Nothing But Thieves – in concert at Reading/Leeds 2016. Heading into the home stretch for Summer Festival season, Nothing But Thieves kept the audience suitably wired, on this first day of the weekend festival – recorded only hours ago by the venerable BBC Radio 1. If there is one thing
August 26, 1986 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 26, 30 years ago today – A seismic and Volcanic surprise in the African nation of Cameroon – one of the rare volcanos situation under a lake, erupted and spewed lethal carbon dioxide gas and
Julien Baker – live at Outside lands Music and Arts Festival – August 6, 2016 – Livestream News faces tonight. Julien Baker has been creating a stir in recent months. The 20 year old singer-songwriter, establishing herself early-on as a member of the Memphis band Forrister has struck out on
On this August 25th in 1943, President Roosevelt addressed the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa on the occasion of concluding the Quebec Conference with UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Stalin. The War was making progress and the allies were slowly winning – but it wasn’t without struggle. Here
August 25, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC Red Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this August 25th, seventy-five years ago, was about the opening of a new front in this War. Now it was the Middle-East, with British and Russian troops moving into Iran,
Part 1: Part 2: Continuing Summer Festival season in Europe with a concert from the 2016 Aix-en-Provence Festival. This festival has been one of the most popular and legendary, having been around for several decades and offering some of the most memorable performances of instrumental, opera and orchestral repertoire. Certainly
August 23, 1986 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 23, 1986 – 30 years ago today – the big news was the disclosure and only the most perfunctory acknowledgement of a Chinese newspaper report that a U.S. Citizen was convicted in China on
August 22, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 22, 1988 – ironically also a Monday. News from Poland was looking ominous as some 70,000 workers went on strike. The strike took place at the Gdansk Shipyard, the place the Solidarity Movement began
Eliane Richepin with the ORTF Orchetra, conducted by Pierre-Michel Le Conte – Honneger: Concertino – ORTF 1948/49 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Back to performances via French Radio this weekend. A performance of the Honegger Concertino for Piano and Orchestra, featuring the highly underrated and undeservedly overlooked French pianist
Andy Partridge talks about XTC, during a publicity session at Geffen Records on June 8, 1992. Partridge was in town (Los Angeles) to help promote Nonsuch, which would be their last album for Virgin Records (and subsequently for Geffen, their U.S. licensee). Although Partridge is enthusiastic, you can’t help but
