The Skids – Live At Chelsea Art College 1981 – BBC Rock Goes To College Series – BBC Radio 1 – The Skids tonight. Punk and New Wave from Scotland, The Skids were around a short while the first time – and a short while the second time. During the
Gang of Four – in session for John Peel – March 12, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – More examples of Post-Punk tonight. This one by way of Gang of Four, who many considered to be one of the leading bands in the post-Punk movement. They were together (the first
The Jesus and Mary Chain – in session for John Peel – October 29, 1985 – BBC Radio 1 – The Jesus and Mary Chain tonight- in session for John Peel and recorded (as Jim and William Reid) on October 29, 1985. A band with no easy road to stardom,
March 25, 1983 – CBS Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 25, 1983 – A March day during the 80s version of the Cold War. President Reagan held a mini-press conference earlier this morning, where he held his ground on support of Kenneth Adelman as head of
March 23, 1985 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 23, 1985 – a day where violence and passions ran high in South Africa over the killings of 18 Black Anti-Apartheid protestors. The trouble started after a news conference by President Reagan who commented, in
Shop Assistants – John Peel Session – December 8, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 – Shop Assistants tonight. A band sometimes described as “one hit wonders”, they actually had more than one hit. But it was after they signed to the Chrysalis Records imprint Blue Guitar that their fortunes went
March 18, 1981 – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 18, 1981 – another contentious, litigious, misplaced priorities kind of day in history. Starting with a threatened Coal strike. Contract talks between the Coal industry and the soft-coal miners broke down, paving the way for a nationwide
Dead Can Dance – BBC Session – John Peel – June 13, 1984 – BBC Radio 1 – Dead Can Dance to end out the week. One of the pioneering Soundscape/ethereal wave/dark wave bands of the early 80s, they were closely associated with another band they were label mates
Fuzzbox – in session for John Peel – March 1, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 – Fuzzbox, or their complete name; We’ve Got A Fuzzbox and We’re Gonna Use It, got together in 1985, and by 1986 already had their first hit record. In fact, their album produced a slew
March 7, 1983 – CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak + 9:00 am News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 7, 1983 – They were going to the polls in Europe. And the results were unexpected. Germany’s Conservative Chancellor Helmut Kohl won voter approval of the way he ran
