An Unnatural History

by LYR

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malonestl Never heard an album so evocative of a particular place...sent me to Google Earth to get my bearings on Eldon Street. Amazing. Favorite track: Pleasure Fair - Register of Tenders and Attractions.

Whyte Rushan I love this because it contains frydey nite shenanigans, track two I think Favorite track: The Pigeons of Eldon Street.

joemc5054 Bloody amazing, ‘you can buy a bong!’ Favorite track: Theodolite! PT IV.

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FOX SIDE
After The Carnival
The Pigeons of Eldon Street
A Brief Chronicle of Birds In The Autumn
and Winter Months of 1886 PT II
Hebrew Character
Unnatural History
The Proposal

MOTH SIDE
Pleasure Fair – Register of Tenders and Attractions
Sketch for Christ’s Triumphal Entry into Eldon Street
Fox on Eldon Street
A Brief Chronicle of Birds In The Autumn
and Winter Months of 1886 PT III
Theodolite! PT IV

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1.	After the Carnival 04:22
2.	The Pigeons of Eldon Street 04:07
3.	Theodolite! PT I 03:26	buy track
4.	A Brief Chronicle of Birds in the Autumn and Winter Months of 1886 PT I 02:45
5.	Promenade 03:42
6.	Pleasure Fair - Register of Tenders and Attractions 03:04
7.	Theodolite! PT II 02:37
8.	Hebrew Character 03:44
9.	A Brief Chronicle of Birds in the Autumn and Winter Months of 1886 PT II 02:54
10.	Sketch for Christ’s Triumphal Entry into Eldon Street 07:00
11.	Theodolite! PT III 02:42
12.	Fox on Eldon Street 04:30
13.	Unnatural History 03:24
14.	A Brief Chronicle of Birds in the Autumn and Winter Months of 1886 PT III 02:16
15.	The Proposal 04:20
16.	Theodolite! PT IV 04:51

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Created as part of the Eldon Street High Street Heritage Action Zone, supported by Barnsley Museums and Archives with funding from Barnsley
Council and Historic England.

With special thanks to Tegwen Roberts and Dominic Somers.

"An Unnatural History was a poetic and musical happening celebrating Barnsley's Eldon Street through the lens of its former Natural History Museum. The museum, once housed in The Civic, was an emporium of fowl and fauna, some of it local, some of it more exotic. When the museum disappeared under somewhat mysterious circumstances, it lived on in memory and anecdote, with only the odd blurred photograph and dusty paperwork as evidence of its existence. Digging into archives and the psycho-geography of the locality, LYR metaphorically recreated the Museum as a kind of imaginarium of all things zoological, using it to investigate the dream life of Eldon Street past, present and future. In the spirit of the great circuses and fairs that have tripped through Barnsley, and the beasts that have passed through its streets (including elephants and whales), by way of the town's legendary Bunny Run and the animals that still make Eldon Street their natural habitat (from urban foxes to rare moths), a unique live performance of An Unnatural History on the stage of Barnsley's Parkway Cinema put Eldon Street back on the map, but a map where pigeons nest alongside phoenixes, two-headed cattle and other fabulous creatures...."

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released September 14, 2023

Written & Performed by Simon Armitage, Patrick James Pearson and Richard Walters

Additional musicians: Bethany Bellis, Mike Monaghan
and Matthew Taylor
Recorded, Produced & Mixed by Patrick James Pearson at The Glaucus House. Additional Recording by Richard Walters
Mastered by James Bragg

Artwork & Layout by Thomas Instone

Published by Angry Mob LLC & Domino Music Publishing

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LYR UK

Comprised of singer Richard Walters, producer Patrick J Pearson and poet Simon Armitage, LYR are the perfect combination of poetic spoken passages, soaring vocal melodies and imaginative, cinematic production. They are a progressive voice in the world of spoken word, thanks to Armitage’s compelling lyrics, as well as Pearson’s seductive bricolage of musical styles and Walters’ evocative vocals ... more

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