"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– BBC In Concert – The Fabulous Poodles – May 26, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – Heading over to the dawn of New Wave tonight with a concert by The Fabulous Poodles, recorded for the venerable BBC In Concert…
Double Espresso, please: – Elvis Costello and The Attractions -Live At Hope and Anchor – 1980 – BBC 6 Music – Diving back to the 80s this week – Elvis Costello from 1980. When I first heard Elvis Costello it…
Gentle hounding, but hounding nonetheless: Become a Patron! – 1977-11-19 BBC In Concert – Supertramp – Over to London this weekend for a concert by 70’s legends Supertramp, recorded by the BBC as part of their Sight and Sound series…
– Eurythmics live in Berlin – June 7, 1987 – RBB Berlin – Certainly, of all the bands qualifying as the one it wouldn’t have been the 80s without, Eurythmics has to go high on that list. Darlings of MTV…
– Chic with Nile Rodgers – Glastonbury 2013 – BBC 6 Music – June 28, 2013 – It’s hard to say who was more blown away by this concert – the band or the audience. Clearly it was a love-fest…
– Nirvana – Live in Rome – Nov. 19, 1991 – RAI Radio 2 – Historic Nirvana this Holiday Hump-Day. From a concert in Rome, recorded by the Italian Radio network RAI on November 19, 1991, the inimitable Kurt Cobain…
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 Real People – In Concert – May 25, 1992 – Diving headfirst into the weekend with The Real People; a band that was extremely influential in establishing the Britpop scene in the early 90s, but who had somehow…
– Aztec Camera Glasgow Barrowlands 25th August 1984 – Since we’re heading in the direction of weekend, I thought I would take a side-trip to the 80s tonight with a mini-concert by Aztec Camera. Always a favorite. Founded by Roddy…
– 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…