Reimagined sounds of Bolton Wanderers' stadium by Simon Woods.
"The piece is based on a recording made by walking around the outside of the Macron Stadium, Horwich, Bolton. It is the home of Bolton Wanderers FC – I am a season ticket holder and have been for fifty years.
The field recordings were made over two separate home matches a week apart. The idea of the piece is to capture the conversations and memories prior to the game. Many supporters remember the old days and reminisce, they chat with anticipation on the upcoming game. On the journey around the stadium is a statue in memory of Nat Lofthouse one of our greatest ever players. He is held in such reverence by Bolton supporters, such reverance that many of my extended family would talk to my Dad one day as he dared to suggest that Nat was anything less than God’s right hand man! Which brings to my overall concept. A few years back a professor contacted me as he was writing a paper on the links between going to church on a S
