SERIES 8

ORIGINAL TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK MUSIC

BY MURRAY GOLD

VOLUME ONE

01 DOCTOR WHO THEME (SERIES 8)

0 2 A G O O D M A N ? ( T W E LV E S T H E ME )
03-10 DEEP BRE ATH
11-15 IN TO THE DA LEK
16-21 ROBOT OF SHERWOOD
22-24 LISTEN
VOLUME TWO

01-04 TIME HEIST

05 THE CA RETA KER
06-08 KILL THE MOON
09-14 MUMMY ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
15-16 FL ATLINE
17-19 IN THE FOREST OF THE NIGHT
20 -31 D A RK W AT ER / DE AT H IN HE AV EN
VOLUME THREE

01-14 L A ST CHRISTMA S
THE BBC N ATION A L ORCHESTR A OF W A LES CONDUCTED BY BEN FOSTER AND JAMES SHE A RMAN

Okay. Here we are again.

The fact you are reading this means David
Stoner at Silva Screen and Jake Jackson my
engineer and general chief-of-staff have been
standing over me with an electric cattle prod
making me write my notes. So let me tell you
right away, they didnt need the prod. Because
I love this album. Am I allowed to love it? After
all this time? Or would it be better to assume a
detached air and stare into space with a serious
look on my face. I know enthusiasm can be
frowned upon in some quarters. As usual I hope
you like this album too because if you dont, I
have deluded myself. You might notice theres
three silver discs in this release. And its all new.
Its all brand new with the brand new Doctor,
Peter Capaldi - the only Doctor to EVER come
to Wales and see his music being recorded - he
sat there with a huge grin on his face then the
orchestra crowded him out and asked for his
autograph. And I thought they were going to play
it cool. Thank you, thank you for buying the CD. It
means a lot to all of us in the music department
and on the show that you still do.

VOLUME
ONE

01 Doctor Who Theme

There was metal and images that looked like
an iron foundry and a weird sense of steam
punk hovering around Ben Wheatleys first two
episodes. Jake and I mixed the theme first at
Air. Theres a bit of hysteria about it. And bells.
And squiggles. Thats okay, you can call them
squiggles. And a middle eight. You like the
middle eight dont you? Im honestly not sure
if theyve put the middle eight in the episodes.
Because I dont format the episodes. But now
you have it so there you are.

02 A Good Man? (Twelves Theme)

Ben Wheatley was brilliant. He sent the first two
episodes with no music on them at all/temp
score totally absent. We had a bit of a chat about
the sort of thing he was hoping for. Synthesizers
were more prominent. I kept telling him I tick.
I do tick. I always have things in my music
that ticks so it is restless and never sits down.
Capaldi was on the front foot from the start.
He had forward momentum. Sometimes it was
frowny momentum but he was pushing, ticking
like a bomb. I messed around with this theme for
ages. Same as I did for I am the Doctor. It was
the exact point the horns come in, and the beat
comes in that made me think I had it. Maybe its
more of a grower than I am the Doctor. The four
notes of the horn line were embedded in every
episode of Series 8.

DE E P BR E AT H

IN T O T HE D A L E K

03
04
05
06
07
08
09

11
12
13
14
15

Something It Ate
Concussed
Its Still Him
Pudding Brains
Breath
Hello Hello
A Drink First

The music for Episode 1 of Series 8, Deep

Breath, was an attempt to bring together all the
early thoughts for Peter Capaldis music in a
feature length episode. So, the sad strings, the
triplets, the ticking, the nostalgic synthesizers
and Capaldis endlessly recurring four note horn
theme. Without ever forgetting the essential
mischief, mystery and fun of the character of
The Doctor.

10 Missys Theme
The wonderful Halia Meguid sings Missys
Theme. Its not backwards - in that, if you
reverse it, it doesnt become the right way round.
But it sounds backwards. I wrote a song for
Missy before I really understood who she was.
We just needed to seed it in the earlier episodes.

Aristotle, We Have Been Hit

Were Still Going To Kill You
Tell Me, Am I A Good Man?
What Difference A Good Dalek?
The Truth About The Daleks

Into the Dalek was one of my favourite episodes

of Doctor Who to score. It was directed so
calmly and with such a steady gaze, and again,
it arrived with no temp score on the playout. I
wanted to make it as lost and detached as
possible. Okay, I wanted it to sound like the
incredible Radiophonic Workshop. Say nothing.
I would love to play this episode out with picture
and the music turned up so you can hear the
whole thing. In surround sound. In a midnight
screening. And get freaked. But I cant.

ROBO T OF SHE RWOOD

LISTEN

16
17
18
19
20
21

22 Listen
23 Rupert Pink
24 Fear

Old Fashioned Hero

This Is My Spoon
Robert, Earl of Loxley
The Legend of Robin Hood
Robin of Sherwood
The Golden Arrow

Robot of Sherwood was another Gatiss-penned

classic of the past decade of Doctor Who. Which
means to say an episode with tonnes of fun,
knowing wit, romance and adventure. And
robots. And a star turn from Tom Riley as Robin
Hood.

People seemed to like Listen a lot. That was

my impression. I never really know. If a friend
says they liked an episode, I think it must have
been popular. I dont have any statistics. But
Listen definitely seemed popular. Not surprising.
It was concise and clever and claustrophobic.
And the end was one of Claras best moments
- a beautiful scene about the petrol that powers
Doctor Who, fear.

VOLUME
TWO

T IME HE I S T
01
02
03
04

The Architect
Rob The Bank
Account Closed
Open Up

The episode Time Heist gave everyone the

chance to dress up in best bank robber
suits while the music funked out a bit with
added darkness in guitars. I was at school in
Portsmouth with the Radio 1 DJ Rob da Bank so
Track 02 really needs to be dedicated to him. My
brother was best man at his wedding. Thats the
end of my secret history.

T HE C A R E TA K E R

K IL L T HE MOON

05 The Caretaker

06 Are You Going To Shoot Me?

07 When I Say Run
08 That Is The Moon

The inimitable Gareth Roberts episodes (people

have tried to imitable him but theyve never
succeeded) are always an exuberant joy. And
always funny. According to me. (Thats my
IMHO. Do people still have to write IMHO or is it
taken when they write something that its their
opinion?). So The Caretaker allowed for some
ska-ish, klezmer-ish school mischief. This is a
suite from the episode.

I remember spiders in Doctor Who. And I mean

before The Runaway Bride. They were telepathic
and killed Jon Pertwee ushering in my favourite
Doctor ever - Tom Baker (not including 9-12). Kill
the Moon had a wriggly arachnid in a cave. Fear.

MUMM Y ON T HE
O R IE N T E X PR E S S
09
10
11
12
13
14

Start The Clock

Dont Stop Me Now [Instrumental]
Theres That Smile
The Sarcophagus Opens
The Artefact
Study Our Own Demise

The episode Mummy on the Orient Express

suddenly made the bandaged undead frightening
again by giving its victims 66 seconds of fear
before they definitely died. We recorded this
episode in Air with a small ensemble of jazz
players. I conducted. Dave Foster, who up till
now has described himself as general dogs
body on the Doctor Who music (he actually
prints all the scores and drives them to Cardiff.
Hes the last line of defence against anything
going wrong) anyway, he stepped up and
orchestrated on this episode. Well, everything
except Dont Stop Me Now. I sat down and wrote
out a version of this amazing Freddie Mercury
tune to satisfy the request from our producers to
have a 20th Century jazz standard on the train.
By Queen. Foxes was amazing and lovely and
had no airs and graces despite having just won
a Grammy. *

* The Foxes recording of Dont Stop Me Now was not available for inclusion on this release.

F L AT L IN E
15 Not Knowing
16 Siege Mode
Jamie Mathiesons episode Flatline started dark
and then went small. Very small. Small and
tense. I brought more small ticking things back.
And pizzicato strings for enhanced smallness.

IN T HE F O R E S T
OF T HE N IGH T
17 In The Woods
18 We Werent Asleep That Long
19 Forgetting
Okay so the voice in In the Woods is a
synthesizer. Well, a synthesizer of sorts. It was
once real and now it isnt. Or something. It was
trapped and separated and loaded into my
computer. She existed butits no use. I cant
explain modern music technology. I just about
know how to use it. You all know what I mean
though because you were born later than me.
Anyway, In the Forest of the Night was huge fun
and sensitive and spoke of loss and love. And
fear. And no lesser mortal than Mr Steven Moffat
declared it his favourite episode of the season.
So there.

D A R K W AT E R /
DE AT H IN HE AV E N
20 The Song of Danny and Clara
21 Throw Away The Key
22 Browsing
23 They Walk Among Us
24 There is No Clara Oswald
25 Missy And Her Boys
26 A Good Man, An Incredible Liar
27 Freefall
28 I Need To Know
29 Missys Theme - Extended
30 Missys Gift
31 (The Majestic Tale of) An Idiot With a Box

And so to Rachel Talalays EPIC two part finale.

Id worked with Rachel before on a couple of
things. I have even walked up twenty five flights
of stairs with her because one of us doesnt
like elevators. Anyway, she produced John
Waters movie Hairspray and directed one of
the Nightmare on Elm Street films and teaches
movies in Vancouver, so yes, shes brilliant... All
right, so I might as well tell you - Steven really
missed hearing I am the Doctor. He felt it was
written when he started and he connects it with
Doctor Who. Whereas I connect it specifically to
Matt. So I tried to connect Peters theme with the
feeling of I am the Doctor so everyone would be
happy (or at least me and Steven). then I made
it rock out even more. Because fundamentally I
love rock music. You may have noticed. I heard
someone online make a version of this which
was faster. It was good. Im going to do that
next season. Anyway, thats why youre catching
that vibe. There were also numerous versions of
Missys theme littered about this double pair.

VOLUME
THREE

L A S T CHR I S T M A S
01 3 Perfectly Ordinary Roof People
02 Do You Really Believe In Santa?
03 Unsealing The Infirmary
04 Ghosts
05 What Seems To Be The Problem?
06 We Dont Know Whats Real
07 Thinking About It
08 Claras Dream Christmas
09 The Doctors Dream Christmas
10 Dreams Within Dreams
11 Believe In Santa
12 Sleigh Ride
13 A Reunion
14 Every Christmas Is Last Christmas

I dont think its giving anything away if I say that

we had a very specific problem on Last Christmas.
There were important voices that felt it might be
too scary. Its impossible to tell until youve sat and
watched it with kids, and even then its impossible
to tell. But part of the problem seemed to be the
dark temp score that had been used before my
music had gone on. Since Gravity won an Oscar,
there had been a trend to put drones (long, usually
tone-less soundscapes without much musical
character or personality) over huge sections of
drama. It can be really effective because the drones
dont stand still. They go up and down, louder and
softer, more intense and relaxed - and when theyre
in the right place, they conduct the drama on the
screen. But they dont add any humanity. They have
no charm or gentleness. Theyre just like a big bad
mood all over the screen. Like I said, they work
really well when things arent going well for the
characters. Which in the Christmas episode they
mostly were not. But in some way, the temp score
and the drones obscured the fact that the episode
was really about a group of people who were dying,
but remembering their happiest Christmas. Such
a big, sad,humanidea. Anyhow, the orchestra
can be frightening, but they always bring warmth
and humanity. It is definitely one of my favourite
scores, if only for the Clara Danny scenes and the
chalkboard scares and the endlessly falling strings I
marked into the score. So hopefully it was just-right
scary in the end.
Well, thank you so much for listening again. I really
hope you enjoy this one and that it takes you on a
kind of musical odyssey.
Murray Gold - Los Angeles, March 2015

CR E DI T S:
All music and lyrics by Murray Gold
Computer instruments, guitars and synths by Murray Gold
Volume 1 and 2: Orchestrations by Ben Foster,
Jeremy Holland-Smith. Additional Orchestrations
by Anthony Weeden and Murray Gold
Volume 3 orchestrated by Murray Gold
Except episode Mummy on the Orient Express
orchestrated by Dave Foster, conducted by Murray Gold
All tracks published by BBC Worldwide
[Universal Music Publishing] except
Doctor Who Theme - by Ron Grainer
Published by Chappell Music
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by
Ben Foster and James Shearman
Album mixed and compiled by Jake Jackson
Orchestra recorded by Gerry O Riordan
Composers assistant Jack Sugden
Air Recording sessions recorded by Jake Jackson
Mastered by Ray Staff
Missys Theme performed by Halia Meguid
Dont Stop Me Now [Instrumental]
Written by Freddie Mercury
Arranged and conducted by Murray Gold
Queen Music Ltd [EMI Music Publishing]

Thank you to Brian Minchin, Steven Moffat, Gemma

Clough, Paul Bullock, Becky and Catherine at Hothouse,
all at Air Studios, Darrell Alexander and Chris Gutch at
Cool, Universal Music, Frank Skinner, Peter Capaldi
This compilation & 2015 BBC Worldwide Limited
under exclusive licence to Silva Screen Records Limited
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Published by BBC Worldwide / Universal Music
Publishing
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Release co-ordination: Pete Compton
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This compilation & 2015 BBC Worldwide Limited under exclusive licence to Silva Screen Records Limited. BBC & Doctor Who, word marks and logos
are trademarks of the British Broadcasting Corporation and are used under licence. BBC logo BBC 1996. Doctor Who logo BBC 2009. Dalek image BBC/
Terry Nation 1963. Cyberman image BBC/Kit Pedler/Gerry Davis 1966. K-9 image BBC/Bob Baker/Dave Martin 1977. Licensed by BBC Worldwide Limited.