Bruce Mitchell

Yeah.

The next song was Knuckle Too Far, which emerged from a jam session with Bruce Mitchell and Darude Column.

I'm probably mispronouncing that, but that's okay.

An early demo version became the main album version.

Always has been.

And now, of course, as he's in his 70s, you know, those... visages are um you know haggard to say the least and so on um but he's managed in spite of all that to make another record with the aid of his loyal assistants uh bruce mitchell who's been pretty much his drummer since the early days and kia stewart who's been a collaborator on the latter part of the truly columns uh career plays keyboards and um uh when they when they were playing live um So yeah, so Renaissance is coming out soon.

I haven't heard it yet because it's not been released yet.

But I have read a few reviews that say, if you like the Daruti column, you'll like this.

And I suppose, you know, pretty much low... low maintenance, you know, sort of tweaks around, we've got a few songs here, okay, go in the studio, do it, put them together.

I think he's, I get the impression, especially recently, that Keir Stewart has joined the, well, joined the group, I think he's happy to let someone take the songs and do stuff with them.

that he didn't necessarily think that they would it's not like he's written a song and then he records it I think you know Keir Stewart sort of takes stuff and samples and then adds a bit of what Vinnie's given him and sort of builds up the records and constructs them and perhaps what the outcome is is not what how the original was I suspect that's how the new album works anyway you know it's got some stuff that Riley's recorded and he sort of makes something of it but because he's a friend of Riley because he's played live with Riley he gets it right you know Interestingly enough, apart from Bruce Mitchell, who's a fantastically great jazz drummer who's played fairly consistently with him, certainly when I saw him on all three occasions that Mitchell was on drums, he's worked with John Metcalfe.

who is a violin player, who ended up writing the orchestral or arranging the orchestral versions of Peter Gabriel's songs for the orchestral Gabriel.

They were formed in 1978 in Manchester by Vinnie Riley and they essentially are Vinnie Riley's vehicle.

He's the guitarist, occasionally the pianist and occasionally the vocalist as he was on that track and he's often accompanied by Bruce Mitchell on drums and Keir Stewart on bass keyboards and harmonica.

They were amongst the first acts on Factory Tony Wilson was an early patron absolutely loved what Vinnie Riley did didn't like his singing it's fair to say but he loved his guitar work his arpeggiated guitar work I don't know much about the guitar but you can tell that he is a consummate performer and unlike most post-punk he was highly influenced by things like jazz folk and classical and then later on We won't probably be doing a great deal of this on this episode he incorporated sampling But will there be some electronic dance rhythms as well as he sort of branched out Worth talking a little bit about the gonna hear a track which was the very first track now from the first album ironically called the return of the Dorotty column in 1980 and hence the title of this episode.

And basically, Martin Hannett, the legendary factory producer, forced Vinnie Riley out of bed and said, come on, we're going into a studio.