[sdiy] Attention all Delia Derbyshire worshippers

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow all.
         This is just a headzup that there is a new Delia Derbyshire list 
started by a guy called Ian Burdon. Possibly the last person to be holding 
a flame for her on the web currently.

Go here to subscribe 
--->   <http://www.topica.com/lists/Delia>http://www.topica.com/lists/Delia

British people in particular should be interested in this. For those who 
don't know, Delia Derbyshire is one of the more pivotal and yet least known 
characters in early electronic music. Initially, she WAS the BBC 
radiophonic workshop. And although Ron Grainger was credited as having 
written the theme to Doctor Who, it was actually Delia who pulled it off. 
Grainger actually campaigned to BBC management to have her in the credits 
but they declined. (assholes)

Even today, the BBC are apparently sitting on a huge Derbyshire archive but 
won't release it. Ian was once telling me that he tried just to get hold of 
recordings of it for his own listening pleasure but they would only give 
him copies for commercial (IE: contractual/mechanical.) rates.

It pretty much annoys me that with so few women working in this field, one 
of the early pioneers was in fact female and yet through a combination of 
sexism and stupidity, has been swept under the historical carpet.

Derbyshire was also the other half of the WhiteNoise team. With David 
Vourhause. Their electronic musical exploits now being somewhat legendary.

I suspect the list will be pretty slow. There's not much more to tell 
without the BBC allowing us to hear all the material but it would be nice 
if people kept the memory alive at least.

And that's my good deed for the year so I should at least get my two front 
teeth for Christmas.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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