Enjoy ‘An Evening of Doctor Who Classics’ with The Radiophonic Workshop!

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On May 20th The Radiophonic Workshop: Out of the TARDIS – An Evening of Doctor Who Classics and Other Unworldly Sounds will be performed at the National Concert Hall, Dublin as part of Perspectives 2015.

Celebrate their enormous contribution to music as the surviving composers and engineers of the revered BBC music studio perform, amongst others, their remix of the Doctor Who theme – which you can listen to here –  for the 50th anniversary which includes a section of the original, written by Ron Grainer and recorded by Delia Derbyshire in 1963 along with Peter Howell’s interpretation from the 1980s and a brand new intro, with visuals edited by the band.

Buried within the labyrinthine corridors of the BBC Maida Vale complex – resplendent in many layers of cheap green industrial emulsion –  and housed within their own small studios, this collection of mavericks and eccentrics quietly explored new ways of using sound.

The group which is composed of Paddy Kingsland, Roger Limb and Dick Mills – who joined the Workshop very shortly after its formation in 1958, and is affectionately referred to as Dr Dick after he was bestowed with an honorary doctorate from Bradford University, were responsible for some of the most iconic soundtracks to come out of the BBC including:  Horizon, Quatermass, Newsround and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

New members who joined them as a performing concern since 2009’s brilliant but ramshackle performance at The Roundhouse, London have included Prodigy side-man Kieron Pepper on drums, Mark Ayres – their youngest member, formerly the RWS’s archivist in its final days at the Beeb, and the dynamo behind the formation of the new group, and Peter Howell, once a psychedelic folk musician in bands including Agincourt – who split when Howell secured a BBC sound engineering position; working primarily on Doctor Who.

The Radiophonic Workshop released a new album in 2014 and a track by track breakdown can be found over at subscription service, Society of Sound – where members can pick it up for free. You can here a sample of album track Regeneration – a track that came about when Peter Howell asked himself a very straightforward question: What happens before the Doctor Who titles roll? – via Bowers and Wilkins.

Tickets for The Radiophonic Workshops: Out of the TARDIS ‘An Evening of Doctor Who classics’ and other unworldly sounds at the National Concert Hall on 20 May 2015 will go on sale Friday 30th January at 10am from www.nch.ie or Tel: 01 417 0000. Tickets from €25 (15% discount for groups of 10 or more and 20% discount for Friends of The National Concert Hall).

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