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Little Simz – Live at BBC 6 Music Festival, Liverpool – March 30, 2019 – BBC 6 Music – Taking a turn in the musical road tonight with a performance by Little Simz, from the 2019 BBC 6 Music Festival in Liverpool and broadcast live from the stage on March...
Boy Azooga – In Concert – broadcast by RTS -Couleur 3 In Concert – broadcast October 26, 2020 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Boy Azooga to start off the week. Boy Azooga are a Welsh indie rock group from Cardiff, Wales. Formed in 2017, the group is led by...
Not askin’ for much:Become a Patron! A brief detour to live TV of the 1950’s tonight with The Everly Brothers and their guest appearance on The Big Record, the short-lived TV Variety show hosted by Patti Page and featuring the hit makers of the day. The Everly Brothers were known...
Ending up our “Rock Without Borders” theme this week – another artist who gives further evidence the French Rock scene is alive and well and kicking ass. Izia (Higelin), daughter of the late and legendary Jacques Higelin and sister of Arthur H. (who I ran a gig from earlier this...
The Animen – live at Label Suisse Festival – Metropole Club – Lausanne Switzerland – September 19, 20202 – RTS Couleur 2 Radio – Your support to keep this going is really needed right about now: Become a Patron! Continuing our tour of places non-English speaking, I just ran across...
Morgan in concert at Sonorama 2019 – Recorded August 9, 2019 – RNE Radio 3 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Heading to other places and other countries this week, kicking it off with a concert by the much-talked-about Pop/Soul/Indie/Blues/Folk outfit from Madrid; Morgan. They’ve been around since 2012 –...
A 70’s triple bill this week, via BBC Radio 1‘s In Concert series from January 13, 1979. Lene Lovich, Wreckless Eric and Rachel Sweet share the bill in one of the more decade-defining concerts of the late 70’s, with a heavy dose of Retro, Punk and Theatrical – just like...
The Collectors – in session for Where It’s At – CBC-Vancouver – April 9, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Collectors this week. Psychedelia from our neighbors to the north – in session for the CBC Vancouver program Where It’s At – broadcast on April 9,1969. A band...
Another classic concert this week – Faces with Rod Stewart, recorded live by the BBC on May 23rd, 1971. The first collaboration among the future Faces was in a formation called Quiet Melon, which also featured Wood’s older brother Art Wood and Kim Gardner; they recorded four songs and played...
Spirit – in concert at the Texas International Pop Festival – September 1, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Spirit in concert to kick off the week. Unfortunately, a band whose legacy at the moment appears to be “those guys who sued Led Zeppelin”, and not much else. However,...
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