"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
UB40 – in session for John Peel – January 9, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – UB40 tonight. A bunch of friends, all from the same neighborhood in Birmingham (UK), who got together and became one of the most successful Pop/Reggae outfits of the 1980s. With over 50 singles in...
Cedric Foster Commentary – Foreign Policy under Eisenhower – January 30, 1957 – MBS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Foreign Policy has always been a sticky situation for the U.S. – different approaches have yielded different results. During the Eisenhower years it was a favored approach by the President...
January 31, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 31, 1978 – a day to recognize Olive branches in the Middle East. The channels for peace talks were being cleared again, and a new sense of momentum was developing in the peace process. Military...
The Adult Net – in session for Janice Long – October 1, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 – The Adult Net to start off the week. Originally a side project of The Fall’s singer and guitarist Brix Smith, who joined the band in 1983. The Adult Net featured Brix, along...
January 30, 2003 – BBC Radio 4 News- Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 30, 2003 – days closer to War with Iraq. This time, the enthusiasm to assemble a “coalition of the willing” was considerably less than before. Despite President Bush’s almost non-stop mantra of Weapons Of Mass Destruction...
Phil Ochs – 1970 Greenpeace Concert – October 16, 1970 – Amchitka Phil Ochs to end the week and to begin the next one. Can’t think of a better voice of conscience than Phil Ochs right now – he was one of the most vocal opponents of the Vietnam War,...
Gabriel Pierné – Variations Fibres et Finale – Pierre Jamet Chamber Ensemble – ORTF 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Gabriel Pierné this week. I initially came to know of Pierné by way of his recordings as conductor of works by his contemporaries with the prestigious...
Hugh Masekela – In Concert from the 2015 Inntöne Jazz Festival – Diersbach, Bauernhof, Austria – May 21, 2010 – RAI Radio Tre – Hugh Masekela this weekend and his delicious roux of Afrobeat Jazz, as performed during the 2015 Inntöne Jazz Festival in Austria and broadcast by RAI Radio...
Björk – In Concert at The Warehouse, Toronto – August 7, 1995 – CBC Radio – Björk this weekend. Perhaps fitting with the surreal nature of real life, the surreal nature of art and music. Björk is synonymous with eclecticism; a continuously changing and evolving evolution of art, performance and...
KMPC – Gary Owens – January 26, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – You live in L.A. and it’s January; the first month of a new year and a new decade. You have also left your twenties, and the only thing more precarious than Eight-oh is turning Three-oh....