Click on the link here for Audio Player – Happy Mondays – In Session for John Peel – April 9, 1986-Feb. 27, 1989 – BBC Radio 1 The inimitable Happy Mondays in session tonight. One of those bands whose influence help fuel the Madchester movement is the late 80s/early 90s,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Vibrators – In session for John Peel – October 12, 1976 – BBC Radio 1 Ending up the week with a taste of early Punk by way of The Vibrators. One of the pioneering bands of the movement, The Vibrators paved
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC – The World Today – April 8, 2004 – BBC World Service Ten years ago today, the stark reality that our involvement in Iraq wasn’t going to be met with open arms had many wondering just how long this odyssey
Click on the link here for Audio Player – PRI/BBC – The World – March 28, 1996 – WGBH, Boston Further evidence there are no dull days in history, no matter when – March 28th in 1996 was overflowing with its fair share of uncertainty and mayhem. Starting with revelations
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
