DURUTTI COLUMN - The Return Of The Durutti Column

Item Description

Vinyl,
LP Album

First issue housed in a sleeve made of sandpaper and with flexi-disc.

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.

Runouts are all etched.

Additional notes:
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 (this)
2. With spray-painted FACT 14 in white
3. With spray-painted [url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Durutti-Column-The-Return-Of-The-Durutti-Column/release/3864468]title in black[/url]
4. [url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Durutti-Column-The-Return-Of-The-Durutti-Column/release/12749403]Without spray-paint[/url]

It was Tony Wilson who had the idea for the cover, following Situationist [a=Guy Debord]'s book "Mémoires" also wrapped in sandpaper to destroy the adjacent books. Gammer refers to [url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1270778-Gammer-2]N.H. Gammer[/url], founder of [a=Gammer And His Familiars], Reilly's first band. Rowbotham refers to [a=David Rowbotham], the former DC founder and guitarist. Reid refers to [a=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.