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The Whistling Girl

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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The Star Stone is missing. She is elusive, but would we even recognise her even if we ever encountered her? Her association with The Three Shire Oak provides us with a clue as to where to look, but our quest is forever hampered by the Boggarts who choose to conceal her hiding place.

lyrics

Acting on a flight of fancy, the final flurries of a distant sun
But I am grounded; I am falling, I will return from where I’m from
Star-struck, sodden, petrified; for I’ve been turned to stone
For stealing in a boggart’s world, is the sacrifice I’m told.

Acting on a hangman’s hunch, I justified my crime
But I am jaded; I am calling, I will divulge my solemn oath
Hood-winked, tired, crucified; and I will hang in days
For treading out a different path, beyond the end of days.

I’m searching for the whistling girl, I’m following my nose
Through echoes of a distant sun in radiance so gold
But you won’t find her here, you won’t find her here, you won’t find her here
She’s lost in pipe-dreams magnified beneath the three-shire oak.
But you won’t find her here
But you won’t find her here.

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from Drome, released September 20, 2021
Music by Stephen Coalwood
Lyrics 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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