The opening track on their debut album ‘The Return Of The Durutti Column’, and a track that I will always associate with Dave Hoey’s bedroom on Earlston Rd, Wallasey. ‘Sketch For Summer’ really shaped the template from which all Durutti Column compositions would evolve. The nucleus being Vini Reilly’s heart-wrenching guitar plucking. This music ran counter to most of what I was listening to at the time. However, while it existed in a self-perpetuating ecosystem of its own making, it was there to bridge genres and feelings and open one up to the endless possibilities of harmony and art. “The name was derived from a misspelling of the Durruti Column, an anarchist military unit in the Spanish Civil War, named after Buenaventura Durruti.” And at our tender ages this added dimension fascinated us as much as the music. I was lucky enough to see them live, at The Warehouse in Liverpool in the early 80s, and the crowd was very much like me. Kids who had started out being inspired by punk but had gone on to branch out into new things. Vini Reilly was recently interviewed by The Guardian, and it’s well worth you time. Here.
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