A city sleeps but the lights stay on. People often wonder if radio in the 1940s and 1950s was anything like Television during that time. If you stayed up late enough and were groggily staring at your TV, you would invariably see a Test pattern, an announcer reciting the script
R.E.M. this afternoon – a classic concert, the last one from their Monster Tour on November 21, 1995. R.E.M. have dropped off the radar for the most part, these past few years. Since the band broke up in 2011, there’s not much in the way of news about the members
Kid Galahad – Live At Minehead March 16, 2003 – The Furze – Live in Glasgow – Oct. 27, 2007 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Not a double bill tonight, but the same band in two venues at two different times. I first discovered Kid Galahad many years ago
John Sebastian – Cambridge Folk Festival 1981 Since the archives is fairly bulging with posts we’ve done 10-15 years ago, I thought it might be a good idea to stop having them collect dust and reissue some of them in case you missed them the first time. So this one
Air – Live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London – 1998 – Recorded by BBC 6 Music – Lunch for a Thursday this week with Air, the Psych/Electronic/Downtempo band from Versailles, recorded shortly after the release of their debut album Moon Safari, which went on to become their most critically acclaimed
The Wedding Present – live at Reading Festival 1996 – John Peel – August 25, 1996 – BBC Radio 1 – The Wedding Present, live at the 1996 Reading Festival, as announced by John Peel on August 25th for BBC Radio 1. The Wedding Present had been around since 1984
Echo & The Bunnymen – In session for John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – August 15, 1979 – Echo & The Bunnymen tonight – their first session for John Peel at the BBC, recorded August 15, 1979 and broadcast on the 22nd of that month. A little less than
Shed Seven – In Concert from Brighton – 1994 – BBC Radio 1 – In Concert – Shed Seven in concert this afternoon. A band who were very popular in the mid-1990s, but somehow didn’t get the mainstream credit they deserved for being one of the bands who helped put
Elastica – in session for John Peel – September 18, 1993 – BBC Radio 1 – Elastica in session tonight. One of the up-and-comers of 1993, Elastica first got started in 1992, as ex-Suede members Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch left to form their own group. Joined by Guitarist Donna
Badfinger this afternoon – recorded in concert for Granada TV in Manchester, UK on May 3, 1972 With the recent death of founding member Joey Molland, who was the last surviving member of Badfinger, you could say the last chapter was finished and the book is now closed. But it
