The Long Dead Stars

Dancing Under Dark Skies at the Dark Skies Festival, on Blakey Ridge, North York Moors. It was written for the festival, for us to turn off our lights and draw attention to the night sky. We invited 30 walkers to join us on a dark sky walk across rural terrain, to the high moor where we all listened and danced to the song. We engaged in slow walking before we danced, with Silent Disco headphones. The Lyrics were inspired by 3 things:

Commentary on the geological environment of the North York Moors, where we premiered the track - its subterranean history.

A mapping of the night sky above on that specific date of the premiere: the position of the moon, the constellation of stars, nebulae and what can be seen with the naked eye when the lights are turned off.

A little playful humour on the naming of things, how humans get obsessed with the naming of stuff and come up with nick names, sometimes tripping up on meaning and the historical order of named objects.

We wanted to capture a way of working these lyrics into our favourite synth sound - dance music that gets a crowd moving to feel euphoric.