July 5, 2002 – BBC World Service – World Briefing – BBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 5, 2002 – Fourth of July was a nervous event in America in 2002 – a year after September 11th, the country was braced for another terrorist attack in the
You can’t help it – it’s not your fault. It’s not that your taste in music changed, it’s that music changed. You can pinpoint it (give or take a few months): 1964. Around the time The Beatles went on Ed Sullivan. It took you a while, but you finally warmed
Rufus Wainwright – Live at Glastonbury 2022 – Recorded and broadcast live on June 24, 2022 – BBC 6 Music – Rufus Wainwright to end up the weekend and take us into the 4th of July. Recorded and broadcast live on June 24, at Glastonbury 2022 by BBC6 Music. Rufus
Martha Angelici, soprano – Solange Michel, mezzo-soprano – Soloists and Chorus of The French National Orchestra – Marc Honegger, conductor – broadcast recording – 1952 – ORTF, Paris. The Music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier this weekend. Not my usual addition to the Sunday lineup, but something worthy of a listen, if
Tony Williams Lifetime – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival – June 13, 1971 – RTS-FM, Switzerland – Last week I ran a concert featuring both Art Blakey and Tony Williams from 1972. This week it’s Tony Williams and his Jazz Fusion collective Lifetime, featuring Ted Dunbar on guitar, Jack Bruce
Jarv Is – Live At Glastonbury 2022 – Recorded and broadcast by BBC 6 Music – June 26, 2022 – BBC 6 Music. Sticking around Glastonbury this weekend for a performance by Jarv Is, recorded and broadcast live by BBC 6 Music of June 26th. In case you forgot, Jarvis
Dear Visitors/fans/patrons/relatives we’ve never met: It happens from time to time – you try to do something interesting – or do something you were assured was a step in the right direction and all hell breaks loose. Believe it or not, this was the weekend we were going to do
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Metronomy – Live At Glastonbury – June 25, 2022 – BBC 6 Music – Metronomy at Glastonbury – recorded on June 25, 2022 by the always-present BBC 6 Music and broadcast live. Metronomy formed in 1999. As of 2021, the band consists of Joseph Mount (vocals, keyboards and guitar), Oscar
July 1, 1945 – Reports from Bob Brumby and Don Bell via Shortwave to Mutual – July 1, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 1, 1945 – Reports for this day from two Mutual correspondents via Shortwave on the situation in the south Pacific and the Borneo Campaign.
