A lovely gatefold digifile CD, with a disturbingly red vampyric outer cover and a soothing blue lacustrine gatefold. We've chosen this format as it minimises use of plastic in the packaging, while still giving a bloody lovely product!
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about
John Polidori was Lord Byron's doctor / travelling companion / manservant during his travels to Lake Geneva in 1816.
One dark and stormy night (so the legend goes), in a house on Geneva's Shore, the gathered company told spectral stories. Mary Shelley told the story of Frankenstein. Byron told a fragment of a story involving a character called Augustus Darvell.
Later, Polidori incorporated the character of Darvell into his own short novel, "The Vampyre" - probably a satire on Byron's tendency to suck ideas and the very lifeblood from his friends.
When "The Vampyre" was first published, in 1819, it bore Byron's name as author.
lyrics
This is the story of John Polidori
Minor poet and doctor by rank.
A man of some letters, in solitude’s fetters
Demeanour both handsome and frank.
But for Byron’s enjoyment
he entered employment
Of that lecher with a winning tongue
George Gordon Byron, Eurotrash vampire
One who’ll drain you, then mock you in song.
Can’t you hear his song?
Byron, A Vampyre. Mad, bad, a bit of a bore
Tentacular - Dracula:
A sucker with a fetish for gore.
Artistic maelstrom; poetic siren.
He’ll wreck you on Geneva’s shore
(he’s a haemovore).
He’ll wreck you on Geneva’s Shore
Vampyrion
Vampyrion
Vampyrion
Don’t let him in
Don’t let him in
John Polidori’s gothic hate story
Appeared in 1819
But the name of the author of this tale of horror
Was given thus in that rare magazine.
It was written ….
A Tale by Lord Byron, Vampyre.
Mad, bad, and a bit of a bore
Tentacular - a Dracula:
A sucker with a fetish for gore.
Artistic maelstrom; poetic siren.
He’ll wreck you on Geneva’s shore.
So, lock up your daughters!
He’ll wreck you on Geneva’s shore
credits
from Geneva's Shore,
released August 20, 2021
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