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, the event is limited to 40 attendees, 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’.

NOTE : Clicking on the listed songs
    below will open them in YouTube
    For the full playlist CLICK HERE

1. Pictures On My Wall
   Echo & The Bunnymen
    
2. Poppies In The Field
   The Teardrop Explodes
    
3. Revolutionary Spirit
   The Wild Swans
    
4. All My Colours
   Echo & The Bunnymen
    
5. Kirby Workers’ Dream Fades
   The Teardrop Explodes
    
6. Trees & Flowers
   Strawberry Switchblade
    
7. Treason
   The Teardrop Explodes
    
8. Opium
   The Wild Swans
    
9. The Cutter
   Echo & The Bunnymen
    
10. No Bleeding
    The Wild Swans
     
11. The Killing Moon
    Echo & The Bunnymen
     
12. Queen Of The South
    Bill Drummond
     
13. Òran Bagraidh
    Òran Bagraidh
     
14. 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.

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NOTE:  Bill Drummond is not expected to appear in person at Feral Hear Hard events