The Durutti Column
Sporadic Three

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With an ever expanding line-up featuring piano, glockenspiel, melodica, viola and percussion, their chaotic live sets and peculiarly English take on Americana have earned them a small but devoted following having toured with the Broken Family Band last year. The album was recorded for next to nothing in a spare room in the suburbs of Cambridge. On the album, several tracks are complemented by a string quartet. They had to be recorded in a school hThe Durutti Column is Vini Reilly and Bruce Mitchell. In a career spanning the past four decades, and over 25 albums, they have written and performed as one of Manchester’s most influential and prolific acts from their beginnings as Factory Records first signing to their fifth and latest album release on Kooky. ‘Sporadic Three’, released this spring, is the third in a series of special collections some 16 years since the original ‘Sporadic Recordings’. As highlighted over his long and illustrious career, Vini Reilly is a prolific songwriter. Ideas and tracks just fly from Vini, and he’s currently in the form of his life. Unfortunately, most of these tracks, or initial versions of songs, never make it to final release. The basic idea then behind The Sporadic Recordings series is to release material that never makes it onto studio albums. This collection follows the same premise and contains new and exclusive tracks, outtakes, versions, and home demos. Reilly’s off cuts contain more ideas than most of us have over the course of a lifetime. A key interest for Durutti Column fans lies around the listener being able to hear a re-work, adaptation or different instrumentation used by Reilly as he regularly re-visits music from the past. The music of The Durutti Column has been commissioned for films such as ‘Jerry Maguire’ and ‘Requiem Again’, in addition to various works for television. Morrissey chose Vini Reilly to play and write on his first solo album ‘Viva Hate’. The other two collections ‘The Sporadic Recordings’ and ‘Return of the Sporadic Recordings’ have sold out within a matter of weeks as they have large appeal within his worldwide fan base of admirers. The coming year sees more headline shows in the UK (tba) following dates in Spain and Italy during April to promote its release.  all, because they wouldn’t all fit into the studio.