Festival season is officially kicking off this weekend – Glastonbury promises their usual embarrassment of riches and the rest of Europe will follow suit. Like everything else, it promises to be a roller-coaster festival season. This morning it’s history by way of an early live concert from Queen. Having released
Double espresso would work quite well: – The Sweet – Live At Masonic Auditorium, Detroit – Feb. 27, 1976 – Band soundboard – Of the bands which evolved during the Glam-Rock period of the early 1970s, none probably epitomized it more than The Sweet. Initially began as something of a
Coffee works wonders too: Slade – Live at Reading Festival 1980 – BBC Radio 1 Had it not been for the phone call asking if they would be last minute replacements for an ailing Ozzie Osborne, Slade may very well have packed it in by the end of 1980. One
– Strawbs In Concert from London – 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – Strawbs were a band who went though a number of musical changes during their initial tenure from 1964-1980. Initially a bluegrass/folk-rock ensemble, boasting the likes of Sandy Denny, who would later depart for Fairport
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 much is very good. This one sounds excellent and it
CMott The Hoople – In Concert at The Paris Theatre – 1971 – BBC 6 Music Sometimes I run into a dilemma, of sorts, over what to post for the “roundtable” feature. Tonight it was choice over whether to run the scheduled piece (Mott The Hoople at The Paris Theatre
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Rodney On The Roq – April 8, 1979 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Rodney On The Roq – April 8, 1979 – Part 2 Rodney Bingenheimer has been a cornerstone in the world of
Click on the link here for Audio Player: More festivals and more new acts tonight. Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs are a recent signing by the indie label Heavenly Records (who’ve been signing a lot of great acts recently) and their appearance at the London Calling 2013
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The 70s tonight. Silverhead were a brief foray into Glam by a band consisting of future luminaries Michael DesBarres and Nigel Harrison. Although they achieved a moderate amount of success, Silverhead didn’t last beyond 1974 when the group disbanded and
Click on the link here for Audio Player: T. Rex In Session – 1970 Probably one of the more eclectic entries in the Encyclopedia of Glam, Marc Bolan and T. Rex. Begun in the late 1960’s as a quasi-hippie/folk duo known as Tyrannosaurus Rex, they morphed into T. Rex in
