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Renowned Music Conductor Charles Hazlewood has announced that he will conducting a 45 minute Barry Gray set at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. This will be taking place at 1pm, on Sunday, June 29th on the Park Stage.

The Charles Hazlewood Allstars will be playing, featuring musicians from Goldfrapp, Portishead, Get the Blessing and Loose Tubes. Francois Evans will also be appearing, playing Barry Gray’s original Ondes Martenot.

After a long wait, the classic Fireball Xl5 has finally been released on DVD. Due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, it has not been released in the UK, where all Anderson shows have been initially released. This time, the honour goes to the US who has issued a boxed set of the complete series of Fireball Xl5. One break from tradition deserves another, so this review is actually put together from reviews by Theo de Klerk, Kelly Lannan and Simon Wickes

Fireball XL5 marked a historic turning point for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson as it was their first true science fiction production. Although the Anderson's previous effort, Supercar , involved the exploits of an advanced flying car, Supercar was actually supposed to have taken place during the then 'present' time of 1959/1960. Thus, Supercar was not technically a science fiction series. Fireball XL5 was also the first true Supermarionation program. Indeed, the Anderson's coined the term to advertise Fireball XL5.

Models of Fireball XL5: Alien Manned Spacecraft