Flipside: Recent Episodes
Steve English
A RADIO COMEDY DRAMA WITH MUSIC. So pop music isn't as good as it used to be? No argument there! Well, now you can go back in time and change things around. Cool! FLIPSIDE is a a virtual reality role-playing game that lets you create your own musical culture by re-living the past and interfering with rock and roll history. Then it lets you shoot forward in time again and see how much you've ballsed it all up. Confused? You will be.... Contains some strong language and historical racism
Our hero inserts himself into 1960's Liverpool and re-invents the Beatles. Then, a visit to Victorian London's Music Halls on a quest for The Song That Will Change The World.
Onstage now, with Teenybop star Johnny Angel in 1963, then a protest song with Billy Connolly in the Eighties, followed by a psychedelic college gig with Jimi Hendrix in 1968. All before breakfast (?)
Settle down now! The non-playable characters are playing up again. Why do they all seem so familiar? Who is the other player, and what is he up to? Also, why is that functions band playing such a bloody awful version of The Song?
So, let's reboot, go back and start again; get it right next time. But is that even possible? We collide with punk rock. Dangerous times, which raises the question; if you get killed in the game, how many lives have you got?