Sonic attack

[hirez]

This is both remarkable and somewhat saddening.

It's many of the surviving members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop kicking it live earlier this year. An event that managed to completely pass me by.

There are bits all over Youtube, but the Who theme is a riot. They sound enough like Hawkwind that I would not have been surprised if they'd swung into Levitation and given it a right shoeing.

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[meltie.livejournal.com]

Oh bollocks.

[spride.livejournal.com]

Bona.

[nemesis-to-go.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd known about that at the time, but I didn't hear a peep (or, indeed, a bleep) about it. I assume it was an unofficial non-BBC event, otherwise it would've been all over Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on 6 Music or something - wouldn't it...?

I once had occasion to namecheck the BBC Radiophonic Workshop when I reviewed The Spectrometers (http://www.myspace.com/thespectrometers). I recieved a bemused (but pleased) email from the band in which they said I was the only person who'd ever made that connection. Apparently Delia Derbyshire is their absolute heroine.

(Incidentally, I see that The Spectrometers number all their songs, instead of giving them titles. As they use 5-digit numbers I assume they plan to write 10,000 songs and then stop. Better get busy, then!)