Sweet Silver Song of the Lark

Leslie Black Photography

I am nine and sitting on a bar. Gripping the bar, and my dad, and possibly my sister. Read more …

Although none of this I remember.

There is a match report, somewhere, in the archives, strewn with details I cannot recall.

There will be the twenty two men who trampled grass that day, who kicked at the earth and each other. And there is my father, who stood next to me.

“You weren’t interested in the football, you couldn’t take your eyes off the crowd.”

The critical consensus

Thanks to three wonderfully passionate and direct performances – from Benny Young, Michael Ryan, and Taylor herself – it slices straight to the heart of the strange power and pull of the crowd, the magic that generates great football songs out of a kind of mass creativity, and the mighty, tingling energy that rises from a stadium of fans in full cry.

(*) Joyce McMillan, 02/05/2013