Blue Peter the 50th anniversary) the opening arrangement of the tune was reworked to include elements of "Barnacle Bill" once again. The closing theme for 2008 is the same as opening signature tune. In September 2011, the series returned to using "Barnacle Bill" though with the opening bars and drum roll omitted (along with the "Sailor's Hornpipe") and the traditional closing signature tune not used. 1958–1989: The earliest episodes featured stock footage of a sailing ship under the opening credits. By the late 1960s, Blue Peter's opening sequence featured extracts of that edition's filmed inserts or an event in the studio where
Barnacle Boi Barnacle Boi Barnacle Boi (stylized as barnacle boi), is an American producer, DJ, vocalist, and visual artist. Ian Oliver was born in Hickory, North Carolina. He first started making experimental beats in 2008 before making trap and hip-hop beats. After these types of beats became extremely repetitive to Oliver, he moved on to "dubstep and other heavier-hitting sub genres of EDM" under his "Sightlow" project. In his interview with The Playground, Barnacle Boi explains that he worked on the Sightlow project for numerous years and he always felt like he had to "force it out" of himself. Beginning in 2013,