Anna Calvi – In Concert at Route du Rock – August 16, 2014 – RFI/FIP Ending out the week with a concert by Anna Calvi, recorded during the 2014 Route du Rock Festival on August 16, 2014. There was something very special about the 2014 season of Route du Rock.
– NBC – News On The Hour – for March 13, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Cold War climate was getting stirred up, this March 13th in 1961. News that West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt left a meeting with President Kennedy saying there would be no trouble
– Dead Kennedys – Live At Old Waldorf – October 25, 1979 ©Terry Hammer Archives – Taking a brief detour back to the 70s this morning with a concert by California’s own Dead Kennedys. Recorded live at Old Waldorf by the venerable Terry Hammer for KALX in Berkeley on October
Over to Paris this week for some down-to-earth music making by Orchestre National Il de France, led by Enrique Mazzola and featuring pianist Cedric Tiberghien in a concert from the Salle Pleyel in Paris and broadcast by Radio France Musique on November 7, 2014. Starting with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto Number
In 1958 we were right in the middle of the Cold War – the threat of some form of confrontation between East and West was never far from people’s minds. The events prior to 1958 were signs stability anywhere in the world was tenuous at best. The situation in Hungary
News for this March 12th in 1948 had much to do with the recent events in Czechoslovakia and the sudden death of its President Jan Masaryk. Bad enough it was overtaken by Nazi Germany, starting with the Sudeten crisis of 1938, it was now coming under the influence of the
– Martha & The Muffins, live at Spize – Farmingdale, N.Y. – May 3,1983 – WLIR-FM Broadcast – Taking a small detour to the 80s tonight with a concert by Canada’s very own Martha & The Muffins. Recorded live by WLIR-FM at the club Spize in Farmdale New York. An
HotWax in session tonight – Recorded yesterday (March 10) for Steve Lamacq at BBC 6 Music and hot on the release of their much anticipated debut album, Hot Shock which came out on the 7th of this month. Needless to say, lots of promoting, lots of touring – lots of
It was called The last Great Exodus from the UK. Displaced Britons from the war, whose lives were uprooted by The Blitz and destruction of most of the industrial cities throughout England, sought new lives in other areas of the world which were considered all part of the British Empire
– BBC Radio – Initial bulletins – RFI Special Report – March 11, 2004 – RNE Radio 5 – News – March 12, 2004 – Twenty-one years ago this day, a terrorist attack claimed 191 lives and wounded some 1,800 more when ten explosions went off on four commuter trains
