FRIDAY NIGHT ... TROCK! GALIFREYAN HISTORY 101 BY CHAMELEON CIRCUIT

In anticipation of the return of Doctor Who's sixth season on BBC American here in the states on April 23, I found this brilliant Trock song! Trock is a portmanteau of Timelords and Rock and is used to describe a wave of music started by YouTube partner Nerimon and his band Chameleon Circuit. Styles of music can vary from hard-rock to acoustic, but the underlying theme is the adventures of Doctor Who.

This is their song Galifreyan History 101, which runs down the entire back story of the Timelords in four minutes and sixteen seconds!

FRIDAY NIGHT FILK! THE MAN THEY CALL JOSS BY BEDLAM BARDS

Firefly has a dedicated following and there are many filk songs written about it. This funny, wry and witty song is a takeoff of the song from the seventh episode of Firefly called "The Ballad of Jayne Cobb". “The Man They Call Joss” is written and performed by Bedlam Bards who have released an entire album paying tribute to Firefly titled “On The Drift”.


Here is a description of their group from their web site, bedlambards.com.:

We're a musical group with two-and-a-half members; that is to say, usually there's two of us, but sometimes there's three. That's a picture of us over to your left. The grey-haired guy with the guitar is Hawke, and the dark-haired fellow with the fiddle is Cedric. Pleased to meet you.


When people ask what kind of music we play, we often say Celtic, but in fact we play "Renfolk Music," that unique blend of Celtic, English, Scandinavian, and American folk music mixed in with period tunes from the Renaissance and Middle Ages that rubs shoulders with the occasional incognito rock song at most Renaissance festivals. And we have a lot of fun playing it.


Enjoy the creator of Firefly “The Man They Call Joss”!

FRIDAY NIGHT FILK! SPOILER ALERT BY TOM SMITH

Filk is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy fandom and a type of fan labor.  The genre has been active since the early 1950s, and played primarily since the mid-1970s. The term (originally a typographical error) predates 1955.

This description of filker Tom Smith is from his own web site http://www.tomsmithonline.com/index.html.

Tom is NOT your ordinary comedy musician. With the lyrical complexity of Ashman and Sondheim, the vocal fireworks of Meat Loaf, the comedic timing of Robin Williams, and the dynamic physique of the Skipper from Gilligan's Island, the only thing he won't do is be boring.

The only recording artist to be featured on both NPR's Sound and Spirit and The Dr. Demento Show, and writer of the official chantey for Talk Like A Pirate Day, Tom has been praised by such diverse folk as singer-songwriter Christine Lavin, author Larry Niven, and web cartoonist Randy Milholland. He has sixteen albums so far, blending comedy, tragedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, popular culture, technology, politics, religion, and the occasional recipe with virtually every genre of music you can imagine.

Starting out at sf/fantasy conventions, Tom has been branching out to house concerts and regular gigs the past couple of years. He arranges and records at home, using MIDI, loops, and all manner of software gadgetry... but in performance, it's just him and his guitar, in a high-energy, family-friendly show filled with laughter, shtick, and really, really bad puns.

Tom Smith performs his song "Spoiler Alert" live at Windycon 34 on November 10th 2007.