Newcastle date added to UK Tour

A date at the Cluny in Newcastle has been added to The Durutti Column's 2009 UK winter tour. More dates are still to be confirmed. The full latest details (including pricing info for Brighton, Bristol and Windsor) are as follows:

January

Sat 31 - The Met, Bury [10.00 GBP adv, 12.00 GBP door]

February

Mon 16 - Baby Blue, Liverpool [12.00 GBP adv / 15.00 GBP door - Buy online]
Thu 19 - The Cluny, Newcastle [10.00 GBP adv, Buy online via from seetickets.com (+ booking fee / handling charge)]
Sat 21 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds [10.00 GBP adv]
Wed 25 - Komedia, Brighton [12.00 GBP adv]
Thu 26 - Thekla, Bristol [12.00 GBP adv, Tickets available from seetickets.com (+ booking fee / handling charge)]
Fri 27 - Firestation Arts Centre, Windsor [10.00 GBP adv, 9.00 GBP conc / 8.00 GBP member]

2009 UK Tour Update

2009 UK winter tour update with prices

January

Sat 31 - The Met, Bury [10.00 GBP adv, 12.00 GBP door]

February

Mon 16 - Baby Blue, Liverpool [12.00 GBP adv / 15.00 GBP door - Buy online]
Sat 21 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds [10.00 GBP adv]
Wed 25 - Komedia, Brighton
Thu 26 - Thekla, Bristol
Fri 27 - Firestation Arts Centre, Windsor

A Tour for Winter

The first few dates of a 2009 UK winter tour by The Durutti Column have just been confirmed as follows:

January

Sat 31 - The Met, Bury [10.00 GBP adv, 12.00 GBP door]

February

Mon 16 - Baby Blue, Liverpool
Sat 21 - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds [10.00 GBP adv]
Wed 25 - Komedia, Brighton
Thu 26 - Thekla, Bristol
Fri 27 - Firestation Arts Centre, Windsor

Full details including ticket prices and timings to follow.

The band is looking to add more dates around the rest of the UK including Manchester and Scotland. The band is looking to add more dates around the rest of the UK including Manchester and Scotland. Interested promoters and/or venue managers should contact Damian @ Brave Music Agency.

Crossing The Border

The Durutti Column live at Queen Elizabeth Hall 23 March 1989

This press advert from the NME (25 February 1989) advertises a gig on 23 March 1989 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank in London as part of The Third Crossing The Border Festival. This was billed as "The only London concert by The Durutti Column (and support act Cowboy Junkies)".

A later NME article (25 March 1989) on the Crossing The Border Festival itself contains an inset feature by Jonathan Romney on The Durutti Column which reads:

"While doggedly carving out his path on the wilder frontiers, Skini Vini Reilly has unexpectedly become hero to a generation of Mobophiles. Lest we forget his own personal crusade, he's spent the last 10 years skilfully crafting a form of ambient music that delivers on Eno's original agenda. On his new Factory opus, 'Vini Reilly', the formula is even more precisely pared down, with sampled opera vocals woven into Reilly's delicate mix.

"Live he can be that self-effacing he's been paired with Cowboy Junkies, the only band capable of making him look like Twisted Sister."

Crossing The Border ran from Thursday 23rd to Monday 27th March 1989 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and also the Town and Country Club. Other acts taking part included Abdel Aziz el Mubarak, Boiled in Lead and Flaco Jimenez.

Live at Two Venues

The band broke a considerable live silence in Manchester in October with a gig at The Ruby Lounge as part of In The City. This was followed up last week with another show, this time with Rodrigo Leão, at The Barbican as part of the Atlantic Waves season.

Vini, Bruce, Keir and Poppy also played a 3-song session comprising a Poppy Morgan / Vini Reilly piano/guitar duet, Woman and Requiem for My Mother, for BBC 6Music.

Meanwhile, Vini has been working on a new album which should see the light of day next year.