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LYR
last updated 2026-09-11 11:26
LYR
Plays on LTZ: 9 across 9 shows (2024-03-07, 2024-03-21, 2024-04-18, 2024-10-24, 2025-01-09, 2025-01-23, 2025-03-20, 2025-06-25, 2026-04-23)
Tracks played
(artist profile) LYR — researched 2026-09-11
Dark Sky Reservation — played 2026-04-09
Research
09. Lyr — Sirius Alpha, Sirius Beta
Lyr are a Welsh experimental group: poet Robin Robertson, cellist Beth Porter, and producer Chris Sharkey. They make music at the intersection of poetry, post-rock, and chamber music — language treated as texture as much as meaning.
Does the same job it did in the 9th April show — slowing the room down before the Moment in History segment.
⚠️ Data-quality fix (2026-09-11 merge): a duplicate Lyr.md file wrongly described this artist as "a Welsh experimental group: poet Robin Robertson, cellist Beth Porter, and producer Chris Sharkey." Confirmed incorrect — LYR is Simon Armitage's project (see profile below). That bad bio came from the original 23rd April show Research.md and has been discarded; Lyr.md deleted, track record kept here.
Lyr — Dark Sky Reservation
Played: 2026-04-09 (Set 4 — Moment in History)
Welsh experimental group: poet Robin Robertson, cellist Beth Porter, and producer Chris Sharkey, working at the intersection of poetry, post-rock, and chamber music — language treated as texture as much as meaning. A breather before the history segment, something that slows the room down.
LYR
Origin: Sheffield/Leeds, England · formed circa 2018 · active
Members: Simon Armitage (poet, vocals), Richard Walters (Liu Bei, vocals/guitar), Patrick James Pearson (piano, production)
Genre: Spoken word, art pop, experimental
Discography:
An Unnatural History (2023) — Mercury KX — includes "The Ultraviolet Age"
Call In The Crash Team (2020) — Mercury KX — debut album; also released as "Lockdown" single during 2020
LTZ context: 9 plays across 9 shows between 2024-03-07 and 2026-04-23 (plus 1 collaborative play with Josephine Oniyama, "The Enlightenment").
Facts:
Simon Armitage was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 2019.
The trio also recorded under the name Land Yacht Regatta before settling on LYR.
Debut album Call In The Crash Team was recorded at Middle Farm Studios, Devon, and released on Mercury KX (Decca/Universal).
Their An Unnatural History (2023) was released on the same label, Mercury KX.