"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
You can do a lot with coffee: Schmitt: La Tragèdie de Salomè – Paris Conservatory Orchestra, Andrè Cluytens, cond. 1950 Besancon Festival – ORTF – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The music of Florent Schmitt this weekend. A popular figure during…
Temples: Live at Best Kept Secret Festival 2013 – Rapidly becoming no best kept secret at all, the Best Kept Secret festival has been attracting a lot of attention and promised to be yet another in the seemingly endless parade…
– The Cure live at Glastonbury 1990 – Starting the morning off with a blast of The Cure, in concert from Glastonbury in 1990. The Cure (of which Robert Smith is the only remaining original member) have had a long…
– News for the Week of June 27, 1973 – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While the bombs were falling in the hearing room on Capitol Hill, over the latest harrowing disclosures by former Nixon…
– News for June 20, 1940 – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this June 20th in 1940 was not the most optimistic, especially if you were around Paris at the time. Word from the government, relocated…
NBC Radio News Of The World – September 26, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the casualty count continued to rise during the ongoing battle at Con Thien, this September 26th in 1967, the ever-widening gap of opinions…
– 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…
– Our Foreign Policy – The Marshall Plan – September 6, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The news on this day in September of 1947 found the world . . .pretty much as usual, sliding into a state…
News from Berlin Radio, EIAR, Rome – Paris Radio -Commentary from Radio Berlin – August 30, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As all hopes were pinned on a response to an eleventh hour appeal from Prime Minister Chamberlain…
Since we’re in the middle of the weekend, I thought I’d get things partly rolling with a classic T.Rex concert, recorded at Wembley on March 18, 1972. There’s a lot of live T. Rex material out there, but unfortunately, not…