Staying around Belfast this week for a performance by Dea Matrona, recorded live at BBC Ulster Introducing from Mandela Hall on October 25th. Officially formed in 2018, Dea Matrona have been getting high praise and an ever-growing fanbase. A few enthusiastic members of the Press have bestowed the weighty mantle
Over to Bratislava by way of Madrid this week for a concert by Bratislava Festival Orchestra led by Music Director Paul McCreesh and featuring Henning Kragerund, viola and Nicholas Daniel. Oboe in music of Vaughan-Williams, Howells, Barber and Edward Elgar. Beginning with the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
– NBC Blue Network – News Of The World – November 13, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Depending on where you were getting your news from on this November 13th in 1941 was how the world, and the war, was going. If you were in Britain, the heat
– Tom Waits – Live At Post Hall, Bremen Germany – April 26, 1977 – Nordwestradio, Germany – Tom Waits this morning. A classic concert from Germany, recorded in 1977 by Radio Bremen. Waits during this early period (I ran a Troubadour show from 1975 here a few years ago)
Sticking around Northern Ireland tonight for a session recorded during lockdown at Nerve Centre in Derry on January 30, 2021. PORTS are a four piece band from Northern Ireland. They consist of Steven McCool (Bass and Vocals), Mark O’Doherty (Drums), Ryan Griffiths (Guitar) and Conor Mason (Piano). After the release
A discussion; Who Should Be Drafted? Broadcast on November 12, 1950 as part of the Northwestern Reviewing Stand series for Mutual. Interesting, that this discussion was taking place when it did. The Korean War was already underway and had been since June of that year. It was clearly escalating and
– The Morning Report fro WXYZ-Detroit – November 12, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A lot of local news, via WXYZ in Detroit, in this November 12th in 1964. Beginning with news of the ongoing newspaper Strike at The Detroit News, the layoffs at Ford and a threatened
– The Cure – Live At Glastonbury – June 21, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 – Mid-80s Cure this morning. From their standout performance at the 1986 Glastonbury Festival, recorded by the venerable BBC Radio 1 on June 21, 1986. By 1986, The Cure were becoming household names throughout the
Roe in session tonight – a 2021 gig at Nerve Center in Derry and recorded on December 18, 2021. If memory serves, this is right smack in the middle of COVID Lockdown so there is no audience. But that doesn’t mean there’s no energy. Roe is one of those phenomenal
Since it is a holiday (unless you’re a bank worker – postal worker or government paper-pusher you would never know) and since a steady diet of current events is getting on everyone’s nerves, I thought I would dive into pop culture as purely distraction and stay away from real life,
