TVEGC as museum exhibit!

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.