Love in the Time of Recession

Love in the Time of Recession


Love in the Time of Recession; Japanese edition on Imperial Records

Download: UK 01.09 (Artful/Fullfill)*
CD: UK 02.03.09 (Artful/Fullfill, ARTFULCD64) **
CD: JP 24.06.09 (Imperial Records Japan, TECI-25558) ***

Tracklisting

1. In Memory of Anthony
2. Rant*
3. More Rainbows
4. I'm Alive
5. For Bruce
6. Painting
7. Wild Beast Tamed
8. Rainbow Maker
9. My Poppy
10. Loser
11. Lock-Down
12. The Secret Between The Blade And Me ***
13. Duet For Piano And Guitar ***
14. Everybody's Laughing (I Don't Care). ***

* - Rant available for immediate download to those who pre-ordered the album via Townsend Records

** - Official release date brought forward from 20.04.09. Available on eBay pre-sale from 4 February 2009 via the Fullfill eBay Store.

*** - Bonus tracks on Japanese edition

Credits

Written and played by Vini Reilly, with drums and percussion from the Guru himself, Bruce Mitchell, keyboards by Keir Stewart and piano by Poppy.

1. Trumpet and percussion by Tim at Blueprint Studio
2. Co-written and produced by Keir Stewart at "Inch" Studio
3. Produced by KC and Laurie Laptop
4. Co-written and performed by Poppy Morgan
7. Produced by Laurie Laptop
9. Co-written and performed by Poppy Morgan
10. Co-written and performed by Poppy Morgan
11. Co-written and drumming by Bruce Mitchell. Co-written and produced by Keir Stewart at "Inch"

Notes

Cover photo features (l-r) Bruce Mitchell, Mark Broscombe, Vini Reilly, Poppy Morgan, Tim Thomas, Keir Stewart and Laurie Laptop.

The album opens with the 'In Memory of Anthony' which is inspired by Reilly's long friendship with Factory Records impresario, Tony Wilson who died in 2007. 'He always encouraged me to follow my instincts,' says Reilly. 'And that's still how I work. All the new songs are a very true reflection of my life and that's all I want any album to be.'

'Wild Beast Tamed' is one of several tracks co-written with Reilly's girlfriend, Poppy Morgan who also partly inspired the title of the album (a romantic nod to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, Love In The Time Of Cholera).

However, Reilly's long-term friendships with Bruce Mitchell (himself the subject of an instrumental tribute, 'For Bruce'), Keir Stewart and Laurie Laptop were just as important in making the album possible. 'Without all of them I don't know how I would be able to carry on, on any level,' explains Reilly. 'And as musicians there's no one else I would rather work with.'

According to Vini Reilly, the "KC" who co-produced track 3 is an old hippy-type guy who has a rather ramshackle home studio.

Notes on the Japanese edition

According to Tower Records Japan, the Japanese title of Love in the Time of Recession is "Seihitsunaru Gekijyou". This is not strictly a literal translation of the English language title.

Seihitsu [naru] = Peaceful (or Peace and calm) ["naru" is a kind of a verb]
Gekijyou = Passion

So, the meaning of the Japanese title is really "Peaceful Passion". However, Japanese fans (or general listeners not familiar with The Durutti Column) may love this title, recession or not.

A handwritten message from Vini Reilly in the Japanese edition booklet reads "To all our Japanese friends, thank you for being so loyal and patient with us and for continuing to listen to our music. We hope to visit Japan again soon - beautiful country, beautiful people. Love from Vini. X.

Extra special thanks to Telle for Japanese notes.

Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness

Sunlight to Blue... Blue to Blackness

CD: UK 23.06.08 (Kooky Records kookydisc 27)

Tracklisting

1. Glimpse
2. Contact
3. Messages
4. Ged
5. Ananda
6. Never Known Version
7. So Many Crumbs And Monkeys!
8. Head Glue
9. Demo For Gathering Dust
10. Cup A Soup Romance
11. Grief

Buy It Now with Paypal

Available to buy now with Paypal (only) direct from Kooky Records. CD only. GBP 11.00 inc Worldwide p+p

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.

Live in Bruxelles 13.8.1981

Live in Bruxelles 13.8.1981

CD: UK 12.07 (LTM LTMCD 2499)

Tracklisting

Sketch for Dawn
Messidor
Jacqueline
Conduct
Sketch for Summer
Danny
Stains (Useless Body)
The Missing Boy
Self Portrait (Version)
For Belgian Friends
Interview

Notes

Live In Bruxelles comprises a complete live performance by Vini Reilly and Bruce Mitchell at the Place de la Monnaie (Muntplein) in Brussels, Belgium, together with a lengthy after-show chat with Vini. The ten song live set contains DC favourites such as Conduct and Sketch for Summer, as well as several rarely heard numbers including Stains, Danny and Messidor. The attractive booklet for this digitally remastered CD includes extracts from the original event programme, as well as background notes and archive images. 11 tracks, 60 minutes.

Available direct from LTM and in good record shops.

Idiot Savants

Idiot Savants


Idiot Savants; Japanese promo insert detail


Idiot Savants; Japanese promo CD detail

CD: UK 30/07/07 (29/06/07 eBay pre-release date) (Artful/Fullfill ARTFULCD 62)
CD: JP 25/07/07 (Imperial Records International TECI-24428)
CD: JP 2007 (Imperial Records International TECI-24428 promo)

Tracklisting

Better Must Come
Interleukin 2; for Anthony
Please Let Me Sleep
2 Times Nice
No Last Surprise
Gathering Dust
Whisper To The Wind
That Blows My Name Away; for Rachel

Credits

The Producer: Keir Stewart

The Guitarist: Vini Reilly
The Singer: Poppy Roberts
The Gonzo Drum Master: Bruce Mitchell

The Photographer: Rachel McFarlane
All tracks written by Vini Reilly
except tracks 1 & 7 by Stewart / Reilly
and 6 by Roberts / Reilly

Track 1 arranged by Stewart / Reilly
Track 2 arranged by Keir Stewart, Track 6 Roberts / Reilly
Track 5 produced by Laurie Keith.
Track 3 produced by Tim Thomas @ Blueprint

A Zillion Dollar Design

Thanks to: Rachel and all Rachel's family, Keir, Poppy and Soaf, Bruce & Jackie, Rebecca, Paul, Ella and Charlie, Zinni, Jamie, Oscar and Alfie, Anthony H Wilson, Michael Pitrick (hairstyle), The Twins, Nat, To all at Fullfill (for money and patience), all of my amazing family, Oklahoma, Dominique, Mateo, (forthcoming book), Mark Prendergast (forthcoming book), Phil Cleaver (Kooky Disc), Mark Broscombe, and to all the people who have helped us to continue making music especially the human beings who listen to it.

Remember Mr Nuthatch

www.thedurutticolumn.com

Sporadic Three

Sporadic Three [kookydisc 25]

CD: UK 03.11.06* (Kooky Records kookydisc 25)

Tracklisting

1. Birthday Present
2. Dig A Hole
3. Mama and Papa
4. In the city
5. The best dream
6. The end of the journey
7. For Loretta
8. New Order tribute
9. I B Yours - version
10. Natural Mystics
11. Drinking time - version
12. Trust the art not the artist
13. Fate
14. For Danny

Credits

Kooky, P.O. Box 5188, Northampton NN1 4ZA, www.kookydisc.co.uk, Distributed by Cargo Records. Made in the E.U.

Notes

* - 3 November 2006 was the date of the exclusive pre-release at Kooky 10. This was followed by a further pre-release on eBay. The official release date was in April 2007.

Buy It Now with Paypal

Available to buy now with Paypal (only) direct from Kooky Records. CD only. GBP 10.00 inc Worldwide p+p

Once Upon A Time A Kooky

Once Upon A Time A Kooky

Now available (in limited quantities while stocks last) for GBP 5.00 inc p+p

CD: UK 03.11.06 (Kooky Records Kookydisc24)

Tracklisting

1. The Durutti Column – All Things Considered
2. Gnac – Untitled
3. The Retro Spankees – Smarty Pants
4. Pram – Kahin
5. Maps – The Tonic Girl (The Mind Will Flow)
6. Formula One – Status Check
7. Seafood – We Felt Maroon (Live Version)
8. Dr. Josh – Shtumpa Theme
9. The Durutti Column – Cool As Ice
10. Misty's Big Adventure – 1964
11. Winston Echo – Untitled Song For Kooky
12. The Retro Spankees – Smarty Pants (1 Minute Edit)

Notes

Originally available free to those who attended the Kooky 10 gig at The Soundhaus, Northampton on Friday 3 November 2006. Now available (in limited quantities while stocks last) for GBP 5.00 inc p+p.

The Second Durutti Column Subscription Service CD

The Second Durutti Column Subscription Service CD [dcsub06]

Available to buy now direct from Kooky Records. CDR only. GBP 15.00 inc p+p

CD: UK 01.07.06 (Kooky/thedurutticolumn.com dcsub06)

Tracklisting

1. Roksoff
2. Adore Me
3. New Start
4. It's Your Love Baby
5. French Opera I
6. Guitar Piece 1989
7. Detail For Paul - Demo
8. Conduct / Sketch For Winter - Demo
9. We're Gonna Keep Playing It 'Til We Get It Right

Credits

Sleeve photograph by Rachel McFarlane. Compiled by Phil Cleaver and Alex McMurtrie with special thanks to Mark Refoy for mastering. Kooky in association with thedurutticolumn.com. cat no: dcsub06. © The Durutti Column 2006.

Notes

"A subscription-only service available to everyone, unlimited but unavailable in the shops! An annual newsletter and a free CD of unreleased tracks, demos, outtakes across the years. All copies are available at any time. This is not a limited edition; DO NOT BUY from eBay at higher prices; copies will always be pressed to suit demand."

Keep Breathing

Keep Breathing

CD: UK 25/11/05 (Artful/Fullfill ARTFULCD52)
CD + DVD: JP 22/11/06 (Imperial Records Japan TECI-30398) *

Tracklisting

1. Nina
2. It's Wonderful
3. Maggie
4. Helen
5. Neil
6. Big Hole
7. Let me tell you something
8. Lunch
9. Gun
10. Tuesday
11. Agnus Dei
12. Waiting

The Durutti Column live at XFM Manchester, May 2006 (DVD) *

1 Introduction
2 Sea Line Woman
3 Requiem For My Mother
4 If You Were Me

Credits

(P) 2005 Fullfill LLC © 2005 Fullfill LLC. All rights reserved.
The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Fullfill LLC.
Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, broadcast, & public performance prohibited.
Made in the UK. Distributed by Universal Music Operations and Fullfill. www.fullfill.co.uk

All songs written and performed by Vini Reilly. Produced by Ben Roberts.
Vocals on track 11 by Helen Farley-Jones. Harmonica on track 6 and Clarinet on track 10 by Ben Roberts.
Sleeve photograph by Rachel McFarlane.
Management: Phil Jones and Bruce Mitchell.
Special Thanks to my family, Bruce and family, Rachel McFarlane, Keir Stewart, Oklahoma, Mark Broscumbe, Anthony H Wilson, Nat Curtis, The Twinz, Kooky and Co, Hair by Michael Pitrik, Guitar from Gary at Sounds Great.
Published by Zomba / BMG 2005.

In loving memory of Maggie McFarlane.

www.thedurutticolumn.com

Notes

"The album features 12 brand new tracks, recorded and written by Vini Reilly and arranged by Ben Roberts."

4-track live DVD available with Japanese version only.

Notes on UK release dates: 30 January 2006 [official release date], 25 November 2005 [available on eBay from this date; shipped from 6 December 2005]

Heaven Sent (It Was Called Digital. It Was Heaven Sent)

Heaven Sent (It Was Called Digital. It Was Heaven Sent)

Download: UK 03.05 (F4 Records)

Tracklisting

Bruce
Keir
Neil
Mike
Alan
Anthony

Credits

All tracks written and produced by Vini Reilly
Photography by Rachel McFarlane

Notes

Digital download available (as six separate tracks, or as a 6-track package) exclusively via the F4 Download Shop at the now-defunct www.f4records.co.uk; it was also available to download via the UK and US iTunes Music Stores for a limited period.

Heaven Sent artwork download

Download exclusive cd booklet-sized artwork (pdf format) featuring original photographs by Rachel McFarlane. Initial (corrupted) files were replaced with 192-bitrate versions one week after first release.

The Best of The Durutti Column

The Best of The Durutti Column

2CD: UK 11.10.04 (Warner 5046753932)

Tracklisting

Disc one

1. Sketch For Summer
2. Conduct
3. Sketch For Winter
4. Lips That Would Kiss
5. For Belgian Friends
6. Danny
7. Never Known
8. Jacqueline
9. The Missing Boy
10. Prayer
11. Spent Time
12. Without Mercy 1
13. Without Mercy 2
14. The Room
15. Tomorrow
16. LFO Mod

Disc two

1. What Is It To Me (Woman)
2. Otis
3. Requiem Again
4. Home
5. Contra Indications
6. People's Pleasure Park
7. My Irascible Friend
8. Fado
9. Sing To Me
10. Pigeon
11. Mello (Part 1)
12. Falling
13. Woman
14. Requiem For Mother

Faith (The Durutti Column Subscription Service CD 2004)

'Faith: The Durutti Column Subscription Group CD [dcsub04]

Available to buy now direct from Kooky Records. CDR only. GBP 15.00 inc p+p

CD: UK 08.05.04 (Kooky Records/thedurutticolumn.com dcsub04)

Tracklisting

1. Faith
2. Creole
3. Woman strat' version
4. Swim 2 the sea
5. Minature opera
6. Believe in me - version
7. Miller's mess
8. missing boy - demo
9. Intervals - demo

Credits

Not for sale

Free to Durutti Column subscription members
Sleeve photograph by Rachel Mcfarlane
Compiled by Phil Cleaver and Alex McMurtrie with special thanks to Mark Refoy for mastering
cat.no: dcsub04
© the durutti column 2004

In association with thedurutticolumn.com
Kooky. PO Box 5188, Northampton NN1 4ZA. kookydiscs@btinternet.com
contact us: www.thedurutticolumn.com

Notes

Subscription-only cd available to members of The Durutti Column Subscription Service. Also sold initially at the Liverpool Academy 2 gig on Saturday 8 May 2004.

Tempus Fugit

The Durutti Column - 'Tempus Fugit' [Kookydisc019]

SOLD OUT

CD: UK 04.04 (Kooky Records kookydisc 20)

Tracklisting

Counting...
Shooting
Lullaby 4 Nina
Mystery
Guitar-Woman
Violence
Bollywood
Love song on Quattro
Tempus Fugit
The man who knows
Slipping away
Trip for an Opera
Untitled for You
Salford Harmonics
... shopping

Credits

All tracks written, performed and produced by Vini Reilly. Sleeve design and photography: Rachel McFarlane. Kookydisc 019 in association with thedurutticolumn.com. Manufactured in the United Kingdom. Distributed by Cargo. Kooky. PO Box 5188, Northampton NN1 4ZA.

Laurie Laptop - co-production: 'Lullaby...', 'Violence', 'Slipping Away', 'Untitled...', 'Salford'. Keir Stewart - co-production: 'Bollywood'. Jill Taylor - vocal harmonies: 'Shooting' Gerard Keaney - lyrics: 'The Man...' Mastered by Laurie Laptop

This album was mainly recorded on a Boss BR8 Portastudio.

Thanx to:
The one I love!
Bruce Mitchell and all his family for everything,
My Family,
Keir and Laurie - my band!???
Phil and Nicola Cleaver
Alex and Alison McMurtrie
Maggie and Ian
Les Thompson
My Mother for looking over me
Nat and Joe for a great present!
Howard Sharrocks
Michael Pitrick for hairstyling
Irene at 'Oklahoma'

Kooky would like to thank Vini, Bruce and the band for the music, Rachel for the artwork and Darren at Cargo for all his help.

Contact us at www.thedurutticolumn.com

Bruce Mitchell's sleevenotes

Duets with Vini Reilly

The kit always looks inviting and exciting before a performance - a piece of architecture, lit to climb into, and it sounds so much better with punters in front of it! I love to walk to the drums at showtime.

Some of the Durutti improvisations are tight-rope acts without net - Vini leaves gaps - where an echo suspends and he has stopped playing - the beat disappears - a silence holds the breath over stage and audience and spaces are left in the air that should not be disturbed... time hangs.

Until my nerve fails. I pick up the beat and Vin resumes with furious guitar to take control of his song.

Just to get through one of these pieces without fainting seems an achievement.

Being drunk helps.

Bruce Mitchell, Feb 2004

Vini Reilly's sleevenotes

This album only exists because you have bought it. The music only has any worth or place in the world because you are listening to it. The loyalty and tenacity you have shown is incredible. The music is as much yours as it is mine. You give me a role and a purpose in life I would otherwise not have had. You prevent the greedy and destructive world of the record industry from destroying me and you keep cynicism at bay. The only way I can repay such a gift is to persevere, until one day I do actually create a body of work worth your patience. If anyone feels this is over sentimental you are to be mistaken. All I am saying here is truthful and real. Everytime anyone listens to my music either on disc or at a gig it is an affirmation of my whole life and that is something no record company could ever put a price tag on.

Thank you.

Vini

Tempus Fugit promo cd

A promo-only cd of album in custom card sleeve. Marked 'Promotional only - not for resale'.

Artist: the durutti column
Title: tempus fugit
Release: May/June 2004
Further information: Phil Cleaver
Label: Kooky in association with thedurutticolumn.com
Cat No: kookydisc 019
Distribution: Cargo Records Darren 0207 732 5125

Tracklisting

Counting...
Shooting
Lullaby 4 Nina
Mystery
Guitar-Woman
Violence
Bollywood
Love song on Quattro
Tempus Fugit
The man who knows
Slipping away
Trip for an Opera
Untitled for You
Salford Harmonics
... shopping

Credits

All tracks written, performed and produced by Vini Reilly

Sleeve design and photography: rachel mcfarlane

Someone Else's Party

Someone Else's Party

CD: UK 03.03.03 (Artful ARTFULCD49)
CD: JP 27/06/07 (Imperial Records Japan TECI-24421)*

Tracklisting

01 Love Is A Friend
02 Spanish Lament
03 Somewhere
04 Somebody's Party
05 Requiem For My Mother
06 Remember
07 Vigil
08 Blue
09 No More Hurt
10 Spasmic Fairy
11 American View
12 Drinking Time
13 Woman
14 Goodbye
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15 Creole *
16 Spasmic Fairy *

Credits

(P) 2003 Artful Records © 2003 Artful Records. All rights reserved. The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Artful Records. Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, broadcast and public performance prohibited. Made in the UK. Distributed by the Universal Music Organisation and Fulfill www.fulfill.co.uk. All tracks written, performed and produced by Vini Reilly (Copyright Control). Except Track 01 Programmed by Laurie Laptop. Track 02 and Track 13 produced by Laurie Laptop. Drum loop on Track 09 by Laurie Laptop. Album mastered by Keir Stewart. Vocal on track 12 by Eley Rudge. Sampled voice on Track 02 by Rebekah Del Rio from the David Lynch film 'Mulholland Drive'. The Durutti Column are managed by Bruce Mitchell. www.thedurutticolumn.com

Notes

The Japanese release, which like all Imperial Records releases comes in a digipack, features two additional tracks recorded live at XFM Manchester.

Return of The Sporadic Recordings

Return of The Sporadic Recordings

CD: UK 01.07.02 (Kooky Records kookydisc018)

Tracklisting

Disc one - Return Of The Sporadic Recordings

For Soph
Final Cut
Silent Nite
Smiles U Gave Away
Waiting 4 The Earth
U Didn't Need Me
How Do U Think It's Going To Feel?
Slo-Glyde
Returned Love
Catos Con Guantes
Vampire Business
Ping-Pong
Zinni Tune
I'm Nowhere
Only Love

Disc two - The Sporadic Recordings

Nile Opera
Kind Of Love
For Steven Patrick
We Stumble
Sketch of a Manchester Summer 1989
Arpeggiator II
Diazepam 5 mgs
But Was I...?
Pol In Ab
Another Mirror - Another Wall
30 Oldham St
4.10am
For Lydia
Detail For Heidi And Jodie
Zinni's Dance
PPP Version
For Lucy H
4.30am
It's A Bright Guilty World Part I
It's A Bright Guilty World Part II
Nile Reprise
Diazepam 10 mgs
Credits

All songs written by Vini Reilly and published by Zomba Music

Thanks to Bruce Mitchell and Family. Sophia and Family (& Jim), Alex & Phil at Kooky, Gary at Sounds Great, Keir Stewart, Lee, Stoo and Steevy at "Deluxe", Atlas Bar, 'Inmans' drivers, Steve Keller, Susie Casson and Trevor.

Special thanks to Carol, without whom...

Respect and thanks to those we have sampled.

Cover painting by Margot Perryman, 01227 362754

Cover sketch by Susie Casson.

Jazz Café pictures: Robin Warden

Kooky thank Bruce Mitchell, Vini and Keir, Darren at Cargo, Margot for the painting and Robin for Jazz Café pics.

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The Return of the Sporadic Recordings combined the long unavailable tracks on the original Sporadic Recordings with a second disc containing rare and unrelease material. The bonus tracks from the original Sporadic Recordings which were included on the Facdo 244 Vini Reilly re-release are omitted this time round, presumably for contractual reasons.

Voluntary Arrangement

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.

Rebellion

Rebellion


Rebellion (Imperial Records, Japan, 2007)

CD: UK 04/06/01 (Artful artfulcd40)
CD: JP 27/06/07 (Imperial Records Japan TECI-24420#) *

Tracklisting

4 Sophia
Longsight Romance
Geh Cak Af En Yam
The Fields of Athenry
Overlord Part One
Falling
Voluntary Arrangement
Mello Part One
Mello Part Two
Protest Song
Meschugana
Papa *
Teresa *

Notes

The Japanese issue (released some 6 years after the original UK version) of the 2001 includes two bonus tracks recorded live at XFM Manchester.

Time Was GIGANTIC... When we were kids

Time Was GIGANTIC... When we were kids

CD: UK 12.10.98 (Factory Too FACD 2.31)

Tracklisting

Organ Donor
Pigeon
I B Yours
Twenty Trees
Abuse
Drinking Song
Sing To Me
My Last Kiss
For Rachel
Highfield Choir
Epilogue

Credits

Produced by Keir Stewart
Design by 8vo

Notes

A Factory Too promotional cassette issue is also said to exist. FACD 2.21 was originally allocated to this release (according to the Factory Too website in February 1997).

Domo Arigato [Factory Once, 1998]

Domo Arigato [Factory Once, 1998]

CD: UK 05.10.98 (Factory Once Facdo 144 / London 556 038-2)

Tracklisting

Sketch For Summer
Sketch For Dawn
Mercy Theme
Little Mercy
Jacqueline
Dream Of A Child
Mercy Dance
The Room
E.E.
Blind Elevator Girl
Tomorrow
For Belgian Friends
Missing Boy
Self Portrait
Audience Noise

Related Works

Our Lady Of The Angels
White Rabbit
When The World (Newson Mix)

Credits

All tracks written by Vini Reilly. Produced by Durutti Column and Anthony Wilson.

Vini Reilly: Vocals, Guitar, Piano and DX7
Bruce Mitchell: Percussion, Xylophone and DMX
Tim Kellett: Trumpet
John Metcalfe: Viola

Recorded by G.Y.N.E. Mobile Recording at Gotanda Kanihoken Hall, Tokyo; 25th April 1985; Remixed at G.Y.N.E. Mobile Recording and Nippon Columbia Studio No. 4; PCM Editing Engineer: Hideki Kukizaki; Engineers: Anthony Wilson and Norio Okada; Concert Organisation: UPU and Moon Office

Related Works

Our Lady of The Angels, written by Vini Reilly. Recorded by Stuart James at Amigos Studio, North Hollywood and mixed by Stephen Street at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England. A Factory Communications Record 1987. [From Fac 184]

White Rabbit, originally written by Grace Slick. Recorded and mixed by Stephen Street at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England. A Factory Communications Record 1987. [From Fac 184]

When The World (Newson Mix), written by Vini Reilly. Recorded and mixed by Stephen Street at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England. A Factory Communications Record 1987. [From Facd 194]

With thanks to Tony, Bruce.Graphic Magicians: 8vo, London

Liner notes by Anthony H. Wilson

Home from home in a Tokyo car park

Why was it so hard to get served in this bloody Japanese restaurant somewhere in a far flung suburb of Tokyo.

We'd been waiting twenty minutes since ordering. Finally the manager came over, very apologetic as only the Japanese can be; our two waitresses were giggling and in shock in the kitchen because 'Vini Reilly' was actually in their restaurant and were so excited they were unable to come out and serve us.

Yeah. Vini isn't exactly an international celebrity, but when he's loved, he's very very loved.

It was a fun / strange tour, that trip to Tokyo. Bruce Mitchell explaining to me how to deal with our Japanese partners, just keep explaining your point, again and again and finally someone will say "Hai" and you're on your way.

I was trying to get two 35mm cameras instead of 6 video cameras to film the Durutti Column gig and it only took me two and a half hours of repeating this to get a "Hai". I preferred waiting for the food.

The DC entourage that had built up for the 'Without Mercy' album had slimmed down to a wonderful core of Vini, Bruce, John Metcalfe on viola and Tim Kellett on trumpet. They'd done three definitive gigs at the Electric Cinema on London's Portobello Road and I was praying that we could capture that once more in Japan, with tape and camera. We did.

Thank you. Or Domo as they say out there.

Mixing down was fun; we were on a flight out next morning so the wonderful Takao Homma at Nippon Columbia hired a mobile studio recording truck. We mixed from midnight till 6 a.m. And it was another of those warming technological experiences; brought the strangest of foods throughout the night in those lacquered lunch boxes that seem to dominate Japanese working life, while we worked with the most familiar of equipment -- the desk was emblazoned 'Amek, Salford, England' and the outboard was all 'AMS, Burnley, Lancashire'. Home from home in a Tokyo car park.

And by the way this is a CD; and has only ever been a CD; we reckoned it was the first CD only release in the UK when it came out the following year. And it was the note on which that whole trip had started; arriving late at night off the plane and taken by Takao to plug in the first CD player I'd ever seen and listen to ...... 'Power, Corruption and Lies' a test sample straight from the Denon pressing plant. Wow.

And then there was the trip to LA; getting Vini and Bruce a limo from the Hyatt to the Whiskey; 600 yards. We thought we'd go into a studio while were were there; I think it was Milo who sorted it.

There was this cool LA lady -- I'd met her at a New Order gig the previous summer and played Pac-woman with her and fancied her and failed miserably and Peter S. even asked me if, as I was doing so badly he could try instead and she was in a bunch of bands, and we got her to come and sing with Vini and her name is Debi Diamond and that's about it.

And 'Our Lady of the Angels' is Vini's tribute to that wonderful wonderful town. I didn't know my Franciscan history I'm afraid and the whole thing was only explained by reading Reyner Banham (thanks Mr Savage for yet another one), and discovering that the City of the Angels is in fact "El Ciuidad della Nostra Senora de Los Angeles de Porciuncula". LA for short. And the track is indeed a short cut to Mulholland Drive.

Another Setting [Factory Once, 1998]

Another Setting [Factory Once, 1998]

CD: UK 05.10.98 (Factory Once Facdo 74 / London 556 041-2)

Tracklisting

Prayer
Response
Bordeaux
For A Western
The Beggar
Francesca
Smile In The Crowd
You've Heard It Before
Dream Of A Child
Second Family
Spent Time

Related Works

Amigos em Portugal:

Amigos em Portugal
Menina ao pe duma Piscina
Lisboa
Sara e Tristana
Estoril a Noite

Dedications for Jacqueline:

Favourite Descending Intervals
To End With

Credits

All tracks written by Vini Reilly

Related Works

Amigos em Portugal: Amigos em Portugal, Menina ao pe duma Piscina, Lisboa, Sara e Tristana and Estoril a Noite, written by Vini Reilly. Recorded and mixed in the Valentim de Carvalho Studios by To Pinheiro da Silva and Jose Valverde. A Factory Communications Record 1983.

Dedications for Jacqueline: Favourite Descending Intervals and To End With, written by Vini Reilly. Recorded and mixed in the Valentim de Carvalho Studios by To Pinheiro da Silva and Jose Valverde. A Factory Communications Record 1983.

With thanks to Tony, Bruce.

Graphic Magicians: 8vo, London

Notes

The official credits are strangely scarce in this reisssue. Here are additional credits from Facd 74.

Recorded and mixed at Strawberry Studios, Stockport
Engineered by Chris Nagle
Published by the Movement of 24th January

Obey The Time [Factory Once, 1998]

Obey The Time [Factory Once, 1998]

CD: UK 10.98 (Factory Once FACDO 274 / London 556 040-2)

Tracklisting

Vino Della Casa Bianco
Hotel Of The Lake 1990
Fridays
Home
Art And Freight
Spanish Reggae
Neon
The Warmest Rain
Contra-indications
Vino Della Casa Rosso

Related Works

The Together Mix
Fridays (Up-Person Mix)
Kiss Of Def (Trade 2 Singles Club)

Credits

A Factory Communications Record 1998.
With thanks to Tony, Bruce, Graphic Magicians: 8vo, London
Graphic Magicians: 8vo, London

Obey the Time

All tracks written by Vini Reilly.

Drums on 'Art and Freight' by Bruce Mitchell.

Computed and Engineered by Paul Miller at Home, except 'Contra-indications' computed and engineered by Andy Robinson at Spirit Studios. Hypnosis and medication by Sydney Gottlieb. Food and relaxation by Dry.

The Together Mix

The Together Mix, written by Vini Reilly. Remixed by Together. A Factory Communications Record 1990.

Fridays, written by Vini Reilly. Recorded and mixed by Vini Reilly and Paul Miller. A Factory Communications Record 1990.

Trade 2 Singles Club

Kiss of Def, written by Vini Reilly. Remixed by Keir Stewart at Inch.

Liner notes

Absolutely in the middle of it

"I have but an hour of love, of worldly matters and direction to spend with thee: we must obey the time."

The titles of Vini's albums and even the tracks themselves come from tne oddest places. There's the easy way out: the female first name of the muse of the moment, from Katharine to Pol in G (sorry Pol, you were more than a moment), and all the rest.

Other times Vin would have something in mind and other times, I, as one third of his management would flirt around with my latest obsessions looking for a connection with Vini's pieces.

Part of this aesthetic derives from Italian directors in general and Pasolini in particular who loved having different actors dub the voices on his movies and almost intentionally doing the dubbing badly so there was a creative tension between the physical performance and the vocal performance; for the Durutti Column, there's usually some interesting stuff in the space between the title and the piece.

The title of this album came screaming off the TV screen in somebody's version of Othello' and captured exactly the feel of the work in progress. We were in the middle of the Aceeed explosion: if you lived in Manchester, you were absolutely in the middle of it. Vini, like the rest of us, has lost the ability to age or atrophy, and enjoyed the party.

He even explained why house made keyboards sound so fresh something to do with a chord being played with three or four notes into the sampler but then different chords being triggered by a single key stroke; creating mathematical harmonic relationships "which Schoenberg had searched for but never found".

In experimenting with certain beats and ideas, Vini was indeed obeying the time.

We're including as a bonus track here something that comes from the late 90's. But we submit it as a most recent example of Vini 'obeying' the time and as such connecting to the music of this period and taking us up to where the ripples of 88 still make interesting patterns on the shore.

The producer of his 1998 album, Kier, (another full-blown genius who also tried to get Vini to stop singing and met the same fate as everybody else) did this remix of My Last Kiss: sorta post-trance, sub-jungle, retro-ambient, or something. It's called 'Kiss of Def' which is partly taking the piss out of Barney's HIV lyric and partly just a cool title.

We were going to give it to Glenn and Jeff at Trade Two who were looking forward to putting it on their club label, but it got snared up with the lawyers on both sides.

And then, going back to 1990, there was Together, the 'Hardeore Uproar' cultish and soon-to-be massive dance duo who did the 'Together' remix; two fantastic kids, one with the ability to sing nasally out of the side of his mouth and the other, another young Kier, brightest eyes of any engineer you'd meet back in 1990. He died that Summer in Ibiza. Bicycle accident. Fucking tragic.

That Summer I was in Varenna, a small village on the banks of Lake Como, and Vini was short on titles for the pieces on this album, many of them emerging from mathematical / harmonic or technological inspiration rather than lovers he could name them after. So Vin let me take some of the titles from my experiences in Varenna. 'The Warmest Rain', indeed.

Without Mercy [Factory Once, 1998]

Without Mercy [Factory Once, 1998]

CD: UK 14.09.98 (Factory Once FACDO 84 / London 556 039-2)

Tracklisting

Without Mercy I
Without Mercy II

Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say

Goodbye
The Room
Little Mercy
Silence
E.E.
Hello

From FBN 51

All That Love And Maths Can Do *

From Hommage a Duras compilation on Interior Music

The Sea Wall

Credits

All tracks written by Vini Reilly. Produced by Anthony Wilson and Michael Johnson.

Vini Reilly: Guitar, Bass Guitar, Piano and DMX. Bruce Mitchell: Percussion, Congas and DMX. Richard Henry: Trombone. Maunagh Flaming: Cor-Anglais and Oboe. Blaine Reininger: Violin and Viola. Mervyn Fletcher: Saxophone. Caroline Lavelle: Cello. Tim Kellett: Trumpet.

All songs written by Vini Reilly. Produced by Anthony Wilson and Michael Johnson. Recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport. Engineered by Michael Johnson, assisted by Tim Dewey and Nigel Beverley. Mixed at Britannia Row, London. Published by the Movement of the 24th January.

Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say

Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say. Goodbye, The Room, A Little Mercy, Silence, E.E and Hello(w). All tracks written by Vini Reilly. Vini Reilly: DMX drum machine, DX7 Synth and Guitars. Mervyn Fletcher: Saxophone. RIchard Henry: Trombone. Tim Kellett: Trumpet. Bruce Mitchell: Percussion A Factory Communcatons Record 1984.

Related Works

All That Love and Maths Can Do, written and produced by Vini Reilly. Vini Reilly: Guitar. John Metcalfe: Viola, A Factory Communications Record 1984. Sea Wall, written and produced by Vini Rally. Vini Reilly: Guitar. Blaine Reininger: Violin. A

Factory Communications Record 1984.

Liner notes

If in doubt, repeat yourself

It was the fascist architecture that proved to be the final straw. My temper had been rising throughout the evening, a sell out gig, two thousand fanatical Portuguese Vini fans at some Lisbon College theatre, obviously built in the good old days of the Portuguese Generals.

What had got me going was the fact that Vini and Bruce were doodling along on stage the same way they had been doing for at least two and a half years. Same bloody stuff; like John Cooper Clarke doing a college gig in 1990. If in doubt, repeat yourself. It was too bloody easy.

And when the entire audience came to its feet on Bruce's 'drum solo' in 'Jacqueline', well, I mean, a fucking drum solo. When you're pissed off and everyone else is loving it, you get really pissed off. Shakespeare used to do that with filthy jokes just before a coming tragic death scene to wind up the part of the audience that wasn't pissing itself with laughter. The applause for the drum solo certainly wound me up.

It was the same with recording. Vini's third album, 'Another Setting', while strangely providing some of the DC standards that Vin would be playing a decade later, merely trod the same ground as 'LC' and took nothing forward. It was time for a change.

A few months earlier we'd been approached by three classical musicians, kids from the Royal Northern College of Music and Manchester University. A trumpeter, a saxophonist and a ...... "Has Factory got any work for us?" - "Who knows, maybe ......"

Factory had also struck up a relationship with the wonderful Pete Hadfield acting for statuesque cello player, Caroline Lavelle. (Where's the bloody tape, Pete?) An idea formed; a group of musicians for Vini to create for. Add to the mix Blaine Reininger from the Belgian connection - always on hand with his Michel Duval impersonations and electrifying violin work. The first meeting was at Alan and Annie's farm in Cheshire. "Actually we get more people at the farm than at the Hacienda", said Mr Erasmus for the Channel Four documentary while riding round a nearby field on the back of Hooky's trial bike.

And the final ingredient turned up on the first day at Strawberry when the brass section brought along their 'arranger', the diminutive but 'taking no shit' Mr Metcalfe whose viola playing became such a part of the next cycle of Durutti work.

Since this was pop it had to be 'boy meets girl, boy loses girl' so we took Keats's 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' as the narrative - boy meets girl, boy loses girl and no birds sing.

Central to the whole project was trying to get Vini to spend more than three days recording an album, to try and slow down the process. It took five days which has to be counted as an abject failure.

Plus getting to hear Vini and Blaine do an ultra heavy 'Sweet Jane' a couple of times at soundchecks was worth the admission.

Worth the admission to the reissue is the inclusion of the tracks from the 'Say What You Mean...' EP, released as a 12" vinyl single. The session for this collection took place at Revolution in Cheadle a few months after the 'Mercy' sessions and already show the slimming down process and the core musicians of the mid 80's Durutti Column coming of age. Basically it was the Manc kids. What's new.

Time Was Gigantic / Reissued Experiments

Time Was Gigantic / Reissued Experiments

CD: UK 08.98 (Factory Too FACDR 2.41)

Tracklisting

Disc one - Time Was Gigantic... When We Were Kids

Organ Donor
Pigeon
I B Yours
Twenty Trees
Abuse
Drinking Song
Sing To Me
My Last Kiss
For Rachel
Highfield Choir
Epilogue

Disc two - Reissued Experiments

Amigos Em Portugal
Menina Ao Pe Duma Piscina
Lisboa
Sara E Tristana
Estoril A Noite
Favourite Descending Intervals
To End With
All That Love And Maths Can Do
The Sea Wall
Our Lady Of The Angels
White Rabbit
Catos Con Guantes *
The Together Mix
Fridays (Up Person Mix)
Kiss Of Def **

* Actually "When the World (Newson Mix)"
** The proposed Rough Trade 7" track.

- -

Limited edition double CDR promo, 25 copies only, featuring "Time Was Gigantic...When We Were Kids" together with "Reissued Experiments" (titled "Experiments by Vini" on the label), a selection of some of the rare and previously unreleased material issued as extra tracks on the second phase of Durutti Column reissues (Factory Once). The "FACDR 2.41" number does not appear on disc 1, only on disc 2. Instead, disc 1 has the London/Factory Too '558 330-2' "Time Was Gigantic..." designation. Both discs have a "Town House Post Production" over-title. All copies signed, hand numbered and assembled by Vini himself, w/"Vini Reilly" plectrum. (Plectrum is either brown "tortoise shell" or white; both versions with gold foil-stamped lettering.) Thanks to Andrea Bianco for imagery.

The Guitar and Other Machines (Factory Once, 1996)

The Guitar and Other Machines (Factory Once, 1996)

CD: UK 02.12.96 (Factory Once FACDO 204 /London 828 828-2)

Tracklisting

Arpeggiator
What Is It to Me (Woman)
Red Shoes
Jongleur Grey
When the World
U.S.P.
Bordeaux Sequence
Pol in B
English Landscape Tradition
Miss Haymes
Don't Think You're Funny

Related Works

LFO Mod
Dream Topping
28 Oldham Place

Live at WOMAD

Otis
English Landscape Tradition
Finding the Sea
Bordeaux

Credits

The Guitar and Other Machines written and arranged by Vini Reilly. 'Arpeggiator' by Reilly and Mitchell. 'English Landscape Tradition' by Reilly and Metcalfe. Produced by Stephen Street.

Related Works

LFO Mod, written by Vini Reilly. Published by The Movement of the 24th January Publishing/ Zomba Publishing. A Factory Communications Record 1988. Dream Topping, written by Vini Reilly, Simon Topping, Jeremy Kerr and Stuart James. Published by The Movement of the 24th January Publishing / Zomba Publishing and Copyright Control. A Factory Communications Record 1988. 28 Oldham Street, written by Vini Reilly. Produced by Stuart James and Nick Garside.

Published by The Movement of the 24th January Publishing/ Zomba Publishing. A Factory Communications Record 1988.

Vini Reilly: Guitar, Keyboards, Machine Programs and Vocals. Bruce Mitchell: Drum Kit, Xylophone and DX Machine. John Metcalfe: Viola and Percussion on 'When the World'. Stephen Street: Bass Guitar on 'English Landscape Tradition'. Rob Gray: Mouth Organ on 'What Is It to Me' and 'Jongleur Grey'. Stanton Miranda: Vocals on 'When the World' and 'Red Shoes'. Pol: Vocals on'When the World', 'Red Shoes' and 'Bordeaux Sequence'.

Special thanks to Simply Red/ Elektra for Tim Kellet's trumpet on 'When the World'.

Live at WOMAD

Otis, English Landscape Tradition, Finding the Sea and Bordeaux, written by Vini Reilly. Live Mix by Stuart James. Andy Connell: Piano. Liu Sola: Vocals. Published by The Movement of 24th January Publishing/ Copyright Control. A Factory Communications Record 1989.

Recorded at Suite Sixteen, Rochdale; Strawberry Studios, Stockport; and Island Studios, Hammersmith. Mixed at Island Studios. Engineers: Chris Nagle, Lee Hamblin and CJ.

Published by the Movement of 24th January Publishing/ Copyright Control.

Liner notes

Not that yellow, Vincent

Things were changing aqain. The incredible four-piece which added Cor Anglais and Viola to Vini and Bruce had seen it's most perfect expression in the Japanese gigs ('Domo Arigato') and three memorable nights at the Electric Cinema in London's Notting Hill Gate.

Another crossroads. Tim Kellett went off to join Simply Red and young Metcalfe got buried in his two classical projects, the Duke Quartet and the Kreisler Orchestra.

And then Vini had some new technology thrust upon him. Bruce sometimes describes the way Vini's other manager treats Vin as being like watching someone peering over Van Gogh's shoulder and shouting, no not that yellow, you click... this yellow". Now Vini was no stranger to tech stuff - so much of his sound comes from the harmonic sex between his guitar and his delay machine.

But the world of machines that Martin Hannett had introduced Vini to in 1979 had moved on apace. In our family, New Order were in the forefront of the Sequencer Revolution; it somehow seemed really important what was it, the first instrument that truly played melody and rhythm in the same notation fuck knows.

Anyway Vini was handed a Yamaha Sequencer and a DMX Drum Machine. And told to do something with it.

Actually it wasn't quite like that. He was asked if he fancied it, and just to hang out with the equipment in case he found something flowing from it. Admittedly the tragic genius kept like a battery hen and fed shit and instructions makes better reading. But the kid does go his own way. Whatever, the cardboard boxes arrived with the goodies and it was duck to water; as in things really flowing.

On tracks like 'Arpeggiator' and ii was clear the Durutti Column had found another exhilarating avenue. And for all the technology, Metcalfe's viola and Bruce's drums were still on the most moving form.

'LFO Mod'. a rare piece which was done specially for Valuable Passages' a US release on Relativity and not put on the European version, is one of Vini's favourite pieces from this period and displays the 'sequencer revolution' at its most advanced stage prior to 'Vini Reilly' the next work.

And Simon came back from Brooklyn where he was either teaching or learning timbales, can't quite remember which. A couple of days at 'Out of the Blue' with Stuart James and Nick Garside brought the gang together, with ACR Jes on vocals and audio-scratching. 'Dream Topping' says it all.

This period also saw the Durutti Column at WOMAD, exquisite performances which we couldn't leave off this CD. Our favourite pianist, Swing out Andy Connell is on Keyboards and Liu Sola a chinese lady opera writer is the vocalist on the WOMAD stage, and has never actually explained what she was singing.

With thanks to Tony, Bruce. With love to Rachel.

Graphic Magicians: 8vo, London

The Return of The Durutti Column [Factory Once, 1996]

The Return of The Durutti Column [Factory Once, 1996]

CD: UK 11.96 (Factory Once
FACDO 14)

Tracklisting

Sketch For Summer
Requiem For A Father
Katharine
Conduct
Beginning
Jazz
Sketch For Winter
Collette
In "D"

Related works

Lips That Would Kiss
Madeleine
First Aspect of the Same Thing
Second Aspect of the Same Thing
Sleep Will Come
Experiment in Fifth

Credits

All tracks written by Vini Reilly. Produced by Martin Hannett
Vini Reilly: Guitar
Martin Hannett: Switches
Peter Crooks: Bass
Toby: Drums
Thanks to Gammer for the melody
Recorded at Cargo, Rochdale
Mixed at Strawberry, Stockport
Engineers: Chris Nagle and John Brierley
Published by The Movement of 24th January Publishing / Zomba Publishing

Related Works

Lips that Would Kiss and Madeleine, written by Vini Reilly. Produced by Martin Hannett. Published by The Movement of the 24th January Publishing / Zomba Publishing. A Factory / Benelux Record 1980.

First Aspect of the Same Thing and Second Aspect of the Same Thing, written and produced by Martin Hannett. Published by Copyright Control. A Factory Communications Record 1979.

Sleep Will Come, written and produced by Vini Reilly. Vocals by Jeremy Kerr. Published by The Movement of the 24th January Publishing / Zomba Publishing and Copyright Control. A Les Disques Du Crepuscule Record 1980.

Experiment in Fifth, written and produced by Vini Reilly. Published by The Movement of the 24th January Publishing / Zomba Publishing. A Les Disques Du Crepuscule Record 1980.

Vini Reilly [Factory Once, 1996]

Vini Reilly [Factory Once, 1996]

CD: UK 11.96 (Factory Once FACDO 244 / London 828 826-2)

Tracklisting

Love No More
Pol in G
Opera I
People's Pleasure Park
Red Square
Finding the Sea
Otis
William B
They Work Every Day
Opera II
Homage to Catalonea
Requiem Again
My Country

Related Works

Paradise Passage Road
Les Preger's Tune

Sporadic Recordings

Buddhist Prayer
Misere
Real Drums - Real Drummer
Pathway
Rob Grey's Elegy
Shirt No. 7

Credits

All tracks written by Vini Reilly. Produced by Vini Reilly with Stephen Street.

Bruce Mitchell: Drums.
Andy Connell: Keyboard on 'Requiem Again', 'Otis' and 'Red Square'
John Metcalfe: Viola on 'Finding The Sea'
Rob Gray: Vocals on 'They Work Every Day'
Liu Sola: Vocals on 'People's Pleasure Park' and 'Finding The Sea'
Pol: Vocals on 'Otis'

Recorded at Sam Therapy, Kensal; Island Studios, Hammersmith; Out Of The Blue, Manchester. Engineers: Stephen Street and Nick Garside. Thanks to Sounds Great, Stuart James and Piccadilly Records. Published by The Movement of the 24th January Publishing / Zomba Publishing.

Related Works

Paradise Passage Road, written by Stanton Miranda and Vini Reilly. Produced by Vini Reilly and Stephen Street. Published by The Movement of the 24th January Publishing / Zomba Publishing and Copyright Control. A Factory Communications Record 1989. Les Preger's Tune, written and produced by Vini Reilly. Published by The Movement of the 24th January Publishing / Zomba Publishing. A Materiali Sonori Record 1992.

Sporadic Recordings

Buddhist Prayer, Misere, Real Drums - Real Drummer, Pathway, Rob Grey's Elegy and Shirt No.7, written and produced by Vini Reilly. Published by The Movement of the 24th January Publishing / Zomba Publishing. A Sporadic Productions Record 1989.

Liner notes

He was in his Morrissey phase... there you go

The story of a sleeve: Vini wanted a photo on the cover for a change. He even had his hair done by Andrew Berry for the shoot. The print went off to Mark and the usual ground breaking 8vo sleeve was created. It's the sleeve you see on the cover of this CD: but it's the only time this sleeve has ever existed.

Vin didn't like the sleeve, didn't like it one bit.

Mark Holt, Vini's graphics magician, founder of the legendary 8vo, thinks today that three weeks at the Woolhall working with the two Stephens on 'Viva Hate' had messed him up; "He was in his Morrissey phase, wanted the picture bigger... there you go."

It was one of Vin's legendary outbursts. Potential muggers have ended up in hospital after encounters with our Vin - he just loses it and the result is frightening for the mugger manqu&ecacute;. Anyway, the Mark Holt sleeve was out, "Here's Bob Dylan, do it like that", said Vini. So we did. Mark was very understanding. And now for all of us, in particular, Vin, there is real pleasure that the wonderful rejected creation finally gets out ten vears later.

And then there's the story of how the sequencers of 'The Guitar and other Machines' grew Lip and got a baby brother, the Akai S500 sampler.

Back in 80/81 we seemed to spend all our time trying to get Simon Topping of ACR to get back to singing, which was what he was great at, and trying to get Vini to stop singing, which is what he was not great at.

Complete failure.

Simon pursued the role of instrumentalist, be it trumplet or timbales. And Vini, the great instrumentalist, just kept singing -whenever your back was turned. Life.

To be scrupulously fair, we know it's kind of hellish to stand there in front of a thousand people and just play the guitar. When there are things you just have to say.

It's expression and you can't forbid it; it's his dance.

And there are even Durutti fans who like Vini's singing. But they're off their heads. And there are things you can do, like get him a sampler and stand back.

Which is what we did, and we stood back in amazement.

On pieces like 'Otis' and 'Opera', Vini explored the new equipment in his own extremely individual fashion. 'Otis' was later used for a Pacific Bell TV ad in Northern Calfornia. Great, eh.?

For Vini, the ability to sample out the vocal tones from things he adored and then play them back into a piece of music via a keyboard was like letting a kid loose in FAO Schwarz.

Of course we didn't not have real singers now and again. Dear Miranda from New York worked on 'Paradise Passage Road', and it's worth expaining that Les Preger was next door neighbour to Bruce and one of the first members of the International Brigade to arrive in Spain back in the 30's.

Shortly after 'Vini Reilly', there was more stuff churning out of Vini's brain / sampler than Factory could ever release, So Vin gave a bunch of tracks to his mate Paul Miller who put them out as a the 'Sporadic Recordings' the 6 tracks here are Vini's favourites from that release. 'Shirt No.7, incidentally, was written for the Durutti's friend Pat Nevin, in the good old days before football was hip. Ths one's still for you, Pat.

With thanks to Tony, Bruce. With love to Rachel.

Graphic Magicians: 8vo, London

Sex and Death THE CD ROM

Sex and Death THE CD ROM

CDROM: UK 25.10.95 (Factory Too FACDR 2.11)

Tracklisting

Anthony
The Rest Of My Life
For Colette
The Next Time
Beautiful Lies
My Irascible Friend
Believe In Me
Fermina
Where I Should Be
Fado
Madre Mio
Blue Period

Notes

Multimedia CD ROM prepared using Macromedia technology featuring nearly the whole version of the CD edition of Sex and Death plus colour photos, video clips and interviews.

Came packaged in a black sandpaper sleeve in homage to the first Durutti Column album FACT 14 The Return of The Durutti Column.

Sex and Death

Sex and Death


Sex and Death; US promo cassette

CD: UK 14.03.95 (Factory Too FACD 2.01)
CS: US 1995 (Factory Too / FFRR 697 124 043-4 ADV)*
CD: US 1995 (Factory Too / FFRR 697-124 043-2)

Tracklisting

Anthony
The Rest Of My Life
For Colette
The Next Time
Beautiful Lies
My Irascible Friend
Believe In Me
Fermina
Where I Should Be
Fado
Madre Mio
Blue Period

* - Cassette insert 'misprint' states "Factory 2" not "Factory Too"

Credits

Written by Vini Reilly and produced by Stephen Street
Marketed by RTM. Distributed by Pinnacle
This is a Factory release too.

Notes

A Japanese CD version and both CD and cassette Canadian versions also exist.

Obey The Time

Obey The Time

LP: UK 1990 (Factory FACT 274) [white label]
LP: UK 1990 (Factory FACT 274)
CS: UK 1990 (Factory FACTC 274)
CD: UK 1990 (Factory FACD 274) [pre-release]
CD: UK 1990 (Factory FACD 274)
DAT: UK 1990 (Factory FACT 274D)

Tracklisting

Vino della Casa Bianco
Hotel of the Lake 1990
Fridays
Home
Art and Freight
Spanish Reggae
Neon
The Warmest Rain
Contra-indications
Vino della Casa Rosso

Credits

Written and produced by Vini Reilly
Published by The Movement of 24th January
Computed and engineered by Paul Miller at Home, except Contra-indications computed and engineered by Andy Robinson at Spirit Studios

Drums on Art and Freight by Bruce Mitchell

Hypnosis and medications by Sydney Gottlieb
Food and relaxation by Dry
Design: 8vo

Dedicated to Isabel Emily

Notes

Original Factory Records release on LP, Cassette and CD. German, Spanish and Japanese import versions also exist. Also reissued on Factory Once with 3 extra tracks in October 1998.

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.

Another Setting

Another Setting

LP: UK 1983 (Factory FACT 74)
CS: UK 1986 (Factory FACT 74C) [boxed] *
CD: UK 1988 (Factory FACD 74) **
LP: BL 1984 (Factory Benelux FBN 30)
+ Shinseido Sirius and other international releases (Spain, France, Canada, Japan)

Tracklisting

Prayer (3:24)
Response (1:30)
Bordeaux (3:30)
For A Western (2:48)
The Beggar (4:55)
Francesca (3:01)
Smile In The Crowd (5:03)
You've Heard It Before (4:41)
Dream Of A Child (5:22)
Second Family (2:38)
Spent Time (4:25)

Run-out groove

FACT-74-A-4, MT.2, A Porky Prime Cut, Carol
FACT-74-B-4, MT.2, Porky, Sex For Spastics

Notes

* With inserts.
** CD released as part of FACD 224.

Production: Chris Nagle and Vini Reilly
Design: Mark Farrow

Initially released with perfumed "Stencil" (die-cut) insert. Most of the copies of the FBN 30 Factory Benelux version were exported to Japan for release by Shinseido Sirius (as SC-55). Shinseido add-on paper specifies tracks incorrectly.

Reissued on Factory Once as FACDO 74 incorporating extra tracks from Amigos em Portugal / Dedications for Jacqueline.

From Brussels With Love

From Brussels With Love

CS: BE 11/80 (Les Disques du Crépuscule TWI 007) [with booklet]
CS: BE 10/82 (Crépuscule TWI 007)
2xLP: BE 12/86 (Crépuscule TWI 007) *
CD: DE 4/87 (Interphon IPCD 72001)
CD: JP 11/87 (Crépuscule Au Japon/Victor-JVC VDP 5150)
CD: BE 1988 (Crépuscule TWI 007-2)
CD: BE 9/99 (Crépuscule TWI 007-2)
CD: UK 12.02.07 (LTM LTMCD 2479)

Sleep Will Come [1:50]
Piece For An Ideal [2:15]
Weakness And Fever * [5:20]

2xLP: JP 1983 (Crépuscule Au Japon/Shinseido Sirius TWI 008/SC-10)
2xLP: BE 1983 (Crépuscule TWI 008)

Sleep Will Come [1:50]
Weakness And Fever [5:20]

LTM reissue notes

Originally released as a deluxe cassette/book package in November 1980, From Brussels With Love featured 22 exclusive tracks from the international avant garde and new wave, as well as the celebrated Factory Records roster. Then, as now, the contributing artists include Gavin Bryars, Harold Budd, Dome, The Durutti Column, John Foxx, Martin Hannett, Richard Jobson, Bill Nelson, New Order and Michael Nyman. The programme also includes extended interviews with Brian Eno and iconic French actress Jeanne Moreau. This new CD edition has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes, and features 76 minutes of material. Most of the tracks featured here remain unavailable elsewhere. For reasons of space just one has been deleted from the original cassette (A Certain Ratio), although this track is available on LTMCD 2443. The 20 page facsimile booklet features original artwork by Benoit Hennebert, Claude Stassart and Jean-Francois Octave, as well as archive images and detailed liner notes.

In stock at LTM Central and available by mail order, plus outlets like Sister Ray already have it in stock.