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A event held at The Cube on Sunday 5th January. The event starts at 18:00.
The Cube's Feral* presentation of Bill Drummond's HEAR HARD : Voices From The Galloverse
HEAR HARD is an opportunity to hear - and then perhaps own - the long playing vinyl record 'Voices From The Galloverse' from Producer at Large, Bill Drummond.
Bill has supplied us with a small number of these vinyl records, along with some specific instructions.
The Galloverse is a re-imagining of the Post-Punk years in Liverpool (hence the pricing of £19.78, as in the year 1978).
Songs of the era are recast in a fictional, near future and technology-free version of Drummond's childhood home of Galloway in the far southwest of Scotland (hence 'The Galloverse')
In The Galloverse no forms of musical instruments exist. All music is made using the human voice, filtered through the way the Gaelic Psalm singing of the Wee Frees in the Western Isles of Scotland is performed.
As we have been instructed by Bill Drummond, attendance is limited to 40 people who will be known as 'The Congregation'.
It will have three acts
Act One: Involves our attempt to give you The Context to what VOICES FROM THE GALLOVERSE is.
Act Two: Involves those attending to listen to the whole of this long playing record in the darkness of the cinema, illuminated only by a projected loop of black 35mm cinema film, listening as hard as possible without interruptions.
Act Three: Involves a cross-examination by each of those attending by each of the others attending.
Following the acts there will be an opportunity for a small number of the attendees to take ownership of one of the limited number records the Cube has been issued.
This will involve a random selection process and disappointment for some is guaranteed.
Drams of Scottish whisky and a place around the fire pit in the Cube garden will be on offer to all.
Some emergence into The Context can be achieved prior to attending the event by listening to the following recordings by the following artists as ‘hard as possible’.
Listen to this playlist on YouTube here : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4aWn14IkLEzg_ZDe6mKwGpfP7BUXctfX
Pictures On My Wall by Echo & The Bunnymen
Poppies In The Field by The Teardrop Explodes
Revolutionary Spirit by The Wild Swans
All My Colours by Echo & The Bunnymen
Kirby Workers’ Dream Fades by The Teardrop Explodes
Trees & Flowers by Strawberry Switchblade
Treason by The Teardrop Explodes
Opium by The Wild Swans
The Cutter by Echo & The Bunnymen
No Bleeding by The Wild Swans
The Killing Moon by Echo & The Bunnymen
Queen Of The South by Bill Drummond
Òran Bagraidh by Òran Bagraidh
Gaelic Psalm Singing
WARNING: HEAR HARD sessions are physical.
HEAR HARD sessions are not virtual.
The harder the better.
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THE TERMS (APPLICABLE TO ALL OWNERS OF THE LP)
The Vinyl Record vouches never to be used for media promotion.
The Vinyl Record will never allow itself to be sold in shops or via The Internet.
The Vinyl Record will never appear via streaming services or as downloads.
The Congregation vouches never to betray the wishes of the vinyl record VOICES FROM THE GALLOVERSE.
It is strongly advised that the vinyl record VOICES FROM THE GALLOVERSE is only ever listened on one evening each year. And that evening being on the 11th of May, as in on the Night of The Galloverse.
The Night of The Galloverse has been marked every 11th of May since 1685.
Things change...
The nights draw in.
Darkness wins.
--------------
* Please Note : Bill Drummond is not scheduled to appear in person for Feral Hear Hard events.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
HEAR HARD is an opportunity to hear - and then perhaps own - the long playing vinyl record 'Voices From The Galloverse' from Producer at Large, Bill Drummond.
Bill has supplied us with a small number of these vinyl records, along with some specific instructions.
The Galloverse is a re-imagining of the Post-Punk years in Liverpool (hence the pricing of £19.78, as in the year 1978).
Songs of the era are recast in a fictional, near future and technology-free version of Drummond's childhood home of Galloway in the far southwest of Scotland (hence 'The Galloverse')
In The Galloverse no forms of musical instruments exist. All music is made using the human voice, filtered through the way the Gaelic Psalm singing of the Wee Frees in the Western Isles of Scotland is performed.
As we have been instructed by Bill Drummond, attendance is limited to 40 people who will be known as 'The Congregation'.
It will have three acts
Act One: Involves our attempt to give you The Context to what VOICES FROM THE GALLOVERSE is.
Act Two: Involves those attending to listen to the whole of this long playing record in the darkness of the cinema, illuminated only by a projected loop of black 35mm cinema film, listening as hard as possible without interruptions.
Act Three: Involves a cross-examination by each of those attending by each of the others attending.
Following the acts there will be an opportunity for a small number of the attendees to take ownership of one of the limited number records the Cube has been issued.
This will involve a random selection process and disappointment for some is guaranteed.
Drams of Scottish whisky and a place around the fire pit in the Cube garden will be on offer to all.
Some emergence into The Context can be achieved prior to attending the event by listening to the following recordings by the following artists as ‘hard as possible’.
Listen to this playlist on YouTube here : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4aWn14IkLEzg_ZDe6mKwGpfP7BUXctfX
Pictures On My Wall by Echo & The Bunnymen
Poppies In The Field by The Teardrop Explodes
Revolutionary Spirit by The Wild Swans
All My Colours by Echo & The Bunnymen
Kirby Workers’ Dream Fades by The Teardrop Explodes
Trees & Flowers by Strawberry Switchblade
Treason by The Teardrop Explodes
Opium by The Wild Swans
The Cutter by Echo & The Bunnymen
No Bleeding by The Wild Swans
The Killing Moon by Echo & The Bunnymen
Queen Of The South by Bill Drummond
Òran Bagraidh by Òran Bagraidh
Gaelic Psalm Singing
WARNING: HEAR HARD sessions are physical.
HEAR HARD sessions are not virtual.
The harder the better.
----------------------
THE TERMS (APPLICABLE TO ALL OWNERS OF THE LP)
The Vinyl Record vouches never to be used for media promotion.
The Vinyl Record will never allow itself to be sold in shops or via The Internet.
The Vinyl Record will never appear via streaming services or as downloads.
The Congregation vouches never to betray the wishes of the vinyl record VOICES FROM THE GALLOVERSE.
It is strongly advised that the vinyl record VOICES FROM THE GALLOVERSE is only ever listened on one evening each year. And that evening being on the 11th of May, as in on the Night of The Galloverse.
The Night of The Galloverse has been marked every 11th of May since 1685.
Things change...
The nights draw in.
Darkness wins.
--------------
* Please Note : Bill Drummond is not scheduled to appear in person for Feral Hear Hard events.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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