Gambit (musical group)
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- See also Gambit (disambiguation).
| Collaboration | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Gambit |
| Members: | Narrelle Harris, Fiona Undy, Cameron Undy, Carl Dewhurst, Susan Lake-Harris |
| Date(s): | 1986 |
| Focus: | filk |
| Fandoms: | Blake's 7 |
| External Links: | Voices of the Past (archive link) |
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Gambit was a filk group out of Australia in the 1980s. Its members were Fiona Undy, Cameron Undy, Carl Dewhurst, Susan Lake-Harris, and Narrelle M. Harris.[1]
They released the songtape "Voices from the Past" in 1986. Voices from the Past is a filk zine of lyrics from the tape.
About
Voices from the Past [is] the filktape I [Narrelle Harris] produced with Fiona Undy with some help from her brother Cameron back in 1986, when we were young and keen and besotted with Blake's 7. Fiona wrote the music to go with my lyrics, with Cameron putting his hand to two of the pieces (I wrote the music to one) and Fiona arranged them all and sang on most of them. Additional voices were supplied by myself and Susan Lake.As Gambit we released the resulting tape of filksongs. We had done something a little different though - filk music is usually folk-influenced, and most often based on existing tunes. We had produced almost entirely original work, with one exception, and all the original songs were pop and rock influenced. Cameron's heavy rock approach to two of the songs took many traditional filkers by surprise, but the style we had suited the material.[2]
References
- ^ VOICES FROM THE PAST, Archived version at Hermit.org: Proctor's Blake's 7 Pages. Last updated on 31 May 1998.
- ^ Narrelle Harris. Voices from the Past at The Parallax Page: The Home Page of Tim Richards and Narrelle Harris, archived 22 February 1999.