Delia Derbyshire Day 2021
For the 2021 Delia Derbyshire Day, the charity responsible for the annual event commissioned two fascinating new pieces that evoke the spirit of the electronic music legend
Del Shannon
We set the dial to 1961 where the unmistakable sound of Del Shannon’s Number One smash hit ‘Runaway’ rules the airwaves… but what is that flute-like sound that drives it along? Prepare yourself for a lesson in electronic music instrument history.
The French ‘Local Information’ (Too Pure, 2003)
Though Hefner survive in the collective consciousness as the exemplar of an indie guitar outfit, the band deployed vintage synths and drum machines on later recordings. Which means that this, The French’s ‘Local Information’, isn’t quite the without-precedent one-off it might first appear.
‘Tomorrow’s World’
At the back end of 1969, a new music making machine has its debut on British TV. The show, unsurprisingly, is ‘Tomorrow’s World’, the machine is the Moog Modular…
Fifty Foot Hose
It’s 1967, the Summer of love, and San Francisco’s Fifty Foot Hose are raising the roof in a makeshift venue with an equally makeshift box of tricks…