IMAGE CREDIT: Julie Rowe, co-owner Aqua Bar, Pevensey Bay
The Aqua Bar in Pevensey Bay is to host the national launch of a Pevensey Whale rock and roll song.—Bay Life, 22 April 2017
Signed local musician, Peter Barron, who lives in Pevensey Bay, whose latest album One More Crow, available on Copra Records, has won critical acclaim for his unique blend of early seventies jangle and punk inspired riffs, also writes his own compositions. His “Song to the Pevensey Whale ” launches this summer.
His new rock and roll song to the Pevensey Whale, part of a forthcoming EP, is to be launched at the Aqua Bar.
As well as writing the compositions, Peter sings and plays guitar.
By day, Peter is a furniture restorer, but his spare time is taken up with restoring the early seventies to its rightful place in the cannon of musical history.
Pinning down the sound is quite hard, but there is a theme than runs like a stick of rock through the sound that references the early seventies and in particular the work of Marc Bolan and T Rex.
His new song, part of an EP, inspired by the story of the Pevensey Whale is to be launched on the day that the £19.8milliion museum dedicated in part to the Pevensey Whale opens in Cambridge this summer..The skeleton of the Pevnesey Whale is to be the star attraction, suspended over two floors in a special architect designed annexe
The song with a blast of lyrics straight out of the rock and roll part punk original songbook includes the following opening lines
“Well Jonah had a tussle with a creature from the deep
And Moby Dick got hit but he never missed a beat
So won’t you gather round people we’re about to set sail
Cos this is the story of the Pevensey Whale”
The release of the song is to be launched at the Aqua Bar, here in Pevensey Bay, blasted on a sound system to the waves where the story of the Pevensey Whale began on 13 November 1865.
The Pevensey Timeline Association which is organising the pop up event working with the Aqua Bar said, “we discovered the skipping rhyme sung by the children in Sussex playgrounds at the time the Pevensey Whale was washed up and the four lines had more than a hint of the unpleasant smell coming fom the massive beached whale. Those lines have now been passed down through history.
“There is something about a part punk inspired song with rhyming couplets that somehow fits the bill in telling part of the story of the famous Pevensey Whale in 2017. Maybe the kids of 1865 would have loved it!”
Tickets to the event will be available from the Aqua Bar with a date of the event to be announced soon for the summer.
The blast from the sound system with the track from the EP heard for the very first time, will take place here in Pevensey Bay, with the speakers pointed straight out to the waves. The launch of the song will take place at exactly 8:00pm one evening, the time recorded that a local coastguard first saw the huge mammal in the waves that was 71 foot long and the weight of eight double decker buses.
Commenting on the decision by the Pevensey Timeline Association to blast the sound of the song straight from the Aqua Bar into the sea, Peter Barron suggested, “sounds like a pretty cool idea”.
Whether the released song will become a national hit is yet to be seen, given that previous Peter Barron compositions have received a number of plays on specialist radio stations, it will be interesting to see and hear if the Pevensey Bay written song, about the story of the Pevensey Whale, will go national along with the launch of the Museum in Cambridge, and become a big hit
If so, you will have beard the blast from the past first at the Aqua Bar in Pevensey Bay one night at 8:00pm, in what could become a ticket only event.
Blasted from the Aqua Bar, the release of the rock and roll song seems somewhat appropriate, given that the Aqua Bar Ethos is all about “something special in the water”.
As well as the national launch of the Pevensey Whale song, the Aqua Bar is also to host a photographic exhibition of the history of the unique venue and the Aquafest weekend this summer .
In addition, 100 Days at the Aqua Bar will see 100 photographs taken of the spectacular sunset in Pevensey Bay shot from the patio at the Aqua Bar, with the final winning entry blown up large on one of the walls of the venue as a tribute to the amazingly talented photographers that live and work here.
As part of their new series of promotions, the Aqua Bar is to launch an eventboard here on the Bay Life web platform..
On hearing the news about some of the planned events to take place at the Aqua Bar, a brimming with delight co-owner, Julie Rowe, smiled and commented, “this is our table and our sitting room and I just want everyone who comes here to feel comfortable”.
