St Gregory Orange began as the solo recording project of Tim Metcalfe, who released Things We Said In Bedrooms through Philophobia back in March 2009. A low-key breakup record of sorts, it utilised field recordings, dense dream-like drone-scapes, spoken word, and noise-damaged electronic songcraft. Eager to expand the project into a live proposition, Tim teamed up with local guitar-slinger Harry Rhodes (Piskie Sits, Ex Rosie Doonan Band), to play a series of brief, but well received shows supporting artists such as John Cooper Clark and Lucus Renney. Through reinterpreting the arrangements of the recorded material to enforce a live dynamic, the duo gravitated towards a far more direct sound, peeling back the soundscaping and sample manipulation to reveal an almost Pop melodiousness which was perhaps not immediatley identifiable on record.

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