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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...
Trashcan Sinatras – Live At The Casbah, San Diego – May 14, 2005 – Trashcan Sinatras Website. Trashcan Sinatras this weekend. From a concert they did at The Casbah in San Diego on May 14, 2005. Going through a quick research on my site I noticed that, of all the...
Suzanne Vega – in concert – Dominion Theatre, London – 1990 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – Suzanne Vega to end up the week. At the age of nine she began to write poetry. She was encouraged to do so by her stepfather. It...
Nuria Graham – Live At Primavera Sound – 2017 – June 2, 2017 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – New faces and voices tonight. This one comes by way of Spain – Nuria Graham is Irish/Catalonian and 22. Having released her first record in 2013, at the tender age...
Adrienne Pauly – Four By Adrienne Pauly – 2006 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ending out the weekend with a few tunes from one of my favorite artists; Adrienne Pauly. Adrienne Pauly is an artist/singer/writer/actor who disappeared shortly after her debut album came out in 2006. There was a...
Nat Simons – Live at Conciertos de Radio 3 – RNE, Madrid – April 3, 2018 – RNE Radio 3 Madrid – New lights on the horizon to end the week. Nat Simons (Natalia Garcia Poza) is a Singer-songwriter from Madrid. You wouldn’t know that if I didn’t tell you,...
The Cranberries – In Concert from Vredenburg, Utrecht – The Netherlands – February 8, 1995 – VPRO-Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the devastating news earlier this week of the death of The Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan, and the void her loss leaves, I ran their very first session,...
