An Introduction to The Durutti Column [London Records promo, LC77554]

CD: UK 30.07.2026 (London Records, LC77554)

Tracklisting

1. Liars
2. Jacqueline
3. A Little Mercy
4. Prayer
5. Arpeggiator
6. Otis
7. Sing to Me
8. Anthony
9. Sketch For Summer
10. For Belgian Friends

Credits

Taken from:

1. Renascent (2026) 2. LC (1981) 3. Without Mercy (1984) 4. Another Setting (1983) 5. The Guitar and Other Machines (1987) 6. Vini Reilly (1989) 7. Time was GIGANTIC... When we were kids 1998) 8. Sex and Death (1994) 9. The Return of The Durutti Column (1980).

With thanks to James Nice.

thedurutticolumn.com

LONDON RECORDS
londonrecords.co.uk

This compilation (P) & © 2026 London Records Ltd. LC77554. All rights of the producer of the recorded work reserved.

Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this record prohibited.

Manufactured in the Czech Republic. For promotional use only. LMS0042.

Notes

Free promotional sampler CD given away at listening parties on 30 July 2026 for the launch of the Renascent album.

The Return of The Durutti Column [45th Anniversary Edition, London Records 2CD]

CD: 28.11.2025 [London Records, LMS1725575]

Tracklisting

CD1 1. Sketch For Summer
2. Requiem for a Father
3. Katherine
4. Conduct
5. Untitled
6. Beginning
7. Jazz
8. Sketch for Winter
9. Collette
10. In 'D'
11. Lips That Would Kiss
12. Madeleine
13. Experiment in Fifth (Graveyard Studio Demo)
14. The First Aspect Of The Same Thing (Martin Hannett ft. Vini Reilly)
15. The Second Aspect Of The Same Thing (Martin Hannett ft. Vini Reilly)
16. Piece For An Ideal
17. Sleep Will Come

CD2

1. No Communication
2. Thin Ice
3. Won't Look Out (Gammer and His Familiars ft. Vini Reilly)
4. Intervals (Home Recording -1978)
5. Katharine (Home Recording -1978)
6. Untitled (Home Recording -1978)
7. Conduct (Home Recording -1978)
8. I’m a Face (Studio Demo – 1980)
9. Sketch for Summer (Studio Demo – 1980)
10. Requiem for a Father ((Studio Demo – 1980)
11. Madeleine (Studio Demo – 1980)
12. Katharine (Studio Demo – 1980)
13. Lindsay (Studio Demo – 1980)
14. For Belgian Friends (Studio Demo – 1980)
15. Detail for Annik (Live – Leeds Polytechnic 1980)
16. Sketch for Summer (Live – Leeds Polytechnic 1980)
17. Requiem for a Father (Live – Leeds Polytechnic 1980)
18. Conduct (Live – Brussels 1981)
19. Self Portrait (Live – Brussels 1981)
20. For Belgian Friends (Live – Brussels 1981)
21. Sketch for Summer (Live – Brussels 1981)

Notes

2025 marks 45 years since the release of The Durutti Column’s landmark album The Return Of The Durutti Column. To celebrate, London Records announces a very special reissue of the seminal Manchester band’s 1980 debut, set for release on 28 November 2025 and available for pre-order now at the official Durutti Column online store.

The Return Of The Durutti Column remains one of Factory's most enduring and important works: fragile, otherworldly, and quietly radical. Produced by Martin Hannett, it showcased Vini Reilly’s distinctive, delicate guitar work against Hannett’s ambient textures, post-punk reverb and glacial electronics.

The 45th Anniversary Edition is available in several formats:

The Deluxe Sandpaper LP, replicating the rare first pressing and limited to 500 numbered copies worldwide. Each sleeve has been spray-painted by hand with the original catalogue number, FACT 14. This edition includes a unique printed inner sleeve featuring an essay by Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, housed inside a protective outer cover.

The Standard Edition LP, replicating the second pressing, commonly known as the ‘Dufy’ sleeve (after a featured triptych of images by French painter Jean Dufy), with the outer sleeve printed on the same textured card as the 1980 version. The inner sleeve features an essay by Durutti Column/Factory Records expert James Nice. Rough Trade will stock a unique pressing of this edition as part of their Essentials range, pressed on black-and-white marbled vinyl and limited to 500 copies (with bonus sandpaper postcard) from here.

All vinyl editions have been remastered from the original source tapes, recently rediscovered in a Stockport warehouse, and cut at half-speed for maximum audio fidelity. The tracklisting includes the original album plus 'Untitled' (featured on later iterations), alongside two further tracks: 'Lips That Would Kiss' and 'Madeleine', both originally issued on Factory Records’ Belgian sister label Factory Benelux in autumn 1980.

The Expanded Hardback Book Edition is a 2CD, 38-track collection housed in a tall storybook format with a 48-page booklet. Alongside essays from James Nice and Bobby Gillespie, this edition also includes a new piece by Mojo journalist Ian Harrison. The expanded audio features the vinyl tracklisting plus material from the 1980 bonus flexidisc Testcard, first recordings, studio and home demos, live performances, and several previously unreleased tracks. The artwork reflects the special 1985 boxed cassette edition (part of Factory’s series alongside releases from Joy Division, New Order and A Certain Ratio) and is printed on authentically sourced paper stock.

The first 500 orders from the official store received an exclusive bonus CD, Lost Songs and Sketches, featuring early live recordings and a rare 1981 audio interview with Vini Reilly.

The Return of The Durutti Column 45th Anniversary Edition [London Records LP]

LP: 28.11.2025 [London Records, LMS1725576, regular edition]
LP: 28.11.2025 [London Records, LMS1725583, sandpaper edition]
LP: 28.11.2025 [London Records, LMS1725584, Rough Trade Essentials Edition w/ Black & White Marble Vinyl]

Tracklisting

Side One

1. Sketch For Summer
2. Requiem for a Father
3. Katherine
4. Conduct

Side Two

1. Untitled
2. Beginning
3. Jazz
4. Sketch for Winter
5. Collette
6. In ‘D’
7. Lips That Would Kiss
8. Madeleine

Notes

2025 marks 45 years since the release of The Durutti Column’s landmark album The Return Of The Durutti Column. To celebrate, London Records announces a very special reissue of the seminal Manchester band’s 1980 debut, set for release on 28 November 2025 and available for pre-order now at the official Durutti Column online store.

The Return Of The Durutti Column remains one of Factory's most enduring and important works: fragile, otherworldly, and quietly radical. Produced by Martin Hannett, it showcased Vini Reilly’s distinctive, delicate guitar work against Hannett’s ambient textures, post-punk reverb and glacial electronics.

The 45th Anniversary Edition is available in several formats:

The Deluxe Sandpaper LP, replicating the rare first pressing and limited to 500 numbered copies worldwide. Each sleeve has been spray-painted by hand with the original catalogue number, FACT 14. This edition includes a unique printed inner sleeve featuring an essay by Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, housed inside a protective outer cover.

The Standard Edition LP, replicating the second pressing, commonly known as the ‘Dufy’ sleeve (after a featured triptych of images by French painter Jean Dufy), with the outer sleeve printed on the same textured card as the 1980 version. The inner sleeve features an essay by Durutti Column/Factory Records expert James Nice. Rough Trade will stock a unique pressing of this edition as part of their Essentials range, pressed on black-and-white marbled vinyl and limited to 500 copies (with bonus sandpaper postcard) from here.

All vinyl editions have been remastered from the original source tapes, recently rediscovered in a Stockport warehouse, and cut at half-speed for maximum audio fidelity. The tracklisting includes the original album plus 'Untitled' (featured on later iterations), alongside two further tracks: 'Lips That Would Kiss' and 'Madeleine', both originally issued on Factory Records’ Belgian sister label Factory Benelux in autumn 1980.

The first 500 orders from the official store received an exclusive bonus CD, Lost Songs and Sketches, featuring early live recordings and a rare 1981 audio interview with Vini Reilly.

'Vini Reilly' [London Records, Record Store Day 2024]

LP: UK 20.04.2024 (London Records, LMS1725126 / Fact 244)

Tracklisting

Side One

1. Love No More
2. Pol in G
3. Act I Opera
4. People’s Pleasure Park
5. Finding the Sea

Side Two

1. Otis
2. They Work Every Day
3. Act II
4. Opera
5. Homage to Catalonea
6. My Country

Notes

35th Anniversary edition of the seminal 1989 album. The album is presented in the famous (and as to now unseen) ‘rejected’ sleeve by 8vo. Produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries, New Order). Vinyl mastered by Peter Beckmann at Technology Works. Numbered, limited edition (2000 copies) exclusive to Record Store Day 2024.

Greetings from S.G.V. The Greetings LP [RSD 2024, Lantern Records]

LP: IT 20.04.2024 (Lantern Records/Materiali Sonori, LANR045)

Tracklisting / Credits

Side A

BLAINE L. REININGER - GREETINGS ONE

1. JAPANESE DREAM
2. BISMALLAH

Performed & composed by BLAINE L. REININGER
Clarinet on BISMALLAH by STEVEN BROWN
Engineered by FRANK LIEVAART for SOUNDWORKS - BRUXELLES

STOCKHOLM MONSTERS - GREETINGS TWO

1. PARTY LINE
2. MILITIA
3. DUMBSTRUCK

Performed by

TONI FRANCE - KARL FRANCE - JOHN RHODES - SHAN HIRA

Recorded at SUITE 16 STUDIOS - ROCHDALE
Engineered by SHAN HIRA & C. J.
Produced & composed by STOCKHOLM MONSTERS

Side B

THE DURUTTI COLUMN - GREETINGS THREE

1. FLORENCE SUNSET (V. Reilly) 5:50
2. ALL THAT LOVE AND MATHS CAN DO (V. Reilly - J. Metcalfe) 3:33
3. SAN GIOVANNI DAWN (V. Reilly) 3:55
4. FOR FRIENDS IN ITALY (V. Reilly) 4:35
Performed by

VINI REILLY - JOHN METCALFE - BRUCE MITCHELL
Recorded at CRIMSON STUDIO - MANCHESTER
All songs written and produced by VINI REILLY
Except 'ALL THAT LOVE...' by VINI REILLY and JOHN METCALFE

Notes

GREETING5 FROM S.G.V.

Originally Released by Materiali Sonori in 1987
® 2024 Lantern Records
www.lanterneditions.com

LANTERN REC materiali sonori

Project by GIAMPIERO BIGAZZI

"Overdue re-issue of the first three 12” in the record series dedicated to musicians who took part to the Greetings festival. It happened in 1987, it was time for Materiali Sonori 10th anniversary, an historic goal for the label/collective born in the small Tuscany village of San Giovanni Valdarno. The small celebration brought to life a box collecting the first 3 Eps of the Greetings from S.G.V. series. The series was intended as symbolic sound postcard, made with various musicians with whom the collective label shared a path, whether small or long. The Durutti Column, The Stockholm Monsters and Blaine R. Reininger (Tuxedomoon) are among the artist who took part to the project, here collected for the very first time. Lantern is pleased to pay tribute to the work of people whose passion, attitude, commitment and genuineness inspired this adventure still true to these days. “Our presence in this small tuscan town is almost casual… physically we were born and grew up here, while our hearts and our minds were travelling to Paris, Berlin, Brussels, New York or London”" (Giampiero Bigazzi of Materiali Sonori, taken from the original inner sleeves notes).