"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– June 6, 1944 – Mutual Coverage of D-Day landings – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Certainly the date of June 6th isn’t the sole property of 1944. A lot has happened since then. But as time passes and the…
– Echo & The Bunnymen- Live from Liverpool Empire – January 11, 1988 – BBC Radio 1 – In Concert Echo & The Bunnymen in concert tonight. Recorded live at the Liverpool Empire in 1988 by BBC Radio 1 for…
BBC 6 Music – 2016 Mercury Prize Nominations and finalists – September 15, 2016 – BBC 6 Music – As a general rule, awards shows leave much to be desired. Rather than focus on the amount of work and sheer…
Shame – live at The Biggest Weekend, Belfast – May 26, 2018 – BBC 6 Music – Shame in concert tonight – live from The Biggest Weekend in Belfast from May 2018 and recorded by BBC 6 Music. Any other…
Plone – in concert at John Peel’s Meltdown Festival – June 20, 1998 – BBC Radio 1. Plone in concert tonight. It’s been a rotten week and we’re only two days into it. All the more reason to hit the…
Missing Presumed Dead – in session for John Peel – January 6, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – Leaving Ukraine this week for an excursion around the lesser-known bands and artists the past few decades. Missing Presumed Dead, like so…
March 14, 1945 – BBC World Service: London Column – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the War in Europe heading into its last weeks, a new last-ditch weapon was introduced by Germany; the V-2. It was the world’s first…
April 19-20, 1940 – BBC Home Service – Radio Paris – Radio Berlin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 19-20, 1940 – news for this day was intentionally vague. The BBC reported that a special detachment of British, Canadian…
Doyle & The Fourfathers – in session for Marc Riley – March 1, 2011 – BBC6 Music – Dave Driscoll Collection – Doyle & The Fourfathers in session for Marc Riley at BBC 6 Music on March 1, 2011. When…