’We Shall Not Wane’ by Gazelle Twin, featuring Maxine Peake

’We Wax. We Shall Not Wane’ is a 2-part audio Installation by Gazelle Twin, featuring Maxine Peake, reworked for digital release as an EP. Part I ’We Wax’ is here: Originally commissioned by Somerset House, London, for ‘The Horror Show’ Exhibition, October 2022 - Feb 2023 curated by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, and Claire Catterall. ’We Wax. We Shall Not Wane’ is an incantation of grief and defiance in lament to women lost to violence through the centuries until the present day. The narrated texts - read by British actor Maxine Peake - are an amalgamation of historic text and literature, including; Agnes Sampson’s Healing Charm (1591), excerpts from Ben Jonson’s ’The Witches’ Charms’ from ’The Masque of Queens’ (1609), and Gazelle Twin’s own words. Composed, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Gazelle Twin Narration by Maxine Peake Mastered by Joe Caithness Typography Des