"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
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…
Editors Note: With the very sad news on the passing of Radu Lupu, it only seems fitting to offer this concert, which I posted back in 2018, as a tribute to this astonishing and gifted artist. He won’t be forgotten.…
Miles Kane – live at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend – 2013 – BBC Radio 1 – Miles Kane in concert tonight. Recorded live at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in 2013. Miles Kane is best known as a solo…
Tossy Spivakovsky with Erich Leinsdorf and the L.A. Philharmonic – Hollywood Bowl – August 26, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something historic again this weekend. The Beethoven violin concerto performed in concert by the legendary violinist Tossy Spivakovsky…
Another recording from the 1949 Besancon Festival. This week, a live performance of Florent Schmitt’s La Tragèdie de Salomè featuring the legendary French/Belgian conductor Andrè Cluytens leading the Paris Conservatory Orchestra. Schmitt had slipped a bit in popularity over the…
– 1960 Prague Spring Festival – The Czech Philharmonic – Kirill Kondrashin, cond. – Mstislav Rostropovich, cello – Czech Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another Historic concert this week – The celebrated Czech Philharmonic, led by distinguished Soviet…
The legendary Miles Davis this weekend. From a series of concerts at the 1963 Juan-Les Pins Festival in France, recorded by ORTF in Paris on July 26-28, 1963. This concert has been available officially and unofficially in various forms over…
– Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – Live at The Paris Pop Festival – June 1, 1967 – ORTF – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It was often a complaint, by bands and audiences alike that, if they…
Beach House in concert at Paleo Festival 2013 – Nyon, Switzerland – July 24, 2013 – RSR Heading over to The Paleo Festival 2013 tonight for a set by Baltimore Dream Pop/Space Merchants Beach House (actually, one half of the…
– Pulp – Live At Glastonbury 1995 – BBC Radio 1 – No week of 90s music can ever be complete, or even get started, without a set by the beloved and highly influential band Pulp. Fronted by the theatrical…