Manchester乐队，核心人物是Vini Reilly，1953出生，10开始学习吉他，早先热爱民谣和爵士，后来被punk movement所感染，加入了一支叫做Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds的乐队。1978年受Factory Records的创立人Tony Wilson所邀签约该厂牌，并组建了The Durutti Column。乐队的名称来自于西班牙内战时期的一个著名无政府主义领袖Buenaventura Durruti。最早乐队成员有五人，后因为各种原因相继离开，最后只剩下了Vini Reilly一个人，他对于音乐的追寻和探索直到今天仍在继续。 \r by Jason Ankeny\r The Durutti Column was primarily the vehicle of Vini Reilly, a guitarist born in Manchester, England in 1953. As a child, Reilly first took up the piano, drawing inspiration from greats like Art Tatum and Fats Waller, before learning to play guitar at the age of ten. Despite an early affection for folk and jazz, Reilly ultimately became swept up by the punk movement, and in 1977 he joined the group Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds.\r \r In 1978, Factory Records founder Tony Wilson invited Reilly to join a group dubbed the Durutti Column, the name inspired by the Spanish Civil War anarchist Buenaventura Durruti and a Situationists Internationale comic strip of the 1960s. Along with Reilly, the nascent band included guitarist Dave Rowbotham, drummer Chris Joyce, vocalist Phil Rainford and bassist Tony Bowers; following a handful of performances, Rainford was fired, and after recording a pair of tracks for the EP A Factory Sampler, Rowbotham, Joyce and Bowers broke off to form the Moth Men, leaving the Durutti Column the sole province of Vini Reilly.