Florence Pugh Records 'Lockdown' With Simon Armitage for Charity

Actor Florence Pugh and UK's poet laureate, Simon Armitage, have recorded a lockdown poem together for charity, says Mark Brown at The Guardian. Written and published by Armitage in March, "Lockdown" "has been set to music and will be sold to help raise money for the domestic abuse charity Refuge." More:

It features Armitage and Pugh reading the lines to music that starts ominously, and becomes more hypnotic and euphoric. Armitage has been making tracks of his poems with collaborators Richard Walters and Patrick J Pearson, collectively known as LYR, for a couple of years. The involvement of Pugh – nominated at the Oscars and Baftas for her role in Little Women this year – was wonderful, he said. “She brings such intelligence and crackle.”

The track was recorded remotely during the current lockdown. “We are very familiar with collaborating at distance,” Armitage said. “We have spent time together in studios but we are more used to putting things together over the internet so this was something we were able to assemble fairly quickly.”

Check out the video of the collaboration, and more, at The Guardian.