It's great, there's a few songs that are guaranteed to make my son smile when he's grumpy. He loves "Incy Wincy Spider" with actions. He loves a song called "Five Cheeky Monkeys bouncing on the bed", again with actions. And he LOVES the theme music from the kids TV show Space Pirates.
I'm trying to post a link to the cbeebies website here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/spacepirates/songs/
For those that haven't yet come across it, Space Pirates is a BBC children's programme. It is set aboard a pirate spaceship named Guisto and stars Captain (Leslie) DJ, Honk and Tonk the crew, Lippy the parrot-shaped microphone, the Jolly Rogers up on the flagpole, Zorst the alien who lives on the hull of Guisto and a group of puppet rats call the Jingles.
Captain DJ and the crew run a priate radio show (of course). They surf the soundwaves finding songs, three per show. The songs are on a theme chosen by a group of kids back on earth called the pirate posse, and the posse get to vote on which of the three songs plays the show out at the end. The songs are a mixture of live performance (guests appear in a spaceship that looks like a rowing boat), music videos, clips of world music and performances by the Jingles who act as the station's in-house band. Zorst meanwhile provides travel, news, weather and interplanetary sport.
The show is also slapstick comedy between the crew. And this is where it gets interesting for adults: Captain DJ is played by a Perrier comedy award-nominated standup comedian called Luke Toulson, and Zorst is voiced by Dominic Byrne (who appears on the Chris Moyles show on BBC Radio 1). The humour of the show is as funny to adults as to kids - I'm pretty sure that many of the references are way over the heads of the target audience.
But the mark of quality in the writing is that it has already become a student favourite. There are at least two Facebook groups dedicated to the show and the characters. The theme song has been remixed and mashed with Ghostbusters. There's a youTube embed here:
Thing is, my son is 6 months old. He loves the music throughout the show, but he doesn't really get the rest of the show. So I think I probably can't claim that we watch it just for him. I rather suspect I enjoy it more than he does.
Posted by rose22 on 2008-04-23 16:53:21 | Rating: | Views: 120