Night Gallery was the follow-up show to the Twilight Zone and featured Rod Serling in an art gallery unveiling paintings that depicted the story ahead. I only know about it because it is parodied in a Halloween episode of The Simpsons. I don’t think it was as popular in the UK; over here we are all about Michael Aspel.

This Night Gallery is Adam Griffin and Aaron David, and as with Aaron’s other band, Gatekeeper, their band’s name fits the music perfectly. But, while Gatekeeper take influence from the music used in movies of Dario Argento and John Carpenter to make a strange transcendent form of electronic dance music, Night Gallery are more influenced by classic synth-pop, new wave and the Labyrinth soundtrack. It’s still pretty dark though, and the track below is about a child killer from Newcastle. They are releasing a record on Rainbow Body sometime soon, but for now listen to this.

Night Gallery, “Mary Bell”

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JOEL WRIGHT