Musical artist
Bruce Mitchell (born 6 June 1940) is an English jazz drummer, who plays regularly with Vini Reilly in the Durutti Column.
Biography
Mitchell was born in the suburb of Didsbury,[1] in the south of Manchester, on 6 June 1940.[2]
He had no formal musical education. His father was a drummer and a bass player.[3] He was in a Manchester trad band,[4] around 1960, and during a time, he was a hippie.[1] Prior to 1974 he was in the group Greasy Bear.[5] In 1974 he joined comedy rock band Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias; the band folded in 1982.
He also helps run Manchester Light and Stage.[6]
Mitchell joined The Durutti Column in 1981 for the album LC, and has managed the band.
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