While we’re waiting for the BBC to announce a new broadcast date of March 1874 for the new series, exciting news has reached us of some forthcoming Torchwood sound-only spinoffs. So, make space on your CD shelves next to John Barrowman Reads Torchwood: Another Life (Logo), Eve Myles Reads Torchwood: Bloody Fucking Border Bloody Princes, and Burn Gorman Reads Torchwood: Urm Erm There Is A ‘D’ In It, because the cast have all been busy in the recording studio with their own exciting solo projects.
John Barrowman Swings… The Hits Of Bob Seger
Everyone’s favourite hunky England Lympics-endorser swings his way through a selection of ‘big band’ reworkings of the classic hits of America’s permier bearded mirror-shaded hoarse-voiced drabmerchant, including We Got Tonite and Fly Me Like A Wheel Or Whatever It Was Called.
Eve Myles Sings The Hits Of House
Eve pays tribute to the chunky piano-driven ecstasy-fuelled repetitive cybernetic dance music of her teenage days, including We Got A Love Thang, Too Blind To See It, Gypsy Woman, Rhythm Is A Mystery, Is There Anybody Out There?, Move Your Body, We Got An ‘Ooop Thang, The Whistle Song and A Trip To Trumpton.
Gareth David-Lloyd – Introspections
Unlike his cover-version friendly castmates, Gareth is something of an aspirational songwriter and arranger himself, and this album showcases some of his own compositions like Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun and Melancholia, as well as his arrangement of the theme from Meerkat Manor.
Naoko Mori – Reads The Great Jelly Of London
By her own admission Naoko is ‘no great singer’, so instead she’s chosen to do this special reading of the long-unavailable childrens’ book about the gelatin-thieving Diabolical Len Bodge. Abridged by Chris Chibnall.
Burn Gorman – Burn Gorman
Nobody knows what this record is. Nor do they want to know. It will simply be positioned in a place of holy worship and become a shrine for pilgrims the world over.
