I’ve been wary of the invented musical/cultural genre named hauntology, it feels like a nostalgic trap for concrete-loving men of a certain age – says me as I sit here reading Found Objects in my bloody Delia Derbyshire t-shirt.

So despite my reservations, the idea of Ghost Box has always appealed, with the winks to radiophonia and ghostly half-remembered telly, but I’ve been disappointed to find it a bit try-too-hard and twee.

But I’ve just heard “The Hidden Door” on the Ghost Box Phantom Circuit podcast interview, and it’s fucking ace – like a theme for a shit scary kids sci-fi/detective-y TV programme where the bad guy does actually turn out to win, and a couple of the kids do actually get offed.

Sure I’ve seen that footage of them running up the stairs before somewhere in rather better quality, wonder if the rest of this survives on a master tape somewhere.

Here’s “Blind Youth”:

The fantastically weird “A Crow and a Baby” (“…feeding some damn carrion bird”)

“Dreams of Leaving”: (“…I’m sure I can just be like someone’s neighbour”)

Wonky take on “Life Kills” – including Oakey saying in the interview at the beginning, “We could all be living in Pakistan and eating the bark off the trees, couldn’t we?”.

Sweet electro-funk business from 1982 with an addictive bassline.

Always wondered whether these funky electro basslines from this period were programmed, played once and tape-looped, or just played by hand by someone with some actual keyboard skills, unlike me and my randomly stabbing fingers.