Ending up the week with two shopping days left before Christmas and a casual look at this years Summer Festivals (it’s the end of the year already?) – heading back for a visit to the 2023 Glastonbury Festival and a performance by Maisie Peters; a relatively new name on the
– A Night Out – By Harold Pinter – World Premiere – March 1, 1960 – BBC Transcription Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The arrival of Harold Pinter on the Theatrical scene in the late 1950s caused a stir, a sensation and a harbinger of things to come
-Radio Peking (Beijing) – English language broadcast for December 21, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Radio Peking, before it was known as Radio Beijing, the Voice of The People’s Republic of China, who broadcast daily in English, and unless you had a powerful shortwave radio, you do doubt
Killing Joke in concert to give your Thursday a jolt – recorded by the band on November 1, 1979 in London in what was one of their (most likely) earliest recorded public performances and less than a month after their debut session for John Peel. From Wikipedia: Paul Ferguson was
– For Adults Only: Truman Capote – April 16, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – There is certainly no shortage of interviews, recollections, observations, biographies, documentaries and articles on literary legend Truman Capote. A pivotal figure in 20th century American literature, Capote was as much a figure of controversy,
Another historic concert from the Swiss Radio archives. This one, recorded between the years 1966 and 1970 features l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under the direction of Paul Kletzki and the legendary violinist Arthur Grumiaux in music of von Weber, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. The concert begins with Weber’s overture to
– Stone Roses – Live at Town & Country – 1995 – BBC In Concert – BBC6 Music – Taking a brief stop in the 90s this morning with a concert by The Stone Roses, recorded live at the Town & Country in 1995, by the venerable and always there
– Pablo Neruda – Interview/Poetry reading – Comment – September 5, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Considered by many to be one of the Greatest Poets of the 20th century in any language, Pablo Neruda was especially popular in the early 1970s, around the time of his winning
CBS Radio Hourly News + Spectrum – December 19, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The saga of Poland continued, this December 19th in 1981. Despite a crackdown and Martial Law imposed, protests and strikes were still going on. News filtering in claimed Solidarity leader Lech Walesa wasn’t under arrest,
– The Go-Go’s – Live at Hakano Plaza, Tokyo – June 19, 1982 – Not exactly Christmas, but it’s still festive – A concert tonight by The Go-Go’s, recorded live at Hakano Plaza in Tokyo on June 19th, 1982. Christened by the press as America’s Sweethearts, the Go-Go’s had a
