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25 April 2008

Cup A Soup Romance

Cup A Soup Romance
Cup A Soup Romance
CDR: UK 25.04.08 (Scream City SC4.1)

Tracklisting

Cup A Soup Romance

Credits

This CD was given away free with Scream City 4, April 2008
Taken from the Kooky Records album Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness

Scream City thanks Vini, Phil and Alex.

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Limited edition of 144 copies 1-track CD-R given away with the 4th issue of Scream City (a Factory Records fanzine). All copies sold out via eBay inside 3 days.

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01 August 2003

Woman

Woman
Woman [cd detail]

Woman
Woman [front cover detail]

Woman
Woman [back cover detail]
CD: UK 08.03 (Artful Records artfulcd46)

Tracklisting

Woman (Radio Edit) [3:31]

Credits

From the album Someone Else's Party
Radio promotion UNCLE*
US Representation Psychobaby Records
www.fullfillrecords.com

* - Underground Network Committed to a Lifetime of Entertainment

Notes

With Someone Else's Party being strongly promoted by Californian radio station KCRW (based at Santa Monica College), this 1-track promo cd was pressed for airplay. Copies were reasonably widely available in the UK (at least in Manchester).

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01 February 2002

Voluntary Arrangement

Voluntary Arrangement (promo)
Voluntary Arrangement (promo)
CD: UK 02.02 (Artful n/a)

Tracklisting

Voluntary Arrangement
Times Like These
Cheryl
Mello Part One

Credits

Random PR.

Notes

300 promo copies only made but the full single release was cancelled. Voluntary Arrangement and Mello Part One are taken from Rebellion (artfulcd40), Times Like These taken from the free cd issued with Sonora magazine in March 1993. Cheryl was previously unreleased.

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01 February 1991

The Together Mix

The Together Mix
The Together Mix
12": UK 1991 (Factory FAC 284) [white label]
12": UK 1991 (Factory FAC 284) *
CDS: UK 1991 (Factory FACD 284) [Factory Pre-release]
CDS: UK 1991 (Factory FACD 284)

Tracklisting

Together Mix [6:05]
Contra-indications [4:11]
Fridays (Up-person Mix) [5:05]

~ FAC-284-A1 *, Townhouse, Max
~ FAC-284-B1 *, Townhouse, Max

CD ~ FACD 284 . Mastered By Nimbus

* Includes an insert 'For John and Emma'. (See note.)
+ Remixed by Together.

Credits

Fac 284
Written and performed by Vini Reilly
Published by The Movement of 24th January
The Together Mix mixed by Together
Contra-indications computed and engineered by Andy Robinson
Fridays recorded and mixed by Vini Reilly and Paul Miller
Design: 8vo
(P) 1991 Factory Communications Ltd. © 1990 Factory Communications Ltd.

Notes

Suddi Raval, half of Together: “Emma was killed in the same accident that killed Jon who was my best mate. Well, she did the vocals on the Durutti track that are described as "Suzanne Vega" style in the Mix Mag review. Something else that very few people know is that the remix is actually unfinished. We were meant to finish it after we came back from Ibiza but as you know Jon and his girlfriend died and we were never able. Tony Wilson and Vini Reilly liked the track so much that they wanted to put it out how it was, to me unfinished but to them, being the artistic people they are 'unique'.”

The Together Mix also appears on:

FACT 344 Palatine - The Factory Story / Vol. 4 / 1987-1990 - Selling Out
FACDO 274 Obey The Time
FACDR 2.41 Time Was Gigantic / Reissued Experiments

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01 July 1989

WOMAD Live

WOMAD Live
WOMAD Live
CDS: UK 1989 (Factory FACD 234)

Tracklisting

Otis [5:27]
English Landscape Tradition [3:18]
Finding the Sea [5:12]
Bordeaux [6:09]

CD ~ FACD 234 . Mastered By Nimbus

Credits

Vini Reilly: Guitar & Keyboards
Bruce Mitchell: Drums
Liu Sola: Vocals
Andy Connell: Keyboards
Recorded at Womad '88, St Austell, Cornwall
Live, direct to digital mix by Stuart James
Songs composed by Vini Reilly
Published by The Movement of 24th January Publishing / Zomba
Photography: James Martin
Cover: Johnson/Panas

Liner notes by Bruce Mitchell

All Durutti gigs, and there haven't been that many of them for God's sake, have trauma and difficulty built into them from the day they are booked. Can we get the musicians we want? Can all the random factors that cause the hiccups with our ever more complicated midi'd up backline be eradicated? Are we going to get enough time to bloody well set it all up?

Vin won't do a gig without introducing new songs. 'Boring' he says when it is suggested we play a set of songs that we all know and might be able to cope with, so rehearsals are arranged and gear is lumbered into our back room.

As the concert draws closer, and we are contracted to appear (and we are sue-able if we don't), Vini's health, ever precarious, is the overriding concern. I make the arrangements to move him about, I suppose, in much the same fashion as the mormon guard used to move Howard Hughes about. In the back of my mind I'm conscious that I shouldn't be forcing him along in his sometimes semi-comatose state but I cheerfully hardface the job along. I'm into all this discharging of responsibility crap, you know.

I no longer wonder why I'm going to all this trouble, because the music performance answers. That 70 minutes on stage consists of Vini changing the set list from the rehearsed arrangements, coping with the tuning, struggling with the machines, laughing at the cock-ups he's causing, but always playing those pieces with guitar and keyboard beyond anything I ever hear elsewhere.

On this show, Andy Connell, from some other group whose name escapes me at the moment, played some neat keyboard - that's him hammering away on the first track 'Otis', and him being clever on the other stuff. He's a good laugh, Andy. Probably knows what he's doing.

Liu Sola is an opera singer from Beijing. Her contribution was to emote in Chinese on a conductors nod from Vin on 'Otis' and 'Finding the Sea'. In Chinese, you note, we wouldn't want to start making it easy for you listeners, would we?

Vin suggested that I should personalise this product, I think he's feeling weird after his full cover photo on the current album, and wants now to spread the flak. It's not what was wanted from me I don't think, and it's not enough of a statement, but still, there were a few things to be said.

There were a few practical things to be said.

Bruce Mitchell

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01 December 1987

When The World

When The World
When The World
CD Single: UK 12.1987 (Factory FACD 194), AU 1987 (Factory Australasia FACD 194)

Our Lady of the Angels [4:13]
When the World (Newson Mix) [6:46]
Catos con Guantes [8:40]

~ FACD 194. Mastered By Nimbus

CD Video: UK 02.1988 (Factory FACDV 194) [PAL]

When the World (soundtrack) [4:55]
When the World (album) [5:13]
Final Cut [4:02]
When the World (video)* [5:18]

~ MPO/When The World 01$

VHS: UK 12.1987 (Factory FAC 194) */**

When the World (Newson Mix) [6:46]

* Directed by Carole Lamond.
** Commercial release with full colour insert.

Credits

DV8 Physical Theatre and The Durutti Column

Fac 194

Directed, edited and produced by Carole Lamond.

Choreographed by DV8:
Nigel Charnock
Lloyd Newson
Liz Ranken
Michelle Richecoeur

The Durutti Column:
Vini Reilly
Bruce Mitchell
John Metcalfe
Tim Kellet

Written by Vini Reilly.
Engineered by Richard Scott at Yellow 2, Stockport.

Special thanks to Simply Red / Elektra for Tim Kellet's trumpet.
A Factory Communications Video.
Design: 8vo

Notes

'Our Lady of the Angels' also appears on Time Was Gigantic / Reissued Experiments [FACDR 2.41], the Factory Once reissue of Domo Arigato [FACDO 144] and the Factory US compilation 'Young Popular and Sexy'.
DV8 is an experimental dance troupe led by Lloyd Newson; the video to When The World is quite an avant garde affair featuring the DV8 dancers. Bruce Mitchell has a cameo walking across a bridge.

A note on the CD Video edition from Rob Stanzel's Fac 2.26 The Durutti Column website FAQ reads:

"Q: How do I play the When The World CD-Video?

"A: You probably can't. CDVs were a short-lived late-1980s hybrid format: digital audio CD tracks with one analog video track appended. (This is distinct from the more recent Video CD format, which is mediocre-quality compressed digital video on a CD.) You need old-style laserdisc player capability to view the CDV video track and what's more, When The World was a UK issue so the analog encoding is in a particular format, PAL.

"Now, laserdisc players were fairly big in Japan and were a reasonably-sized videophile market in the US, both of which use NTSC format rather than PAL. Multi-format players exist but are extremely rare, and I'm led to believe that PAL LD players are quite uncommon even in the UK & other PAL-using countries, so the videotape releases (on which the WtW video track is longer, btw) are your best bet."

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01 August 1987

The City of Our Lady

The City of Our Lady
The City of Our Lady
12": UK 08.87 (Factory FAC 184) [white label]
12": UK 1987 (Factory FAC 184)

Tracklisting

Our Lady of the Angels [4:13]
White Rabbit * [4:11]
Catos con Guantes [8:40]

~ FAC 184 A1, Townhouse, MPO, For A Lady
~ FAC 184 B1, Townhouse, MPO, Amigos

* With Debi Diamond.

Credits

Vini Reilly: Guitars and Keyboards
Debi Diamond: Vocals
John Metcalfe: Viola
Bruce Mitchell: Percussion

Special thanks to Simply Red for Tim Kellett's trumpet on White Rabbit
Our Lady of the Angels recorded by Stuart James at Amigos Studio, North Hollywood and mixed by Steve Street at Strawberry Studios, Stockport
White Rabbit recorded by Stuart James at Amigos Studio, North Hollywood and mixed by Stuart James at Yellow 2, Stockport
Catos con Guantes recorded and mixed by Steve Street at Strawberry Studios, Stockport
Published by the Movement of 24th January
All songs written by Vini Reilly except White Rabbit written by Grace Slick and originally published by Rondor Music
Photograph by Bob Sebree
Design: 8vo

Notes

The guest singer Debi Diamond singing on White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane cover) is not to be confused with the porn star of the same name.

According to Rob Stanzel's FAC 2.26 The Durutti Column Discography: "'Catos con Guantes' is a Spanish/Mexican phrase I encountered in L.A. -- means "Cats with Gloves... don't catch mice". I thought if I was Paco de Lucia I'd think the musician was wearing gloves." [Vini Reilly letter to Alan Macdougall, 1989/07]

The full Spanish phrase is "Gato con guantes no caza ratones". The spelling error has been retained on subsequent reissues for copyright registration reasons.

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01 March 1986

Tomorrow

Tomorrow
Tomorrow
7": BL 1985 (Factory Benelux FBN 51) [white label]
7": BL 1985 (Factory Benelux FBN 51)

Tomorrow [4:03]
Tomorrow (Live in Japan) + [3:00]

~ 7FBN 51-A, 58991
~ 7FBN 51-B, 58992

12": bL 1985 (Factory benelux FbN 51) [white label]
12": bL 1985 (Factory benelux FbN 51)

Tomorrow [4:03]
Tomorrow (Live in Japan) + [3:00]
All That Love and maths Can Do [3:33]

~ FBN 51-A//59157-1
~ FBN 51-B, 59158-1

Notes

Production: Vini Reilly / The Durutti Column and Anthony Wilson
Design: Joël Van Audenhaeghe

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01 December 1985

The Crépuscule Christmas Single

The Crépuscule Christmas Single
The Crépuscule Christmas Single [front cover]

The Crépuscule Christmas Single
The Crépuscule Christmas Single [7" vinyl detail]
7": BE 12/85 (Les Disques du Crépuscule XM1, promo)

A side

Scottish Christmas *

B side

Christmas For Pauline [3:27]
Snowflakes [4:13]

* - Paul Haig

Notes

Promo-only 7" single with Paul Haig on the A-side and The Durutti Column on the flip. Christmas For Pauline is in fact The Sea Wall.

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01 January 1985

Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say

Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say
Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say
12": UK 01.85 (Factory Records FAC 114)

Tracklisting

Goodbye (1:50)
The Room (6:00)
A Little Mercy (3:37)
Silence (7:44)
E.E. (4:35)
Hello (1:05)

~ FAC 114 A, MT, FAC-025 A1, Pauline
~ FAC 114 B, MT, FAC-025 B1, Sadie

Notes

Production: Anthony Wilson and Michael Johnson
Design: 8vo

Grey "chip-board" sleeve with 'tip-on' label. Included on FACD 84.

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01 January 1984

Dedications for Japan

Dedications for Japan
Dedications for Japan

Dedications for Japan
Dedications for Japan [back cover detail]
7": JP 1984 (Japan Records 7JAS 8)

Tracklisting

Love Fading [4:04]
For Noriko [4:03]

Notes

Released by the major Japanese label Tokuma (and not a fan club issue as previously described. Dedications was available in regular record shops in Japan for Yen 700. Features fold-out lyrics / picture insert.

The Japanese title on a purple background reads "SASAGEMONO" which means Dedication in English.

Back cover reads (in English): "This music is dedicated to Japan for the love, friendship and beauty we found here and will never forget."

A further, handwritten (by Vini) message reads: "This is a message - written in my hotel room - we have to leave in a few hours for England and we're very sad that it's the end of our tour. I just wanted to personally say thank you to all the people who came and listened to our music - thank you for all the kindness and friendship we found here, it's been great and I want to return here soon. To all those who gave us their applause - we give you our applause - we'll never forget our time here - with lots of love. Vini. x.x."

Noriko was The Durutti Column's Japanese tour manager.

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01 June 1983

I Get Along Without You Very Well

I Get Along Without You Very Well
I Get Along Without You Very Well
7": UK 06.83 (Factory Records FAC 64)

Tracklisting

I Get Along Without You Very Well (3:37)
Prayer (3:22)

Run-out groove

FAC-64-A-1, A Porky Prime Cut, MT 2, Bring My Video Back!
FAC-64-AA-1, A Porky Prime Cut, MT 2, Da Da

Credits

Side A: I Get Along Without You Very Well written by Hoagy Carmichael. Arrangement by Vini Reilly and Lindsay Wilson. Side AA: Prayer, Written by Vini Reilly. Cor Anglais, Maunagh Fleming. Produced by B-Music at Revolution Studios, Manchester. Sleeve design: Mark Farrow. Printed by Garrod and Lofthouse. Fac 64. A Factory Product.

Notes

Production: B-Music (Bernard Sumner)
Design: Mark Farrow

Female vocalist is Lindsay Reade, the ex-wife of the late Tony Wilson.

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01 October 1982

For Patti

For Patti
For Patti
7": BL 1982 (Factory Benelux FBN 100)

Tracklisting

Weakness and Fever [2:39]
For Patti * [5:21]

* meant to be included with a limited edition of FAC BN 10 'Deux Triangles'.

Production: Vini Reilly and Stuart Pickering

Notes

Label says 'Ce disque ne peut etre vendue separement du maxisingle deux triangles' ("this record should not be sold separately from the Deux Triangles 12" single").

Only 100 copies pressed. Factory Benelux also issued New Order's 'Low Life' album using the FBN 100 catalogue number.

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Deux Triangles

Deux Triangles
Deux Triangles
12": BL 1981 (Factory Benelux FAC BN 10)

Tracklisting

4:59 Favourite Painting
5:58 Zinni
12:55 Piece for Out of Tune Grande [sic] Piano *

~ FBN 10 B, A Quiet Life In Antwerp
~ FBN 10 B1

Notes

Production: Vini Reilly and Stuart Pickering / Michel Duval*
Design: Les Thompson

See also FBN 100 'For Patti' 7" single. FBN 10 (as FAC BN 10) was originally allocated to what became FAC BN 5, according to an early Factory Benelux releases poster. The same poster originally may have had this release allocated to FAC BN 9. Original 12" tracklisting (as FAC BN 10) was: 'Weakness & Fever', 'Tears & Madness’, 'Stains'. Scheduled to have been released in November 1981.

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01 March 1981

Enigma / Danny

Enigma / Danny [copies 1-2500 front cover detail]
Enigma / Danny [copies 1-2500 front cover detail]

Enigma / Danny [copies 2501-2730 front cover detail]
Enigma / Danny [copies 2501-2730 front cover detail]
7": FR 03.81 (Sordide Sentimental SS 45005)

Tracklisting

Enigma [3:06]
Danny [3:41]

~ Tony, Alan Et Lindsay

Notes

Limited edition of 2730. Numbers 1-2500 have a different cover to numbers 2501-2730 and contain different inserts.

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01 October 1980

Lips That Would Kiss

Lips That Would Kiss
Lips That Would Kiss (FBN2CD)

Lips That Would Kiss
Lips That Would Kiss (FBN2)
7": BL 1981 (Factory Benelux / Crépuscule FAC BN 2-005)
12": BL 1980 (Factory Benelux FBN 2)

Tracklisting

Lips that Would Kiss (Form Prayers to Broken Stone)* (3:40)
Madeleine* (3:00)

7"

~ 005-A1
~ 005-B1

12"

~ 005-A
~ 005-B

CD: BL 1991 (Factory Benelux FBN 2CD) **

La Douleur (2:29)
Madeleine* (3:00)
Lips That Would Kiss* (3:40)
Danny (3:40)
The Sea Wall (3:24)
All That Love And Maths Can Do (3:30)
Snowflakes (4:28)
Little Horses of Tarquina (1:40)
Experiment In Fifth (3:30)
Take Some Time Out (3:32)
At First Sight (4:15)
Journeys By Vespa (3:20)
Destroy She Said (3:47)
The Square (4:00)
Enigma (3:03)
Hommage To Martinu (3:09)
Piece For An Ideal (2:15)
Zinni*** (5:52)
Piece For Out Of Tune Grand Piano**** (12:39)

~ FBN-2-CD 12 A1 Mastered By DADC Austria

Notes

* Produced by Martin Hannett.
** A compendium of material recorded for Factory Benelux, Les Disques du Crepuscule & Sordide Sentimental,
including many of the tracks that comprised an unreleased album: "Short Stories For Pauline". (see FBN 36).
*** Produced by Vini Reilly and Stuart Pickering.
**** Produced by Michel Duval.

There is an A4 b&w poster designed by Jean-Francois Octave for this release.

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01 July 1980

The Durutti Column Single (GAP/EMI SFA 491)

The Durutti Column Single (GAP/EMI SFA 491) - A-side
The Durutti Column Single (GAP/EMI SFA 491) - A-side

The Durutti Column Single (GAP/EMI SFA 491) - B-side
The Durutti Column Single (GAP/EMI SFA 491) - B-side
7": AU 07.80 (GAP/EMI SFA 491)

2:58 Sketch For Summer
2:22 Sketch For Winter

~ SFA 491 A
~ SFA 491 B

Production: MARTIN HANNETT
Design: ANDREW PENHALLOW

Notes

Rare Australian-only release with tracks taken from the album FACOZ 1002, the Factory Australasia edition of The Return of The Durutti Column. Some editions with reversed labels.

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01 December 1978

A Factory Sample

Circuses and Bread [LTM, 2007]
A Factory Sample
7": UK 12.78 (Factory FAC 2 Disc One) [Cargo Studios acetate]
2x7": UK 12.78 (Factory FAC 2)

Tracklisting

[disc one - Aside] JOY DIVISION, Digital*, Glass*
[disc one - Beside] DURUTTI COLUMN, No Communication*, Thin Ice (Detail)*
[disc two - Seaside] JOHN DOWIE - Acne**, Idiot**, Hitler's Liver**
[disc two - Decide] CABARET VOLTAIRE - Baader Meinhof***, Sex in Secret***

Run-out groove

~ FAC 2-A1, EVERYTHING
~ IS REPAIRABLE , FAC 2-B1
~ TB, EVERYTHING , FAC 2-C1
~ IS BROKEN-, FAC 2-D2

Credits

Production: Martin Hannett* / C.P. Lee** / Cabaret Voltaire***
Design: Peter Saville

A Factory Records Product, FAC-2A 33 1/3 rpm

USE HEARING PROTECTION, JOY DIVISION : THE DURUTTI COLUMN, JOHN DOWIE : CABARET VOLTAIRE

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A double-7" EP, black and metallic silver gatefold sleeve, with 5 stickers. 5000 copies pressed.

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