– The Boomtown Rats – Live At Hammersmith Odeon – 1982 – BBC 6 Music – If the Boomtown Rats did nothing else in their careers, being the purveyors of the 80s anthem I Don’t Like Mondays would assure them a place in the New Wave hall of fame. But
BMX Bandits tonight – in session for Marc Riley at BBC 6 Music on April 15, 2024. BMX Banditsformed in Bellshill Scotland in 1985. Led by songwriter and lead vocalist Duglas T. Stewart, their music is heavily influenced by 1960s pop. They have shared members with numerous other local bands,
– WBAI: The Turbulent Sixties – Democracy and Militarism – July 7, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No shortage of similarities between the decade of the 1960s and the decade we’re in right now. Repeated assessments from many corners, calling ours a Police State; a Militarized Society, where
Snow Patrol in concert from Glasgow, recorded just a few weeks ago in February by BBC Scotland and broadcast on Roddy Hart’s Quay Sessions program. Snow Patrol formed in 1994 in Dundee, Scotland, consisting of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), and Johnny McDaid (piano, guitar, keyboards,
The music of Swiss composer Ernst Levy this weekend, performed by the Basle Orchestra, conducted by Ernst Levy from this broadcast performance over Swiss Radio on August 29, 1950. His Symphony Number 11, written in 1949 and presumably receiving it’s world premier performance here. Ernst Lévy, studied in Basel with
Legends this week – a program from the Voice of America series Jazz Club USA – this one from June 10, 1951 featuring the Joe Bushkin Quartet and Art Tatum, recorded at the Embers and hosted by none other than Leonard Feather. Joe Bushkin began his career by playing trumpet
The legendary John Peel tonight – one of his Top Gear proograms for the BBC, broadcast on June 7, 1969 – a complete show, all two hours worth. A lot of disc jockeys on both sides of the Atlantic lay claim to being the driving force behind what became Freeform
In retrospect, it was the best two weeks of your life. At the time, it was the worst two weeks of your life. Didn’t start that way, but it ended with little pieces of you, splattered on the walls, falling to the floor. Broken heart – scrambled brain – that
Amy Winehouse this weekend – recorded at the Tempodrom in Berlin on October 15, 2007. One of the things that’s particularly sad about artists who have a meteoric rise, only to be met by an equally catastrophic demise is that, after the initial shock and the reminders of cautionary tales
– April 26, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 26, 1994 – A historic day for South Africa. For the first time ever, South African Blacks were voting in the country’s general election. After decades of apartheid and brutal oppression, it was a
