"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Newshour – January 13, 1998 – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 13, 1998 was a day mostly consumed with reports of on-again-off-again UN weapons inspections going on in Baghdad. Today it was off-again, owing…
ABC World News This Week – January 9, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In a week that seemed more violent than most, January 9th, 1994 summed up the mood of dismay, frustration and helplessness many were feeling twenty…
– January 5, 1996 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 5, 1996 – five days into the new year and all was not quiet, at least on Capitol Hill. The almost never-ending threats to…
– December 30, 1997 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 30, 1997 – Almost the last day of the year and, like clockwork, the Eastern Seaboard and the South are blanketed with snow as…
– Y2K Reports – CBS World News Roundup – December 29, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Y2K and the coming catastrophe . . .so they said. That’s was what everyone was thinking about on this December 29th in…
Cocteau Twins – John Peel Session – July 15, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Cocteau Twins tonight. One of the first, if not the first of the Ethereal/Dreamscape bands to arrive on the scene in the late 1970s. The…
Blur – In session for Mark Goodier – BBC Radio 1 – August 10, 1990 – BBC Radio 1 – Very early Blur tonight. In what I think is their first session at the BBC, five months after the band…
The inimitable PJ Harvey tonight. In session for John Peel on the occasion of his 60th birthday and recorded on Sept 23, 1998 for BBC Radio 1. In January 1991, following her departure from Automatic Dlamini, Harvey formed her own…
Texas tonight. The Scottish Alternative/Britpop/Rock band have together some 32 years. Further evidence the band is still going strong, even after a hiatus of a few years and lead singer Sharleen Spiteri venturing into solo territory with two successful albums.…
– The Dylans – In Session for Mark Radcliffe – March 26, 1994 – BBC Radio 1 – The Dylans, in session for Mark Radcliffe – recorded on March 26, 1994. Further proof the 90s got off to a great…