"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
April 18, 1956 – News Of The Day – Various newscasts – Mutual Broadcasting – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 18, 1956. If you were around on this day you would be hearing news that had a roughly familiar ring to it. Factions forwarding an agenda of Independence from...
Blue Aeroplanes- in Concert from Bristol – BBC 6 Music Live Concert – 2016 – BBC 6 Music – Blue Aeroplanes for a Tuesday night. Around since 1981 and still going strong, although the Langley Brothers (Gerard and John), the two mainstays who have been the core of the group...
Yes, Let’s – in concert at Paris Theatre – 1985 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – Yes, Let’s in concert to start the week. Don’t feel badly if they ring no bells with you. With only one single released and a rumored album (produced...
April 16, 1947 – NBC News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 16, 1947 – Another fractured day in a Post-War world. News from The Holy Land over the situation in Palestine and violence erupting between Arabs and Jews and British troops as the common target....
Miles Davis Quintet – Live At Berliner Jazztage – November 7, 1969 – RBB Radio Berlin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Miles Davis this Sunday. Playing favorites. Legends and important voices this weekend. And one of the most important of the 20th century was Miles Davis, no question. 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...
Pierre Boulez, cond – Bertrand Chamayou, Piano – Orchestre de Paris – Dec. 21, 2011 – Radio France Musique The legendary Pierre Boulez with Bertrand Chamayou and Orchestre de Paris in a concert of music by Bela Bartok and Arnold Schoenberg. Recorded on December 21, 2011 live from Salle Pleyel,...
Babes In Toyland – In Concert At Reading Festival 1995 – August 27, 1995 – BBC Radio 1 – Riot Grrrrls Week continues – although Babes In Toyland would take big umbrage to that – since they have been more closely associated with the Grunge movement than with Riot Grrrls...
Sleater-Kinney – BBC 6 Music Festival, Newcastle – 2015 – BBC 6 Music – Sleater-Kinney to start the new week. Formed in early 1994 in Olympia, Washington, by Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein. The group’s name is derived from Sleater Kinney Road, in Lacey, Washington; where signs for Interstate 5...
Ibert: Pieces en Trio – Ensemble Class of The Paris Conservatory – Fernand Oubradous, cond. – 1955 – Paris Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Jacques Ibert tonight, as performed by the Ensemble Class of the Paris Conservatory, conducted by the legendary Fernand Oubradous in this...
