Vini Reilly’s first album, The Return Of The Durutti Column (1981), was more notorious for its sandpaper sleeve than the music contained therein. The sleeve was a Factory Records joke, designed to destroy neighbouring LPs.
Follow-up album LC released the same year and named for an Italian leftist slogan meaning “continuous struggle” was recorded by Reilly in just seven hours on a four-track machine bought from fellow North-western guitarist Bill Nelson.
Featuring sparing use of piano and beats by sympatico drummer Bruce Mitchell and a rhythm box, the album contained songs such as Jacqueline, Messidor and Ian Curtis tribute The Missing Boy which brought a meditative, melodic splendour that simultaneously encompassed the melancholy and life-affirming.
Dave Rowbotham was accidentally killed in January 1992.
Vini Reilly Guitar Dave Rowbotham Guitar Bruce Mitchell Percussion Tony Bowers Bass Phil Rainford Vocals Peter Crooks Bass Philip ‘Toby’ Tomanov Drums Bruce Mitchell Percussion Mervyn Fletcher Saxophone Chris Joyce Drums Tim Kellett Trumpet Maunagh Fleming Cor Anglais
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