Budgie – live at Reading Festival 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Budgie to end the working week. Okay – I know what you’re thinking – what am I doing running heavy Metal bands as part of the Soundbooth. Well first off, Budgie weren’t your average run-of-the-mill Heavy Metal band.
The Teardrop Explodes – live at Sheffield University – March 19, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – The Teardrop Explodes tonight – recorded live at Sheffield University on March 19, 1981 and preserved for posterity by BBC Radio 1. Coming along at a time when Post-punk was coming into its
December 21,1947 – Story Behind The Headlines – Marshall Plan news – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Secretary of State George Marshall put together a plan for the economic rehabilitation and the reconstruction of post-war Europe. Two years after the end of World War 2, Europe was still struggling under
December 21, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 21, 1988. The day of a first. On this day, two Cosmonauts aboard the Space station MIR, along with a French Astronaut who showed up a few weeks earlier via another mission, finally landed on
Anna Ternheim – live at The Cirkus, Stockholm – March 14, 2016 – Sveriges Radio P3 – Anna Ternheim tonight. Jumping into something a bit more contemporary than what I’ve been running these past few weeks. Anna Ternheim has been around for a while, since 2003. She has six albums
America United: What About 1950? – December 18, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1950? America; coming to the end of a turbulent decade in December of 1949. We openly wondered what was in store for us in the new decade? What were we going to be doing?
– Carl Theodor Dreyer – interview – 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Carl Theodor Dreyer is a name that, unless you are a serious film student or cineaste, may not ring any bells with you. The Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer, who was born in 1889 was one
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers – Live in Düsseldorf – November 18, 1959 – WDR-Germany – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Art Blakey this weekend. From a concert given in Düsseldorf, West Germany on November 18th 1959, and The Jazz Messengers; the classic third lineup featuring Lee Morgan on
KYA – Bobby Mitchell Show – 5-6:00 pm – December 15, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you were a teenager anywhere in America in the 1960s, radio was your confidant, confessor, best friend and go-to buddy; it was the one place you found solace when things got
December 14, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 14, 1991 – After spending a considerable amount of time negotiating a non-aggression pact between North Korea and South Korea, and signing the pact only the day before; word came out that, in fact North
