Making weekly London to Leicester rail journeys, Sandra Cross secretly taped hundreds of buffet announcements, and edited them into this thirty minute piece. Focusing tightly on the small, and usually unvarying, list of fayre generates a maddeningly mundane musicality. Seven minutes in the unprecedented non-availability of hot drinks suddenly seems catastrophic.
Different announcements, with vastly different emphasis and emotional resonances, can sound indefatigably enthusiastic about the quavers/ water combos, or audibly defeated.
Marking the announcements as individual tracks might have offered the listener infinite random variations, but it seems fitting that we endure this album as the artist intended.
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Shit Crit, Twitter
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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GRTak, finalgear.com
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Peter Ould, Twitter
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Mearecate, Youtube
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Chez, Chortle.com
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Hiewy, Youtube
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Danazawa, Youtube
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Brighton Argus
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Bosco239, youtube
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Stuart, Chortle
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
Leach Juice, Twitter
Leach Juice, Twitter
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Jackmumf, Twitter
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Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk