I had a gig at Cafe#9 in Sheffield a couple of years ago, and, looking for things to talk about between songs, looked up what had happened in history that day, and chanced upon a bizarre event from 1977 - The Southern Television Broadcast Interruption.
Strange things happen in Hampshire..
I was fascinated. This was clearly an inside job by someone who knew what they were doing - but what of those who witnessed it in their living room? So I wrote what could loosely be described as a song about it from the point of view of one such viewer, and played it at that gig. A Breakthrough In Sound is that song.
Arguably, it's recalling documents of interplanetary laughs.
<rollseyes>Sigh</rollseyes>
Other than the guitar and my voice, all the sounds on the track are Mellotron - the tape-based instrument mentioned in previous posts - including all sound effects (and static!), and sometimes heavily processed.
Whilst it has quasi-science-fiction overtones, the message of the song is a simple one of love, peace, scones and jam.
See you tomorrow for a bit of exercise!
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