But BBC1 takes the action back home to Victorian Surrey where HG Wells originally set it. If Steampunk began anywhere, its War of the Worlds!
In the meantime the Missus is catching up on Doc Martin on iPlayer and I've got headphones on listening to some Southern Hard Rock in the form of the mighty Lynyrd Skynyrd's Nuthin Fancy LP.
I adored the Skynyrd in the early Seventies and went to see them live at Lancaster Uni when they were kings. Me and my rocker mate Pete Dewhurst bought all their albums as they came out and I've still got mine.
To balance things out I also loved Neil Young as a teenager and enjoyed their mutual musical battling!
Alas, Skynyrd as I knew them were totally decimated by a tragic plane crash in October 1977.
The main man Ronnie Van Zant was among the dead. We couldn't believe it. It was like deicide and we cried.
Their last album as that band, 1977's Street Survivors, had been prescient. Standing in front of a bonfire, the flames reached high behind the band. Those with the highest flames died in the crash. This original 'flames' cover was swiftly withdrawn.
Anyways, I've listened avidly to that original Skynyrd line-up my whole life and in case you haven't had the pleasure of their swamp music then maybe listen to Nuthin Fancy with me, beginning with Saturday Night Special:
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