The Lilac Time – in session at BBC Radio 1 – 1988 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Formed in 1986, The Lilac Time consists of permanent mainstays, Stephen and Nick Duffy. And even though Stephen Duffy has a solo career of his own, The Lilac Time are still very
– The Mothers Of Invention – Live at l’Olympia Paris – October 26, 1968 – ORTF, Paris – I ran across this concert a few years ago and hadn’t heard it in a while. Anyone who is a fan of the Uncle Meat period of Frank Zappa and The Mothers
– Johnny Guitar Watson – In Session at NDR – 1977 – It occurred to me I haven’t been giving much space over to the cause of Funk lately – no good reason. Getting overloaded with festivals and gearing up for Summer by playing who you might be catching later
– Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band – Live at My Fathers Place – November 18, 1978 – WLIR-FM – There was a time you couldn’t mention Frank Zappa without mentioning Captain Beefheart somewhere in the same sentence. After a very brief stint (and his only top 40 hit) for
– Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention – Live at Rockpile, Toronto – February 23, 1969 – As long as we’re visiting the 60s this weekend (for entirely different reasons), I though I would dig into the vaults and drag this one out, since I have always been a
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PFM In Concert from Osaka – November 25, 1975 – PFM were one of those bands who came to epitomize the true eclectic nature of the 70s. The changes that began in the mid 1960s matured and took off by the early 70s and Rock was no longer about just
The Levellers – In Session – BBC – November 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Early 90s Folk-Punk/English Folk/Alternative band The Levellers tonight. Recorded in session at the BBC (and not for John Peel) in November of 1991. The Levellers got their name from a 17th Century Radical group during
The Slits – in session for John Peel – September 19,1977 – BBC Radio 1 – The Slits tonight. Their first session for John Peel, from September 1977. Had there not been The Slits, would there not have been a Riot Grrrl Movement in the 1990s? It makes you wonder.
Ian Dury and The Blockheads in concert – recorded at The Hammersmith Odeon by the venerable BBC Radio 1 for their In Concert series in 1979. When he hit international prominence with the 1977 anthem, Sex & Drugs & Rock’n Roll, Dury had already been around for some time. Previously
