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Simple Minds – In Concert – De Gigant Apeldoorn, Netherlands – March 22, 1980 – Flip Martian collection – Simple Minds in concert this week. Live at De Gigant Apeldoorn in the Netherlands and recorded on March 22, 1980 by Dutch Radio network VPRO. The roots of Simple Minds are...
Angelic Upstarts – In session for John Peel – June 29 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – Angelic Upstarts in session tonight. Recorded for John Peel at BBC Radio 1 on June 23rd and broadcast on the 29th. The Angelic Upstarts formed in South Shields in 1977. AllMusic calls them...
Vice Squad – in session for John Peel – June 3, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – Vice Squad to start the week. Their first (of two) sessions for John Peel – this one from June 3, 1981. Vice Squad was formed in Bristol, England in early 1979, assembled in...
Mesh – live at The Sala Bikini, Barcelona – June 22, 2002 – Mesh in concert from Barcelona this Friday night – recorded live at Sala Bikini on June 22, 2002. Mesh formed in 1991 after lead singer Mark Hockings and Richard Silverthorn (keyboards) met each other at a concert...
Idles – in concert a La Cabaret Vert – Charleville-Mézières, France – August 25, 2018 – RFI – Idles in concert at La Cabaret Vert 2018 and recorded on August 25th. I first became familiar with Idles via Chris Hawkins’ BBC 6 Music show and hearing Well Done for the...
Pale Waves – Live At Glastonbury 2019 – June 28, 2019 – BBC 6 Music – Pale Waves at Glastonbury 2019 tonight- recorded by BBC 6 Music on June 28, 2019. Pale Waves formed in 2014. It was founded originally as Creek when lead singer and guitarist Heather Baron-Gracie met...
Beach House – Live at Primavera Sound, Barcelona – June 4, 2016 – RNE Radio 3 – Beach House, live at Primavera Sound, Barcelona – recorded on June 6, 2016 by Radio Nacional España’s Radio 3. Vocalist and organist Victoria Legrand, who graduated from Vassar College in 2003, and guitarist...
Oasis – Live at Cardiff International Arena, Cardiff – March 19, 1996 – Oasis in concert in honor of Humpday in COVID, recorded at Cardiff International Arena in Cardiff on March 19, 1996. Oasis’ second album, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, was a worldwide commercial success, selling over four million...
The Stranglers – live at The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto Ontario – April 14, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Stranglers in a (reasonably) early concert this week; performing live at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto on April 11, 1978. From 1976 the Stranglers became associated with the burgeoning...
Pink Floyd – in concert at The Old Casino – Montreux – November 21, 1970 – Swiss Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Historic Pink Floyd tonight. Recorded at The Old Casino in Montreux on November 21, 1970 and broadcast by Swiss Radio. The concert comes about a month...
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