"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Chumbawamba – live at Glastonbury 1994 – Recorded June 26, 1994 – BBC Radio 1 – Chumbawamba to start off the week. A little musical anarchy to get things rolling. If you’re scratching your head, wondering who Chumbawamba are (or were, they broke up in 2012) – here’s a rundown...
March 29, 1997 – CBS Radio News On the Hour – KCBS-AM San Francisco – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 29, 1997 – Three days after the discovery of some 39 bodies, neatly laid out in the bedrooms of a 9,000 square foot mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California,...
Portishead – live at Elysee Montmartre, Paris – June 11, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Portishead in concert this weekend. Recorded at Elysee Montmartre in Paris on June 11, 1997. Portishead are no stranger to this website – one of the bands I consider essential listening, whose albums...
News for this day, twenty years ago had much to do with shock and horror surrounding the assassination of Mexican Presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, gunned down while celebrating an election victory in Tijuana the evening before. The alleged assassin, 23 year old Mario Aburto Martinez; a mechanic and Pacifist, was...
March 23, 1999 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 23, 1999 – News from Kosovo and the word was Frustration. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrook failed in last-ditch diplomacy efforts to stave off NATO’s first-ever airstrikes over Kosovo. Emerging from a two-hour session with Serbian...
March 22, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 22, 1991 – news for this day had much to do with the situation in Iraq. Starting with a Pentagon report that an F-15 shot down an Iraqi jet venturing into the No-Fly zone in...
Rubicon in concert tonight – recorded live in concert at Essen, Germany on November 30, 1992. Sadly, there’s not much known about this band, other than they are a sort of stopping-off place between Fields Of Nephilim and Last Rites, two highly influential bands of the Goth genre to which...
March 12, 1999 – BBC World Service – Newshour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 12, 1999 – A busy news day made sadder by the report of the loss of violin icon Yehudi Menuhin while Newshour was on the air. The news began with a report that Germany,...
Staying with the 90s again this week and one of the less-celebrated bands of the Brit-Pop Invasion, Elastica. In mid-1992, ex-Suede band members Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch decided to form a group. By the autumn of that year, bassist Annie Holland and guitarist Donna Matthews were added. After initially...
March 8, 1999 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 8, 1999 – A day of double loss to the world of Sports and the world of Cinema. Joe DiMaggio, Joltin’ Joe, Yankee Clipper, baseball legend, died earlier in the day at his home in...
