of The Durutti Project, was finally released in 1980.
Produced by Martin Hannett, it sounded nothing like the previous version of the band…or anything else that was was being made in that time, save for maybe Brian Eno’s Ambient music.
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