Created in 1971, the fondly remembered thirteen episode BBC TV series Fingerbobs invited children to imagine the minimally augmented gloves of the Canadian folk musician Rick Jones were a host of vivid characters, most famously the ebullient felt rodent Fingermouse.
The dedicated pop-cultural archivist Johnny Trunk has assembled and polished the series’ previously unreleased original music – no masters exist – into a set of twenty-one miniatures.
Acoustic guitar and woodwind evoke the respective characters of these timelessly totemic puppets, the song of the depressive but resilient Yiddish tortoise, Flash, offering a curiously coherent philosophy for life.
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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FBC, finalgear.com
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Tin Frog, Twitter