Showing posts with label Blakes 7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blakes 7. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

BLAKES SEVEN INCHES



Oh, for a world where Blakes 7 is popular enough to warrant its theme tune appearing on not one seven inch single but TWO. Especially if one is a disco version. The mind boggles, then pops and fizzles out, never to work properly again.



This is the original, as written by Australian composer
Dudley Simpson. It loses a bit of vitality by being considerably longer than the on air version, but then who would buy a slab of vinyl featuring a piece of music that was only about thirty seconds long? Apart from us, that is. 


This is the disco version by Federation. To be searingly honest, it's actually hugely boring once the initial novelty dissipates but we don't care about that; the fact that this artefact even exists is good enough for us. 


As an added bonus, here's yet another version, this time from the majestic
Geoff Love. We love Love. This track appeared on his 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Other Galactic Disco Themes' album, which is seminal stuff and should be in every collection of music BY LAW.

Monday, 2 September 2013

THE ZEN OF BLAKE'S SEVEN


 




 

You'll either know what this post is about or not, really, not that it is terribly important either way.

Basically, TOMTIT like Blakes 7, missing apostrophe and all. For some reason we identify with the story of a ramshackle bunch of criminals getting by on stolen technology and acts of petty vandalism. So much so that on our days off we dress up in boiler suits and silver wellies and go and stand outside industrial units and factories and pretend that they are Federation strongholds. Then we kill everybody and burn the place to the ground.



FEARLONO particularly sees a lot of himself in Soo Lin.