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LC by The Durutti Column is Sapphic!

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In his first interview in a decade, the Durutti Column’s hermit-like leader, once described as ‘the best guitarist in the world’, relives his extraordinary life from Manchester gangs to Factory Records.

Vini Reilly  *August 4, 1953

Vini Reilly

I love The Durutti Column, but part of me wishes that Vini Reilly had stayed a punk guitarist on the side or something. He's so fucking good on this.

Five Things, Saturday, August 5th

Some thoughts on A.I., Sinead O’Connor, Marvin Gaye, Vini Reilly, Serge Gainsbourg and The Parsons/White B-Bender.

THE INTRONow we’re all getting fully signed up to the future — it’s Philip K. Dick’s world after all, we just live in it — this week, Five Things touches on A.I., a spooked and possessed Marvin Gaye song, a world of music newly discovered, a video that is so French it should be required viewing at Customs and an extraordinary guitar modification. The saddest news was the passing of Sinead…

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Sounds That Have Been Made, EP 73: Durutti Column, live in Porto 1988

Vini Reilly, with his idiosyncratic guitar playing, and penchant for adventurously eclectic composition, is for reasons I’m not entirely sure, quite popular historically in Portugal. I mean, some of the more melancholic, minor key cascades of his guitar certainly could appeal to the people for whom Fado is a thing, it’s but one facet of an otherwise strange musical entity. His most famous…

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cool little song i found...

i hate my memories

“Reilly is dismissive about his own music. “When I listen back to it, it’s boring,” he says. “It’s done. I’ve already expressed everything I needed to when I was playing it.” I tell him that a colleague told me they wanted the 1989 track Otis playing at their funeral. “Give him my apologies,” he laughs, before downplaying the beauty of the track, in which sparkling guitar swirls around dreamy vocal samples from Tracy Chapman and Otis Redding. “It was just messing about.”

“Nonetheless, his music continues to resonate today. You’ll hear the Durutti Column in acclaimed TV shows such as Master of None or the second series of The Bear, and he has been streamed tens of millions of times on Spotify. “He’s not interested,” Mitchell tells me later in the pub. “I’ll show him on a laptop, but he’s not fired up – he’s sort of detached.”

“Has he made peace with the idea of detaching himself permanently from an instrument that has been a lifelong extension of himself? “Yeah,” he says, breezily. “I’m 71 next year. I began playing when I was 11 – that’s 60 years. That’s long enough. I’m lucky I’ve made it this far and I’ve had an amazing life.”

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A-T-3 223 Anne Clark - Changing Places

Anne Clark's second album Changing Places is split along two collaborations. Side A are performed with electronic musician David Harrow who Anne Clark produces her next couple of albums with. This side generates two landmark tracks Wallies (that sounds like proto-Pet Shop Boys) and Sleeper In Metropolis. All the tracks on Side B of Changing Places are with Vini Reilly, the whole side is wonderful, if you're a fan of Vini Reilly I recommend checking out all five tracks. I'm just going to share one

Anne Clark with Vini Reilly - Pandora's Box

Anne Clark with David Harrow - Wallies

Anne Clark with David Harrow - Sleeper In Metropolis this is the slightly longer, slightly punchier remix version that came out in 1984