{"id":11048,"date":"2022-11-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.progradar.org\/?p=11048"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:03:04","slug":"vlmv-for-empire-live-at-tortington-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/progradar.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/11\/18\/vlmv-for-empire-live-at-tortington-church\/","title":{"rendered":"VLMV &#8211; For Empire &#8211; Live At Tortington Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/progradar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8973.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/progradar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_8973.jpg?resize=1280%2C1707&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11049\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Picture by Paris Grace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On one cold, wet and windy afternoon in early November VLMV, aka Pete Lambrou, brought VLMV\u2019s live set up to a Twelfth Century Church on England\u2019s South Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The resulting video is a beautiful one-take-completely-live recording of usual set opener  For Empire, taken from the latest album <em>Sing With Abandon<\/em>. For Empire\u2019s title and general demeanour evoke an apprehensive anti nostalgia for the old world, and the lyrics are plainly critical, but throughout weaves a feeling of yearning:  <em>I was hoping someone could turn this boat around<\/em> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uGs-gQoIlOc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pete Lambrou on the setting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em> This had to be recorded and filmed in an old Church; being one of the absolute pillars of old empire. The older the better. Not all the songs from the album were written in the midst of lockdown. A couple were performed live on the last tour before the pandemic hit, including For Empire. But their roots are in the aftermath of Brexit, and this feeling of abandonment I\u2019d felt throughout, and then the realisation that your neighbours aren\u2019t who you thought they were. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Churches Conservation Trust:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em> Tortington, the homestead of Torhta\u2019s people, is recorded in Domesday Book (1086). The entrance to this twelfth-century flint church looks like something out of a mediaeval fantasy &#8211; three rows of Norman carvings arch over a thick wooden door set with ornamental hinge straps. Inside, creatures unlike anything found in nature peer down from the chancel arch. They are called &#8216;beakheads&#8217; &#8211; boggle-eyed monsters with beaks, tongues and squid-like&nbsp; tentacles that frown and glare at visitors below. Once they would have been painted in bright colours to entertain &#8211; or terrify &#8211; worshippers. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VLMV (pronounced and formerly known as ALMA) is a self-proclaimed ambient-ish post-something singer-songwriter \/ producer from London. Part of the illustrious Erased Tapes family, VLMV have released 2 albums on Fierce Panda Records, alongside 2022\u2019s Sing With Abandon out on Pete\u2019s own label, Nice Weather for Airstrikes. Live, VLMV deploy loop stations, multiple delay pedals, piano and strings to create a slow-moving, high-flying soundscape of luscious gravitas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Building atmospheric and quietly epic soundscapes that creep up on you unannounced.like a beam of light through a dark, cold night.? &#8211; <strong>Lauren Laverne BBC6 Music<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> As worthy of your love and admiration as anything Sigur R\u2019s or Explosions In The Sky have released? <strong>Team Rock<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Featured image by Jess Robinson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On one cold, wet and windy afternoon in early November VLMV, aka Pete Lambrou, brought VLMV\u2019s live set up to a Twelfth Century Church on England\u2019s South Coast. 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