"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Arthur Lee and Love – live at Glastonbury 2003 – BBC 6 Music Arthur Lee and Love to end the weekend and get ready for what is certainly another roller-coaster week ahead. With the passing this weekend of Peter Green, it brought to mind what was a very rich period...
Kate Bush – Live at The Manchester Apollo – April 10, 1979 – Live And Loud.com – Flip Martian Collection Kate Bush, live at The Manchester Apollo. Recorded either April 10th or 11, 1979 and preserved for posterity by Flip Martian and his truly amazing Live And Loud website (big...
John Sebastian In Concert at Tanglewood – July 21, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A little chip-in goes a long way: Become a Patron! John Sebastian tonight. Until all the footage is assembled and cut together, the landmark concert this past weekend in Glendale featuring The Wild Honey...
Chris Rea – In Concert – Shepherd’s Bush, London – 1998 – BBC Radio 1 If you could: Become a Patron! Taking things down a few percentage points, Singer-Songwriter Chris Rea in concert at Shepherd’s Bush in London in 1998 and recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio 1 In Concert...
Stella Donnelly -Live At Fuji Festival 2019 – Recorded July 27, 2019 – NHK-FM New faces by way of Australian singer-songwriter Stella Donnelly, whose debut album came out in March of this year and has been getting widely positive reactions all over the world. Recorded literally hours ago, Donnelly and...
LP – in concert at Outside Lands Festival 2018 – recorded by SRF Radio 3 – LP in concert this weekend. An artist I am clearly wondering why I haven’t heard before, but one which is a profound switch to what’s been going on musically in the U.S. lo, these...
Randy Newman in Concert – Moore Theatre, Seattle – November 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Randy Newman in concert tonight. Recorded at The Moore Theatre in Seattle in November 1974. Randy Newman has been referred to more than once as a National Treasure – and if the staggering...
Al Stewart – in session for John Peel – May 29, 1968 – Recorded May 8, 1968 – BBC Radio 1 – Al Stewart in session for John Peel from 1968 tonight. This was his first of what would be some seven sessions the singer-songwriter would record for Peel. And...
Charlotte Gainsbourg – in concert – BBC 6 Music Festival, Liverpool – March 31, 2019 – BBC 6 Music – Charlotte Gainsbourg on closing night of the BBC 6 Music Festival last weekend. The perfect capper to an extraordinary three day festival that will be hard, if not impossible, to...
Tim Hardin with The Spike Heatley Quinet – in Session for John Peel – July 15, 1968 – broadcast July 28, 1968 – BBC Radio 1 – Tim Hardin in session for John Peel, backed by The Spike Heatly Quintet, recorded for BBC Radio 1 on July 15, 1968 and...
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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