"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Suede in session – BBC Radio 1 – April 3, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – Suede for mid-week. One of the premier bands of the early 90s and one of the primary bands in the Britpop movement. Formed in London in 1989. The band was composed of singer Brett...
Menswear – in session for John Peel – recorded July 4, 1995 – broadcast July 22, 1995 – BBC Radio 1 – Menswear tonight. Another in a string of short-lived bands. This one from the Brit-pop era. The beginnings of the band were a feature in a Select article about...
Buffalo Daughter – live at NHK-FM Live Beat – March 31, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Buffalo Daughter in concert tonight. Following along with last night’s stunning presentation of Pizzicato Five at Roskilde, I ran across this concert, part of NHK-FM’s Live Beat radio series, recorded on March...
Pizzicato Five – In Concert At Roskilde Festival – June 26, 1998 – RTS Coleur 3 Rebroadcast – Pizzicato Five in concert at the 1998 Roskilde Festival. Since we take requests, and since you asked, here is a sample of a band who were huge throughout the world, yet didn’t...
Blur – In Concert from Cologne, Germany- August 22, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Blur this weekend – with a concert broadcast from Cologne, Germany and recorded on August 22, 1991 – at The Blue Shell. According to their Wikipedia page: Childhood friends Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon...
Teenage Fanclub – In Session for Mark Goodier – Aug. 31, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Teenage Fanclub – one of the bands still very much together, still very much touring, still very much making records. Unlike the bands I’ve been featuring the past week, Teenage Fanclub have kept...
Five Thirty – in session for Mark Goodier – March 31, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Five Thirty to start the week. Another in that seemingly endless series of bands that came and went in a flash, left an album or two and a handful of singles – stuck...
Clinic – Live At Reading Festival 1997 – BBC Radio 1 – Clinic for the middle of the week. Clinic are an Indie/Alternative/Experimental/Post-Punk/Neo-Psych band from Liverpool who got started in 1997. From their Wikipedia page: Vocalist and rhythm guitarist Ade Blackburn and lead guitarist Hartley (born Jonathan Christopher Hartley, Liverpool),...
Gang Of Four – Live At Indian Summer 2006 – BBC 6 music – September 3, 2006 – BBC 6 Music – Gang of Four to kick off the week. Arguably, one of the most influential and important bands of the Post-Punk movement of the late 70s/early 80s. Their music...
My Bloody Valentine – live in Lyon, France – March 21, 1989 – Radio France, International – My Bloody Valentine this weekend in a concert from Lyon, France, recorded by the venerable Radio France International on March 21, 1989. Don’t know about you, but I was taken aback, the first...
