Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer "Silver Machine"

[Melvyn Vincent]

>Yeah I saw this too, it wasn't too bad a version either. I seem to
>remember the centre section of the song had a sort of brief 'Holst's
>planet Mars' theme. I half expected it to be released as a single after
>his success with 'Dizzy'.
>Going back even further  - late eighties (and I swear this is true!) there
>was a band on Blue Peter called somthing like 'Salad from Atlantis' who
>did a version of Silver Machine using acoustic guitars and doing the
>'whooshes' verbally down the Mic and changing the chorus to Washing
>Machine (the programme's theme was recycling).
>
>Mick

Yeh....you're right . Unfortunately I never saw it,but I now remember some
friends telling me about this rather bizarre rendition of Silver Machine.

mel