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This might not be widely known but after Midge Ure left the band they did try to continue with other singers. Tony Fennell was first up, looking Ure-like, one album with him, which I quite liked. It certainly didn't deserve to bomb, which of course it did . This is the single , " I Am Alive"

Ah sigh, everything I did was to gain my mistress 's approval. I'm a softie at heart really. Don't let that little massacre on Zircaster fool you, anyway that was all the fault of my training.

I wonder what'll they do with the Dr Chronotis character as Dennis Carey is no more. Get someone else to do the animated bits or re-dub the original voice, or have it as total animation and re do everything. I hope not the latter, I'd like to see animation and recorded scenes from 1979...

Be interested to know if you give Blake's 7 a go. Tell us how you get on. Meantime here's a montage of the coolest villainess in the galaxy.

Johnny was a soldier in the Allies Johnny was a soldier all the way Johnny was a soldier with a fun side Johnny liked to laugh a lot each day Johnny met a girl who as a beauty Johnny never thought to live in sin Do you take this a girl? Yes I take this girl Johnny had a next of kin They were...

This is perhaps Richard H Kirk's most bizarre album, Ugly Spirit. 40 minutes of uniquely weird stuff presenting a challenge to the listener. And I love it!! Trust me you'll never have heard anything like this before. The album starts with three pretty ordinary tracks, as a sort of intro to the...

It's been a long time since Gary Numan had a big chart hit , and he's moved away from that material anyway, his last half dozen albums have been critically acclaimed as he now produces almost apocalyptic songs of a dark nature. This is from the excellent ' Exile' release.

Apart from Sci fi and non fiction books, Asimov wrote a wonderful series of detective fiction books, the Black Widower series of short stories featuring the detective genius of Henry the waiter. I'll explain. In real life Asimov belonged to a group called the Trap Door Spiders, a group of his...

The awful moments in Blake's 7 usually fall into the poor FX category which doesn't really bother me. So long as the poor FX doesn't undermine the scene then I'm OK with it. Coming perilously close to ridiculing a scene and destroying credibility of an episode is the Kyropan monster and of...

I like to think I have an eclectic taste in music encompassing all styles, but I admit I do like my weird stuff. Uncommercial, strange, offbeat. So this thread is for the unusual, no chance of commercial success stuff, which I'll put here rather than clogging up the mainstream threads. Feel free...

Benny Hill's classic comic song ' Ernie ' accompanying Blakes7 clips!! Priceless!

A heavy piece of driving rock from Glasgow's finest.