Durutti Column - The Missing Boy (Live 1984)

DURUTTI COLUMN - The Missing Boy
The Durutti Column are an English post-punk band formed in 1978 in Manchester, England.[2] The band is an ongoing project of guitarist (and occasional pianist) Vini Reilly who is often accompanied by drummer Bruce Mitchell and Keir Stewart (on bass, keyboards and harmonica).
Chris Ott summed up Vini Reilly in 2003: "Friend to Ian Curtis and New Order, a borderline New Age celebrity within European muso circles and the creative force behind much of Morrissey's Viva Hate, Vini Reilly has unleashed untold volumes of music over the last twenty-five years. Delving into modern classical composition with 1984's Without Mercy, his low-key reputation as an independent auteur was cemented with 1989's Vini Reilly, a masterpiece recorded in just twenty days' time after finishing Viva Hate with Morrissey and Stephen Street."[3]
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[@No-to4id]

Bruce looks like he's in a trance watching Vini. Two absolute legends.

[@noneinparticular2338]

He has been the meaning of happiness in my life for many moons now :-)

[@caroltee6994]

They are❤

[@RobertEustace]

Absolutely love Bruce Mitchell's presence and lifetime contributions toward the Durutti Column and what he does personally for Vini Reilly (in terms of management and simply 'moving him about')... Bruce' playing style is so 'utterly unique'! He doesn't rehearse the music - but rather 'he feels every beat' and is always spot on... I liken Bruce's approach to 'European (French) Jazz Cabaret Drumming'...

[@maccha6497]

40数年ずっと探してたやつ見つけた😭✨✨これこれこれこれ！！！

[@ediklau]

I discovered Durrutti Column and Vini Reilly within pandemia lockdown and Spotify. Amazing guitar and composer and drummer Bruce Mitchell.

[@trapezoidspangle934]

Good for you. Do you know of John Martyn?

[@ediklau]

@@trapezoidspangle934 just that he's singer or musician. Folk music?

[@trapezoidspangle934]

@@ediklau yes , singer , guitarist Folk but so much more. Try the album ‘One World’. There’s some great live stuff on KZbin. Amazing. You can see influence on Vini Reilly Enjoy.

[@hudsonquay]

Bruce was drummer in Albertos Y Los Trios Paranoias before Durutti Column. A parody punk band that was actually better than most of the bands they were sending up! He's a great Mancunian character who went on to found Manchester Light & Stage Co. He got used to get me on the guest list for many gigs and clubs when I was 16. Getting on Hacienda guest list as a 16 year old in 1990 was really something.

[@trapezoidspangle934]

@@hudsonquay wow! That’s so cool. Bruce does seem like quite a character.

[@keithbentley6081]

Been playing this on a loop all night.

[@deprofaan9353]

Unbelievable, this performance. Can’t describe, legend.

[@pabloid8884]

so true! Just two of them/! god..

[@nicomedy2010]

happy belated bday Vincent Gerard "Vini" Reilly (68, Aug 4) ;-)

[@rhinorecords4716]

This is a song Vini Reilly wrote for Joy Divisions Ian Curtis a year after his suicide.

[@silviawp08]

oh I didn't know... Thanks

[@fabionick4230]

If you now read the lyrics they will be clearer

[@fabionick4230]

I believe there is some kind of critique to New Order too (... “same old order” ...). I think I read something about it too.

[@fugamantew]

@@fabionick4230 I believe this song was written before “New Order” was formed, could be wrong.

[@andreasglaesel3811]

one of the most underrated drummers ever

[@josephyearwood1179]

Underhail!

[@larssandvik1347]

One of the most underrated bands ever. I discovered this as a 12 year old I was really big in to new order at the time and I was perplexed at the music store in 1984 at a record stamped with the factory logo. I bought one to try and I never looked back.

[@karenwallace7318]

Absolutely xx

[@karenwallace7318]

Absolutely he is the best I have ever heard ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Hai7273]

This band sucks

[@Thenocturnalflowers]

To me very unassuming, in their prime and their finest moment. There is so much more happening between Vinny and Bruce by means of interaction in this live song than the ear and instruments would suggest. Just one festival, one moment in time and a priceless memory of two of the greatest ever musicians killing it whilst at the top of their game. Credit to in the skill taken capturing the cinematography. Thank you for this memory.

[@AbrahamMeat]

Vini: I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.

[@msuranio235]

I can't get tired of hearing, I can't get tired of watching, the great Vini, Mitchell's catharsis, wonderful!!!

[@ald7248]

Love the drum beat in this song.

[@mariojorgecaeiro]

The rhythm of a train

[@1upliftmofopartyplan]

I want to be as happy as the drummer is at 5 minutes in, he looks so full of bliss and comfortable

[@joncar7811]

Rip Ian🖤

[@kaoduil]

What a joy.

[@downmer]

i call it: masterpiece

[@coolairheights]

What this video doesn't show is before this song vini said now this is in remembrance of a great man Ian curtis and I don't want any of you guys to move at all... don't even blink... hey you stop moving....ok let's begin..

[@celiaayneto9232]

Wow

[@josephprescott440]

The song that can be put at the end of a Bourne movie. Nothing but pure art and talent.

[@davidjones6262]

Love....I can't believe that I haven't heard this song for a long while...I'm in n my 50s and am selling my record collecting... and I can't believe how great it's gone.... don't want to yap too much.... but looking through my LPs and other 12 inch records....came across The Durutti Column.... Valuable Passages....looked at the songs and knew that I had to hear this.... freaking...I never saw them... but they did a great job on this live!

[@1oelnie901]

beautiful.

[@wayne44ful]

great version

[@lancashirebomber9744]

bloody lovely

[@richardday5015]

BRILLIANCE 🙏🏽 Vini 🙏🏽

[@rickw.6401]

remember john peel playing this way back in the early 80's, really trippy, superb.

[@alado21]

ese baterista si que es alucinante, disfrutando realmente de lo que hace

[@danielbelton3716]

So hypnotic with the drums too, my geetar hero

[@lydhavet-music]

4:24 to 6:50 is just magical guitar and drums

[@Artifacts187]

takes me to another place

[@feliperaurich]

Tremenda canción y tema . ¡ Insuperable !!!

[@carmperez-castrillon7058]

Me encantan ,y sobre todo está canción

[@onjackjones]

❤ one of my favourite songs.

[@Theo-vb2vr]

Best band from Manchester .

[@mkraulis]

Terrific drumming.

[@hajhaj99]

this is amazing

[@celiaayneto9232]

From 04:30 best two minutes since long! Sublime editing and filming ❤️ Such a live wonderfulness...

[@patrickkever706]

great song

[@silviawp08]

Amazing...

[@cffalconer]

Please wait for 5.07 when Bruce the drummer has a giggle with himself i watched this nearly 40 years ago in 1981

[@silviawp08]

thank you for the tip :) Loved to see it now

[@joseantonioalonso9904]

Temazo, la batería tiene un ritmo brutal y el riff de la guitarra es adictivo! La prefiero a la versión del disco,gracias por compartir!

[@BIPA86]

Tal cual, majo.

[@stevendphoto]

Ian Curtis is the Missing Boy...!

[@themindcharmer8808]

Thanks for the upload, what a great footage... Vini sounds so much like Gottsching... Cheers!!!

[@ald7248]

I've always admired Reni's drumming - but I'll go to my grave believing that Bruce Mitchell is the finest drummer to have ever come out of Manchester. 4:48 and what follows is amazing and it's clear that Bruce enjoys playing it as much as I enjoy listening to it.

[@Artifacts187]

i love this song

[@sacredsoma]

Durutti column's own tube channel says this concert took place in 1981

[@croiners4166]

Incredible!

[@alexandrossakkas8969]

Στην λευκη με αγαπη αλεξανδρος 1991 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@sarnialvarez]

it makes me cry

[@kennysmith605]

only occasional can I handle the hurt of this thing of beauty. touched.

[@videovedo36]

Me too. Sometimes I put it on and immediately stop it, 'cause it's too much, I need to be really on good spirits to listen to it. It's so beautiful.

[@carmperez-castrillon7058]

Yes

[@baronblimey]

Sad that the audience didn't realise this was musical history in the making........

[@keithbentley6081]

I've seen them a few times, I always felt Vinnie/s music is too intelligent for a concert setting.

[@camhealey96]

@@keithbentley6081 wish he’d do a show now though

[@celiaayneto9232]

Kind of, yeah

[@karenwallace7318]

Both brilliant

[@frankieinc.702]

Capolavoro

[@trapezoidspangle934]

Do they know how lucky they are? The audience I mean. They look either bemused or stunned or both.

[@Ruaidhrimac]

6'20". Fab Vini

[@Logosnellanebbia]

Today is a special day for it....

[@dhfgfbfv1187]

Two aces

[@vilefiend9603]

Dead still crowd. I'm swaying my hips sitting up in bed to that drumbeat.

[@user-tc2ng4zm4c]

This version is so fucking good.

[@cffalconer]

1981 when this concert happened

[@wunderdoggy]

where?

[@jrmetmoi]

@@wunderdoggy in Finland

[@mickeybaumann]

3:58... what timing....

[@crapitoutjim]

Mickey Baumann ...aaah, yawn...

[@mickeybaumann]

3:57... roadie comes...

[@cffalconer]

Loved it and wait for him smiling later

[@kelzuya]

That drummer is giving it socks

[@hayleyliam]

Does anybody know the name of the video tape this is from. I seem to remember it was a festival. I think it was an Ikon FCL production.

[@Roblu-k6u]

You gotta make the guitar dance

[@NECHOII]

*1981*

[@liamevans1630]

This is from 1981, not 1984

[@wunderdoggy]

where?

[@liamevans1630]

Finland. This vid was on YT years back from another poster, who clearly identified it as that time and place.

[@NECHOII]

*THIS IS FROM 1982! (at least that's when IKON FCL released it.)*

[@Huegelmann]

Please turn off this video stabilizer!

[@christophermorgan3261]

about ian curtis

[@downmer]

the snare eand the ton have the same sound?

[@michelcollet]

Woodstock in Finland

[@davidsomerset]

You cut off the last note.

[@johnnycochicken]

I don't see any versions that aren't cut off

[@nemo9777]

Does someone know what was the event where this live has been recorded ?

[@raimoe.tikkanen4289]

Yes. I was there. The live gig happened in Kaivopuisto park, Helsinki, Finland on 26th of July in 1984. It was a very warm Sunday Afternoon. Cheers!

[@raimoe.tikkanen4289]

Sorry, the year was 1981.😂

[@mickeybaumann]

...bruce under drugs......happy !

[@liamevans1630]

Magic seeing him, innit?

[@gouvyrock]

can we find this live on cd ?

[@claudimi6610]

Voll heiß in der ☀️ 6:43 km. KI

[@tinylittlevampire]

What did the roadie ask him at 3:57?

[@andreasglaesel3811]

"Is it okay uploading this on youtube ?"

[@doyouknow2107]

so jealous of that mic

[@alexrose9487]

uugh, fucking amazing 10/10 anyone know who the bass player was ?

[@OlliesTreasures]

Keir Stewart ?

[@alexrose9487]

@@OlliesTreasures thank you, x

[@johnnycochicken]

I don't think there was one? Vini does a fingerstyle technique where he plucks "bass" notes with his thumb

[@sebastianandresfernandez7112]

And the piano????

[@wilfred3751]

Would love to see this gentleman with a short, back and sides haircut.

[@eduardoteodorobracamonteal397]

Shaggy Scooby

[@rael1999]

Shame Durutti never brought a singer in because they wrote some great stuff. Vini should have concentrated at what hie was brilliant at, playing guitar and left the vocals to someone else.

[@gertjelken424]

So schade Ian..die 80er hätten dir gefallen.

[@joaosilvasilva2432]

AS REGRAS E AS LEIS NÃO PODEM SER APLICADAS POR CRIMINOSOS ISSO ERA A PIDE ,,,,,

[@MiniBikeDevil]

Bands like Joy Division, Durruti Column, Guided by Voices, and Big Star are just ripping off Death Cab for Cutie.

[@johnnycochicken]

lmao

[@KomackinoA]

Vini looks like Novak Djokovic with a moptop wig in this vid.

[@trapezoidspangle934]

Great drums but mixed way too loud.

[@julietteverschuren4433]

..don't think so🙂..

[@thisisnotausername]

Disagree.

[@trapezoidspangle934]

@@julietteverschuren4433 love the drummer but just bit more guitar in mix.

[@VividBliz]

Beautiful White England

[@paulbevan5389]

It's Finland. 😂

[@paulbevan5389]

KZbin comments: where you're never very far from a racist.

[@FilaMan74]

@@paulbevan5389 or grammar Nazis.

[@albeato2112]

Is it me but schizophrenia by sonic youth seems it was ripped off by this song

[@sebastianodelleva]

I do not want to be the guy pointing out basic timeframes, but this song was composed in early 1981 (this gig is from that summer) as a tribute to Ian Curtis, the Joy Division's singer from their same music label, who killed himself in 1980. Sonic Youth schizophrenia was released in1987, 6 years later. I do not believe in ripping off, when we are just a combination of influences, although sometimes it's just plagiarism and not inspiration from. But if anyone ripped off someone, it's Sonic Youth.

[@johnnycochicken]

@@sebastianodelleva I assume that's what Alberto meant, and that he meant "from" rather than "by"

[@josephyearwood1179]

Every single one of them a crypto Jew.

[@mkoschara]

Amazing.