BBC ONE Tumbler ident

I know the music for this ident changed shortly after launch - but I've read that it was a licensing issue.

Does anyone know anything more specifically about this? It seems strange that it got so far as to make it on air... and *then* became a problem!

didn't the same thing happen with the last idents, the one with the guys breakdancing in the subway? I seem to remember them changing the music to that one as well.

Thats the one he's talking about.

Scotland didn't change the theme - they kept the original soundtrack.

Good for them - it was much better.

does anyoen haveboth? so we can hear the diffrences?

The TV Room may have clips of both. At the moment that's probably the only place you can see.

TV & Radio Bits have both

As soon as I heard the original Tumbler music I thought it was uncannily similar to The Rockafeller Skank by Fatboy Slim (which I guess samples something else). That was my only guess as to why it might have been changed due to copyright problems.

Of course if there was a copyright problem, surely they'd have pulled the music in Scotland as well - unless they thought no-one would notice what went on north of the border.

I suppose it's also feasible that channel bosses might just have liked the second version better.

well scotland does have diffrent laws!

also The music for all idents was written by Peter Lawlor of Water Music Productions in London

Not when it comes to copyright, surely.

You mean Gangster Trippin' , no?

It's a shame no-one ever caught the original Tumbler in full (I believe it was played out in its entirety clean once); very catchy it was. At least we got version 2, which in all fairness wasn't a bad piece either compared to some of the others in the set.

I thought he was talking about one of the new idents