# RED DWAAAAARRFF #

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Posted by on 17th May 2017, 08:58

You all remember the big news last year, don’t you? No, not Red Dwarf XI. It was that magical moment when Darrell pointed out on our forums that the opening theme to popular science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf bloody well has lyrics.

All these months later, that fact still blows me away. (Here’s a great write-up of it by Mental Floss.) But aside from that initial thread, the only other thing we had to go on was this little acknowledgement from Howard Goodall:

Now, wouldn’t it be nice if, say, someone like Graham Kibble-White just happened to be doing an interview with Howard about one of his upcoming programmes, and asked him a little more about the subject?

Oh, look what we’ve just been sent. What a coincidence.

I know someone who does this Red Dwarf fan site, and they got excited, I think last year, because they’d been analysing the music…

Right!

And they had discovered there were vocals hidden in the music.

Oh, it’s them who discovered it? Yeah, they then put it out on Twitter, and it was a huge story for Red Dwarf fans, yeah. Oh well, thank them for finding it. I mean, I hadn’t deliberately hidden it. It just happened to be there in the mix. It’s just that no one seemed to have noticed it! [Laughs] So it was a very nice discovery.

Had you forgotten it was there yourself?

No, I knew it was. I didn’t know that people hadn’t noticed it.

So, that was the shock.

I had assumed everybody knew it was there, but it was so long ago, it was 27 years or whatever, and so I thought no more of it. Then all these fans around the world were saying, ‘Oh my God, we’d never noticed it before’. To me, the surprise was it hadn’t been noticed before.

Is that you singing? Is it on a vocoder?

That’s me doing a vocoder, yeah.

And do you mind if I pass this onto them?

Not at all!

Many thanks to Graham and Howard for the above. Now, I’m off to listen to QI theme again. I’m sure I can hear a bit where Howard calls Alan Davies a dickhead using morse code.

Goodall Does Good(all)

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Posted by on 6th November 2012, 19:56

It’s nice when a composer of a TV show releases varying arrangements of their themes. What’s that? Howard Goodall’s done exactly that? Well, bugger me so he has!

Yes, Howard “he’s just so bloody” Goodall has released piano arrangements of his own music from Dwarf on iTunes, namely the ‘Main Theme’ and ‘Tongue Tied’ which you can download for the modest price of 79p each.

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Howard Goodall Composing RDX

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Posted by on 26th April 2012, 17:32

Well well well! Hasn't today been exciting? First we get our first official glimpse of the crew in situ, then we then get a very brief mention into what Howard Goodall is currently upto:

@HowardGoodall: Just received my first rough cuts of the new Red Dwarf series, looking forward to viewing and putting some music on them. Kipper-time!

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Lady Manners School Orchestra perform the Red Dwarf Space Suite

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Posted by on 13th December 2009, 11:42

This is brilliant.

The children of Lady Manners School in Bakewell, possibly at the whim of an heroic music teacher called Mr Steadman, perform a ten minute medley of Red Dwarf music, taking in various versions of the theme tune, Tongue Tied, Rimmer Munchkin Song and Ace Rimmer Theme. And it's superb. Quite possibly the second best video ever to be recorded in a school sports hall.

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Cheap as Chips

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Posted by on 12th March 2008, 00:33

And Fake as Fuck.

With thanks to Will Tudor for pointing us towards it. Really - have these people got nothing better to do? It's pathetic. And as for the 100% positive feedback - either this is the first time they've tried this trick, or there's a hell of a lot of gullible idiots in the world...

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Person With Vague Connection To Dwarf Achieves Success, Let’s Do An Item On It

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Posted by on 19th February 2007, 10:27

That'll be Jenna "It’s cold outside there’s no kind of atmosphere I’m all alone more or less let me fly far away from here fun fun fun in the sun sun sun I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose drinking fresh mango juice goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes fun fun fun in the sun sun sun fun fun fun in the sun sun sun" Russell winning an Olivier, which is quite a big deal, as it happens (certainly a bigger career milestone than "THE GUNS DON'T WORK! YOU LIED TO US!", anyway), so congratulations to her. And her co-star, who also won, who was the Welsh scientist bloke who got killed by the zappy whip in The Christmas Invasion, which isn't Red Dwarf, of course, although part of me wonders at times if this site shouldn't be called "Ganymede & Titan & Gallifrey & Skaro". Ahem, anyway, I quite fancy seeing it if it's still on, actually. And am also quite disappointed to have missed Tamsin Greig in Much Ado About Nothing, but that's another story.

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