"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Bettie Serveert – live at Amsterdam Paradiso – April 4, 2011 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Bettie Serveert this weekend. With 10 albums to their credit and together since 1990, they are one of the more successful bands to come out of The Netherlands in recent years. Named after...
Pink Floyd – In Concert At Wembley Pool, London – Nov. 16, 1974 – BBC Radio – EMI/Toshiba-Tokyo – Pink Floyd this weekend. Most of what I have been running on the site since the start has been Pink Floyd of the Syd Barrett era- an era which, admittedly I...
James Brown And His Famous Flames – Live in Lausanne Switzerland – 1973 – Swiss Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While the dust settles and Past Daily gets back to normal, I thought I would try and get things back up to speed with a classic concert by...
Talking Heads – live in Boston 1977 (disputed venue – disputed date – via undisputed FM broadcast) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Talking Heads this weekend. I realize I’ve been spending a goodly amount of the past several weeks traipsing all over the world, running sessions and concerts from...
Blur – In Concert from Cologne, Germany- August 22, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Blur this weekend – with a concert broadcast from Cologne, Germany and recorded on August 22, 1991 – at The Blue Shell. According to their Wikipedia page: Childhood friends Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon...
The Cars – In Concert at Old Waldorf, San Francisco – August 19, 1978 – KSAN-FM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Cars this weekend. Via their Wikipedia page: The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the new wave scene in the late 1970s. The band...
Caravan – live at The Record Plant – November 10, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Caravan this weekend. One of the bands cited most as a major influence in the Prog-Rock movement of the late 60s/early 1970s. They were also one of the bands largely credited as being...
My Bloody Valentine – live in Lyon, France – March 21, 1989 – Radio France, International – My Bloody Valentine this weekend in a concert from Lyon, France, recorded by the venerable Radio France International on March 21, 1989. Don’t know about you, but I was taken aback, the first...
Genesis – In Concert – University Sports Arena, Montreal, Canada – April 21, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Genesis this weekend. Although directions changed and they achieved a large mainstream following after the departure of founding member and singer Peter Gabriel, many fans still consider this incarnation...
Elastica – Live At Reading 1999 – August 27, 1999 – BBC Radio 1 – Elastica this weekend. One of those bands inextricably linked with Britpop in the mid/late 90s. Even though they were Alternative/Punk/Post-Punk/New Wave, since founding members Justine Frischmann and Justin Welch were previously with Suede, and it...
