We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Vampyrion

from Geneva's Shore by Poke O'Swedgers

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    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!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Geneva's Shore via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 2 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      £9.50 GBP

     

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
Kev McInally - vocals
Dave Banks - backing vox and guitars

Mixed and mastered by Steve Swallow

Music and lyric © David Banks 2019

ISRC: UK-DVB-21-00003

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Poke O'Swedgers image

Poke O'Swedgers Chesterfield, UK

Poke O'Swedgers are Kev and Dave. Kev sings beautifully. Dave fumbles around with guitar. They write their own rhapsodies - delicate folk tales of impossible romance, computer programming and quantum physics. Their songs have a slight Scottish tang.

contact / help

Contact Poke O'Swedgers

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Poke O'Swedgers recommends:

If you like Poke O'Swedgers, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now