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Friday, June 28, 2024

Friday, June 28, 2024 12:50 am by M. in    No comments
The new album by The Bookshop Band, Emerge, Return, is released today, June 28. According to the band's website
One of the band’s darker albums, responding to themes surrounding the oppression of bodies, free will and free speech, explored in the books. The books were chosen through a number of curations, including the author events at Mr B’s, but also by the V&A Museum, written for their season on banned books, and for the National Portrait Gallery, responding
to their exhibition on the Brontë sisters. 
The album was produced by Pete Townshend, who features as a musician on every track.

The Brontë-inspired track is The Pull Of The Moors, "Inspired by Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Charlotte Brontë". Yes, we see that the sisters are in the wrong order, but let's forget we noticed that.

Pete Townshend's website has much more information:
The Pull of the Moors
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë & Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë  
Written in response to the Brontë exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Beth says: We were travelling at the time, and I had a lovely old copy of Jane Eyre. Unfortunately, mid-way through reading, I accidentally left this copy under a pillow in the bedroom of somewhere we'd been staying before travelling on. I bought a new copy the next day. It made me realise how attached you can become to a particular edition. The typeface was different, it felt different, it even smelled different! I managed to track down a similar edition to the first a few days later and finished the book. It's up there with the best things that I have ever read. I went on to read Wuthering Heights, which again drew me into their landscape and place, and the song became an inevitable entanglement of the two." 

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