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Horseshoe Bend

from NIGREDO by Bronze Chariot

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    WHEN WE WERE TOLD THAT WE WERE TO BE EVICTED, AND THE CHURCH WAS TO BE TURNED INTO APARTMENTS, THE QUESTION ON OUR MINDS WAS “HOW DO WE SEND IT OFF?” QUICKLY, THE PLAN WAS HATCHED TO MAKE A FILM, DOCUMENTING THE SPACE, AND THE BANDS IT HELPED FORM. WE HAD LESS THAN THREE WEEKS. SWORDS RE-FORMED FOR THE OCCASION, AND BRONZE CHARIOT CAME BACK FROM THE BRINK OF BREAKING UP. UNFORTUNATELY, AT SUCH SHO...RT NOTICE, MANY GREAT BANDS WERE UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE. A CALL WAS PUT OUT TO OUR FRIENDS WITH THE SKILLS AND EQUIPMENT TO PULL IT ALL OFF. THE RESPONSE WAS FAR GREATER THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED.

    EACH BAND PLAYED WITH CONVICTION AND SINCERITY, KNOWING IT WAS THEIR FINAL TIME ON THE HALLOWED STAGE. WHEN THE LAST NOTE WAS STRUCK AND THE FINAL FRAME CAPTURED, WE ASSEMBLED OUTSIDE TO TAKE A PHOTO ON THE STREET TO COMMEMORATE WHAT WE HAD JUST ACCOMPLISHED.

    ALL THE PEOPLE INVOLVED CONTINUED TO GENEROUSLY DONATE THEIR TIME AND EXPERTISE OVER THE FOLLOWING WEEKS. SOME WORKED TIRELESSLY TO COMPILE AND EDIT THE EXTENSIVE FOOTAGE AND PHOTOGRAPHS. OTHERS MIXED AND MASTERED THE AUDIO RECORDINGS, DESIGNED THE ARTWORK AND WROTE THIS PASSAGE.

    NOBODY GOT PAID, AND NOBODY ASKED TO BE. WE ALL HAD ONE GOAL: TO COMMEMORATE THE GREAT TIMES WE HAD, AND EVERYTHING WE ACHIEVED WITHIN THE GREAT STONE WALLS.

    WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE FILM.

    Staring:
    BEFORE THE AFTERMATH
    BRONZE CHARIOT
    BURNING SEA
    DAMNED MEN
    ROBOTOSAURUS
    SWORDS
    THUNDERCLAW

    Directed by Dan McGuiness

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Onkaparinga River, Old Noarlunga, Adelaide, Australia

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9. HORSESHOE BEND

They came by boat
The carpenter and homemaker
Forging a frontier
Them were gruesome times

His son built by the river
Round horseshoe’s bend
Served his town damn well
A man of faith about town

Upon a black horse rode his son
Undertaker in fine thread
Drawn by our ancient seas
Traded in ochre and wood

One of nine was to follow
He never had an idle hand
Spreading yield around the regions
Farmer, butcher a father

Houses came rolling in
The name was left behind
Found her man early on
Young woman who passed by

Her daughter did it hard
Raised up in countless homes
Spreading rare dollars a mile
Were two sons

For those who toiled
From dawn to dusk
I left a town behind
Can’t hang my hat in
It’s ever looming
Shadow on the hill
Where the cemeteries calling out
To lay six feet down
In a dynasty I belong to
Round horseshoe’s bend

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from NIGREDO, released May 27, 2011

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Bronze Chariot Adelaide, Australia

Australian 6 Piece from Adelaide, Australia Formed 2008, now in hiatus. Latest album Nigredo is out on Capital Games. Mostly structure, some improvisation. Loud. Keen for a beer.

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