You didn’t get the message – didn’t read the memo. Was it your breath? Was it your voice? Do your feet stink? Were you farting in public? Did someone say something about you? Is it your clothes? Are you fat? Does your nose run? Do you eat with your mouth
– KRHM-FM – November 1958 – Paul Werth – Werth Listening To – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1958. It’s a Sunday night in November – you’re not in High School anymore. Maybe you’re going to UCLA, and your first car is either a Volkswagen or an MG, because Detroit
Keane to get the weekend rolling in an orderly direction – recorded live from The Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury on June 29, 2024 by the ever-present BBC 6 Music. Keane achieved mainstream international success with the release of their debut album Hopes and Fears in 2004. Topping the UK chart,
The 1951 general election in Britain was held twenty months after the 1950 general election, which the Labour Party had won with a slim majority of just five seats. The Labour government called a snap election for Thursday 25 October 1951 in the hope of increasing its parliamentary majority. This
– October 25, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 25, 1978 – Depending on where you were, it was an uncomfortable day. If you were in Finance, you would be nervous over the drop in the value of the dollar overseas as reactions
Go Go Berlin for a Friday morning. Playing the Crossroads Festival in Bonn, Germany and recorded October 23, 2014 by WDR-Bonn. Don’t know about you, but I thought I had the wrong date when I was getting ready to put this post up. I could have sworn we were smack
Melt Yourself Down for a Thursday night/Friday early-early morning. Recorded live at the 6 Music Festival on March 8, 2020. Without question, the perfect mashup of Jazz, Afrobeat, Funk, Avant-Garde and Punk – all in one place and all fairly seismic in their execution. I wouldn’t go to sleep to
CBS World News Roundup – October 24, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If the world wasn’t complicated enough on this October 24th in 1978, parts of it were catching on fire. Almost like clockwork, Southern California went through the ritual; a dry Santa Ana wind combined with lots
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson confronts Soviet Ambassador Zorin – continuing coverage – October 24, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the pitch increased and the nerves got shorter, this October 24th in 1962 reached just below boiling point at the United Nations. Exasperated and looking for some conclusive admission
Teenage Fanclub, live at La Cigale, Paris – via RAI Radio 2 – April 11, 1993 – Jumping into the 90s this morning for a concert featuring Teenage Fanclub, recorded live in Paris and run on RAI Radio 2 in Rome on April 11, 1993. Taking the decade into consideration,
