Thala in concert for this Friday Junior lunchroom. Recorded at the 2021 Reeperbahn Festival and broadcast by West German Radio. It’s always fun to run across an unfamiliar name and be pleasantly surprised at what you hear. Here’s what Angela Betancourt from Blurred Culture had to say regarding her SXSW
Wolf Alice for lunch today – recorded at the 2025 Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona on July 14, 2025. One of those bands that keep reaching and striving, Wolf Alice did a standout performance for the crowd in Barcelona, part of a tour promoting their soon-to-be-released fourth album, The Clearing
– The Oscar Peterson Trio – live at the 1968 Montreal Jazz Festival – CBC Transcription Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. I first ran this concert about ten years ago via another site. At the time the sound quality on the player available to me wasn’t very good,
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.
– Sviatoslav Richter in recital at the 1986 Tivoli Music Festival – 1986 – NRK-Copenhagen/American Public Radio – Another rarity this week. This time from the 1986 Tivoli Gardens Music Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. A recital given by the legendary Sviatoslav Richter in an all Beethoven program. It was broadcast
Elbow – live at Reading Festival 2001 – BBC Radio 1 – Elbow to start off the week. At a concert recorded during the 2001 Reading Festival and preserved for posterity by the BBC. For all the complaints about the current state of affairs in music, the objects of derision
Queens Of The Stone Age – Reading 2000 – BBC 6 Music – Queens Of The Stone Age, in concert at The Reading Festival in 2000 (are you joking? Twenty-six YEARS AGO??). The Palm Desert California band were one of the highlights of a festival that included headliners Oasis
Florence Road tonight – recorded on January 15th of this year at the 2026 Eurosonic Noorderslag Festival and broadcast by VPRO. A lot of substantial and impressive talent coming out of Ireland, these past several years – recent additions to the lexicon are Florence Road, four women from County Wicklow
Lightning Seeds – Glastonbury 1998 – BBC Radio 1 – For Friday Jr. Lunch, it’s Lightning Seeds, recorded during their appearance at the 1998 festival. The Lightning Seeds are Liverpool, they formed in 1989 by Ian Broudie (vocals, guitar, producer), formerly of the band Big in Japan. Originally a studio-based
Heading into breezy Pop territory this Lunch hour with a set from Beabadoobee, recorded at the 2021 Head In The Clouds Festival in Los Angeles. Much as I like to go on explorations of the new, interesting and overlooked, sometimes it’s a matter of just looking around and seeing what
