The BBC Radiophonic Workshop is a thing of brilliance- all that time they spent with old synths and tapes and gizmos making weird noises, sound effects, incidental music and theme tunes. And paid for by the license fee- stick that The Daily Mail and other BBC critics. This clip shows the surviving members (sadly minus the late Delia Derbyshire above) playing the Doctor Who theme recently for the One Show. Although it doesn't need the sound clips from the TV series really. I can take or leave Doctor Who a lot of the time, but the thought of Peter Capaldi swearing his way through space and time could bring me in- 'fucking Dalek omnishambles' and 'fuckety bye you useless alien knobface', that sort of thing.
From 1976, Out Of This World
I am convinced that those of us growing up in the 60s/70s watching BBC TV have been massively subliminally influenced by the Radiophonic workshop-hence the fantastically creative and inventive electronic music that suddenly appeared as soon as the means to make it became widely available, and that continues to be made today by people of a certain age
ReplyDeleteThat theme tune is great, and watching all those old guys, even older than me some of them, is great. Like a bunch of top-quality session musicians in Nashville.
ReplyDeleteThis splendid thing is well worth a listen, in case you missed it.
ReplyDeleteIs it just me or was Delia a bit of a looker?
ReplyDeleteJust checked the internet. Horrible teeth!
ReplyDeleteShe was def the poster girl for the BBC RW- but you're right about the teeth.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes Davy, I caught up with that. Ta though.
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