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Terra Nova


Played At These Gigs:


Gig Date

Gig Venue

Position

Extra

23 April 2006

Barfly (Glasgow, Scotland)

6

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29 April 2006

Drum and Monkey (Ipswich, England)

5

--

3 May 2006

Barfly (Cardiff, Wales)

6

--

9 May 2006

Barfly (Birmingham, England)

6

--

25 May 2006

Little Civic (Wolverhampton, England)

6

--

29 May 2006

6 Music (BBC, England)

1

Acoustic

3 June 2006

Le Cafe de la Danse (Paris, France)

7

--

4 June 2006

Le Sirius (Lyon, France)

6

--

8 June 2006

Eve (Grenoble, France)

6

--

28 June 2006

Maida Vale Studios (London, England)

4

--

19 July 2006

Sunflower Lounge (Birmingham, England)

7

--

29 July 2006

Across the Tracks (Leeds, England)

3

--

12 August 2006

Tartan Heart Festival (Inverness, Scotland)

4

--

23 August 2006

Cockpit (Leeds, England)

5

--

4 September 2006

Musician (Leicester, England)

5

--

27 September 2006

Rotown (Rotterdam, Holland)

7

--

28 September 2006

Paradiso (Amsterdam, Holland)

7

--

29 September 2006

Underground Festival (Amsterdam, Holland)

4

--

30 September 2006

Mudd Club (Berlin, Germany)

7

--

5 October 2006

B72 (Vienna, Austria)

7

--

10 October 2006

Le Cri de la Mouette (Toulouse, France)

5

--

11 October 2006

Le Son'Art (Bordeaux, France)

7

--

12 October 2006

Le Glaz'Art (Paris, France)

7

--

14 October 2006

Junktion 7 (Nottingham, England)

6

--

15 October 2006

Fibbers (York, England)

6

--

18 October 2006

Barfly (Cardiff, Wales)

6

--

19 October 2006

Barfly (Birmingham, England)

6

--

20 October 2006

Barfly (Glasgow, Scotland)

6

--

22 October 2006

Brudenell Social Club (Leeds, England)

6

--

29 October 2006

Night and Day (Manchester, England)

6

--

23 February 2007

Music in Mind Festival (Brugge, Belgium)

5

--

14 March 2007

Emo's (Austin, USA)

1

--

28 March 2007

Cockpit (Leeds, England)

5

--

29 March 2007

Dingwalls (Camden, England)

5

--

19 April 2007

Dublin Castle (London, England)

6

--

18 May 2007

Great Escape Festival (Brighton, England)

5

--

22 June 2007

Faversham (Leeds, England)

4

--

7 July 2007

Cactus Festival (Brugge, Belgium)

2

--

20 July 2007

Italia Wave Festival (Florence, Italy)

4

--

17 August 2007

Off Festival (Myslowice, Poland)

9

--

8 September 2007

Mad Dogs and Englishmen Festival (Milton Keynes, England)

7

--

12 September 2007

Cavern (Exeter, England)

3

--

17 September 2007

Barfly (Birmingham, England)

7

--

19 September 2007

Academy 3 (Manchester, England)

7

--

20 September 2007

Sugarmill (Stoke, England)

7

--

22 September 2007

Fibbers (York, England)

2

--

23 September 2007

Academy 2 (Newcastle, England)

1

--

24 September 2007

The Tunnels (Aberdeen, England)

1

--

25 September 2007

Cabaret Voltaire (Edinburgh, Scotland)

6

--

26 September 2007

King Tut's (Glasgow, Scotland)

7

--

3 October 2007

Scala (London, England)

8

--

4 October 2007

Arts Centre (Colchester, England)

6

--

5 October 2007

Arts Centre (Norwich, England)

2

--

14 October 2007

The Middle East Upstairs (Cambridge, USA)

5

--

31 October 2007

Fleche D'or (Paris, France)

6

--

2 November 2007

Le Cri de la Mouette (Toulouse, France)

8

--

3 November 2007

Moby Dick (Madrid, Spain)

2

--

4 November 2007

La Apolo (Barcelona, Spain)

8

--

6 November 2007

Eve (Grenoble, France)

8

--

7 November 2007

Casa 139 (Milan, Italy)

8

--

8 November 2007

Circola Degli Artisti (Rome, Italy)

2

--

8 November 2007

Circola Degli Artisti (Rome, Italy)

8

--

9 November 2007

Centro Stabile di Cultura (Vicenza, Italy)

2

--

9 November 2007

Centro Stabile di Cultura (Vicenza, Italy)

8

--

10 November 2007

Spazio 211 (Turin, Italy)

6

--

11 November 2007

Hafenneipe (Zurich, Switzerland)

2

--

13 November 2007

Ampere (Munich, Germany)

8

--

14 November 2007

Star Club (Dresden, Germany)

8

--

15 November 2007

Knust (Hamburg, Germany)

8

--

16 November 2007

Gebaude 9 (Koln, Germany)

8

--

17 November 2007

Lido (Berlin, Germany)

8

--

19 November 2007

Rust (Copehagen, Denmark)

8

--

20 November 2007

Debaser (Malmo, Denmark)

2

--

21 November 2007

Pusterviksbaren (Gothenburg, Sweden)

8

--

22 November 2007

Debaser (Stockholm, Sweden)

8

--

24 November 2007

Crossing Borders Festival (Hague, Holland)

7

--

25 November 2007

Ekko (Utrecht, Netherlands)

3

--

26 November 2007

Botanique (Brussels, Belgium)

9

--

25 January 2008

Gagarin 205 (Athens, Greece)

9

--

8 April 2008

Nouveau Casino (Paris, France)

10

--

13 April 2008

B72 (Vienna, Austria)

2

--

15 April 2008

Brotfabrik (Frankfurt, Germany)

9

--

17 April 2008

Rotown (Rotterdam, Holland)

9

--

19 April 2008

Polsslag Festiva (Hasselt, Belgium)

5

--

21 April 2008

Barfly (Brighton, England)

7

--

22 April 2008

Bush Hall (London, England)

9

--

24 April 2008

Zodiac (Oxford, England)

9

--

28 April 2008

Library (Lancaster, England)

6

--

30 April 2008

Road House (Manchester, England)

9

--

1 May 2008

Brudenell Social Club (Leeds, England)

9

--

10 May 2008

Crawdaddy (Dublin, Ireland)

9

--

30 May 2008

Immergut Festival (Neustrelitz, Germany)

6

--

21 June 2008

The Library (Leeds, England)

8

--

30 August 2008

Tan Hill Inn (Tan Hill, England)

1

--

24 September 2008

Club Fandango @ 229 (London, England)

7

--

16 October 2008

Bucks University Student Union (High Wycombe, England)

8

--

23 November 2008

Gagarin 205 (Athens, Greece)

10

--

27 November 2008

Muziekcentrum TRIX (Antwerp, Belgium)

9

--

28 November 2008

Pretty Vacant Club (Düsseldorf, Germany)

8

--

29 November 2008

Waschhaus (Potsdam, Germany)

9

--

30 November 2008

Piwnica 21 (Poznań, Poland)

9

--

2 December 2008

Perron55 (Venlo, Netherlands)

9

--

3 December 2008

Paradiso (Amsterdam, Holland)

7

--

4 December 2008

Verso (Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

8

--

6 December 2008

Arts Centre (Norwich, England)

9

--

7 December 2008

Lousiana (Bristol, England)

8

--

10 December 2008

93 Feet East (London, England)

10

--

11 December 2008

Brudenell Social Club (Leeds, England)

9

--

13 December 2008

Ruby Lounge (Manchester, England)

8

--

14 December 2008

Dexters (Dundee, Scotland)

8

--

15 December 2008

King Tut's (Glasgow, Scotland)

7

--

16 December 2008

The End (Newcastle, England)

9

--

22 February 2009

Ancienne Belgique (Brussels, Belgium)

1

--

23 February 2009

Ancienne Belgique (Brussels, Belgium)

4

--

24 February 2009

Paradiso (Amsterdam, Holland)

1

--

26 February 2009

Docks (Hamburg, Germany)

3

--

27 February 2009

Columbiahalle (Berlin, Germany)

3

--

28 February 2009

Alter Schlachthof (Dresden, Germany)

1

--

2 March 2009

Tonhalle (München, Germany)

1

--

3 March 2009

Gasometer (Wein, Austria)

1

--

5 March 2009

Schlachthof (Wiesbaden, Germany)

1

--

6 March 2009

E-Werk (Koln, Germany)

1

--

7 March 2009

Bataclan (Paris, France)

1

--

30 April 2009

Luminaire (London, England)

9

--

1 May 2009

Classic Grand (Hinterland Festival) (Glasgow, Scotland)

1

--

2 May 2009

Cockpit (Leeds, England)

1

--

3 May 2009

Night and Day (Manchester, England)

8

--

16 May 2009

Great Escape Festival (Brighton, England)

1

--

18 July 2009

Dour Festival (Dour, Belgium)

1

--

19 July 2009

Latitude Festival (Southwold, England)

1

--

15 August 2009

Haldern Pop Festival (Haldern, Germany)

1

--

14 October 2009

Barfly (Liverpool, England)

4

--

15 October 2009

Deaf Institute (Manchester, England)

3

--

16 October 2009

Cockpit (Leeds, England)

3

--

17 October 2009

King Tut's (Glasgow, Scotland)

7

--

19 October 2009

Rescue Rooms (Nottingham, England)

6

--

20 October 2009

Cooler (Bristol, England)

7

--

21 October 2009

Bullingdon (Oxford, England)

7

--

22 October 2009

Highbury Garage (London, England)

7

--

23 October 2009

Hare and Hounds (Birmingham, England)

7

--


Appears on these Releases:


Release Date

Release Name

Version

Position

Extra

01 January 2006

The Indictment

British, Collection, Special, MP3

15

Live

29 May 2006

Terra Nova

British, Single, Limited, 7"

1

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26 June 2006

Progress Reform

British, EP, Regular, CD

1

--


Song Stats:


Appears on

3 releases

Played at

140 gigs

Opened the set

19 times

Earliest set appearance

1

Latest set appearance

10

Average set appearance

6

Most common set appearance

7

Chance of being played live

94.59%

Appeared in the 1st encore

0 times

Opened the 1st encore

0 times

Closed the 1st encore

0 times

Appeared in the 2nd encore

0 times

Opened the 2nd encore

0 times

Closed the 2nd encore

0 times

Appeared in the 3rd encore

0 times

Opened the 3rd encore

0 times

Closed the 3rd encore

0 times



Lyrics:


How could I,
have led these men to their demise,
and they just follow?
Exploration's last great prize,
it wasn't mine.

CHORUS:
and mores the shame
you will remember my name

Great god,
this is an awful place,
and I do not think that we can hope,
for any better things now,
oh the end,
cannot be far,
it cannot be far,
I cannot wait.
Explorations last great prize,
a saving grace,
it wasn't mine


Information:


On November 12, 1912 an Antarctic search party discovered its objective - the tent of Captain Robert Scott and his two companions half buried in the snow. Inside, they found the body of Captain Scott wedged between those of his fellow explorers, the flaps of his sleeping bag thrown back, his coat open. His companions, Lieut. Henry Bowers and Dr. Edward Wilson, lay covered in their sleeping bags as if dozing. They had been dead for eight months. They were the last members of a five-man team returning to their home base from the Pole. The team had set out from Cardiff on 15th June 1910 on the ship Terra Nova in a race to be the first to reach the South Pole. Their competition was a Norwegian expedition lead by Roald Amundsen. In addition to Capt. Scott, Lieut. Bowers, and Dr. Wilson, Capt. Titus Oates and Petty Officer Edgar Evans made the final push to the Pole. On January 16, nearing their objective, Scott and his team discover evidence that the Norwegians have beat them to the Pole. In fact, the Norwegians had arrived four weeks earlier on December 14, 1911. From Scott?s journal:

Wednesday, January 17 ?Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority. Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow. ...Now for the run home and a desperate struggle. I wonder if we can do it.?

Thursday morning, January 18 ?We have just arrived at this tent, 2 miles from our camp, therefore about l 1/2 miles from the Pole. In the tent we find a record of five Norwegians having been here... We carried the Union Jack about 3/4 of a mile north with us and left it on a piece of stick as near as we could fix it. ...Well, we have turned our back now on the goal of our ambition and must face our 800 miles of solid dragging - and good-bye to most of the day-dreams!"

Thursday, March 29 ?Every day we have been ready to start for our depot 11 miles away, but outside the door of the tent it remains a scene of whirling drift. I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.