The Durutti Column – Vini Reilly (Remaster/Expanded) (2011)

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News in from thedurutticolumn.com and Kooky Records:
Kooky Records will be re-releasing the seminal Durutti Column album Vini Reilly in Spring 2011.
It will consist of two discs: the original album re-mastered by Keir Stewart and a nine-track bonus disc of unheard studio out-takes from a session TDK tape which has been in the possession of Vini and not played for many years!
The album will, however, be available on a strictly limited pre-sale basis direct from Kooky via thedurutticolumn.com and kookydisc.co.uk .
Please note there will only be a limited amount sold via this method and it is being sold on a strictly first come first served basis. We can therefore not reserve any copies.

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.