Click on the link here for Audio Player – Blow Monkeys – In Concert from Lea’s Cliff Hall – 1985 – BBC In Concert – BBC Radio 1 Quintessential 80s tonight with a concert by Blow Monkeys, recorded for the BBC In Concert series at Lea’s Cliff Hall in 1985.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Medicine Head – In Concert – October 6, 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series Taking a detour tonight into lesser-known/neglected/overlooked bands of the early 1970s. Medicine Head were initially a duo consisting of John Fiddler and Peter Hope-Evans. They
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Working Week – In Concert At Glastonbury – 1985 – BBC Radio Just when it was thought the 80s couldn’t get any more diverse, up pops a new hybrid – Jazz-Pop-Funk-Dance. It morphed into a side-product of New Wave, but was
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bauhaus – In session at The BBC – March 13, 1982 – BBC6 Music Diving into a band some might find hard to place, but who were influential and very popular during their tenure. Bauhaus originally formed in 1979, known as
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Charlatans in concert – 1990 – BBC 6 Music Tonight it’s one of the bands that renewed my faith in music. The Charlatans (or Charlatans UK, if you were getting the U.S. releases), were a cornerstone of that movement which
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – February 28, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1997 (also a Friday) had much to do with the subject of Teen smoking. A new law, starting this day, was slated to
Click on the link here for Audio Player – New Order – In Session for John Peel – May 14, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 Influential 80s tonight. New Order, rising up from the ashes of Joy Division, following the tragic suicide of lead singer/co-founder Ian Curtis, the remaining members
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC World Service – Newshour – February 18, 1999 – BBC Radio News for this day in 1999 was about the capture and arrest of Abdullah Ocalan, founding member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), who was seized by Turkish agents
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Sutherland Brothers – In Session – BBC Radio 1972 – Chris Hawkins Program – BBC 6 Music Okay – this one might be a bit of a strain to the memory banks if you weren’t knee-deep in Rock and the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC Radio 4 – Climate Wars – February 2004 – BBC Radio 4 A subject for debate unlike any other – Climate Change – Global Warming – whatever you want to call it. Those factors and those conditions which are currently
