Roy Claire Potter | Land Lay Moldbrest
Land Lay Moldbrest
With a parcel of half-erased field journals, Walker journeys the bridleways of the remote Pennine moorlands. How long they’ve been doing their ‘research’ is anybody’s guess - even they can’t quite remember. Through gouged peat tracks and changes of season, they try to make sense of what they’ve read and what they’ve seen, but strange encounters with a cast of textual, imaginary and real-life characters derails the extended field trip, pushing Walker further into vital fantasy. Can they ever come back down from the moor?
Part 1: The Lead Beast’s Bell
Guided by a nighttime study of confusing field notes, Walker’s energy to pursue a train of imagined packhorse drivers across the moor-top wavers, leading to a terrifying nighttime encounter.
Part 2: So long, Aferdita!
Walker descends to a nearby farm to recuperate, but the free ground-rent at the farm’s campsite opens up into a circus of sparkling ruins and exploited labour.
Content warning: contains some swearing.
Part 3: Big Cat Jagger
Back on the moors, Walker finds a strangely familiar stone shelter and the tracks of a big cat in the frost.
Content warning: description of animal carcass
A text only version is available by request from admin@weareprimary.org
Land Lay Moldbrest is a three-part audiobook written by following packhorse trails in Lancashire, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, over a period of two weeks in May and July 2022.
First streamed on 20 November, 27 November and 4 December 2022.
Released for download with pdf pamphlet on 11 December 2022
Written, performed and recorded by Roy Claire Potter
Mixed and mastered by Bill Vine at Ryoanji Records
Artwork by Roy Claire Potter
Special thanks to Dale Holmes, Gavin Bryars, Margaret and David Drake, and the South Pennine Packhorse Trails Trust
Roy Claire Potter works between performance and experimental art writing with recent works facilitated by Counterflows music festival in Glasgow, Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 3, and Tate Britain with Tate Publishing.