Stringhenge is Durrant’s twelfth, full length, solo album and is completely different to anything he’s released so far. It will also be his first release on vinyl and his first double album.
Says Richard: “I can feel this album feeding on the oddness of my musical upbringing; it’s all there – British folk music, obscure prog rock and JS Bach. It’s taken me years to make sense of it all.”

Stringhenge will be launched during another Durrant, bicycle powered, concert tour across the British Isles. The album tour begins on June 1st in St Magnus Cathedral on The Isle of Orkney. Then Durrant cycles his way south covering 1500 miles of the British landscape performing in some remarkable places on the way. These will include Greyfriars Edinburgh, Lindisfarne, Sherwood Forest, Holywell Oxford and Brighton Open Air Theatre (midsummer’s night).

Anybody wishing to join the cycle tour should contact info@richarddurrant.com

Stringhenge is being produced with the support of crowd funding. Featured on the Pledge Music website you can order copies of the album (double vinyl, CD or download), tickets for the tour and many other special offers such as attending a gig in Richard’s studio or having your name included on the album artwork.

Richard will be recording Stringhenge on many different instruments but, most notably, playing a guitar crafted from 5,000 year old English oak.

Says Richard: “This guitar has an almost sacred presence and Stringhenge grew out of my relationship with it. It led me to commission the Uffington Tenor Guitar from Ian Chisholm, to write loads of new music and to create my first double album.”