The Durutti Column > Tempus Fugit > Tempus Fugit (promo)

Tempus Fugit; front cover detail
Tempus Fugit; front cover detail
Tempus Fugit; insert detail [1]
Tempus Fugit; insert detail [1]
Tempus Fugit; insert detail [2]
Tempus Fugit; insert detail [2]
Tempus Fugit; insert detail [3]
Tempus Fugit; insert detail [3]
Tempus Fugit; promotional postcard
Tempus Fugit; promotional postcard

Release date

April 2004

Tracklisting

Counting...
Shooting
Lullaby 4 Nina
Mystery
Guitar-Woman
Violence
Bollywood
Love song on Quattro
Tempus Fugit
The man who knows
Slipping away
Trip for an Opera
Untitled for You
Salford Harmonics
... shopping

Credits

All tracks written, performed and produced by Vini Reilly. Sleeve design and photography: Rachel McFarlane. Kookydisc 019 in association with thedurutticolumn.com. Manufactured in the United Kingdom. Distributed by Cargo. Kooky. PO Box 5188, Northampton NN1 4ZA.

Laurie Laptop - co-production: 'Lullaby...', 'Violence', 'Slipping Away', 'Untitled...', 'Salford'.
Keir Stewart - co-production: 'Bollywood'.
Jill Taylor - vocal harmonies: 'Shooting'
Gerard Keaney - lyrics: 'The Man...'
Mastered by Laurie Laptop

This album was mainly recorded on a Boss BR8 Portastudio.

Thanx to:
The one I love!
Bruce Mitchell and all his family for everything,
My Family,
Keir and Laurie - my band!???
Phil and Nicola Cleaver
Alex and Alison McMurtrie
Maggie and Ian
Les Thompson
My Mother for looking over me
Nat and Joe for a great present!
Howard Sharrocks
Michael Pitrick for hairstyling
Irene at 'Oklahoma'

Kooky would like to thank Vini, Bruce and the band for the music, Rachel for the artwork and Darren at Cargo for all his help.

Contact us at www.thedurutticolumn.com

Bruce Mitchell's sleevenotes

Duets with Vini Reilly

The kit always looks inviting and exciting before a performance - a piece of architecture, lit to climb into, and it sounds so much better with punters in front of it! I love to walk to the drums at showtime.

Some of the Durutti improvisations are tight-rope acts without net - Vini leaves gaps - where an echo suspends and he has stopped playing - the beat disappears - a silence holds the breath over stage and audience and spaces are left in the air that should not be disturbed... time hangs.

Until my nerve fails. I pick up the beat and Vin resumes with furious guitar to take control of his song.

Just to get through one of these pieces without fainting seems an achievement.

Being drunk helps.

Bruce Mitchell, Feb 2004

Vini Reilly's sleevenotes

This album only exists because you have bought it. The music only has any worth or place in the world because you are listening to it. The loyalty and tenacity you have shown is incredible. The music is as much yours as it is mine. You give me a role and a purpose in life I would otherwise not have had. You prevent the greedy and destructive world of the record industry from destroying me and you keep cynicism at bay. The only way I can repay such a gift is to persevere, until one day I do actually create a body of work worth your patience. If anyone feels this is over sentimental you are to be mistaken. All I am saying here is truthful and real. Everytime anyone listens to my music either on disc or at a gig it is an affirmation of my whole life and that is something no record company could ever put a price tag on.

Thank you.

Vini

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From the second official flyer (see below): "Out now! The much anticipated and critically acclaimed new studio album from The Durutti Column. Available mail order, £13.00 including p&p UK. Please add £0.50 Europe, £1.00 RoW. £ sterling cheques payable to: thedurutticolumn.com. For further information visit our website at: www.thedurutticolumn.com. Kooky, 2 Adams Close, Stanwick, Northants NN9 6TQ.

The Durutti Column's official website (www.thedurutticolumn.com) confirmed on 8 March 2004 that the new album 'Tempus Fugit' will comprise 14 acoustic tracks and will be released in April 2004. It will be available at The Durutti Column's shows in April and May.

Owners of Facd 164 'Valuable Passages' will recall that the words 'Tempus Fugit' (Time Flies) appear on the original 8vo artwork.

'Lullaby 4 Nina' is a track from The Treatise On The Steppenwolf that has featured in many live sets recently. 'Guitar-Woman' is a rockier version of 'Woman' from Someone Else's Party.

Tempus Fugit; second promotional postcard
Tempus Fugit; second promotional postcard

Tempus Fugit (promo-only cd)

Tempus Fugit promo cd; front cover detail
Tempus Fugit promo cd; front cover detail
Tempus Fugit promo cd; label detail
Tempus Fugit promo cd; label detail

Credits

Artist: the durutti column
Title: tempus fugit
Release: May/June 2004
Further information: Phil Cleaver
Label: Kooky in association with thedurutticolumn.com
Cat No: kookydisc 019
Distribution: Cargo Records Darren 0207 732 5125

Tracklisting

Counting...
Shooting
Lullaby 4 Nina
Mystery
Guitar-Woman
Violence
Bollywood
Love song on Quattro
Tempus Fugit
The man who knows
Slipping away
Trip for an Opera
Untitled for You
Salford Harmonics
... shopping

All tracks written, performed and produced by Vini Reilly

Sleeve design and photography: rachel mcfarlane

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Promo-only cd of album in custom card sleeve. Marked 'Promotional only - not for resale'. Thanks to Andrea Bianco for media.