– 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 ups and downs, they have weathered it all and have
– Stiff Little Fingers – in concert from Belfast, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 – A taste of Punk from Northern Ireland this morning. Stiff Little Fingers weren’t together during their first incarnation all that long. 1977-1982 isn’t a terribly long lifespan, by anybody’s standards. But they were a well
Become a Patron, supporter, subscriber right here: Become a Patron! – The Lemonheads – live at Sheffield Lead Mill, Sheffield – August 4, 1993 – The Lemonheads this morning. Beginning life in 1986 and going on hiatus in 1997 before picking it up again in 2005, the one consistent member
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 two years. But in that short period of time released
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 up and down the Strip who won’t get to sleep
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, Angelic Upstarts were anti-fascist and espoused a socialist working class
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 of the Irish Provisional Army, whose imprisonment and Hunger Strike,
– 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 September are still packing in fans and die-hards. It was
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 if I happened to have any Stiff Little Fingers live
