Well…. I was flicking round the televisions and found something worth watching on the channel called Ovation (this is the upperclass art channel). It was another attempt to get young men to watch classical music, a bunch of pretty young women playing violins and keyboards, classical music with some modern club stylings (called Wild). I had it on and they played one of the greatest compositions of the modern era – Jeff Wayne’s “Eve of the War”, from his Musical Version of the War of the Worlds.

So, instead of the version by Wild, I present the 1998 version by Canberra band Alchemist.