Click on the link here for Audio Player – Stone Roses – live In Blackpool – Dec. 8, 1989 – BBC 6 Music Continuing our romp through Madchester with a concert by Stone Roses, during that pivotal and meteoric period, recorded live in concert from Blackpool on December 8, 1989.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – August 6, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this August 6th in 1980 was decidedly political in nature. It was a Presidential election year. The Popularity/promise-them-anything campaign was in full swing. The latest was
Click on the link here for Audio Player – James – In session for John Peel – October 19, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 Although they first arrived on the scene as an Alternative/Post-punk band, James evolved into one of the cornerstone bands of the Madchester movement in the late
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Dead Can Dance – In Concert From Rotterdam – 1987 – VPRO Ending up the week of 80s bands with a concert featuring Ethereal/Goth/Post-Punk/Dark Wave practitioners Dead Can Dance. Recorded live in Rotterdam in 1987. Once described by Australian music Historian
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Teardrop Explodes – John Peel Session – April 24, 1980 – BBC Radio 1 More 80s post-Punk with a touch of neo-Psychedelia this time, via The Teardrop Explodes.One of the key figures in the Liverpool post-Punk scene, Teardrop Explodes also
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Pale Fountains – in session for John Peel – July 19, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 Staying in the 80s again tonight with a session for John Peel by The Pale Fountains. Not all that well known in the States,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – July 23, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Thirty years ago today we were knee-deep in anticipation of the 1984 Olympics and eye-ball deep in 1984 Presidential Electioneering. Optimism on the Mondale-Ferraro Campaign with new poll
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Style Council – In Session at BBC 1 – May 5, 1983 – Rebroadcast BBC 6 Music More 80s tonight. When the Jam split up and Paul Weller re-emerged as The Style Council, the gear-switch seemed rather extreme at first.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Tito Puente’s Golden Men Of Latin Jazz – Estival Jazz – Lugano, Switzerland – July 3, 1993 – RTS Heating up Sunday this week. The legendary Tito Puente and his Golden Men of Latin Jazz, featuring James Moody on Sax and
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Killing Joke – John Peel Session – April 27, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 Heading briefly back to the 80s tonight for a session from Killing Joke, recorded for the John Peel Program at BBC Radio 1 on April 27, 1981.
