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Thomas Dolby-She Blinded Me With Science
The official video


Live version


Sole Inhabitant version


Live with Buzz Aldrin


Explaining how it all started

Thomas Dolby is back! And as well as putting him on the cover of this month’s Electronic Sound, we are bundling the issue with an exclusive blue vinyl seven-inch featuring two tracks from Dolby’s dazzling ‘The Flat Earth’ album, including the awesome ‘Hyperactive!’. Click here to buy your magazine and vinyl bundle now

One of the biggest synthpop stars of the 1980s, Thomas Dolby is coming towards the end of a lengthy live tour to mark the 40th anniversary reissue of ‘The Flat Earth’. He’s spent the last few weeks criss-crossing North America and is now in the UK for more dates later this month. He talks a lot about the album in our cover feature, but there is still plenty of time for a stream of hugely entertaining and often hilarious stories, involving everyone from David Bowie to Prince to The Muppets. No wonder writer Bob Fischer says Dolby is ‘‘the perfect interviewee’’. You don’t want to miss a single word of this.

Keep turning the pages and you’ll also uncover ambitronic voyager Banco De Gaia, hotly tipped electronics-meets-jazz-meets-dub collective Ishmael Ensemble, and post-punk innovators This Heat. Plus Arab Strap frontman Aidan Moffat, experimental shape-shifter Boris Hauf, avant-goth trio Tristwch Y Fenywod, and unflinching future-pop producer Julie-Sophie. We have an article about the Castlemorton Common Festival too, which took place in 1992 and is the UK’s most infamous illegal rave. It lasted for several days and many of those who attended still haven’t come down yet.

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Photos from last nights gig in Wolverhampton.

Thomas Dolby: O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London – Live Review
An excellent review from Louder Than War.




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Thomas Dolby / Aliens Ate My Buick vinyl reissue



Thomas Dolby’s 1988 album Aliens Ate My Buick will be reissued on ‘crystal clear’ vinyl early next year.

His third album album features the singles ‘Airhead’ (a US Dance hit), ‘Hot Sauce’ and ‘My Brain Is Like A Sieve’ and saw Dolby move in a more funk-based direction (George Clinton wrote ‘Hot Sauce’ and had been collaborating with Dolby in the fluid, studio-based project ‘Dolby’s Cube’).


The vinyl reissue features the original seven-track vinyl version of the album (‘May The Cube Be With You’ was a cassette/CD-only bonus song) and is pressed on 180g ‘crystal clear’ vinyl. It comes with an insert and is limited to 1000 units worldwide (with 350 allocated to the UK).

Aliens Ate My Buick will be released on 24 January 2025, via Music On Vinyl. You can pre-order it via the SDE shop using this link or the button below.

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