– Big Audio Dynamite – Live in Bradford, 1988 – BBC 6 Music – Exiting his tenure with The Clash, co-founder Mick Jones was busy putting together another chapter in a highly influential musical career. First forming the short-lived T.R.A.C. (The Risk Action Company) he finally got together with former
I’d love it if you’d subscribe: Become a Patron! Diving back to 1980 this weekend for a concert by one of those defining bands of the late 70s/early 80s The Police managed to straddle the non-conventional Punk and New Wave audience with the more mainstream Pop Music audience to become
And of course, coffee: – BBC In Concert – 1979-03-24 – Fingerprintz – Diving into some 70s Post-Punk/New Wave to start the week by way of Fingerprintz. Started in 1979, Fingerprintz is probably best known in the U.S. as the first band to release Dancing With Myself (which later became
Show a little love: Become a Patron! – 1981-01-01 BBC In Concert (Generation X) – BBC Radio 1 – Heading over to the Paris Theater in London for a half-hour set by Generation X, featuring the inimitable Billy Idol. In March 1980, Gen X went into Eel Pie Studios in
Coffee works too: – Violent Femmes – live at Town and Country – 1991 – BBC 6 Music – Violent Femmes this morning. A nod to the midwest bands during the 80s and early 90s who shaped and help define American music during that haywire decade. Recorded in concert at
Coffee? Did you say coffee? – Be Bop Deluxe – live at Oxford – BBC Radio 1 Rock Goes To College – 1978 – BBC Be Bop Deluxe were a band the critics loved but the audience apparently only moderately liked. Together in two short bursts – once from 1972-1974
Double Espresso, please: – Elvis Costello and The Attractions -Live At Hope and Anchor – 1980 – BBC 6 Music – Diving back to the 80s this week – Elvis Costello from 1980. When I first heard Elvis Costello it was when Watching The Detectives was just released. It was
It pays for us to keep running: Become a Patron! – XTC – In Concert At Old Waldorf, San Francisco – Feb. 25, 1980 – ©Terry Hammer Archives – One of the bands that made the 80s something to talk about, XTC were around longer than they performed live; six
– The Go-Go’s – Live at Hakano Plaza, Tokyo – June 19, 1982 – Not exactly Christmas, but it’s still festive – A concert tonight by The Go-Go’s, recorded live at Hakano Plaza in Tokyo on June 19th, 1982. Christened by the press as America’s Sweethearts, the Go-Go’s had a
– Siouxsie and The Banshees – Live At Warwick University 1981 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Diving head-first into Thursday with a 1981 concert by Siouxsie and The Banshees, live at Warwick University and recorded for posterity by BBC Radio 1. Initially a Punk band, who evolved into
