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October 21st, 2015 
Awake Goy A musical interlude
When it comes to the music of Back to the Future, most people will be humming its stirring theme (composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri and performed by the Outatime Orchestra, fact fans), or The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News (who recently revealedthat he almost passed on the gig).
There will soon be live concert screenings of the film in St Louis, Denver and Cleveland in the US; Perth and Melbourne in Australia; as well as Dublin and Mexico City. To whet your appetite, here’s a video of Silvestri conducting the theme music in Vienna:
However, all this talk of Deloreans has given me another earworm entirely, and that’s Neon Neon’s delicious 2008 Mercury prize nominated concept album Stainless Style, about the life and times of John DeLorean.
Here is its catchiest track, Dream Cars. You’re most welcome!
The zip line in Belfast
Meanwhile over in Northern Ireland, Doc Brown’s legendary zip line ride from the Hill Vallery clock tower has been restaged in Belfast, the city that built the famous silver-winged DeLorean cars immortalised in the Back to the Future films, reports PA.
US industrialist John DeLorean brought his car plant to Dunmurry in west Belfast at the start of the 1980s with the lure of significant support from the government. Initially injecting some optimism into Troubles-era Northern Ireland, its stay was short-lived and ultimately ended in failure. Fewer than 9,000 cars rolled off the Dunmurry production line and when the first Back to the Future film was released in 1985, the DeLorean plant had already been closed for three years.
Two local actors have re-imagined the zip line scene, with a comic twist, at the clock tower in the Gasworks area of the city centre. The film stunt was created by Irish lager brand Harp. As Guardian reader KarmaPolice puts it:
The movie was stunningly prescient on the dominance of advertising!
Tokyo we salute you
Guardian reader SparkyTheDog has alerted us to this amazing travel feature from Rocketnews24 on a Back to the Future cafe in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.
On the menu:
• Doc’s Favorite Crazy Sandwich Thick Sliced BLT (1,500 yen)
• Marty’s ‘Nobody Calls Me a Chicken’ Vegetable Curry (1,500 yen)
• Travel to the Future! DeLorean Cake Plate (1,800 yen)
But for all you Aussies reading, surely the Back to the Future coffeetakes the biscuit. Beats a Flat White anyday!
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