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INFORM - EDUCATE - ENTERTAIN
The last track to be written for this album, with good reason as it contains elements of all the others. I’ve used that same trick a few times.. I like to think it’s clever & symphonic but it’s probably just lazy #timstwitterlisteningparty
The last track to be written for this album, with good reason as it contains elements of all the others. I’ve used that same trick a few times.. I like to think it’s clever & symphonic but it’s probably just lazy #timstwitterlisteningparty
We used to start the show with this song and I’d tune in to a radio live - it normally went fine apart from the night at @thetradesclub Hebden Bridge where I managed to tune in to a BBC R4 discussion on anal sex (I kid you not) #timstwitterlisteningparty
This quote is Marie Slocombe, the founder of the BBC Archive. A few reviews seemed to think it was Margaret Thatcher, which I think is the angriest I’ve been about any review before or since. It is not Margaret Thatcher. #timstwitterlisteningparty
Listening to this record is a little painful for me - I don’t think it sounds that great, but then again it did cost about £400 to make. Here’s what my studio looked like back then (or bits of it, as I was putting it together after moving house)… #timstwitterlisteningparty
SPITFIRE
There was a bit of discussion about whether this should go on the record, seeing as it was already released on The War Room.. management thought yes, I thought no. In retrospect they were probably right, I think #timstwitterlisteningparty
There was a bit of discussion about whether this should go on the record, seeing as it was already released on The War Room.. management thought yes, I thought no. In retrospect they were probably right, I think #timstwitterlisteningparty
I’d originally intended this song to be based on the RAF film Target For Tonight, which is a pretty prosaic account of a bombing raid on Germany. The BFI got in touch to say they didn’t have a copy so perhaps I should try something else… #timstwitterlisteningparty
… I ended up finding The First of the Few and hearing these magnificent lines delivered by Leslie Howard, and the song Spitfire was born. It was one of the (very many) lucky moments I’ve had #timstwitterlisteningparty
Using a Krautrock beat on this track helps undercut any potential nationalist tub-thumping, & thankfully those types have stayed away. I do feel that us left-leaning types shouldn’t be shy about celebrating a machine that helped defeat fascism, though #timstwitterlisteningparty
I know it’s a song about a machine of war, but it’s also always been about creativity as far as I’m concerned. These lines sum that up, the difficulty in stretching for something just out of reach… #timstwitterlisteningparty
… and one of the grimmer ironies of war is that out of so much destruction often comes such creativity. It has been a quite horrifically effective driver of technological innovation (good and - mostly - very bad) #timstwitterlisteningparty
Live, I figured out a way to play the guitar riff with the left hand and this descending keys line with the right. It’s one of those nice tricks that looks really impressive but is a bit of a swizz really.. it took a bit of practice I suppose #timstwitterlisteningparty
THEME FROM PSB
A lot of the speech elements on this record were inspired by acts like Jurassic 5 and DJ Shadow.. I thought it’d be a fun idea to write a very corduroy theme / hype song for PSB, hence the title (and song) #timstwitterlisteningparty
A lot of the speech elements on this record were inspired by acts like Jurassic 5 and DJ Shadow.. I thought it’d be a fun idea to write a very corduroy theme / hype song for PSB, hence the title (and song) #timstwitterlisteningparty
This introduction is taken from a film called ‘Forty Years of Human Service’, a 1930s film about the work of the National Jewish Hospital in Denver. Obviously I cut around that bit… #timstwitterlisteningparty
I trawled through the Prelinger Archives for ages trying to find anyone saying ‘Public’, ‘Service’ or ‘Broadcasting’ and ended up with a handful… it was quite a labour-intensive process #pluscachange #timstwitterlisteningparty
