The Durutti Column mark a return to live activity with a special one-off show at the “Bridgewater Hall” in Manchester on Saturday April 30, 2011. On this occasion they will premiere their long-awaited biographical album ‘Chronicle’. The album itself contains fourteen tracks and comes with a booklet of Vini Reilly’s photographs. The sleeve design is by Trevor Johnson and Haider Mundi. The album will initially be sold exclusively at the Bridgewater Hall as a special pre-release CD available with a ticket at the show.
The Durutti Column played a two-set gig at the prestigious Bridgewater Hall on Saturday. With a prompt start promised (nearly) everyone filed into the auditorium for the first set by the designated 7.30pm start time. However, it was some 25 minutes later before the band appeared quietly on stage and without a word being spoken launched into a selection of new material from the Chronicle album.
The core Durutti unit of Vini Reilly (guitar, cuatro, Rhodes, piano), Bruce Mitchell (drums, percussion) and Keir Stewart (guitar, marimbas) were occasionally augmented by Laurie Laptop (electronics) and Poppy Morgan (piano).
