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Lucy Over Lancashire (12" red vinyl)
11.99EUR
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Model: SueMi15
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The record comprises a single voice monologue above and amidst music influenced by dub reggae and Lancastrian post-punk. The voice on the piece is that of Lucy, a ‘sprite of the air’, an airborne spirit, who is possessing the grooves of the record itself, and is damned to endlessly repeat stories about Lancashire she has been told by the evil and shadowy figure of ‘Alan’. She cheerfully relates, partly in Lancashire dialect, a twisted tale about the pivotal role that the English county of Lancashire has in the plans of Satan, ranging from the Pendle witches and the 'dark Satanic mills' of the Industrial Revolution, right up to the bile of the Red Rose Radio phone in shows of Allan Beswick (who also appears on the record). Other Lancashire linked characters mentioned within the work, with names changed or slightly distorted, include Lee Scratch Perry, Marx and Engels, Mick Hucknall of Simply Red, The Fall -­ particularly the debt that the band owes to dark Lancashire folk-lore -­ and the Radio Lancashire ‘On the Wire’ programme itself, whose longstanding commitment to dub reggae provided one of the inspirations for the work, and on which the piece was first broadcast on 18th November 2006.

The monologue text is a mix of the desperate truth-stretching style of internet conspiracy theorising and a parody of a breathless Samuel Beckett monologue. Lucy looses her cheerfulness at the end of her monologue, and admits that the stories she is telling, all originally told to her by Alan, are unreliable, and that the idea of ‘evil’ itself, or evil as an externalised, supernatural malevolence, is also erroneous. The potential for barbarity is within all of us, and not the work of some Dark Lord and his helpers, Lucy realises, and she finally resigns herself to being damned to carry on forever telling her tall stories in the red coloured gloom of her vinyl netherworld.

 
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