The final frontier

I am aching in places I didn't even know could ache, having spent several fruitful hours in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers. Two full bin-bags of crap - mainly sycamore seeds and prunings - later, and I have barely scraped the surface (literally) of about one-third of what needs to be done...

On a different subject altogether, we're apparently in the middle of World Space Week (who knew?), so let's have a selection of suitably-themed songs for your delectation, shall we?

First up, an old, old favourite that I and my sister used to dance to way back in the early '80s at Lazers nightclub (RIP) in Newport:

B-52s - Planet Claire

A classic that simply had to be here:

David Bowie - Starman

From the sublime to the ridiculous...

Donny & Marie Osmond Space Finale With Charo, Roy Clark, George Gobel, Osmond Brothers:

And three bizarre examples from the kitsch end of the genre...

The Droids - The Force

Rah Band - Clouds Across the Moon

...ending up with Miss Sara Brightman and Hot Gossip and their timeless - ahem - classic I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper:

Strange new worlds, indeed.

Even in the year three thousand

"Forget all the Disco Sucks bollocks, this was where the creativity was. Many of the qualities of Disco that were so derided were mirror images of those qualities that were celebrated in Punk: an annihilating insistence on sex as opposed to puritan disgust; a delight in a technology as opposed to a Luddite reliance on the standard Rock group format; acceptance of mass production as opposed to individuality. It was the difference between 1984 and Brave New World: between a totalitarian nightmare or a dystopia accomplished through seduction.

...Disco’s stateless, relentlessly technological focus lent itself to space/alien fantasies which are a very good way for minorities to express and deflect alienation: if you’re weird, it’s because you’re from another world. And this world cannot touch you." - writer, broadcaster and music journalist Jon Savage [as quoted in a review over at the ever-wonderful {feuilleton} of his latest electronic disco compilation CD.]

We have a three-day weekend to look forward to, dear reader [it is the May Day Bank Holiday on Monday], and to get the party started in an appropriate manner - with a double-bill of madness, from the above CD - let's dig out our silveriest silver lamé outfits, paint our faces to match...and Thank (Space) Disco It's Friday!

The Droids - The Force

Slick - Space Bass

Have a great (long) weekend, peeps!