"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The inimitable Van Morrison tonight, by way of his British Invasion tenure with Them, in session for the BBC program Saturday Club, recorded on April 3, 1964. In retrospect, Them during the Van Morrison period lasted a little less than…
Dave Hull Show – KMPC – November 1, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Midnight in L.A. – the Sunset Strip get its second wind. The clubs are into their second sets of the night. There are people walking…
Angelic Upstarts – In session for John Peel – October 30, 1978 – BBC Radio 1 – Angelic Upstarts – the politically charged side of Punk. Considered by many to be one of the most thought-provoking bands of the era,…
April 25, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup + 8:00 am network news – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this April 25th in 1981, the news was coming from Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, where Bobby Sands, a member…
The Lemonheads – live at Sheffield Lead Mill, Sheffield – August 4, 1993 – Band soundboard – The Lemonheads tonight. Beginning life in 1986 and going on hiatus in 1997 before picking it up again in 2005, the one consistent…
– Ash – Live At Pinkpop 2011 – June 11, 2011 – VPRO/3VOOR12 – The Netherlands – Perennial favorites Ash tonight, recorded live at Pinkpop 2011 in The Netherlands on June 11th. Certainly a band with their fair share of…
– Circa Waves – Live At Reading+Leeds Festival – August 29, 2015 – BBC 6 Music – The Summer Festival season is winding down – the last batch of mass music gatherings going on between now and the end of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Stiff Little Fingers – in concert from Belfast, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 A taste of Punk from Northern Ireland tonight. Stiff Little Fingers weren’t together during their first incarnation all…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Stiff Little Fingers, live at Berlin Metropol – November 30, 1980 – WDR-Rockpalast Another request this week. My old pal and colleague Joe Wood posed a hypothetical earlier tonight. He asked…