"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Hives – Live at Reading 2014 – Recorded live at Reading Festival August 23, 2014 – BBC 6 Music – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Hives in concert at the 2014 Reading Festival – Recorded and broadcast by BBC 6 Music on August 23, 2014. The Hives rose...
The Tourists for a Monday night – Live At The Paris Theatre, London – June 23, 1979 – BBC Radio 1. The Tourists had a reasonable following in the U.S., but nothing compared to the success when Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart left to form The Eurythmics. Guitarists Peet Coombes...
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...
Wire this week, in concert for WDR in Germany as part of their Rockpalast series, recorded on February 14, 1979. Considered one of the pivotal bands during the transition from Punk to Post-punk, They originally got their start in 1976. In that short period of time they became a...
The Clash – Live at The Lyceum, London – December 28, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Clash tonight- live at The Lyceum in London and recorded on December 28, 1978. Seems only fitting we have something to drown out the noise of our political season here in...
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...
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...
Fontaines D.C. – live at Eurosonic Festival – 2019 – January 17, 2019 – VPRO, Netherlands Fontaines D.C. in concert tonight – live at Eurosonic 2019, recorded on January 17, 2019 by radio outlet VPRO in Holland. Fontaines D.C. formed in Dublin in 2017. The band consists of Grian Chatten...
The Go-Go’s – live at The Metro, Boston – broadcast live by WBCN – August 20, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Go-Go’s in concert this weekend – broadcast live by WBCN, Boston at The Metro on August 20, 1981. The Go-Go’s formed in Los Angeles, California in...
The Stokes – Live At Alexandra Palace – December 5, 2003 – Band soundboard – The Stokes in concert tonight – recorded live at Alexandra Palace in London on December 5, 2003. The Strokes are from Manhattan, New York. Formed in 1998, the band is composed of singer Julian Casablancas,...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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