The Verve – Band that helped define the 90s. Lunch with The Verve today – recorded at the 2008 Glastonbury Festival on June 29, 2008 by BBC 6 Music. The Verve will most likely go down as one of the truly defining bands of the 90s. Initially embracing Shoegaze but
– BBC World Service – Newsdesk – April 10, 1998 – BBC World Service After decades of violence, untold numbers dead and two years of talks, it was looking very much like Peace would finally come to Northern Ireland. On this April 10th in 1998, news spread that a tentative
The Trashcan Sinatras – In Session – BBC 1990 – BBC Radio 1 – The Trashcan Sinatras were one of my favorite bands of the early 90s. From the release of their debut album, Cake, it was immediately engaging and demanding of numerous plays. Compared in the beginning to The
Ride – In concert at Town & Country Club, London – October 28, 1990. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Perennial favorites Ride this afternoon. Recorded in concert at Town & Country in London on October 28, 1990. Despite their objections, Ride became synonymous with the Shoegaze
March 25, 1998 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 25, 1998 – In the small Arkansas town of Jonesboro, gunfire erupted at Westside Middle School where four students and a teacher were killed the previous day by a jilted 13 year-old boy and his
March 24, 1995 -CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 24, 1995 – A busy day on Capitol Hill, with passage of the Line-Item Veto 69-29, President Clinton got what President Reagan had been asking for. It enabled the President the remove “pork barrel” spending so
March 17, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 17, 1994 – A dqy loaded with courts and legalities. Former figure Skater Tonya Harding got the verdict in Portland on this day; No jail time, no more career, pay $160,000 fine and serve three
March 9, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 9, 1991 – Desert Storm was over. The Hundred-hour war was now history. Troops were starting to come home. And hints and revelations it could have gone worse were starting to surface. Before leaving
March 4, 1997 – National Public Radio – Morning Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 4, 1997 – Interesting news day with a lot going on. On the eve of preliminary peace talks between North and South Korea, news of shakeups in North Korea, with observers wondering if
Stereolab – live at the 1996 Phoenix Festival – July 20, 1996 – John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – Stereolab in concert this weekend. Recorded by the BBC at the 1996 Phoenix Festival. Sterolab began in 1994, as a sort of take-off on German electronica bands of the 1970s.
