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By Hook or by Crook

from Drome by Duir!

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    13-track, single CD album. Comes in a card, laminated gatefold sleeve with artwork by celebrated photographer Andrew. The CD comes with track-detail insert and has a running time of approximately 46mins.

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    "Few of us can see the world from the planets AND in its atoms; it demands a perspective that can see both the detail and the breadth, see both the history and the present, see both the reality of the world and also its supernatural echoes around us. ...Duir! are the only artists I can think of who do it so well in music and words."
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    A tight, compact blast of glam-folk with post-punk attitude. DROME reveals a topsy-turvy journey through Lincolnshire tradition, told through spoken word and song and where fact and fantasy become embroiled in time-shifting theatre.
    Put aside the disquiet of the present and allow yourself to be briefly distracted and indulge with them on a journey through a timeless landscape where fact and fantasy become intrinsically linked. Through their endeavours DUIR have, in effect, sought to create their own, timeless DROME.

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The walls of our churches and cathedrals are covered in ancient graffiti. At Stow Minster there exists a tenth-century carving of a Viking longboat. Situated in the Trent basin, the minster is near to the Roman road known as Tillbridge Lane. Was the medieval artist a digger who worked the land in the carrs? Perhaps we’ll never know, but we celebrate them and their dexterity in this rowdy drinking ballad.

lyrics

Out in the wagon and out on the road.
I’m in a strange place that some would call home.
Chasing the tail of a dog with no lead.
I’m in the doldrums right up to my knees.
The soil it is shifting, it’s blowing away.
All that remains is just barren clay.
But I am a digger and a-digging I’ll go.
To carve the trenches so water will flow.

The blackthorn’s in flower and I am in bloom.
Casting a shadow beyond the gloom.
A ship on a wall at the minster in Stow, provides me with yearnings wherever I go.
Carved on the walls are the runes of the dead.
Written in fear and written in dread.
Fetch me my chisel, and wish me good luck.
And I will deliver by hook or by crook.

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from Drome, released September 20, 2021
Music by Edgar Boughton
Words by Terry Welbourn

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Duir! Nottingham, UK

DUIR! is a musical collective based in the East Midlands, UK that utilise spoken word, music and song to bring alive the folk memories of Lincolnshire and its environs. Their inspiration stems from myths, legends, folk-tales and topographic features of this rural country.
DUIR! comprise of, Simon Brighton, Stephen Coalwood and Terry Welbourn.

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