LET DORSET SHAKE. Let Dorset Shake is an album recorded by students on Bournemouth University s Popular Music Foundation Degree.

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2 LET DORSET SHAKE Let Dorset Shake is an album recorded by students on Bournemouth University s Popular Music Foundation Degree. The songs were inspired by PJ Harvey s award winning 2011 record Let England Shake and recorded at Eype Centre for the Arts near Bridport, the same venue that Harvey chose to record her album. Dorset s landscape and history provided the setting and background for songwriting, with students researching stories and legends connected with the county. 80,000 GALLONS ALFRED AND HUBBA CLAUSTROPHOBIC SUN KNOWLTON S BELL STEAM FAIR

3 80,000 GALLONS A folk-influenced song about Dorset s smuggling history. Driven by a finger-picked acoustic guitar riff and a choral work-song style vocal line, it takes influences from the works of Thomas Hardy and the life of Isaac Gulliver. Standing, grinning, skeleton smile Watching over distant isle Where spray springs up like clouds of flour Roaring high in the perilous hours From father to son, brother to brother 80,000 gallons from mainland to harbour Along the bay and miles in land With tunnels stretching from town to town Excise men come poking and knocking To find, white-faced an open coffin Well-rehearsed wife stands weeping at the door Misleading mourning, Isaac is no more Backing Percussion Becky Williams The Chorus feat. Laura Richardson Paul Stevenson

4 ALFRED AND HUBBA The opening drum groove of this song evokes the atmosphere of the Viking sea battles, such as that which took place off the Purbeck coast between King Alfred and Hubba the Dane during the Anglo-Saxon period. Look at the state of our land Terror and pillage and flame Blood has been shed on the sand At the mercy of the Danes So let's all ride on the waves to tragedy Lightning strikes as we sail to the enemy They all scream out as our swords bring them agony This is our island you can't take that from me Let's put an end to all this Forget all the travesty spoken Strike a deal through a marriage Ensure it will never be broken But this all ends in a swift termination This all ends in a swift termination Backing Harry Edelsten The Chorus Dan Wilson-Stone

5 CLAUSTROPHOBIC SUN Claustrophobic Sun takes us on a sweeping journey through Dorset s landscape and history, along the river Stour and over the hills and heathland. Mesolithic hunters on the coastline of the isle Among the downland high chalk hills for miles Hilltop castles, Neolithic see the burial mounds Heathland born into the ground The River Stour flows and flowed from one day 'til the last Running before and after, the people of the past Running through the vale all the way through the towns Breaking through the chalk ridge of the downs Claustrophobic Sun Burning Skin Dark Clouds Commercial Sin As the sun sets low and the moonlight glows The mark, the end of the day The History sleeps, buried down deep Silently along the bay Backing Keyboard Harry Edelsten and Rich Coveney The Chorus Harry Edelsten Rich Coveney Harry Edelsten

6 KNOWLTON S BELL Folk tales and rhymes of demons and ghosts seen at Knowlton Church, thought to be the most haunted place in Dorset, inspire the lyrics and eerie melodies of Knowlton s Bell. The ghostly chorus makes use of an ancient rhyme about the church itself. Names in sand washed away by Black Death sea Stones stick out like broken teeth Bite at the heels of phantom horsemen The ageing face of a ghostly woman Knowlton's Bell is stole And thrown into the white mill hole And all the devils in Hell Could never pull up Knowlton's Bell Up where Knowlton's bell once hung Voices heard, mist swirled and spun By day filled with laughter and fun By night the echoes of songs once sung Backing Saxophone Becky Williams The Chorus Jess Petter

7 STEAM FAIR The Great Dorset Steam Fair provides the setting for this carnival waltz style track, which contrasts the friendly daytime atmosphere with the bawdy night time activities. Bessie and James in red, green and gold Dance round and round, round and round, round and round While steam organs croon can-can sounds Heavy horses pulling their trains Laughing young children with sticky hands wave At the grey haired toothless gentlemen with cider Late night babies clutch white lightning Watch their pot-bellied fathers fighting Feel their harpy mothers shrieking Hear their slapped-up sisters groaning Behind crane machines Thumping drums and LEDs Backing Becky Williams The Chorus

8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LET DORSET SHAKE CHORUS Carina Bennett Rob Caple Cameron Cole Rich Coveney Harry Edelsten Jess Petter Laura Richardson Becky Williams Dan Wilson-Stone Sam Vaughan Directed by Jenny Russell PRODUCER Paul Stevenson RECORDING AND PRODUCTION Kurt Fagan Dan Kelly Chris Scott Will Webster Lewis Wicksteed TOUR MANAGER Rob Caple SLEEVE DESIGN Cameron Cole Dan Wilson-Stone FILM CREW Will Webster Rob Caple WEB DESIGN PHOTOGRAPHY Cameron Cole SPECIAL THANKS Rob Taylor Paul Stevenson Jenny Russell Bournemouth University Bournemouth and Poole College Eype Centre for the Arts

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