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Heroes is back and so are Wendy & Lisa

22 September 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Well, Heroes is back tonight in the US – we in the UK will officially have to wait until next Monday before the Beeb starts to air season three, thus creating a whole new usage of the word “simulcast’ that we previously hadn’t been aware of.

Anyway, in preparation for that magic moment, I thought I’d give you a couple of vids from the show’s composers, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, who back in the day were Wendy & Lisa. After working with Prince for a while, they went solo and released a few albums before heading off into the world of film and TV score composition, notably doing the music for Toys and Dangerous Minds. So here are a few 80s music vids of theirs. Enjoy the hair.

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Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Jools Holland in The Laughing Prisoner

20 August 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Yesterday, we had a little look at the location of the remake of The Prisoner. We also had a look at an old sci-fi pilot of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie’s. If only there were some way to combine Fry, Laurie and The Prisoner…

Oh wait, there is! The Laughing Prisoner was the final (sort of) episode of popular Channel 4 music show The Tube, which was hosted by Jools Holland and Paula Yates. In it, Holland resigns from The Tube and is promptly taken away to the Village, where he finds the new Number 2 is Stephen Fry. Siouxsie and the Banshees are there, too, as is Hugh Laurie.

Given that Holland is a lifelong The Prisoner fan and somehow managed to get references to the show into just about everything he’s ever done, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to discover it’s desperately authentic and true to the original series, right down to being filmed in Portmeirion – it also includes plenty of clips from the series proper, so presents a good intro (sort of) to The Prisoner, if you’ve never seen it. And if you have seen, you’ll probably be able to name every episode that gets referenced, as it’s referenced.

Over to you, Mr YouTube. It doesn’t properly kick off until a few minutes in, though.

Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Jools Holland in The Laughing Prisoner

20 August 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Yesterday, we had a little look at the location of the remake of The Prisoner. We also had a look at an old sci-fi pilot of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie’s. If only there were some way to combine Fry, Laurie and The Prisoner…

Oh wait, there is! The Laughing Prisoner was the final (sort of) episode of popular Channel 4 music show The Tube, which was hosted by Jools Holland and Paula Yates. In it, Holland resigns from The Tube and is promptly taken away to the Village, where he finds the new Number 2 is Stephen Fry. Siouxsie and the Banshees are there, too, as is Hugh Laurie.

Given that Holland is a lifelong The Prisoner fan and somehow managed to get references to the show into just about everything he’s ever done, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to discover it’s desperately authentic and true to the original series, right down to being filmed in Portmeirion – it also includes plenty of clips from the series proper, so presents a good intro (sort of) to The Prisoner, if you’ve never seen it. And if you have seen, you’ll probably be able to name every episode that gets referenced, as it’s referenced.

Over to you, Mr YouTube. It doesn’t properly kick off until a few minutes in, though.

David Byrne and Brian Eno – back together again

18 August 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

After 30 years, Brian Eno and David Byrne have got together again to collaborate on a new album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. Through the mighty miracle of the Internet (and assuming I’ve not screwed up too badly), you should be able to listen to the whole thing using the player below. Enjoy!

In case you want to go mobile, you can also buy it from their web site to play back on your MP3 player – there’s an MP3 you can download for free, too. Enjoy that, too.