The Dyr Sister

(Dyr is Old Norse for Deer)

The Dyr Sister's Fairy-tales for the Modern Gentleman is an ever-growing compendium of anti-ballads chronicling the banality of modern existence.

Combining contemporary folk with post-hiphop and electronic music genres the Dyr Sisters songs are delivered with driving percussive beats via a backdrop of strings including Viola/Guitar (Sally Currie), Harp (Stephanie Halsey) and Bass Guitar (Sarah Shiels) and layered with haunting and ethereal vocal harmonies. This is a devastatingly beautiful expression of what it means to be alive and kicking and still telling tales in these bleak times.

Sally Currie is a partially deaf multi-instrumentalist who has an extensive history writing and performing original music with bands and solo. As a solo artist she has performed her work all over the UK, from the smallest venue such as Folk in a Box (with a capacity of 1) to events such as Unlimited Festival at the South Bank Centre. In between she has shared billings with artists such as Laetitia Sadier (Stereloab), Brix & The Extricated, Curtis Eller and This is The Kit. In 2019 she formed a band and was also awarded one of the Drake Music emergent commissions. She composed a song which was set to moving image. This was a collaboration with the artist and animator, Anna Bean.

In 2021 Sally was awarded Sound and Musics Composer Curator and did another, larger scale production with Anna. This was an immersive theatrical iteration of The Dyr Sister entitled 'Fairytales for the Modern Gentleman' Anna worked with Immersive Projection Mapper, Ed Grimoldby and theater practitioners to create a life size diorama, centered around the bands music. We did 8 shows in a pop up gallery space down Humber Street in Hull in October 2021. This was in partnership with Back to Ours and with the support of Hull Jazz Festival Kickstarter fund.

"The Dyr Sister sounds like some wonderful collaboration between Thom Yorke and Shirley Collins." - Fred Perry Subculture