"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Jacqueline Dulac – Three from Special Bobino 70 – 1967 – RCA Victor – France – A detour with some French Chanson to close the weekend out via Jacqueline Dulac. Not particularly well known in the States, Dulac has had a wide and varied career, starting in the early 1960s...
Two Door Cinema Club – Live in Paris – September 12, 2012 – Radio France International – Become a Patron! Two Door Cinema Club tonight. Recorded in Paris on September 12, 2012 and preserved for posterity by Radio France. For those who don’t already know: Two Door Cinema Club are...
Erroll Garner Trio – Live In Paris – June 12, 1962 – France Musique – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Erroll Garner this weekend. Recorded live in Paris on June 12, 1962 and preserved for posterity by Radio France. Lucky for everyone, the broadcasting outlets in Europe felt strongly about...
April 22, 1940 – Radio Berlin – Radio Paris – EIAR, Rome – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 22, 1940 – News from Germany this day, via Radio Berlin told of the situation unfolding in Norway and how it was now down to a battle between ships and airplanes....
The Pretty Reckless – Acoustic session for Radio France: Mouv-Le Live program – April 2011 – Radio France – New York Rockers The Pretty Reckless in acoustic session for Radio France’ Le Mouv channel Le Live program, recorded either March or April 2011 in Paris during the European leg of...
Carl Barât – live in Paris – July 8, 2011 – Radio France Le Mouv – Carl Barât, former Libertines frontman and Dirty Pretty Things co-founder, during his solo period just after the breakup of The Libertines, and Pete Doherty’s induction into rehab. This was recorded in Paris during a...
April 10, 1994 – ABC World News This Week – ABC Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 10, 1994 – A week of sharp contrasts. In Rwanda, news reports of mass killings between ethnic groups; the Hutus and Tutsis – and the scenes of unconscionable atrocities raging...
Charlotte Gainsbourg – in concert – BBC 6 Music Festival, Liverpool – March 31, 2019 – BBC 6 Music – Charlotte Gainsbourg on closing night of the BBC 6 Music Festival last weekend. The perfect capper to an extraordinary three day festival that will be hard, if not impossible, to...
April 5, 1947 – Radio Moscow – News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 5, 1947 – News from Radio Moscow. Unless you had one of those Shortwave radios that could pick up every country in the world, you might not have been able to actually hear what was...
April 3, 1976 – NBC News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 3, 1976 – A busy news day everywhere – Beginning with news that Egypt’s Anwar Sadat was in Paris to meeting with French President d’Estaing in search of military support and hardware in Europe....
