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Peter​’​s Big Day Out

from Drome by Duir!

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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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about

Peter Brannan (1926-1994) was a Lincolnshire artist, famous for his beach scenes near his home in Cleethorpes. He was a Bevin boy – seconded in WWII to a deep mine in Yorkshire. After the war, he lived and worked in Newark before retiring to the cliff edge village of Welbourn. His use of colour and sombre pallet is most revealing.

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Out on the beach, amongst the bathers, loppers and the jetsam of the grimy north
Stands a lone watchman; - a stranger lost in time.

The sun; a reluctant visitor on this caustic strand, casts a transparent, seaside light
That hinders the artist’s perception of both time and distance
But our Bevin boy sees beyond this gaudy, post-war charade into another world…
Where colour, sound and the salty taste of home, combine to form world-weary gestures
in our theatre of dreams.

Close to the seafront - the railway station
It acts as a constant reminder of those who have departed -
Conscripted to another time. Another place
For beyond the pleasure dome there exists a parallel, a timeless less pallor world, where,
upon his canvas, the tensions of a concealed self, are rendered - in abstract form
But through the pallet of self-doubt, a stoic nostalgia for a time of yore is revealed.

Deep in the mine there is no colour.
A bleak, monochromatic world that filters the life out of our very existence
The wire grass of the midday dunes that cuts the bare legs of the young and the unwary is… no deterrent for those lost in a constricted, subterranean realm
For colour is a gift, and for Peter, and other sensitive souls, it is applied with caution and fervour.

Sitting amongst his gothic treasures an odd luminosity ignites his parlour and we are privy to a gentle moment of a time slowly passing.
The final brush-strokes of a singular existence.

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from Drome, released September 20, 2021
Music by Stephen Coalwood
Words by Terry Welbourn

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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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