"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Bronski Beat – in Concert – London, 1984 – BBC In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – Bronski Beat. A band who have only recently reactivated (with Steve Bronski, the only original founding member) achieved a goodly amount of popularity in the 1980s – maybe not so much for...
Aztec Camera – in Concert from Madrid – September 9, 1984 – Radio Nacional España – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Aztec Camera, fronted by the inimitable Roddy Frame, whose razor-sharp songwriting skills added a whole new dimension to the New Wave scene in the early 1980s. The Glasgow-based band...
September 1940 – MBS: John Steele Reports from London – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 7, 1940 – the beginning of the Blitz; what would be an 8-month nightmare of daily raids over England by German bombers in an attempt to alternately demoralize the country, but also prepare it...
August 31, 1939 – John Steele Commentary from London – BBC News 7:00 pm – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 31, 1939 – As the inevitability of war seemed persistent, negotiations were still taking place in an eleventh hour hope to change that. Certain precautions were being set...
August 31, 1997 – BBC World Service News -7:00 am – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 31, 1997 – Twenty years ago, Britain woke to the news that Princess Diana, along with her companion Dodi Fayad as well as the driver of their Mercedes, had been killed in an...
August 30, 1939 – Reports from: Paris Radio – MBS Report From Warsaw – Radio Warsaw – Radio Berlin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 30, 1939 – As Europe hung in the balance, as news of hostile overtures went on between Germany and Poland – with accusations and...
Patto – In concert from The Paris Theatre, London – February 26, 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Patto – one of the truly underrated and criminally overlooked bands of the 70s – at least as far as the U.S. was concerned. Formed in 1970 from the remains...
British Elections 1951 – NBC Radio: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Oct 21, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A lot happened in 1951, not the least were the elections in Britain bringing wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill back to No. 10 Downing Street after an absence of some...
Happy Mondays – in concert from Kilburn National Ballroom, London – October 26, 1992 – BBC In Concert – BBC Radio 1 – Happy Mondays this weekend. The Spirit of Madchester with continued thoughts and good vibes to the people of Manchester ahead of the One Love Manchester concert...
Sky Larkin – 6 Music Session – October 22, 2013 – BBC 6 Music – Sky Larkin in session from 2013 tonight. They’ve been around since 2005 and were part of that flood of bands coming out of the Leeds area of Britain that year. Got their breakthrough at the...
