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You may remember, The Victorian English Gentlemens Club recorded a track for the National Museum in Cardiff, based on a photograph as part of their 'Sight of Sound' exhibition, and played a short set there during SWN Festival.

There's now a video for the track, here:

The Victorian English Gentlemens Club have two further tour dates lined up - they'll be at Southampton's Joiners on 30th October, and London's Proud on 21st November.

The Victorian English Gentlemens Club have gigs this week and next in the UK, following their trip across mainland Europe.

First up, they're playing twice as part of this year's SWN Festival in Cardiff - first up at the National Museum on Thursday 22nd, as part of The Sight Of Sound exhibition, then with Wetdog and others at Chapter Arts Centre on Friday 23rd (on stage, 10pm).

They then travel to London next week for a Tom Robinson-curated night at Riverside Studios (27th October) and XFM Xposure at the Barfly with The Chapman Family (29th October).

Meanwhile, We Are The Physics are in London on Saturday 24th October, supporting Sultans of Ping at the Garage.

The track was inspired by a photograph of Melrose Abbey by Roger Fenton, which you can see here:



Adam described the track to the museum thus:

"Mr Fenton and his picture of Melrose Abbey

Nineteenth century photography had much longer exposure times than its modern equivalent, photographers models were posed for long periods of time and action had to be staged. It's those few moments of stillness that I've written this song about.

The song was recorded on a beaten up electric guitar with a detuned bass string replacing the top string, this gives a good drone which worked well for this piece. I tried to have the backing and main vocals almost in a round to remind me of the carols we would sing at church when I was at school.

From the beginning I wanted this song to be different to our current songs we do within the band, but still fit into a normal traditional structure, of verse and chorus. I did not want this song to be a soundscape for the photograph, with sound effects etc, this was more a song written after looking at a photo."

Visit the National Museum's website for more info - there's also works by Damien Hirst and Wassily Kandinsky in the show.

The track is available to listen to at the exhibition, and will be given away as a free download via the Museum's website from 22nd October - which is the same day as their SWN Festival show at the Museum.