Click on the link here for Audio Player – Spandau Ballet – In Concert at Irvine Meadows – April 19, 1985 With Spandau Ballet’s recent appearance at SXSW and performing in concert in the U.S. for the first time in 28 years, I ran across this concert from the halcyon
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Blow Monkeys – In Concert from Lea’s Cliff Hall – 1985 – BBC In Concert – BBC Radio 1 Quintessential 80s tonight with a concert by Blow Monkeys, recorded for the BBC In Concert series at Lea’s Cliff Hall in 1985.
Click on the link here for Audio Player- CBS World News Roundup – March 21, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1985 began with an Angry commemoration – March 21st 1985 marked the 25th anniversary of the massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa where 69 Blacks
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Chieftains – In Concert at Sydney Townhall – Sydney, Australia – May 1980 – ABC Radio National FM Network In honor of St. Patrick’s Day – a concert by the legendary and quintessentially Irish band The Chieftains, live in concert
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 14, 1987 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A contrasting sort of day, this March 14th in 1987. From New York came word that reputed Underworld kingpin John Gotti was set free, with the Jury returning
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Working Week – In Concert At Glastonbury – 1985 – BBC Radio Just when it was thought the 80s couldn’t get any more diverse, up pops a new hybrid – Jazz-Pop-Funk-Dance. It morphed into a side-product of New Wave, but was
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bauhaus – In session at The BBC – March 13, 1982 – BBC6 Music Diving into a band some might find hard to place, but who were influential and very popular during their tenure. Bauhaus originally formed in 1979, known as
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Daryll-Ann – live at Noorderslag 2014 – Groningen, Netherlands – January 18, 2014 – VPRO – 3VOOR12 Okay, I admit I missed this band the first time around. Daryll-Ann were together from 1988 until their disbanding in 2004. The Dutch Alternative
Click on the link here for Audio Player – John McLaughlin – Paco de Lucia – live from East Berlin – July 17, 1987 – DDR Radio Berlin (East) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A tribute this week by way of a memorable concert and an astounding collaboration between two
Click on the link here for Audio Player – New Order – In Session for John Peel – May 14, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 Influential 80s tonight. New Order, rising up from the ashes of Joy Division, following the tragic suicide of lead singer/co-founder Ian Curtis, the remaining members
