Two Days With David Bowie

byBob Fischer
May 14, 2026

Reece Dinsdale remembers two surreal days spent filming in a Mercedes limousine with David Bowie in January 1993

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Test Dept Miners’ Benefit Concert

byMat Smith

It’s September 1984 and UK industrial pioneers Test Dept are flexing their political muscles as they throw their musical weight behind the increasingly bitter miners’ strike, beginning with a now legendary benefit concert in south London

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Mike Oldfield ‘Blue Peter’

byNeil Mason

The theme to BBC children’s show ‘Blue Peter’ is instantly recognisable, but did you know the version used from 1979 to 1989 was recorded by prog godhead Mike Oldfield?

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Touch

byMat Smith

Jon Wozencroft, founder of pioneering label and publisher Touch, reflects on 40 years of experimental electronics and audiovisual adventures

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Noël ‘Is There More To Life Than Dancing?’

byJeremy Allen

Written and produced by Ron and Russell Mael, but kiboshed by Richard Branson and the war on disco, Noël tells the story of her incredible lost classic, ‘Is There More To Life Than Dancing?’

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Tristram Cary

byMark Roland

It’s June 1973 and Tristram Cary is about to debut ‘Divertimento’, a work that was commissioned by Olivetti and composed on a collection of their electronic typewriters and photocopiers

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