The Penkiln Burn Players will be performing the album VOICES FROM THE GALLOVERSE live in Galloway on Night of the Galloverse (11th of May). The Penkiln Burn Players will include Tam Dean Burn, Angie Darcy, Leo Condie, Suzanne Bonnar, Josie Duncan and be presented by Bill Drummond.

The Penkiln Burn Players will be performing the album VOICES FROM THE GALLOVERSE live in Galloway at the following two venues at the following two dates.

In at CatStrand New Galloway at 7:30pm on Gallows Eve (10th of May)

And...

The Vault, Newton Stewart at 3pm on Night of the Galloverse (11th of May).

The Penkiln Burn Players will include Tam Dean Burn, Angie Darcy, Leo Condie, Suzanne Bonnar, Josie Duncan and be presented by Bill Drummond.

The album VOICES FROM THE GALLOVERSE was released only in the form of a vinyl long-playing record in an edition of 1,000 copies sometime in 2024. This album was only available for sale at HEAR HARD incidents, where no more than forty people were required to listen collectively to the album as intensely as they had ever attempted to listen to an album in their lives. And only then consider purchasing a copy of the album there and then, for the sum of fifteen quid.

These HEAR HARD incidents happened at various locations in Glasgow, Edinburgh and in difficult locations in the southeast of England. There may have also been some feral HEAR HARD sessions scattered around the globe, but nothing is certain about those and them.

Thus...

This album was, and is, not available to be heard on any of the streaming platforms that you might visit when you want to hear whatever it is you want to hear at any time day or night.

The Penkiln Burn Players like to make things hard.

That said...

One of the Psalms on the album called Pictures on My Wall can be heard by clicking here https://www.penkilnburn.com/home/a-picture-on-my-wall and scroll down to the bottom of a page and click on the word FROM.

The live performances of the Psalms contained on VOICES FROM THE GALLOVERS by The Penkiln Burn Players, in both New Galloway & Newton Stewart on the 10th and 11th of May 2025, will begin with a HEAR HARD incident. This will then be followed by the live performance by those that recorded the album and those in the audience who will now have become the Congregation.

If there are any copies of the album remaining, they will be sold to those that have fifteen quid that they are willing to part with.

WARNING:

Don’t attempt to listen to VOICES FROM THE GALLOVERS if you want to be entertained.

The following letter from Bill Drummond appears on the inner sleeve of the VOICES FROM THE GALLOVERS album

Dear Reader, 

Some years ago, I started to imagine a period drama in Liverpool in the late 1970s / early 1980s. A film set in the masculine scene that I was witness to.  

But however I attempted to imagine it, it did not work.  

Then, I wondered if it would work from a female perspective.  

But I am not a woman.  

Then, I wondered if it would work from the perspective on an outsider to the whole thing. I remembered two young American women who had accidently ended up, for a few months, in our very male dominated scene in Liverpool, at the back end of 1981. I tracked down an email for one of them. Instantly I not only got a response from her but the other one as well. Over the next few months, hundreds of emails traversed between us. The film took shape in my head. Its then was Poppies In The Field. 

But there was one major problem, the Liverpool of the 2020s looks nothing like the Liverpool of late 1981. It would be impossible to make a period drama there set in then that era. Something had to be done. 

Then I had a vague thought about it all being set in my childhood home of Galloway in the far southwest of Scotland. And it not being a period drama, but a drama set in an imagined near future called, for all the obvious reasons, the Galloverse. And in the Galloverse, not only do no forms of musical instruments exist, but neither does the technology to record music. All music is made with only the use of the human voice. The majority of the songs from this soundtrack to this film might come from Liverpool in the late 70s and early 80s, but they have been filtered through the way that the Gaelic Psalm singing of the Wee Frees in the Western Isles of Scotland is performed. 

It was while these songs were being recorded in Glasgow in 2023 that the title of this film evolved into being Voices From The Galloverse.  

The next step in the life of this film, involves you, committing yourself to, listening to this album, in one sitting, with your eyes closed. If you can’t do that, this album is not worth buying. 

Yours Sincerely, 

Bill Drummond – Producer at Large

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