FIELD MUSIC
Dec 31, 2019
4 minutes
Words: Joe Banks
Portrait:
Manox
In January 2019, art rockers Field Music played a pair of shows at the Imperial War Museums in Manchester and London, performing as part of the IWM’s ‘Making A New World’ programme of events reflecting on the legacy of the First World War. Having specially written a suite of songs and instrumental pieces for the performance, brothers Peter and David Brewis realised that they had “accidentally made a new album”, and a concept album at that, with Making A covering such widely diverse topics as social housing, gender reassignment, the Dada art movement, Tiananmen Square and sanitary towels.
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