DURUTTI COLUMN - The Return Of The Durutti Column

Item Description

Vinyl, , No Spray-paint
LP Album

Housed in a sleeve made of sandpaper but apparently with flexi-disc.

The sandpaper cover comes in various editions (quantity uncertain, either 2,000 or 3,600 copies altogether):
1. With spray-painted FACT 14 in black
2. With spray-painted FACT 14 in white
3. With spray-painted title in black
4. Without spray-paint (this).

Recorded over three days in August 1979 on 8-track equipment at Cargo, Rochdale.
Mixed at Strawberry, Stockport.
Published by Movement of 24th. January Music.
A Factory Records Product
℗© 1979

Thanks also to Gammer for his melody and Rowbotham, Reid and Debord for the marketing concept.

It was Tony Wilson who had the idea for the cover, following Situationist Guy Debord's book "Mémoires" also wrapped in sandpaper to destroy the adjacent books. Gammer refers to N.H. Gammer, founder of Gammer And His Familiars, Reilly's first band. Rowbotham refers to Dave Rowbotham, the former DC founder and guitarist. Reid refers to Jamie Reid, who apparently wanted to title the first Sex Pistols album "Where's the Durutti Column?"

The covers were assembled by Joy Division, A Certain Ratio and others. While Ian Curtis did the glueing, the other members of Joy Division watched a porn movie in the same room.

In 'D' is in fact another version of Sketch For Winter.

Reissued in July 1980 with a black picture sleeve but without flexi.