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Get Rid!

by Paul Whitty

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Bodkins Playing Field 02:59
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Boys! Stop asking how long and get on with it 03:00
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Brightwell Recreation Ground 03:00
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How long have we got? I want to go and have a beer 03:00
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Ashendon Playing Field 03:00
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We dig in! We do not concede again 03:00
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The Lockway 02:59
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Keep switched on 03:00
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Steventon Green 03:00
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Make something of it then Stivvy 03:00
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Sound Recording: Paul Whitty
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Oving Recreation Ground 03:00
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Make your fucking mind up 03:00
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Horspath Sports Ground 03:00
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They don't give him enough quality 03:00
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Stade, Condat-sur-Vézère 03:00
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Va dans le mur 03:00
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Sutton Courtenay Recreation Ground 03:00
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Hey Reds, sharpen up 03:00
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Postscript - Hithercroft Sports Park 05:08
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To listen to the sound of grassroots football matches on parish recreation grounds, playing fields and village greens is to listen to a rich sounding culture. The distinctive practices of on-pitch communication; the whistle; the sound of football boot on ball, of the ball as it lands; the struck crack of the crossbar; studs compressing the soil, brushing the grass, slicing through the turf. Grassroots football is a game of noise, silence, presence, absence, activity, inactivity. The sounding comes in waves — building, receding. Pitches stand empty for days then startle into exuberant sound-making action. Football is present. Football is happening. A substitution is made; the ball takes a wild deflection from a corner — disappears into a garden — and is followed by a player who climbs over a fence and into undergrowth to retrieve it; a free-kick is given and the game stalls; the goalkeeper argues with his left-back about how many players should be in the wall; the central defender argues with the ref about the infringement; the assistant referee checks his phone for messages. There’s an injury and the players stand around in small groups talking or lost in their own thoughts. Then the game crackles into life with a high tackle; a controversial decision; a header that slaps against the post; a counter-attack; a coach barely able to prevent himself from running onto the pitch and who, instead, ends up kicking the dugout. The final whistle. The everyday sounds of the parish recreation ground, playing field and village green return. Football is absent. Football isn’t happening.

This collection of recordings documents the sound of football and happening and football not happening.

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released April 17, 2020

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Sound Diaries aim is to record everyday life in sound – to resist the overwhelming tide of visual images of the everyday and to meet it with the abundant soundings of vending machines, luggage carousels, toasters, escalators, boilers, garden sheds and wheeled luggage. ... more

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