Binding Time

Binding Time is a suite of new songs inspired by the formation of the Durham Miners Association and performed with musicians from the NASUWT Riverside band. Research for the project began back in 2020 with Peter and David tracing the growth and decline of mining in the region and the struggles of mining communities. Growing up in the North East in the 1980s, you took for granted that mining was part of the landscape but I dont think I really understood what it meant for the region. The whole area has been shaped by the coal industry; socially, economically, politically, even geographically. We were looking for a balance between telling stories which someone with no prior knowledge could understand, whilst also threading in all these fascinating factual details. We felt it couldnt just be historical. It had to be personal too. Across the album we have songs that tell tales of miners being blacklisted for unionising, that touch on the barbarism of the yearly bond, where mostly-illiterate miners annually signed themselves into bondage for fear of being without work, and portraits of the hated 3rd Marquis of Londonderry, Charles Vane, who built Seaham Harbour to avoid paying keelmen on the River Wear, and Thomas Hepburn, whose selfless efforts to unionise his fellow miners in the 1820s and 30s left him destitute. This new collection completes a tryptic of Field Music releases with a socio-historical theme, following 2015s Music for Drifters - written as a live accompanimen

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Catalogue Number: LP-ADD-016
Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Field Music And The Nasuwt Riverside Band
Release Date: 19 July 2024
Genre: Alternative
Label: Daylight Saving Records
Distributor: MGM Music