The Dance by The Holy Orders

Celebrating the Life and Work of Philip Larkin

We are asking for your support for a campaign to get 'The Dance' - the 12 minutes 46 second debut single by The Holy Orders (unsigned and independent) - to No.1 in the UK singles chart.  If it gets to No.1 it will be the longest UK No.1 single ever, making history.  All proceeds from the download will go to BLESMA, so we think that's two great reasons to get downloading!

 As part of the 2010 programme to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of Philip Larkin, the songwriters were asked to take as their inspiration a Philip Larkin poem, and to create from it a musical setting or interpretation.

Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) is widely regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), but he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less Deceived, followed by The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). He contributed to The Daily Telegraph as its jazz critic from 1961 to 1971, articles gathered together in All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961–71 (1985), and he edited the Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse (1973).  He was offered, but declined, the position of poet laureate in 1984, following the death of John Betjeman. (Wikipedia)