Coffee works and it works real good! – Icicle Works – live The Watershed, Bristol – May 25, 1985 – BBC Radio 1 – Ending up our week in the 80s with a set from Icicle Works, recorded at The Watershed in Bristol by BBC Radio for their In concert
Busy day in Britain as elections were getting ready and campaigns were down to their final day. British voters will choose tomorrow between one of the most conservative politicians to lead a major party there since the war and one whose rhetoric promises radical change. The conservative is Labor Prime
May 2, 1992 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 2, 1992. L.A. wakes up to relative calm, as the curfew and the presence of National Guard, as well as Army and Marine units patrolling the streets attempts to restore something resembling order. Many are
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Join, Subscribe, tell your friends:Become a Patron! Something a little unusual this week – Music from the 2012 Bremen Music Festival – this concert featuring The Minguet Quartett and Jörg Widmann, Clarinet (as well as composer) and Harpist Xavier de Maistre with soprano Mojca Erdmann – all recorded live on
Become a Subscriber/Patron/Member: Become a Patron! NBC Radio – News On The Hour- May 1, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this First day of May in 1961 was probably more ominous in the long-run for events taking place in the future than seemingly of immediate concern
Coffee goes well with Hump-Day: Become a Patron! – The Thompson Twins – Live at York University – 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – As a reminder the 80s were a decade of shoulder pads, Tenex (we called it Dippidy-Doo in the U.S.) and Henna, we also had a flurry
Become a Patron! The height of the Cold War – in 1951 we were knee-deep in a war over Korea – a war that many predicted could lead to World War 3 and signal the possible end of the world. Fears were we would be preoccupied fighting a war with
Become a member, a Patron, and Subscriber: Become a Patron! A busy week on Capitol Hill, this last day of April in 1977. A milestone of sorts; the first 100 days of Jimmy Carter’s term as President. Assessments ran the gamut, but most agreed it was no frills, Hard-driving and
Goes great with Double Espresso and a beignet: – Izia – FNAC Live – Hotel de Ville de Paris – July 18, 2015 – FNAC – A few years ago I ran a session via the Paris radio station Le Mouv of the then-new kid on the block, Izia Higelin
