So it was with some anticipation I stepped into the wonderful acoustic space that is The Venue at Leeds College of Music the other night to hear Daniel Holdsworth and Aidan Roberts perform a version of the piece scored for just two players, a dozen or so instruments and some pretty whizzy sampling and looping technology. ![]() I couldn’t scrape together the tenner for a ticket and found only too late that I could have blagged a pair of comps from the record librarian at Pennine Radio, where I was just starting to get my knees under the Contiboard table. You get the general idea.īack around 1980 Mike Oldfield played Tubular Bells live at Bradford University Union. It’s the ‘friends and family’ ringtone on my phone. Some years later I made love (with the woman who’s now my wife, 30-odd years on) while the album played, and our first child was born with the main theme playing softly in the delivery room. Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells’ has been a big part of my life.Īs a gawky adolescent I first heard the instrumental classic, and saw the cardboard sales displays, in Vallances on the Headrow when my dad went in to buy his Music for Pleasure light classical compilation LPs to play on our Philips Dancette. ![]() Richard Horsman rekindles a forty-year love affair with the album that launched an airline as a two man live version of Mike Oldfield’s greatest work tours West Yorkshire.
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