Located at the tip of an off-limits ex-military island, the lighthouse was about to close, prompting Dolby to get out and document it. Having returned to Suffolk, England after spending over 15 years in Silicon Valley, Thomas Dolby found inspiration in a lighthouse that was part of his childhood memories. Thomas Dolby interviewed about "The Invisible Lighthouse" Including a very hard to find LIVE CD, i guess that was sold on that tour. In 2013, there was a huge multimedia tour, and film for 'the invisible lighthouse', The result seemed to fit in with the GOLDEN AGE OF WIRELESS ethos, and made for a nice little SW radio-driven sequence on side two. But I had second thoughts about it after listening to the album in toto and decided it was too 'rockist.' About the same time the opportunity came up for me to work with Daniel Miller (Depeche Mode's producer and supremo of Mute Records) plus Akiko Yano was in town! so I decided to take another crack at it. TD: "There are two very different renditions of 'Radio Silence.' I originally recorded it with the same rock band as had played on many other GOLDEN AGE OF WIRELESS tracks: Kevin Armstrong, Justin Hildreth, and Mark Heyward-Chaplin. Radio Silence 3.47 / Radio Silence (Version) 4.32 (Venice in Peril Records, VIPS 102) 25 March 1982 7" Thomas Dolby: Radio Silence
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